Providing visuals for DEATHDISCO XXX Christmas Party 2008.
Supporting The Glimmer Twins and Rex the Dog
Make up Anna MacKenzie. Music by Vicarious Bliss






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NEWFUTURENOW Takes over the Artistic Direction for one of Glasgow’s edgiest club nights.
UTTER GUTTER With a Virgin Mary bares it all photo shoot.

INFO HERE




UTTER GUTTER is whatever you want it to be...

...a place for fun-loving batty boys, dirty tykes, beautiful dykes, homos, heteros, good girls, bad boys, in-betweens, go-betweens, bi's, butches, duchesses, femmes, guys, gals, singles, couples, threesomes, lippy lezzers, drag kings, princesses, no stresses, dancers, prancers, sitters, chatters but absolutely NO BITCHY SCENE QUEENS, NO FASHIONISTA PRIMADONNAS, NO AWFUL SCENESTER FAG BANGLES, NO LADY LOVERS WITH BAD ATTITUDES, NO HETEROPHOBIC WANKERS, NO HOMOPHOBIC ASSHOLES, NO QUEER-BASHING STRAIGHTS, NO STRAIGHT-BASHING QUEERS: there are other establishments in this town for you...

WE ASK ONLY TWO THINGS ...

THE LOVE OF GOOD MUSIC AND THE ABILITY TO SMILE



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Promo Video for I KNO U WANT IT, debut single by electro pop band SOFT TOY EMERGENCY
Directed and Produced by NEWFUTURENOW



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Issue TWO: Play and Pleasure

Sexiness, colour, entertainment, rhythm, ritual, fetish, surface, flirtation, jokes, fun and games.

This is Sick! A NEW DVD commissioned by artist run Edinburgh based press FOOLSINPRINT
Order a copy now! Order direct from FOOLSINPRINT or with NEWFUTURENOW and be quick
as there is a minimum run of 500 and then go check out the JAYGO BLOOM inclusion!
Artists Include:

Beagles and Ramsay
Aline Bouvy and John Gillis
Jaygo Bloom
Luke Collins
Lucy Keany
Shelly Nadashi
Christian Newby
Ewan Sinclair

Thanks to Fancy Pants Lucy Keany,
curator of this project and FOOLSINPRINT number one, for this opportunity.

Cant wait to get a copy?
well check the online 8bit J-GO DVD included wonder here for FREE!!



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The NEWFUTURENOW phenomenon continues next thursday, as Jaygo Bloom provides a dose of AV video medicine as part of MADE UP and the AV SOCIAL night coming live from the TATE LIVERPOOL

Thursday 27th November 2008, 7.30 - 11.00pm

Including screenings and installations featuring live processing by Koichi Chikuhi, a DVJ set by the Audio VJs, an installation by Austrian duo Decollage.tv and video screenings curated by Oli Sorenson (VJ Anyone).

‘MADE UP celebrates the power of imagination. The invited artists are passionate, hold deeply felt positions, give us something unexpected – create something new. They all use desire to move us from our habitual experience into a new space where there are new possibilities, including the potential for subjective creativity’

Big up the NE1CO collective for making this happen, hope to work with you again soon . .
Now Showing O:.O:.O:.


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Providing visuals for Londons legendary DISSIDENT RECORDS
DEATHDISCO is six!! and NEW FUTURE NOW alongside POINTLESS CREATIONS have been
working hard at making this a one off AV experience since the beginning.
Check out the new video mix and then check out the commotion
every third saturday of each month....




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Les Grande Opening of CHE CAMILLE and an exciting collaboration between NEWFUTURENOW
and CHE & CO.
JAYGO BLOOM has taken up residency within the Che Camilles Showroom and will be creating fashion inspired content alongside Glasgow’s hottest fashion designers throughout 2009.
Next saturday marks the opening of this quality space, designed by NFN collaborate Steff Norwood, showcasing new works, high fashion, denims by Rab and a video installation inspired by still life and portrait painting, created by JAYGO


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> DCA, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DY
Wednesday 29th October 2008, 5.30 - 7pm

Prepare your retinas for the phenomenon that is Jaygo Bloom, aka Captain Captain, aka Pointless Creations, aka Whack Karaoke, aka aka aka. An energetic multi-disciplinary explosion of colour, Jaygo works bend video and graphic streams in the production of interactive installations, mashed up games systems and banging live performance.

