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The Uncoolhunter.com believes that every city in the world can be observed from an Uncool point of view. There is an entire world to be discovered in every city and in every neighborhood. That’s why we appreciate the first source information you can send to us, that piece of information that hasn’t appeared on the web yet or in other mass media. So if you want to be an official correspondent of The Uncoolhunter.com in your city or country, write to correspondent@theuncoolhunter.com


The Uncoolhunter.com also calls street casual observers and regular internet surfers to send all kind of information related to the kitsch, the bizarre, the freak, the surreal, the hyper real, the sub-professional, or everything that does not fit in the cool or elite culture.
For this purpose and if you want to do it, you can send an e-mail to savetheuncoolness@theuncoolhunter.com



 
 
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  Theuncoolhunter.com is a website/magazine designed for a reader who wants to enrich him or herself with information related to the new trends. In order to stand out from the other, let’s say, conventional websites of coolhunting and trendscouting, The Uncoolhunter wants to go further and show the other face of the trend: the no trend and worship the uncool (the trash, the bizarre, the kitsch, the cheap pretentious, the expensive sold to a lower price, the freak, the badly designed, the surreal, the hyper-real, the incoherent, the under professional, the under scientific and the underdeveloped).
A group of everyday life observers makes it possible.
The Uncoolhunting is an unlimited phenomenon and pretends to be the icon of trend research.
 
   
The Uncoolhunter team  
   
The Uncoolhunter Team
info@theuncoolhunter.com
TEAM
The Uncoolhunter Team was created in 2005 by four advertising people: Javier Lourenço, Hernando Gómez Salinas, Diego Beyró and Diego Bazzino.
Based on Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Uncoolhunter Team observes the no-trends and shows to the world what is considered uncool.

 

Javier Lourenço
javier@theuncoolhunter.com
Founder ? Editor in chief
Creative Director and BA in Advertising from USAL (Universidad del Salvador).
He was Art Director and Creative Director of important Advertising Agencies in Argentina such as Lautrec/Nazca Saatchi&Saatchi, Euro RSCG, DDB, Del Campo Nazca Saatchi&Saatchi and El Cielo de Agulla & Baccetti. Now he works as creative director in Amautalab Creative Studio. In addition, he teaches Art Direction at Underground, Escuela de Creativos. He has won more than ninety national and international awards along his career, for example CannesLions, Clio, One Show, New York Festivals, London IAA, Fiap, Young Guns, Eagle Awards, Montreaux, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, Gramado, Círculo de Creativos Argentinos, Làpiz de Platino, Clarín, Pléyade y El Cronista Comercial, among others. He has worked in Advertising for ten years and he has been developing his skills to observe with a bizarre eye. Some years ago he began to worship the lounge culture, the kitsch glam, the space-age pop and the retro in all their expressions.
 

Hernando Gómez Salinas
hernando@theuncoolhunter.com
Copywriting ? Field Research
Social observer near to receive his BA in Social Communication (UBA) (Universidad de Buenos Aires).He studied Copywriting at Underground, Escuela de Creativos.
He gave professional advice on Trends to Ogilvy - Crystal, Cicmas Strategy Group, Trendguide , Psfk and Identia PR.
At the moment he collaborates in the same area with Lowe Worldwide - Counsel and Agenda Inc.
He published  "Buenos Aires Spotting". A site of ideas, inspirations and trends and Verseando , a poetry site in spanish.
He has a great interest in the Mullet haircut style.
 

Diego Beyró
diegobeyro@theuncoolhunter.com
Art Director – Field Research
Creative that received his first degree from Escuela Superior de Creativos Publicitarios. He studied Arts and he is a plastic artist. He worked as coolhunter for CCR.
Nowadays he works at Fabrica (Benetton) in Italy. He was art director from El Cielo de Agulla & Baccetti.
He has developed a unique passion for the care and maintenance of the moustache.


 

Diego Bazzino
diegobazzino@theuncoolhunter.com
Art Director - Field Researcher
Advertising Creative, he studied Social Communication at “Universidad Austral” and completed his education attending Art Direction at La Asociación and “Underground Escuela de Creativos”. He worked for different advertising agencies/companies. Now he works for FWK Argentina. He does not know where his intuition for the uncool come from but he thinks it has to do with the fact that his father is called Oscar Omar.
 

Correspondents:

   
  Juan Christmann
  juan.christmann@hotmail.com
correspondent - Portugal
Name?: Juan Christmann
Did you get laid in Bariloche?: I wasn’t even close to it.
A childhood memory: My first concert. I saw Valeria Lynch.
A sport?: I used to play Paddle Tennis two years ago.
An idol?: The person who invented the Neapolitan breaded-beef steak
A dream?: Once I dreamt I was working and I realized that I was dreaming and I told them that I was able to do whatever I wanted and I made a Teté Custarot appear.
Do you have a blog?: I have one with pictures and another one where I tell how I’m doing in Portugal


Published Notes: 27

  Jonathan Gutiérrez (JOGU)
  jonathan.gutierrez@mtvstaff.com
Correspondent - Miami, USA
He is from the Pensil Colony (Mexico City), cradle of the Narco Menudo, Weapons Traffic and Express Kidnap.
The Kitsch, the Vulgar, the Popular Sensational has surrounded him since he was a child and has nurtured him with a saturated vision of the classy bad taste.

He is fascinated by the Wrestling and if he were a wrestler he would like to be named “The Son of the Virgin”. Nowadays he lives in Miami and works in the headquarters of the MTV where they pretend to pay him and he pretends to work. On Sundays he goes shopping with Gloria Estefan and hobnobs with “Su” in South Beach.



Published Notes: 10

  Agustina Garay Schang
  nutmaat@hotmail.com
correspondent - France
Agustina is attending a Deluxe Marketing MBA at a top university in Paris. She is a Marketing graduate of the UCES. She started to work in the media planning department at the Argentine consultant/auditor agency called Deloitte. After a year and a half she moved to Molinos Rio de la Plata and workded in the Trade department and then to the department of commercial planning and trade marketing of fresh and frozen products. Two years later she worked for Tres Blasones as a brand manager of alcoholic drinks such as Cointreau, Amarula, Jim Beam and Cognac Remy Martin.


Published Notes: 10

  Anna Sarkissian
  info@theuncoolhunter.com
Correspondent - Canada
Born in Montreal, Canada, Anna Sarkissian has worked as an independent filmmaker, photographer, designer and journalist. She's 50% Egyptian-Armenian and 50% Northern Irish with some Greek mixed in.
Anna graduated from Concordia University's School of Cinema in 2005 with a BFA in film production. Her short films have have been shown at the Canadian Parliament, the Cinémathèque québécoise and on national television (MuchMusic and MusiquePlus).


Published Notes: 9

  Andrés Colmenares
  info@andrescolmenares.com
Correspondent - Colombia

Colombian Advertiser born in 1982. He's an Flickr and YouTube addict.
He works in digital marketing and contributes in many online trend publications from Bogotá, a city that loves with passion.



