Escape

EscapeThe Nostalgia issue

No 1.

February 2012

Nostalgia: ( )a sentimental yearningfor the happiness of aformer place or time.

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Escape Magazine Spring 2012

CONTENTS

8.Bittersweet memoriesA leader by Kine Syvertsen

12.How to get in a nostalgic mood

14.Forget me notA photo series by Leah Lye.

22.Yearning for another time or place, a fashion serie by laura

evans

30.A visit to childhoods magicgardensphotographer Adam Isis tells about the

feeling & the magic

36.Old placesAll the old houses has a history, and a feel-

ing of something that has happended

44.Music, life and memoriesThe band Bech House in a field talking

about memories.

52.MemoirsBy Katie Lovable

64.The first day of that springBy Hariku Murakami

66.InnocenceBy Lotte Lust.

SURFACE

CORE

STRATOSPHERE

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Most people assume that our memories must exist somewhere inside our heads. But try as they might, medical investigators have been

unable to determine which cerebral region actually stores what we remember. Could it be that our memories actually dwell in a space

outside our physical structure?

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curiouser and curiouser

What was the most recent film you saw? Chocolate you bought? Fashion trend you noticed? Or friend you contacted on Facebook? “If it was Star Trek, a Wispa, shoulder pads or school friend, then don’t fear, you are entirely typical of someone who lived through the Noughties,” says a report from financial services provider Standard Life, which concludes that more than any other decade, the 2000s were very retro. Filmmakers are so much turning to the books of their childhood. Businesses and advertisers have known for years that nostalgia sells, that the products popular during a person’s youth will influence their buying habits throughout their lifetime.“But they didn’t know why, and they perhaps didn’t care - that was their endgame, to figure out how to sell things,” says psychologist Clay Routledge, of North Dakota State University.In recent years, psychologists have been trying to analyse the powerful and enduring appeal of our own past - what Mr Routledge calls the “psychological underpinnings of nostalgia”. Why does it matter? Why would a 40-year-old man care about a car he drove when he was 18?” he asks. It matters, quite simply, because nostalgia makes us feel good.Once nostalgia was considered a sickness - the word derives from the Greek “nostos” (return) and “algos”

(pain), suggesting suffering due to a desire to return to a place of origin.Not second-hand, oh no... it’s vintageA 17th Century medical student coined the term “nostalgia” for anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home, although some military doctors believed their problems were specific to the Swiss and caused by the Alpine racket of cowbells.Understanding has moved on somewhat since, with dedicated research in recent years suggesting that nostalgia is “good psychological medicine”. Studies by Mr Routledge, along with colleagues at the University of Southampton, have found that remembering past times improves mood, increases self-esteem, strengthens social bonds and imbues life with meaning. Not bad for just a few minutes’ daydreaming about scoring the winning goal for the school team, aged 12, or reminiscing about a family caravanning trip in a balmy summer gone by.Even toys are now for grown-ups “Most of our days are often filled with with routine. activities that aren’t particularly significant - shopping for groceries, commuting to work and so forth,” says Mr Routledge.“Nostalgia is a way for us to tap into the past experiences that we have that are quite meaningful - to remind us that our lives are worthwhile, that we are people of. value, that we have good relationships.

But the memories won´t seem to let me go.

BITTERSWEET MEMORIES

Written by SARAH

WILLOCH

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Collect your wishes for a week

Build a treehouse Buy a beautiful toy

Host a masqurade ball

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Wear a old fashioned dress

Buy a beautiful toy Watch a movie like midnight in par-

Host a masqurade ball

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Forget me not

Tekst: Kine SyvertsenPhoto: Miriam Heinesen

Layout Sarah WillochAssistant: Ida Emauelsenw

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Things change, and friends leave, and time doesnt`t stop for anybody.