JAYGO BLOOM recently premiered his new biologically governed open network WORLDWIDEWEGG. Which enabled chickens at Gorgie City Farm in Edinburgh to DJ throughout the run of the exhibition Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture at CCA Glasgow. Other projects range from a global grooves games console TAO JOYSTICK , an 8bit latino percussive interface MARRAKATTAK and an unwilling audience target device BUMP.

Working independently and as part of the Glasgow based audio visual team ‘Pointless Creations’, Jaygo Bloom has exhibited at Pixelazo 2007, Futuresonic 2006, Glasgow International 2005, Pixelache 2005 and Pong.Mythos.

You can experience the range of Jaygo’s on-line presence by clicking on any of the links above or by visiting his original retina burning WEBSITE, his recent CREATIONS and his BLOG.

Throughout his demonstration to Upgrade, Jaygo will be touching on the subjects of intrusive entertainments, professional practice, low tech digital workshops, ubiquitous computing, audience participation, un/participation TEAMWORK and much more....

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DEATHDISCO DE FREQ MIX from NEWFUTURENOW on Vimeo.

Come check out the commotion every third saturday of each month....
DEATHDISCO! Cut-up ultrapop, quality electromash and bastardised bootlegs
for non-conformist up-for-it revellers.




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NEWFUTURENOW taking bookings . . . For more information on this
exciting new workshop visit the website HERE






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PARTYTIME!!
More greenscreen mayhem presented as part of Camden Councils Cultural Olympaid weekender.
Images and video to follow!






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ZAPP YOURE PREGNANT
Now installed in Manchester Museum right above the Teradactyll display!




An interactive new media artwork by the artist JAYGO BLOOM
Interactive JAYGO AV exploring the subject of Childbirth and labor, documenting observations after an intensive eighteen months of visits, collaborations and discussions with Professor Jim Dornan of the Royal College of Obsteatricians, London.
After a successful premier at the Glasgow Science centre the BIRTHRITES exhibition is now installed within MANCHESTER MUSEUM and open to the public until December 2008.
Check out an online version of ZAPP YOURE PREGNANT HERE!!

Also for anyone interested a review written by Joanna Moorhead for THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER

...Bloom presents an audiovisual installation that combines the digital / technological intervention evident within the maternity ward, alongside a series of video narratives which have been created in response to the feelings and emotional responses of the expectant mothers he encountered whilst resident on the 24 hour ward.
There is a sense of entropic disorder within the visual imagery employed by Bloom, this combined with the use of alchemical and scientific motif, draws comparisons with the archaic notion of rebirth and transformation.
Through a process of paradoxical results, achieved by incompatible elements fluctuating between the digital and the physical, Bloom attempts to offer us an insight into the birthing process and the lucid emotional state of the expectant mothers within the ward.






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More on the VJ visuals and video direction and a stunning new look created with
Niall Walker and Anna MacKenzie for this months DEATHDISCO at the ARCHES









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JR Flash' 'Tight pants bwoy' embracing Neon Euro Rave and roots upsetter skanking
fresh moves from Kingston. Jamaica -










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JAYGO BLOOM performing live and acting as WHACK KARAOKE compere for the CCA New Media Scotland closing party.
Presenting I-AM FIST, ABLAB, VITASCOPE AND POINTLESS DAV.









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DEATHDISCO SPARK MIX from NEWFUTURENOW on Vimeo.

!!!NEWSFLASH!!!


Niall and Anna at the Scottish Event Awards

DEATHDISCO recently scooped the top award for Best Marketing Strategy at the SCOTTISH EVENT AWARDS last thursday. beating off tough competition from the Glasgow Film Festival, The Andy Warhol Retrospective and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid!
Check out the posters / Check out the visuals / Each month we bring the crowd into the studios and make them perform, creating promo content and visuals individual for each club night.. We RECORD.. You PERFORM.. wanna try??
For all enquires contact DEATHDISCO
And come check out the commotion every third saturday of each month....
DEATHDISCO! Cut-up ultrapop, quality electromash and bastardised bootlegs for non-conformist up-for-it revellers.

The award winning crew...
Club organiser Tiernan, Photographer and promo designer Niall Walker
NEWFUTURENOW greenscreen directions and video compositing by JAYGO
Loreal Make up Artist Anna MacKenzie and club VJ and inter-roving cuboid screen designer DAVA BERNARD.

More DEATHDISCO video mixes In glorious VIMEO-VISION!! uploaded soooon.....