Published Notes: 8

  Paul Van Kempen
  paul_van_kempen@yahoo.com
correspondent - The Netherlands
Paul van Kempen was born in 1968 in the middle of the Netherlands. As a youngster he fought for the right to watch popmusic shows on the television. It was also then he realized that he had an eye for something more out of the ordinary. At the age of 13 Paul discovered the Italo Disco music, and while all his friends were busy swapping cool hiphop 12" records, Paul stuck to the uncool sound of Italo Disco. And he was the only one at school. At graduation day from high school the DJ refused to play the Italo music requests. Paul realized there was a long way to go to see the light. But in the 80s not only music had caught the attention of Paul, also video, especially VHS, Paul was literally living on video. Rental videoshops were all over the place, to please the customer.  After school Paul went into the militairy to serve the duty of his country, actually quite a waste of time. And after that Paul went to the university of Amsterdam to study social science and mass communication. In that time Paul learned to write, and as a sidekick job Paul wrote for a several important Dutch magazines. The study at the university did not work out, so there was no degree for Paul. Paul held several jobs and it was in the mid 90s a new thing came along : The Internet. Paul started to write for Dutch online magazines.Though it was a kinda of wild west situation, responses were very good.  Paul developed Internet skills and specialized in online marketing. And at this moment Paul holds a job selling religious statues online. Beside the job Paul loves to discover uncool stuff, explore, explain the material and walk the thin line between cool and uncool.  


Published Notes: 8

  Manuel de Sousa
  madmads75@gmail.com
Correspondent - Venezuela

Before finishing the International Studies career at Univerisad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela), Manuel De Sousa decided to take part in the Basic Photography Course.
Since then, the artist has been interested in the exploration and exploitation of “Collective Visual Oblivions”. He has considered the problem of general lack of details in the societies.

In September 2003, after traveling around some European countries, the creator decided to take part in the showing of images. In this way, he brought together his own images with musical selections in some stores of Caracas.
In the year 2005 he supposes a revision of the informal framework of the Urban Imaginary and the photographic space http://flemas.blogspot.com came to light. There, images that contain inhospitable and revealing contents are exhibited.
In 2006, the participation of the concrete city-dweller turned into a habit. The design and the printing of “Absurd Advertisings” are translated into visual ironies that have been seen in different spots of the city.
Nowadays, the author, whose pen name is “mads”, has a trans-disciplinary vision and devotes his life to writing and to the production and creation of ads and video art.
 



Published Notes: 7

  Eyso Zanstra
  info@theuncoolhunter.com
correspondent - The Netherlands
Eyso Zanstra was born the 20th of August in Groningen, the Netherlands and nowadays he lives in that very city.
He’s got a polytechnics degree in production automisation and he is currently studying technical informatics.
Computers are part of his life. He’s got a lot of vintage computers at home and his Amiga CDTV is the crown jewel. He loves to fiddle around with them, to make things work simply and neatly. “Solder is the best programming language”.
Music has always been in his interest, not always in good taste, but always with compassion, and curiosity to the new, weird and experimental.
To him, uncool, or campy things, has, besides a good laugh, a certain freedom in it, freedom to exaggerate, or just do silly things.
So, besides camp, he loves the search for new music, experimental and, especially, world music. This music has, IMHO, the vulnerability of having a strong personal core. This core consists of ‘wide set of decisions’, simply put: ‘which tone after which’. Also, he thinks this set of decisions is kinda similar to humor.


Published Notes: 6

  Caterina Borelli
  cateborel@gmail.com
correspondent - Spain - Italy
She comes from the island of Venice, Italy. She has lived in Barcelona, Spain for five years and there she is trying to become an urban anthropologist. In the meanwhile she observes the local fauna. Finally she understood that even though she tried, she would never be a cool person so she didn’t worry any more and started to enjoy the freaky of life. Waiting for a university chair or some research assignment that can make her go around the world for free, she tricks time by writing in her blog.

Published Notes: 5

  Galina Kovaltchuk
  gkovaltchuk@expert.ua
correspondent - Ukraine
Galina lives in Kiev, Ukraine. She studied literature and social anthropology. Now she works as a journalist in “Thing” magazine observing news rubrics.
“Thing” is antiglobalist magazine and pay high tribute and respect such projects as Uncoolhunter and of course publish the articles and news about uncool and untrend projects.



Published Notes: 3

  María Elena de Paula
  mariaelena.depaula@loweginkgo.com
Correspondent - Uruguay
Confused by the fact that she was born in an uncool family in the 80s and by the fact that she was named under a Venezuelan soap opera character, she finds an oasis of aesthetical mental clarity in the study and performance of Graphic Design. Nowadays she works as an art director for an advertising agency in Montevideo and she kills time by singing karaoke in English with a Galician accent and with Spanish subtitles.

Published Notes: 3

  Alexandre Odainai
  alexandre.odainai@gmail.com
Correspondent - Brazil
Brazilian, 26 years old. He works as assistant account planner in a WPP Company known as RMG Connect.


Published Notes: 3

  Clarissa Butelli
  invertebra@gmail.com
correspondent - Brazil

Clarissa graduated in journalism and worked as a copywriter and creative for a branding company in Rio de Janeiro for four years. She studied Art & Philosophy and is currently a freelance writer, translator and proofreader.

But what really tells something about her is the first CD she ever bought was Poison’s “Native Tongue”. And she really liked it. She also went from Montreal to Syracuse on a train, on her own, just to watch Finnish “love metal” band HIM play for 30 minutes at the city’s state farm. And during some of her teen years, she sang Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas in the shower.


She thinks the first paragraph qualifies her to be a writer but it is the second one that proves she knows a little bit about uncoolness. Maybe more than she would like to admit sometimes.

And even though she now goes to Queens of the Stone Age concerts, knows the difference between minimal and tech house and is trying very, very hard to read Rimbaud’s poems in original French, she still has a great time watching videoclips from 80s artists, especially those involving Brazilian brega performers to the likes of Sidney Magal.




Published Notes: 3

  Gabriela Ferraz
  g_ferraz@yahoo.com.br
correspondent - Brazil
Gabriela is 28 and graduated as a graphic designer. She runs her own design company, Pictorama, in which she works as a designer and illustrator.
She loves visual culture and feels inexplicably attracted by bizarre and kitsch stuff. She cannot live without scandalous shirt stamps, in spite of having in her CV a show of Gretchen and another from Rosana Cantora.


Published Notes: 3

  Lorena Barrera
  lorelbm@gmail.com
Correspondent - Ecuador
She’s Ecuadorian and studies graphic design. She’s just 21 years old. She loves photography, music, Internet, magazines, to travel, to meet people. She also loves to be paparazzi and to drink really uncool things. She is related to many foreigners and that’s the reason why she knows everything about the cool and the uncool of different countries.


Published Notes: 2

  Milky Girl
  agusadamoli@yahoo.com
correspondent - France

MilkyGirl studied journalism at TEA (Buenos Aires). She graduated in English Philology in Madrid and she finally completed her university studies with a Master in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Westminster. Although her background is very impressive, her life comes down to fighting the hostility of Paris where she works as an International Project Manager in an advertising agency. In a few words, a total loser as it is shown in her blog.



Published Notes: 2

  Florencia Lopez V
  flopir@hotmail.com
contributor - Norway
She is finishing the vocational guidance in advertising in Social Communication at the UBA. Her Curriculum Vitae is unstable. It is full of useless working experiences. He has rushed several times to the old continent. In on of them she discovered the bizarre Norwegian. She wants to specialize in this field very soon, that is to say, as soon as she moves to the Scandinavian country. She is obsessed with languages. She speaks English, German and right now she is dealing with the Norwegian dialects. Her most valued good is a poster signed by Federico Klemm.