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A visit to childhoods magic gardensPhotographer Adam Asis work

Tekst: Kine SyvertsenPhoto: Miriam HeinesenLayout Sarah WillochAssistant: Ida Emauelsenw

In general cultural commentary in the mass media--as in the academy--irony and nostalgia are both seen as key components of contemporary culture today. In the 1980s, it was irony that captured our attention most; in the 1990s, it appears to be nostalgia that is holding sway. David Lowenthal has even asserted that, while “[f ]ormerly confined in time and place, nostalgia today engulfs the whole past.” Perhaps nostalgia is given surplus meaning and value

at certain moments--millennial moments, like our own. Nostalgia, the media tell us, has become an obsession of both mass culture and high art. And they may be right, though some people feel the obsession is really the media’s obsession. Yet, how else do you account for the return of the fountain pen--as an object of consumer luxury--in the age of the computer, when we have all but forgotten how to write? The explanations offered for this kind

of commercialized luxuriating in the culture of the past have ranged from economic cynicism to moral superiority. They usually point to a dissatisfaction with the culture of the present--something that is then either applauded or condemned. Leading the for an applause, an apocalyptic George Steiner claims that the decline in formal value systems in the West has left us with a “deep, unsettling nostalgia for the absolute.” And, I suspect more than one reader longs for a time

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A visit to childhoods magic gardens

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Old placesA old hose is a place with history

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In general cultural commentary in the mass media--as in the academy--irony and nostalgia are both seen as key components of contemporary culture today. In the 1980s, it was irony that captured our attention most; in the 1990s, it appears to be nostalgia that is holding sway. David Lowenthal has even asserted that, while “[f ]ormerly confined in time and

place, nostalgia today engulfs the whole past.” Perhaps nostalgia is given surplus meaning and value at certain moments--millennial moments, like our own. Nostalgia, the media tell us, has become an obsession of both mass culture and high art. And they may be right, though some people feel the obsession is really the media’s obsession. Yet, how else do you

account for the return of the fountain pen--as an object of consumer luxury--in the age of the computer, when we have all but forgotten how to write? The explanations offered for this kind of commercialized luxuriating in the culture of the past have ranged from economic cynicism to moral superiority. They usually point to a dissatisfaction with the culture of

Tekst: Kine SyvertsenPhoto: Miriam HeinesenLayout Sarah WillochAssistant: Ida Emauelsenw

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“People buy to create memories”

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Life, music & memoriesTekst: Kine SyvertsenPhoto: Miriam HeinesenLayout Sarah WillochAssistant: Ida Emauelsenw



of commercialized luxuriating in the culture of the past have ranged from economic cynicism to moral superiority. They usually point to a dissatisfaction with the culture of the present--something that is then either applauded or condemned. Leading the for an applause, an apocalyptic George Steiner claims that the decline in formal value systems in the West has left us with a “deep, unsettling nostalgia for the absolute.” And, I suspect more than one reader longs for a time

The band beachouse remeber trough music.

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of commercialized luxuriating in the culture of the past have ranged from economic cynicism to moral superiority. They usually point to a dissatisfaction with the culture of the present--something that is then either applauded or condemned. Leading the for an applause, an apocalyptic George Steiner claims that the decline in formal value systems in the West has left us with a “deep, unsettling nostalgia for the absolute.” And, I suspect more than one reader

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In general cultural commentary in the mass media--as in the academy--irony and nostalgia are both seen as key components of contemporary culture today. In the 1980s, it was irony that captured our attention most; in the 1990s, it appears to be nostalgia that is holding sway. David Lowenthal has even asserted that, while “[f ]ormerly confined in time and place, nostalgia today engulfs the whole past.” Perhaps nostalgia is given surplus meaning and value at certain moments--millennial

moments, like our own. Nostalgia, the media tell us, has become an obsession of both mass culture and high art. And they may be right, though some people feel the obsession is really the media’s obsession. Yet, how else do you account for the return of the fountain pen--as an object of consumer luxury--in the age of the computer, when we have all but forgotten how to write? The explanations offered for this kind of commercialized luxuriating in the culture of the past have

ranged from economic cynicism to moral superiority. They usually point to a dissatisfaction with the culture of the present--something that is then either applauded or condemned. Leading the for an applause, an apocalyptic George Steiner claims that the decline in formal value systems in the West has left us with a “deep, unsettling nostalgia for the absolute.” And, I suspect more than one reader longs for a time In general cultural commentary in the mass media--as in the academy--irony and

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STRATOSPHERE

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The way memories presist, and you dissappear

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Memoirs



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“At one point in my life, you defined my world”

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“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart.”

The first day of that spring

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InnocenceTekst: Kine Syvertsen

Photo: Miriam HeinesenLayout Sarah Willoch

Assistant: Ida Emauelsenw

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The bittersweet feeling you get when you finally read; The End.

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