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The WHACK site is now online, packed full with images and video from the SWG3 event.

Check it out HERE!!






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MARIE LECHNER - Reporter with the Liberation newspaper in France has written an excellent review for the WORLDWIDEWEGG. Below is a translated version in 'pigeon english' thanks to the google translating service.
An online version is also available at ECRANS.FR the website for Liberation News.

Bon Appetit





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Some days all i really care for is this kind of Trans - Global
audio visual mistake!
All the way from Iquitos - The Tigress of the East . . . .
Its so bad its wonderful.







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LUCKY CLUCKY has less than a week left to hit the JACKPOT!!
The latest in feather brained lottery tickets recieved a grand total of
ONE correct number!!




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THE APOCALYP-STICK from NEWFUTURENOW on Vimeo.

Documentation of APOCALYP-STICK game play recorded live
at the AKA W.W.WHACK show SWG3 last Saturday.

More video documentation coming soon. In glorious VIMEO-VISION!!

No not the BREAK-BOOTY-ELECTRO-HORROR-PORN COCK ROCK run by JASON FORREST
Equally stimulating, yet vegetarian and far less deviant is the Peck controlled iTunes sound system
operated by lil' rooster LUCKY CLUCKY from the network connected coop on GORGIE CITY FARM

After many requests heres the chicken inspired playlist to view, and visit the WEBSITE to hear the
resulting cacophony of flutterings controlled by the feeding frenzy in realtime.

One Peck
One Song
Wont last long . .

Chicken Baby Chicken Tony Harris
Chicken Flop Hasil Adkins
The Truncated Life Of A Modern Chicken Matthew Herbert
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Louis Jordan
Funky Chicken Fabulous Emotions
Funky Chicken Parts Willie Henderson & Soul Explosions
Chicken Dame Darcy
Turn That Chicken Down Geraint Watkins
The Chicken Song Spitting Image
The Chicken Lady's House Mustaflo
Chicken and Booze Manny Corchado
Kicking Chickens Mike Fornatale
Pickin' A Chicken Jim Reeves
Chicken Coop Valentino Sound Effects
Chicken Flight Kid 606
Chicken Scratch Count Suckle,
Chicken Fat Lynn Roberts
A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off Magnetic Fields
Chicken Is Nice Howard B. Hayes and Malinda Parker
Chickens Move Out 24K and Elephant Man
Run, Chicken, Run! Link Wray
Don't You Ever Dare Call Me A Chickenhead Andy Partridge
I Play Chicken With The Train Cowboy Troy with Big And Rich
Chicken Feet Sean Bergin's Song Mob
We Don't Play Guitar (Chicken Lips) Chicks On Speed
Chicken Yiamas Von Sudenfed
Chicken Rock Scott Wood
Love That Chicken Meatus Murder
Chicken Bird Stomp The Bats
Chicken Bone George and Black Eyed Snakes
A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off Magnetic Fields
5 Piece Chicken Dinner Beastie Boys
Chicken Wing Da Hip Hop Rascals
Finger Lickin' Chicken Radars
Chicken The Cramps
Tic Tac Toe Chicken M Shanghai String Band
Chicken Rhythm Sim Gaillard
Tandoori Chicken2 Sudden Infant
Hey Chicken Loose Fur
Chicken Master Hermits
Know Your Chicken Cibo Matto
Eat That Chicken Charles Mingus
Chickens Vs. Tilda Chickens and Tilda
Frozen Chicken Lord Christo
Like Irregular Chickens Kid Koala
A Chicken Ain't Nothing But A Bird Cab Calloway
Theme To Beverly Hills Cop As A Chicken Unknown Dude
Greasy Chicken Andre Williams
Chicken Legs People Like Us, Wobbly, Matmos
Tandoori Chicken Ronnie Spector
Chicken Salad Beats Miles Tilimann
Chicken Gas Mofungo
His Imperial Highness Prince Chicken Rag Rick Hayward


Recordings and LUCKY CLUCKY DJ bookings available by request.
for more details and greater efficiency contact NEWFUTURENOW



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Click HERE to go check out the latest wegg inspired review of the WORLDWIDEWEGG
Thanks to Marc Garrett and Ashley Wong over at FURTHERFIELD for showcasing this project on the Furtherfield site.

FURTHERFIELD.ORG is one of the UK's fore-most informative and connected Internet nodes, a regular source of reviews explore the subject of netart, digital art, new media and cross platform diciplines, placing these activities directly within a global perspective and simultaneously representing the maverick media-art makers and grass root community net-art projects that continue to flourish on the periphery of new media understanding..