Published Notes: 2

  Fernanda Vasconcelos
  fevasco@gmail.com
correspondent - Brazil
Fernanda, 29 years old, brazilian from Rio de Janeiro, has worked as an intern in the fashion editorials of O Globo and Jornal do Brasil. She graduated with a Masters instituto Marangoni, Milan and today she works as a freelance as a trend researcher in her hometown Rio… and needless to say…. what is uncool inspires her.

Published Notes: 2

  Kashan Krawitz
  keeshfive@mac.com
correspondent - South Africa
Currently living in Johannesburg, Kashan is passionate about ideas and creativity. She loves experiencing new things and meeting people that share exciting fresh concepts with her and expand her intellectual horizons. Adores the natural beauty of water especially the ocean. Obsessed with good design, she never want to stop learning about the world because when you stop learning you stop living.

Published Notes: 2

  Rafael Gutiérrez S.
  rafaelnoexiste@gmail.com
correspondent - Perú

“Rafael wouldn’t know how to write a bio although he could have to risk his life. In fact, he finds it deeply disturbing the idea of writing in third person singular but let’s go straight from the vast to the specific: He is the son of a military man, he has traveled around the world, he is a tourist in his home town, his life started the day he had an internet connection. He studies journalism and he is a specialist in the internet.

He is too skinny to carry his girlfriend. He usually doesn’t leave his house without his headphones and his favorite word is “baseball”. He owns a blog but he is not proud of it.”



Published Notes: 2

  Chini
  chini@amautalab.com
Correspondent - Spain
How to be cool if you had a Talent MSX instead of a Comodote 64 and living 5 minutes from Munro and spending your summer holiday in San Bernardo 15 years straight? From Barcelona and a bit from Bs. As. he tries to fix his life by doing things of cool people from www.youaresooverrated.com and amautalab .



Published Notes: 1

  Jeremiah Smith
  jeremiahsmith@earthlink.net
Correspondent - United States
Souldier of fortune. currently some where in the US. Last known to be working with Wonderlust Industries Inc. His spanish is much worse than his english which is really terrible. He likes positive energy and people who are positive. Check his blog.




Published Notes: 1

  Tanman
  tanman@speedini.com
Correspondent - Brazil

Tanman is based in Brazil and is a very cool and modern man (in his mind).
He is an overly ambitious person who spends more time looking in the mirror than his sister. Which is a lot of time. Most people find Tanman to be weird and deeply uncool.
Tanman has a two track mind that consists of "babes" and "myself". In his spare time, Tanman enjoys taking pictures of babes and combing his hair. Sometimes when he accidently forgets to think about babes or himself, Tanman takes pictures and writes about uncool and bizarre trends. Interestingly, in Tanman's mind these trends are very cool and very NON-bizarre.

www.speedini.com
www.myspace.com/speedini 



Published Notes: 1

  Tina Husemann
  tina@letoile-pr.de
Correspondent - Germany
Just a girl from Duesseldorf/Germany, where she is born and raised. After having worked in the PR business for the last 7 years, she now runs her own PR agency for fashion & lifestyle brands. Loves music, photography, art & design, friends and hanging around with them, style, all kind of beautiful things, Kitsch, life, movie classics, hiphop, cooking, Berlin, travel, books, inspiration, jazz, wine, open minded people, hot summer nights, character, soul, all kind of magazines, MySpace, Barcelona, innovation, fashion, shopping, chocolate, her iPod, harmony, sleeping. Did I mention music?

Published Notes: 1

  El Señor Juanito
  drogazul@hotmail.com
Corresponsal - España

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Advertising and he oriented his studies to design, illustration and comics. He has published in newspapers and magazines related to culture in different countries. He created the comic Agente Naranja (Orange Agent) and also the art and rubbish publication Santa Bisagra (Saint Hinge). Some years later he became fond of audiovisuals and released animation short films such as La Capucha Roja (The Red Hood) and the false documentaries Buscando a Wilmar (Looking for Wilmar) and even the graphic development of TV series for Telemundo and ads for Sony, Renault, among others. He is also responsible for the creation of Zinema Zombie (Cinema Club of Cult cinema, B Series, Trash… at the Modern Art Museum of Bogotá) and Fan Fatal (Musical events and video) where he is the Dj and Vj, apart from being in charge of doing the images. Nowadays he combines the animation, the graphic design, the comic and the illustrations with musical projects – El Sudaca nos ataca (the South American attacks us) – in Spain. Thanks to all of these works and projects, he is in bankruptcy and the few bucks he earns are invested in travesties and mariachis and mariachi travesties. He lives in Palma de Mallorca.

www.elsenorjuanito.blogspot.com



Published Notes: 1

  Elisa Uriarte
  elisauriarte@yahoo.com
Correspondent - Uruguay
A Textile and Fashion designer who nowadays works in the edition of tendencies for a textile magazine which makes her concentrate even more on the uncool because she's convinced that it's the authentic and spontaneous basis of society.


Published Notes: 1

  Franco Barroeta Fonseca
  franco.bf@gmail.com
Correspondent - Mexico - Canada
He was born in the glorious Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico. He has been fond of animation and toys, which he has taken wherever he went, since he was a kid. He has lived in Toronto since 2005. There he decided to devote himself to animation and in the coming future he will do the same with toys. Graphic Designer and Entertainer by heart, he keeps looking for the perfect balance between the cool and the uncool. Some of his works can be seen in his personal site www.franco.ilustrando.net


Published Notes: 1

  Jimmy Landaburu
  jimmyfinal@hotmail.com
Correspondent - Ecuador
Art Director and Creative Director. Nowadays he is working for the agency Uribe Fierro. He worked for Maruri Grey, Young & Rubicam. He worked as an intern in agencies such as Agulla & Baccetti and Young & Rubicam Argentina.
He has achieved many goals and took the credit for important advertising events. Creativity and advertising fascinates him. His icon is Agulla & Bacceti.



Published Notes: 1

  Amadeus Lukas
  lukashxc@gmail.com
correspondent - Chile
Half awake, half asleep, this weird animal tends to confuse the reality with the dreams and the day with the night. He has been eager and curious since he was a child and he makes an effort to look for the kind side of life.

Published Notes: 1

  Rafael de Los Santos
  poteleche@gmail.com
correspondent - Dominican Republic

Rafael de Los Santos was born in Santo Domingo in 1981. He studied Advertising at APEC. In 2000 he started working in the post production of TV ads.
A year later he started his career in advertising agencies such as Creative in McCann, Erickson Dominicana, Cumbre Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi and he has worked for Young & Rubicam Damaris and he has been in charge of Cerveza Presidente (Presiden Beer) that is the biggest account in the country. He has won several local awards at the Festival del Club de Redactores and Directores de Arte (Club of Copywriters and Art Directors Festival) and Premios Mercado (Market Awards). In 2007 he was part of the team that won the right to present to the country the Young Creatives Competition in Cannes.
Apart from working in advertising, in 2001 he designed flyers for that emergent local electronic movement. In 2005 he started his career as a VJ and he also began the project MAPO together with Marcos Cabrera and they swapped the roles of VJ and DJ during the show and they mixed all types of music (cool & uncool). Rafael is also an illustrator and in 2007 he made his first personal exhibition.

This is his blog.



Published Notes: 1

  Julie Kucinski
  juliek@bitstream.net
correspondent - U.S.A.
Julie lives at the very epicenter of uncool -  the middle of the top of
the United States of America. Laughing without irony and dancing without music, she is poised to become a serious threat in the global non-trend zeitgeist.


Published Notes: 1

  Erica Oliveira
  santamercadoria@gmail.com
correspondent - Brazil
Bachelor’s degree in Social Communications (focus on Advertising) and post - graduated in Marketing, I started my career as an advertising copywriter.
Nowadays, I work in an IT company. Among the courses I have already done, Marketing Communication Strategy, Creative Process in Communication and Design Trends Forecasts. Fascinated about consumer behaviour, I publish the blog Santa Mercadoria.
Favorites: design, photography, fashion and trips.


Published Notes: 1

  Alexandre Laybauer
  alexandredol@gmail.com
Correspondent - Brazil
Alexandre is a Social Communication student at Porto Alegre (Brazil)
and is an art director intern for a lame company. Trend and social
observer, never worked on this area, but really think he's got what it
takes to be a coolhunter. Loves London and soon will go to Buenos
Aires to study all that – so he says.



Published Notes: 0

  Bits on the side
  bitsontheside@gmail.com
Correspondent - New Zealand
Pip first noticed Lita across a crowded chatroom.  Tired of debating the merits of existentialism versus home cooking, they promptly swapped guacamole & sangria recipes and lamented the lack of puerile entertainment websites with a localised flava. Sixtynine guac-sangria-singstar sessions later, Bits on the Side was born.
Los Angeles native Pip brings her own special snarky ways to the party.  Pip spots all the rad pictures and videos first, and knows more superstars than you've had kumara chips.
Auckland's favourite reject Lita knows how to sneak into the party, solicit the goss and when she stays sober and upright, she even manages to post about it.
Bits on the Side is fun and funny, new and retro, sordid, bizarre, futile, fervent, funky and chunky. Bits on the Side: for that tingling sensation.



Published Notes: 0

  Juan Arriagada Cabrera
  juanicoman@hotmail.com
correspondent - Chile
City:Santiago de chile
Age: 24
Main activity: Advertising


Published Notes: 0

  Felipe Guiñez Mora
  felipeguinezm@gmail.com
correspondent - Chile
He started to practice with an old camera that belonged to his dad and he evolved in the field of photography due to all the digital advances.
He is a tireless seeker of moments, places, and people. He is in love with this continent, its streets, and its people and he tries to put in action everything he sees with his camera in the advertising field. He studied Advertising at Underground BA and at the UC of Santiago, Chile.



Published Notes: 0

  Ruth Harris
  ruthgharris@gmail.com
correspondent - South Africa

Ruth Harris lives in CapeTown, South Africa. Before that she travelled, worked and studied in London, U.S.A, Taiwan and Argentina. She has a post-graduate degree in International Relations and is particularly obsessed with different cultures and the strange and interesting ways humans choose to spend their daily lives. 



Published Notes: 0

  Jaiyant Cavale
  jcavale@gmail.com
Correspondent - India
Freelance writer, professional blogger and a content writer. He's a postgraduate student of clinical psychology, currently staying in Bangalore, India. He studies English and Hindi literature, Sociology and Media through distance education. Originally come from the western part of the nation near Bombay, which happens to be the city of dreams, prostitution, movies, drugs and underworld dons. The absurd and the bizarre have always fascinated him and he alternates between existential angst and nihilism. He does not believe in conformity and the ordinary bores him to death. He is a huge fan of cats and he is known to be a 'cat magnet'. He has many alter egos and some of them include a sinister Transylvanian vampire, a barn owl, and a cynical raven. He loves listening to PJ Harvey, Manu Chao and many alternative musicians. His dream is to make avant garde and socially irrelevant (!?!) documentaries and shock the hell out of people.  You will soon see his online magazines, one of which will be dedicated to postmodern/noir culture. He believes that being uncool and not following the trends set up by 'cool people' is the only way to find refuge from the suffocation of mainstream society.

Published Notes: 0

  Lucía Vilas
  vilaslucia@gmail.com
correspondent - Dominican Republic

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina,in 1985.

Nowadays she’s living in Santo Domingo, the capital city of República Dominicana.

She works in the field of advertising market as copywriter at Young & Rubicam.

She loves listening music, dancing every rhythm and finding new trends.



Published Notes: 0

  Stephanie Jesus
  aniejesus@yahoo.com.br
correspondent - Brazil

Stephanie Jesús is 21 years old and she just got her PhD in journalism. She left her job as a waitress in order to do what she really likes: fashion and music. She has worked as an event assistant for the last years. She has met the weirdest and most wonderful people of the world. She spends all the money she earns in trips. He devotes her time to hunting tendencies. She loves cruising around Rio de Janeiro by bus and observing the view and the people.

Her blog is called Macramé Macramé and her Flickr is Mademoiselle.

Published Notes: 0

  Joel Nonyane
  jnonyane@gmail.com
correspondent - South Africa
Joel Nonyane loves writing about local and international trends. He got inspiration from people walking on the street everyday. He was born in a Rural village in Limpopo province. Website: www.janefurse.synthasite.com


Published Notes: 0

  Selene
  selene.22@hotmail.com
correspondent - Mexico
Selene was born in London but she lives in the State of Mexico. She is 16 years old. It’s a short life but she has many things to discover. She’s at Prep School. She loves music and she is the manager of a happy punk band. She is very fond of parties because at present she makes a living from them. She loves crowded places. She always carries her iPod, her cell phone, her sunglasses, some cigarettes and her camera, of course.


Published Notes: 0

External Contributors:

   
  The U-Team
  brigadau@gmail.com
contributor

Ten years ago, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to an underground ad-school. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as no-trend hunters. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The U-Team.


Mr. F(ederico Braga): Pisces - Rat
Art Director who discovered his uncool vocation when he was a kid and used to collect bottle tops and stamps….. Some years later he noticed he hated the fashionable things and decided to look for the Holy Grail. As Indiana Jones had done it before him, he decided to look for no-trends….(Because saying un-cool hunting is cool). His combat weapons are a nunchaku and his game boy.


Mr. L(ucas) Gutiérrez):
Capricorn - Monkey
After quitting the career of Public Accountant, becoming a cook and acting with a drag queen, he discovered in his psychotherapy sessions that he was still hurt by the fake of Milly Vanilly and by the spectacular fall of Jazzy Mel which made him fight to become an advertising copywriter. It's in the final stages of completion.
His search for the no-tendency is a self-imposed punishment in order to redeem a tortuous past that includes a high doze of Spice Girls and also a complete choreography of Take That. He still doesn't know what to do when he grows up.
U-Team adheres to the fight of the housewives league to sell porn magazines in black plastic bags.



Published Notes: 85



   


   
  Martín Wilson
  bjmartino@hotmail.com
contributor
Poet (he just don´t show it), essayist
latin-scotish and comfortably hetero sexual.



Published Notes: 40



   


   
  LOST AT E MINOR
  zolton@conversant-media.com
contributor
Lost At E Minor is an online publication of inspiring art, illustration, photography, music, fashion, film, and more, featuring our latest discoveries in the ever-changing world of contemporary pop culture. Since 2005, a worldwide team of editors and writers — based in cities as diverse as Bogota, Berlin, Manila, New York, Melbourne and more places in between — have kept their ear to the ground of 21st century civilization in order to inspire our readers with their latest finds. www.lostateminor.com

Published Notes: 28



   


   
  VJ Bizarreta
  vjbizarreta@theuncoolhunter.com
contributor
Video Jockey Bizarreta owns a big collection of the worst of 80s ItaloDisco clips, 90s High NRG and uncool clips from all over the world. He plays his VJ Sets in many events, writes about uncool music and is a The Uncoolhunter exclusive artist.