'utilizing networked media to create, explore, nurture and promote the art that happens when connections are made and knowledge is shared'




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Select Documentation from last weekends SWG3 NEWFUTURENOW Extravaganza!!
Witness in glorious 3D techni-vision the vast array of Intrusive Entertainments and un/participation target devices created exclusively and exhaustedly for the kids by WHACK organiser JAYGO BLOOM.

Premiered at the show alongside game mod's MARRAKATTAK and APOCALYPSTICK was 'Whack Karaoke' An all new sensation in participative mash-up music-mongering!

And for all you lucky Glasgow scenesters out there, the opportunity to experience this a second time round when it is presented at the CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS on September 12th so come join in if you think you're WHACK enough.

Now grab yer specs and check out these excellent 3d photos created especially for the show by the multi-lensed multi-talented CLOCKWORKROBOT!!



THE APOCALYP-STICK in 3D BUTOH VISION



EM_SPACE WHACKED OUT ON THE BREAKOUT



THE VOR SPRUNG DORK TECHNICIANS



WHISTLIN' GEORGE ON THE WHACK KARAOKE


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THE WORLDWIDEWEGG continues to present NEWFUTURENOW with yet another opportunity at the crackpot JACKPOT!!
Be sure to visit the website for peck-controlled itunes and live chicken feed until 12:08:08.




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Another six eggs from the golden rooster and another chance at winning the lucky golden egg!
Lottery Ticket purchased courtesy of the SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL who partnership funded this fantastic project alongside ALT-W.

Another get rich quick scheme engineered by the artist JAYGO BLOOM
Weggsite HERE




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One week into this biologically networked project and finally Lucky Clucky eggs total 6!!
And with it one online LOTTERY ticket has just been purchased.



Regular updates coming live from the WORLDWIDEWEGG
Fresh eggs coming direct from GORGIE CITYFARM





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WORLDWIDEWEGG has just been blogged by two of its favourite new tech sites.
Thanks to Jo at TURBULENCE and Régine at ORGANISM
Go check out their sites NOW!




.....A regular source of sunkissed goodness for the wegg inspired




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After three weeks of Farmyard antics, roosting with the chicks on Gorgie CITYFARM and NEWFUTURENOW front man JAYGO BLOOM and colleague IAN CAMPBELL up to the eyeballs with chicken fried ideas, we are please to announce the WORLDWIDEWEGG is now online !! offline / realtime / peckline you name it! networks connecting a hen coop on a city farm with an art gallery in Glasgow,

The WORLDWIDEWEGG is an online website and low budget breakfast bar presented as part of the ALT-W awards showcase throughout the month of August at the CCA gallery. Glasgow. Visitors to the gallery expect web enabled appliances, peck controlled iTunes and random Lucky Clucky tickets online, all controlled by the daily habits of a bunch of hungry hens.





Each time an egg gets laid a signal is sent to the web enabled toaster (via pd and arduino technology) this sets the coils in motion and returns the action of egg laying to the gallery goers as hot toast for consumption! Not only that, on the breakfast table is a peck controlled iTunes soundsystem, each peck on the piezo mic' attached to the chicken feed bowl causes the 'Cock Rock Disco' playlist to skip forward a track - perpetual flutterings of chicken inspired songs!

Online the same egg laying response generates a single random number, after six numbers are generated / six eggs are laid a lottery ticket is purchased online, therefore returning back to its source a percentage of funds recieved for this project! and hopefully making its creators millionaires! genius eh?!

We at NEWFUTURENOW like it anyhow, the project utilises all the same sophisticated technology as other more respectable sophisticated projects, it pushes the uses of these networks to the limits, with realtime biological actions governed by an equally random factor (the chickens), its a project, its a happening, an event and most importantly at the end of all this it manifests itself as something so spectacularly simple and commonplace (a slice of toast), people would ask why ever bother at all!

Visit the show throughout the month of August at the CCA gallery,
Visit online HERE
and join the LUCKYCLUCKY facebook revolution to receive regular updates and peck reports.


















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JAYGO BLOOM Is back in the studios after a weekend of new media mayhem at the STRANGER Film Festival in Amsterdam. Check out the images and video of the dance tech workshop, created by JAYGO with performance -ware ISADORA as part of the festivals wicked program of events.

Workshop website ONLINE HERE








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Enter THE 7INCH VIDEOZONE!!
Yet another NEWFUTURENOW all inclusive!
Presented and performed by JAYGO BLOOM live at the RAINBOW for the
5TH birthday bash of 7INCH CINEMA
to view ENTER THE ZONE

The Online documentation for FRANZ TV is now available
A NEWFUTURENOW production created especially to accompany Glasgow Art Rockers FRANZ FERDINAND
and premiered last month during The Franz Ferdinands secret gig at The Macbeth Social Club. Hoxton Square, East London.
CLICK HERE to view NOW!!

A smashing intro to an evening of curious AV events live at the RAINBOW

NEWFUTURENOW Pioneering the way with a new series of DIGITAL PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS to be presented at the STRANGER FESTIVAL in Amsterdam this coming July.
For those able to attend, expect a specially devised workshop for young people interested in digital media, video and dance and introducing the use of dance / tech / ware ISADORA developed by the media-tastic performance group TROIKA RANCH

FRANZ TV
A NEWFUTURENOW production created especially for Glasgow Rockers FRANZ FERDINAND
and premiered to some 150 lucky people that managed to cram into a tiny London venue on one of its stickiest of days, some of whom had travelled from Germany and France to witness their long awaited return.
Alongside the Franz's new sounds an equally storming performance by Nicolas Ker and his band PONI HOAX

JAYGO BLOOM has been invited to present his immersive GREENSCREEN experience to the Birmingham AV- teers
7 INCH CINEMA.
Expect a night of maudlin nostalgia and a-v revelry. Including one off performances from JUNEAU PROJECTS - MIKE IN MONO - MICHAEL VALENTINE WEST - GRANDMASTER GARETH - FILMFICCIONES YOUTUBE ODYSSEY - PRIME OBJECTIVE + DJ DOM - Plus lots of shorts, installations, birthday cake and barbeque…

ZAPP YOUR PREGNANT!
Latest in a series of interactive new media projects by the artist JAYGO BLOOM recently premiered at the GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE - New Futures Gallery.
This piece was specially commissioned by BIRTHRITES and is part of an exhibition open to the public until September 2008, after that it travels to MANCHESTER MUSEUM.
Check out an online version HERE!!

Also for anyone interested a review written by Joanna Moorhead for THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER

...Bloom presents an audiovisual installation that combines the digital / technological intervention evident within the maternity ward, alongside a series of video narratives which have been created in response to the feelings and emotional responses of the expectant mothers he encountered whilst resident on the 24 hour ward.
There is a sense of entropic disorder within the visual imagery employed by Bloom, this combined with the use of alchemical and scientific motif, draws comparisons with the archaic notion of rebirth and transformation.
Through a process of paradoxical results, achieved by incompatible elements fluctuating between the digital and the physical, Bloom attempts to offer us an insight into the birthing process and the lucid emotional state of the expectant mothers within the ward.

The consultation based gametool is very nearly finished!
Having spent the last few months co-ordinating a team of programmers and illustrators, as well as regular meetings with consultants from Architecture and Design Scotland. AYE BUT NO BUT is nearing completion!
Expect a launch of the website very shortly, in the meantime feel free to browse the dummy framework HERE





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A recent interview with myself has been published by VAGUE TERRAIN entitled " THE RISE OF THE VJ'.
This Interview was conducted by Edinburgh based writer and curator MICHELLE KASPRZAK and presents an interesting overview of my work pre 2008.

Link to the INTERVIEW





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For anyone interested I recently uploaded a talk i presented as collaborator for BIRTHRITES At the Old Victorian Baths, Manchester.
The Show is set to launch at the GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE this coming May and will be traveling to Manchester, London and Belfast throughout the following year.

Link to my BIRTHRITES PRESENTATION







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Clean out those furrballs and open your ears
to the sounds of THE LONG BLONDES

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This GUY needs locking up!
Found and plucked to stardom by an LA gallery at the age of 16 upping fake vidz to friendster . .
and now repped by the Elizabeth Dee Gallery of New York.
His first solo show by 17, The by products of all his performances, the sculptures and paintings quickly collected by art vulture Charles
SAATCHI.
He now owns a huge studio in which he has built a house as a playground for all his video activities and mates to create within -
Its obsessive, over stylised and controlling and you will probably
hate it, but in it is a modern day mecca, a warhol, a mccarthy, a naumen...
harr harr harr LOOK













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