Published Notes: 19



   


   
  Pablo Policicchio
  pablopolicicchio@arnet.com.ar
contributor
He studied journalism at Universidad del Salvador and he has worked as journalist, producer and editor of articles in the print and electronic media for eight years. He works for La Prensa, an uncool newspaper.  His skills to detect the uncool make him laugh of things that the others don’t. He kills time by playing soccer with the FIFA 06 video game and he accepts challenges.


Published Notes: 15



   


   
  Guille
  gespertino@gmail.com
contributor
His profession: Graphic Designer
His motivation: Turning into the most powerful tycoon of the city.
This ambitious goal that made him move from small towns to smaller towns systematically and his profession are responsible for his privileged present which is in contact with the fiber of the uncool.
Memorable achievements were the results of the practice of the design within a context of surly Italian immigrants that had a doubtful aesthetics criterion.
For example, he is responsible for having taken Santa Claus to the top (he resorted to the questionable resource of a pair of stilts under the command of a crazy genius of marketing) and other unforgettable hits of similar fat content.
He is shut away in his study in a remote place of the province of Santa Fe. He is crouched down, waiting for the perfect moment to strike the good taste again.



Published Notes: 15



   


   
  The Guachoski Broders
  theguachoskibroders@hotmail.com
contributor
The Guachoski Broders is composed by two young persons whose identities are protected even from the files of the C.I.A, the K.G.B. and the Google.
Few facts are known of these ambitious tendency hunters. They are interested in the progressive side (known as cool) as well as in the retrograde side (known as the uncool).
The most relevant rumors say that they could be a social communicator and a publicist; although there is one theory based on the hypothesis that they can be two out of their mind persons who write about the first thing that comes to their minds which is being accepted by the community.
They are not Tom & Jerry, they are not Alpha & Omega, they are not ham & cheese; they are: THE GUACHOSKI BRODERS, a mixture of Andy Warhol, Lita de Lázari, The Simpsons and a bit of Rock. Yeah!
Note: The Guachoski Bros want to meet the contributors Sofia Sarbach and Maria Sol Escosteguy.



Published Notes: 10



   


   
  SuperDD
  ddj@ohweb.com.ar
contributor

Superdd (Andrea Sagardoy): graphic designer and illustrator (new). She loves the Character design and the Street art. She draws things, people and situations that occur in our life. That is why she is all the time observing every single detail. It was in one of those sublime moments that her passion for detecting the uncool was born: that day, a man that was wearing tails and shoes with straps caught her attention. Visit SuperDD website and Flickr Photos



Published Notes: 8



   


   
  Sebastián Saffini
  ssaffini@gmail.com
contributor
He started working in Communications and Events. He is an assistant professor of the subject Advertising and Public Opinion’s Creativity of the school of communications. He worked for several agencies, design studios, TV and radio as a copywriter and creative producer (Contrapunto, TM Group, Channel 13, Radio Mitre, La 100).
Also, he is the “Neighborhood Champion” of marbles of the city of Pergamino.
He doesn’t collect Playmobils, that’s why he looks like one of them.



Published Notes: 7



   


   
  Juan Caivano
  jcaivano@fwkargentina.com
contributor
Juan works as editor for FWK Argentina. He studied at FAECC and Underground Escuela de Creativos. He decided to get involved with the uncool world because it is easier, cheaper and funnier than being cool.


Published Notes: 6



   


   
  El Flaco (The Skinny)
  elflaco@gmail.com
contributor
I would like to be living in the Maldives Islands but I live in the downtown of Mendoza…. . Some years ago I used to work as a skiing and snowboarding instructor in ski resources but now I’m playing the graphic designer role for a (TV, radio, newspaper, outdoor) multimedia and starting personal projects in editorial and motion graphics.


Published Notes: 6



   


   
  Emilio Pastore
  epastore@savaglio-tbwa.com.ar
contributor
Emilio Pastore is a UP (Universidad de Palermo) Advertising Bachelor and Advertising Creative in Savaglio TBWA. He says his talent to track the uncool was aroused by his mother when one day she took him to the Mecca of the uncool: a gig of the Parchís. From that day on he just repeats: "I see uncool people".


Published Notes: 5



   


   
  Pablo Sencio
  pablosencio@hotmail.com
contributor
He was born in Buenos Aires. He lived most of his life in the village of Caballito till he moved to La Paternal where he met the square pizza.
He is a drum player, a writer, an editor and soon he will be a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication (UBA), a photographer (artistic, be careful) and a “collector” of digital files.
We works in web communication, e-commerce, web content, advertising, digital mkt which is a job he could never explain to his grandmas and aunts. He is waiting for his million-dollar-idea. He always has a project in mind that encourages him.
He loves vintage video games and Star Wars. When he was a kid he used to be afraid of ET and Kiss but later in life he would love them. He was deeply marked by the Glam Metal of the 80s but his musical preferences go from Marvin Gaye to Finnish Black Death, Doom, Rasta and Metal.
He doesn’t like zucchinis and olives. He felt he was on the crest of the wave when he saw Adam West walking around Galerías Pacífico in 1997.



Published Notes: 5



   


   
  Dani de Maio
  ni_idea00@hotmail.com
contributor
Dani (saying my full name is a direct step to mi black list). After I had got my PhD in Adveriting at UADE, I realized that a company and its “paraphernalia” was NOT for me and the decade was not the proper one to become a hippie so I decided to go to the Escuela Superior de Creativos (my second home) and to Industria (I have a tattoo on my back) and I recommend it! – There is no intention of advertising it.
I want to be an art director (I always wanted to be a singer but at least I satisfy myself by singing in the shower). I have an important addiction and it is drawing things like these in my flickr,
I always wanted to have an unicorn and an elastic bed for Christmas but Santa never did it and I want to get married with the music turned into a man. *PS: I love to say the Word “paraphernalia”.

Published Notes: 5



   


   
  Loli Nocito
  dolores.nocito@gmail.com
contributor

Her argentinian ID starts with the number 27 millions and she is surprised when younger people say their age. It seems she is female version of Peter Pan, at least for the time being. She is between being a child and a woman which brings her some existential problems. She became to notice her affliction when she watched "dead people", when in her teens she used to look for nail polish of colors that did not exist in the market. In her childhood she was the leader of an uncool band of her course at school because apart from being a nerd, her curly hair did not allow her to wear bangs or styled in a tupé.

She always loved writing and drawing more than talking. She is about to graduate in Public Relations at UADE. She had already dropped Psychology and Liberal Arts. She still does not know why she chose this career and this university, although she believes it was because “you can’t make a living from Arts”. She works for a public organization in the branch of internal communications. Fortunately, the great quantity of Gasallas in the near offices has let her know what she wants to be when she grows up.



Published Notes: 4



   


   
  Crema
  cremacontacto@gmail.com
contributor
Fusion of letters, drawings, films which are strung together by ideas and concerns. Tagged ludic mixture such as: “content and rock”. Cranial explosion of the parallel brains of those who do not wear tie. Five aunts Mabel without any filter and with a Chinese guy who operates the photojohn.  No, thanks, we don’t need any lap. Rock vomited by Luthiers of the creation. Daniel San and Mr. Miyagi in a roller coaster without safety belts. A handicrafts TV show in the afternoon which is similar to “gore”. The quote: “never as much as your old mom” The 2012. Headings that contain dots. A poodle that doesn’t bark. Removing the transparent plastic cover from a screen. And things like that.
And you, “Are you cream?   

Vos, ¿sos crema?


Published Notes: 4



   


   
  Vanina Ayelén Arregui
  arreguiv@hotmail.com
contributor
Vanina Ayelén Arregui comes from the south part of Gran Buenos Aires and the unccol is her way of life. She is not related to the media at all. Day by day she cruises around Buenos Aires and gets surprised with the movement of unusual and unlimited beings. She defines the uncool as “a science of constant and infinite learning, you never know when you are going to find it but you MUST always be ready for it…”  


Published Notes: 3



   


   
  Laura Visco
  laura@madrebuenosaires.com
contributor
María Laura has always been proud of being named after one of the Trillizas de Oro (Golden Triplets). She works as a gorgeous, copywriter and sometimes as a chiropodist. She couldn’t watch channel 2 till she was eleven. This experience marked her for life. It is believed that this event turned on her passion for the uncool. Her hair is done by Miguel Romano and she, of course, wears "Silvana" stockings.



Published Notes: 3



   


   
  Nicky Superstar
  calyginefobico@hotmail.com
contributor
Nicky Superstar Works as coolhunter for CCR. He is a creative and movie director but he just watches DVDs, reads, and listens to music. Because his dream is to be a rock star, he has two bands called Save the Lounge and Opuss Gay. He also writes plays which he performs on stage. He has a pet called Baco. He takes pictures of him and uploads them to the fotolog. This maniac way of wasting time helps him find silly tendencies while he roams around Buenos Aires, smoking dark tobacco cigarettes and listening to Dani Umpi on his Ipod.  


Published Notes: 3



   


   
  Federico Saravi
  fsaravi@gmail.com
contributor
He was born in a country house in Tortuguitas. He developed the unbelievable skill of climbing trees which disabled his soccer abilities. When he was a kid he wanted to be an inventor but ended up being a Bachelor of Advertising and Institutional Communication. He is a fan of the Muppets and Mythbusters. He developed his passion for the Uncool when he realized that all his T-shirts referred to a place visited by his family.


Published Notes: 3



   


   
  Florinda Mesa
  info@atypica.com.ar
contributor

Florinda Mesa is a designer in Mexico. She was married to the Chavo and left everything in order to live in Rosario and work as a cashier in The Corner of the Opportunity. She spends her free time giving courses on bricolage or do-it-yourself and imaginative carpentry.
This made her to have her own cable TV show “how to set ikea shelves”. She owns 5 Pothos plants as pets and she is happy because in the apartment where she lives there is a hairdresser’s on the ground floor. She believes in God and in the Virgin but when nobody sees her, she buys those perfumes that attract love, luck, etc. If you want to make your own country store or make her questions about Chespirito, don’t hesitate and write to her.

www.atypica.com.ar 



Published Notes: 3



   


   
  Bruno Acanfora
  bacanfora@dcnazca.com.ar
contributor
Bruno would have loved to be born on a Pacific Island, win the lottery twice, be handsome and have a model girlfriend.
But unfortunately he works as advertising creative, he lives in Buenos Aires and he takes the bus.
His passion for the uncool has no other explanation than his fascination for seeing how far the human race can get.



Published Notes: 2



   


   
  Maximiliano Brizuela
  maximiliano_brizuela@yahoo.com.ar
contributor
He translates the web page The Uncoolhunter.com. He is an English teacher and when he goes to the stadium Diego Armando Maradona to see his favorite soccer team Argentinos Juniors he insults the players with a British accent. He used to go to the movies but he quit the same day the Parque Movie Theatre (it was just round the corner of his house), was being demolished.


Published Notes: 2



   


   
  Bernardino Giusto
  bernardinogiusto@gmail.com
contributor
Visual Arts Teacher. He is the creator of the masterpiece “Masticable” (“Chewy”) (portrait of president De La Rua made of 3355 “Sugus” candies. C.C. Borges, 2003). He took part in the MAC Biennial Bahía Blanca 2004. All of his masterpieces can be seen at Semillero Kitsch He edits the magazine “La Bufarra” and he sings romantic ballads dressed in a PIGGY costume.
Nowadays he is involved with fashion photography. He also has a fotolog .




Published Notes: 2



   


   
  Fernando Fryd
  ffryd@fibertel.com.ar
contributor
His grandma says he is an ace. In spite of that, Fernando’s ego has not been affected and he keeps writing stuff for work and because he likes doing it. Geography used to be his favorite subject and he has known that Canberra (not Sydney or Melbourne) is the capital city of Australia since he was a kid. Check his soccer blog.

Published Notes: 2



   


   
  Pablo Granadé
  poli@elcieloayb.com
contributor
Pablo Granadé likes to talk about himself in third person singular. And although he wrote this, he did it that way. He attended the CBC (Common Basic Course) to start the university career of Optometrist specialized in Contact lenses (a short career) and he did not pass it so he quitted. He couldn’t also pass the second year at the Escuela Superior de Creativos (Upper School of Creatives). Finally, he could make it at Underground because they did not grade papers.
Nowadays he is “playing” for El Cielo de Agulla y Baccetti.



Published Notes: 2



   


   
  Maco Schuff
  cycomaco@hotmail.com
contributor
Bachelor in Communication (UBA)
Copywriter
Musician
Curious


Published Notes: 2



   


   
  Aurinko Sunshine
  sakuralakpa@hotmail.com
contributor
Aurinko Sunshine will be 23 years old the same the as John Travolta. That is why she dances so well and she has a dimple in her chin. She was brought up in the ghost city of Campana. He was in contact with the all kind of naff stuff since she was a child. She was the editor of the school newspaper till she got offended because one of her articles was published with spelling mistakes. In order to satisfy her communicational needs she started a blog about nothing in particular and she collects glasses just like her idol does, Sir Elton John. At present she is finishing the career of Clothing Design at the UBA and she accepts the idea of belonging to a very cool environment and of looking for cool defects on other people and of wearing flip flops with socks.
Apart from this, Aurinko is a photographer, an illustrator and she writes songs about nerds who fall in love.

Testimonials:

-Bilo, journalist: “It´s an erratum of bad taste, a good reserve of anything fried”
-Juje, best friend: “One day she learnt to play the flute with the nose. It was remarkable to me.
Nacho, Juje´s brother: “Nobody moves the nose like she does”
Diego, ex school mate: “The best boobs I´ve ever seen in my life”



Published Notes: 2



   


   
  La Pipy
  priscila4s@hotmail.com
contributor
La Pipy (©_©) is 21 years old and she is from San Antonio de Papua and she wants to study Engineering. She’s been frustrated in all the fields of Art and she just tries to do a little bit of each thing as she can. She’s got four definite personalities with names and zip codes included. You can check them out at her flog.



Published Notes: 2



   


   
  Bruno Tortolano
  btortolano@vegaolmosponce.com.ar
contributor
Bruno Antonio does a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but his favorite activity is getting together with friends to play TEG, it’s true.



Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Marcelo Escribano
  38ymedio@tengofiebre.com.ar
contributor
Marcelo works as Advertising Creative and he has three dachshund dogs that are alike. He studied advertising at FAECC and Creativity at Escuela Superior de Creativos. He chose to be an Art Director and does this job at Gowland Advertising. His passion for the uncool was aroused the day he was given one of his first advertising challenges: Create an ad for the non-alcoholic drink “Goliat”. Some of his projects can be seen at www.tengofiebre.com.ar


Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Mariano Garnero
  margarnero@gmail.com
contributor
He is a graphic designer born in San Francisco in 1981. He has lived in Cordoba, Argentina, since 2000. He worked for the magazine Sh. He just passed through the agency Rios del Barco and nowadays he works for the agency Gurdulich Publicidad Estrategica. He dreams of having his own studio and designing t-shirts and toys, among other things, and being an UncoolHunter, of course.

Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Sofia Sarbach
  pedidos@deliverydeideas.com.ar
contributor

She is an Advertising graduate and spent two summers in the United States of America where she studied and practiced English and did her first ad hoc internship as publicist. He worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency in Rosario, Argentina for two years and nowadays she does freelance creativity works from her website Delivery de Ideas.
He did a coolhunting workshop at Universidad de Palermo and collaborated with some international sites of coolhunting.

Fotolog: www.fotolog.com/coolhuntress



Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Luciana Flammini
  lucianaflammini@gmail.com
contributor
Bachelor of Advertising (UADE). Confirmed fashion lover, she works in her own fashion blog. Her capacity to see the uncool arises from her job because she can surf the net all the time and find weird things. Also, when she was a kid she used to watch the Mexican TV show Chabelo (Hello Cuate!) for six hours every Saturday.
She knows how to say hello in six languages (Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese).



Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Juan Pablo Steneri
  jsteneri@hotmail.com
contributor
Juan Pablo Steneri was born in 1985 and was raised among Xuxa, Flavia is in a festive mood, the Knights of the Zodiac and Super Champions. Nowadays he is trying to be an advertising creative and a graphic designer, an ORT University advertising graduated, a journalist of BROTHER Uruguay and a graphic designer of Universidad del Trabajo (Work University).


Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Maria Carra
  mariacarra@gmail.com
contributor
Except for a brief and early interval of 5 years in NY, she lives in Bs. As. Currently Maria works at an International School and is also finishing her studies in Communications at the University of Buenos Aires.  She is now a correspondant for The Café Guide and publishes a food writing blog called Para Comerte Mejor.

Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Clara Ruocco
  clara.ruocco@gmail.com
contributor
She’s studying at the College of Letters in the University of Buenos Aires. She chose the branch of sociolinguistics. Every morning she asks herself how something more with her possible linguistics-oriented career apart from begging to the State in order to do “research”. This morning she could answer that question. It doesn’t matter: Live trying…like the music group Bandana.
She is an editor
And a poet by heart.
Her style is the cross to the jaw, in its Kitty version.
Her poetry sucks, it has to be mentioned. She dreams about publishing and she becomes disillusioned when she thinks about publishing. For now, a tree will keep on growing. She doesn’t have a reference blog.
Tags: Self-acclaimed Clara Ruocco, arlt + Kitty, bad poetry, What’s a liberal arts graduate?, paradox of the observer, Bandana.


Published Notes: 1



   


   
  La Pamich
  murga69@hotmail.com
contributor
The Pamich (Yes, with the article “the”) landed in his spaceship on San Carlos of Bariloche which is a Brazilian tourist city in Argentina in 1985. Her parents are gypsies and she has had a nomad life. She knew the Patagonia from the North to the South and from the East to the West and when she came of age she went to the Trash City of Buenos Aires to live the great life. She studied Plastic Arts, Drama and Tourism while she was meeting new people in dumps, dives and discos. Three years later, she decided to have a sabbatical year in little coastal town of the Patagonia where she joined the religions of Albert Hofmann and Bob Marley. At present she lives in Gummylandia which is a country of quick-change and bizarre artists.


Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Mavi Habil
  mavihabil@hotmail.com
contributor
Mavi Habil was born in the same province the Burrito Ortega and Perro Santillán were born. She studied advertising in Cordoba City, Argentina and a bit of photography and graphic design. Now she lives in Buenos Aires and spends the time playing the Guitar Hero, collecting trashy things and taking a variety of courses including copywriting, art direction and illustration, among others. Now she's unemployeed looking for a job.

Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Sabs
  elbisturimusical@gmail.com
contributor
Sabs is an anagram of Bs As and very lively person and at present he dwells this city. Among other things, his personality is characterized for being fond of the Chinese Japanese Vasco Community (if there is one) and for believing that the decadence is charming. 


Published Notes: 1



   


   
  Facundo Varela
  cundix79@yahoo.com.ar
contributor
He disappeared the day he knew that Marta Holgado was not the daughter of General Perón. He is 27 years old, fair-skinned, average stature and flat-footed. He is a romantic person and a passionate art director. He does not have luck and easiness to remember names. He was wearing a white piqué jersey, snowed jeans and black moccasins (2). He was last seen near the surroundings of Parque Thays (ex Italpark). To provide information, data and/or words of support, please dial 0800 333 VOLVE.
Thanks.    



Published Notes: 0



   


   
  Gael
  chegon03@hotmail.com
contributor

My name is Ezequiel Jesús, my surname is González but I try to avoid it because I don’t like it. A short time ago I decided to be named Gael Ezequiel in order to make it rhyme with my name. Anyway, they people I know call me Cheche which is my nickname.

I am 19 years old. I live in San Nicolás de los Arroyos (the place where I wouldn’t like to live), Province of Buenos Aires.

I studied Psychology till the career disappointed me. Nowadays I study Fashion Design. I love art and music from Nirvana to Belanova, and from Azafata to Björk.

I put my saxophone and my guitar away some years ago and I took up writing.

http://www.fotolog.com/operamelanariz
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/operamelanariz
http://www.eldiariodegael.blogspot.com 

 



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  María Sol
  sol.alp@hotmail.com
contributor
María S. is an 18-year-old girl who studies Advertising at UADE. She is from Lanús R. which is the cradle of great exponents of the argentinian national beauty and culture such as Ricardo Montaner, Nino Dolce, The Babasonicos, Eliana Guercio, among others. She graduated from Polimodal and up to now she lives off her parents, Andy and Rouse, although she’s had a brief working experience. She worked as an employee for the soccer club Lanús but the excitement lasted a month and a day. She thinks that being poor is a state of mind and so is being cool.


Published Notes: 0



   


   
  Franco Baldinelli
  frankobe@hotmail.com
Colaborador
He lives in La Plata with his mother. He is 21 years old.
ISCI “Instituto Superior de Ciencias” (Superior Institute of Science) graduated. He took a degree in Technician and national Tourism Guide. Nowadays he is studying Advertising at UADE.
Favorites: Music (mainly Reggae), photography, sports (among his favorites snowboard and skate) soccer. Pets: dogs, turtles.



Published Notes: 0



   


   
  Nicolás Tonnelier
  nicotonnelier@yahoo.com.ar
contributor

He’s a pedestrian poet and a bad-tempered person, an audiovisual creative and a chickens’ burglar. He worked as a journalist, multimedia designer and butcher (in the city of Tampa, Florida) and he never studied design, journalism or the butcher profession. He doesn’t believe in formal studies. He doesn’t believe in elongation. He also doesn’t believe in the school of life, in fact, he says that “People are intelligent or people are fool”. He is always ready to defend his beliefs “wherever it comes from and against everybody who stands in front of”.
He run this design and audiovisual communication studio in the city of Córdoba. He wanted to become a millionaire but it turned out really bad. He came back to Mendoza and uploaded an absurd and crazy personal site. Believe it or not, people liked it. He got a job at PYLV Communication where he works as a copywriter.

He owns three weblogs but he has not updated them for a while.



Published Notes: 0



   


   
  Francisco Blanco
  fran.laurgencia@hotmail.com
contributor
I was born 23 years ago in San Andres de Giles, Province of Buenos Aires. I grew up and I developed my first skills there: doubt and the curiosity. This led me to know what was beyond my village.
I traveled to the Capital City looking for academic excellence and I went to the UBA (University of Buenos Aires). There I attend Communication Studies and I also attending the second year at Escuela Superior de Creativos Publicitarios (Superior School of Advertising Creatives).
It is logical that new opportunities came up in a new world. That’s why I took up theater and music.
Nowadays I play the saxophone in a modest but ambitious rock band called Mama Santa.
My favorite hobbies are reading, photography, music and the web.
If I have to find the engine that impels me in every thing I do, I will definitely say they are willingness and curiosity.



Published Notes: 0



   


   
  Juan Francisco Ruocco
  jfruocco@gmail.com
contributor
Juan Francisco Ruocco was born twice, that is to say, the day his mother gave birth to him and when he discovered the videogame console. He gets on well with the guidelines of the middle class. His family is part of it. The first videogame console (a triple frontier version of the “Famicom”) was given to him by his father when he was 6 years old. That’s how the trip started. Nowadays he develops a complex about trying new purchases: a Nintendo DS and the brand new Nintendo Wii.
Juan has grown by means of the macrobiotic diet prompted by his family which hinted a peculiar feeling for the doggy that died of eating the contaminated mozzarella that was very famous in 1992.
At the same time he discovered that the toy cars Durabit didn’t endure two and a half hammer blows and the most important thing after discovering the videogame consoles was that if he dismantled two staplers and then assembled them, he would get a device similar, in shape, to a submachine-gun that was perfect to play war games.
The kid kept growing and his feeling for the doggy of the mozzarella issue and his imagination to assemble toy weapons with stationary objects scrolled to the search of the aesthetics that would free him from “our present and insincere culture” (sic).
On October 15th 2007 he found a web site that made him cry and he didn’t know why. It was the site that promoted a breeder of mini Schnauzers puppies. He was speechless: he didn’t know how to describe what he saw. “Which was the correct word?” “Naff?” So there was a series of premises and a certain search of the aesthetics behind the web. He decided to share it with the uncoolhunters and that’s why he deserves to be invited to collaborate in their hunts.
Nowadays he takes a walk along Alvarez Jonte Avenue with his 8-bit tie and his skateboard or badly known as “skate”.






Published Notes: 0



   


   
  Luciana Ekmekdjian (a.k.a. Lulú)
  luluekmi@gmail.com
contributor
She is a lawyer by choice and an uncoolhunter by heart. She expressed her vocation at the age of 12 when in 1988 she made up her masterpiece “Kitsch viewpoint of the discovery of America” that was showed at her school in the same year.
She admits the influence of her family on certain musical preferences. When she was just a kid, she had to undergo albums of Domenico Madugno, Fred Bongusto over and over again and some cha cha cha albums that she decided to forget.
She was an insatiable follower of the show of Ante Garmaz that was broadcast in ATC in the 90s. She bragged about knowing one of the models who used to show her beauty.

In her third decade of life she decided to follow her vocation and finally after some years of walking around her natal neighborhood “Palermo”, where she still lives, she got tired of the cool, the lounge, the chill out, the glam, the freak….
Today she cruises the streets of the city with the same fervor that she surfs the net, looking for the authentic uncool in a merciless fight against the “tilingueria” (foolish).




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  Andrés Bruno
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He walked towards Art Direction, from the University to the Advertising B.A. Then he followed the path of the underground (copywriting and art direction) and then he got involved with Industry (art direction) where he was strongly influenced by the photography. He spins his backpack, takes the camera, handles the shutter listening to his music and it is better if it is Saturday in the afternoon.

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  Maria Coda
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Mery from Argentina. Graphic designer and passionate theater student.
I know or I feel that there is always something waiting on the other side and may be it is waiting for me.
That is why I live crossing from one side to the other.
The people (including me), the people are my biggest show and you don't have to buy a ticket…
It's great, that is why I am not tired of saying that the human beings never stop surprising me!!!
I like to roam the habitual places (life) and taste the people and imagine the best things about them. I imagine they are brave, crazy and beautiful and I also imagine their worst characteristics.
I imagine them, I see them and I observe them.


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  Mariana Bisso
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She was born in Arrecifes, Province of Buenos Aires in 1979. Now she lives in the Capital City but she comes back to her hometown from time to time just as a sign of melancholy.
She studied Clothing Design and Fashion production. She was in charge of the wardrobe in theatres and she was exploited in a textile plant.
Nowadays she is working for a telecommunication company.
She is an addict to facebook. She loves investigating the lives of other people!
She hates mosquitoes, the cold weather and the air conditioner. She loves roaring with laughter, making jokes, hanging out with friends, taking pictures, the colors, ridiculous things, bizarre things and moooooooooooooore!!!



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  Analia Bozhori
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Analia Bozhori was born in Bernal, Bs. As., Argentina, 27 years ago. She has marketing roots with an Italian-Greek touch. She decided to follow the path of studying trends and anti-trends and their impact on societies. She loves urban ethnography. She can spend hours in the web or in the street searching for signals – who knows what kind of signals – just to upload them to her blog Trend-Observatory.
She has just arrived from Europe where she did a postgraduate course on “Innovation and development of PRODUCTS” in ELISAVA, Barcelona. She also played the role of a coolhunter in the streets of London. After this, she decided to focus on her job in her native country. She spends her free time by being a Branding consultant, teaching at the University of Palermo, giving Workshops about trends and its opposite and designing bathing suits for her brand WHY LUCA, among other things.


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  Lolo
  buskapina@hotmail.com
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I am ageless. I am from Chascomús but I went into exile, first La Plata and then Buenos Aires.
Basically, I am a Software Programmer. It’s my job and my hobby and I like to experiment with image and sound.
I have a very particular sense of humor and the very sensitive “gift” of “feeling embarrassed for somebody”.
University did not make me happy. I also do pixelart in paint and I own a website which is constantly being developed: http://xxxlol.com.ar


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  Ricardo J Richards
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Ricardo is named Ricardo because he wasn’t given the chance to choose. The rest of his names can be discussed maybe some other time. He is 26 years old he has been promising more since he was a child.

He had no better idea than entertaining his youth so he went around the World and he did it in the same way someone goes round the block, that is to say, with pause and intrigue.

He likes eating, walking, looking and watching soccer games. He says that the rest is just momentary improvisations to fill the unpalatable gaps between such activities, for example, writing in a blog, and all those previous thoughts that make him do it in an inexplicable way.

He likes old dogs. He does not care about the rest of the animals.


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