Our Story
Time Oddity was born as a university project between five enthusiastic students: Hugo, Lison, Sarah, Sofya and Tatiana. Reunited by their love for art and culture, the future journalists decided to mix their knowledge, experiences and sensitivity and gave birth to Time Oddity, a space for all the old souls and nostalgics.
Time Oddity aims to make you (re)discover the big cultural events, people and pieces that influenced our world, through a subjective and contemporary perspective.
Our Team
Lison Marsin
The Poet
Yes, Farrah Fawcett's doppelgänger exists. She looks like a real character from the 70's and she's in our team. Lison Marsin is Time Oddity's treasure. At 21 years old, she graduated in languages and modern literature, as well as journalism.
Music, fashion and literature are Lison's chosen fields. Through style devices, lyrical writing and double entendre, Lison will invite you to time travel in her universe. Passionate about rock bands, guitars and flower crowns, she is the artist of Time Oddity. If you ever need a breath of fresh air, her articles will be your solutions.
Sofya Letovaltseva
The Stargazer
Mix a bit of sass, loads of glitter and the slightest but most charming Russian accent together and you’ll get the composition that makes up our beloved Sofya.
This pop culture enthusiast shares with us her knowledge about the major fashion trends that define an era, but also the core ideas and controversies of yesterday’s society. While she’s never shy in voicing her opinions, never forgetting anyone might view the world from a different standpoint is her mantra.
Sofya’s also our TikTok editor and manager. As a magazine that aims to bring together past and present, we consider it our mission to open our gates to younger audiences.
Sarah Lepage
The Actress
With her big expressive eyes and her communicative big smile, Sarah’s the ray of sunshine of our team. Her motivation and positive energy shall only be exploited in a project she’s passionate about.
While she’s always up for a good chat, she also knows when to get to work and how to organize the slightly chaotic bunch that makes up our team.
In Time Oddity, the journalist-by-day, actress-by-night expresses her creativity and her support for a fairer world.
Tatiana Rijks
The Eye
After studying sociology and journalism, it is quite natural that she finds her place in the editorial staff of Time Oddity. Only 22 years old, Tatiana Rijks is a young journalist who offers a good compromise between the rigor of words and the poetry of images.
Passionate about photography and cinema, she is the eye of Time Oddity. Keep your eyes wide open, you might miss something precious.
Our Concept
NAME. We decided to name our magazine “Time Oddity” in reference to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”, released in 1969 (the year that would influence and lead to the ones we’ll focus onthis year).
TOPIC. Culture, arts through the decades. We will focus on artists and their work. We’d like to follow the concept “1 year in history = 1 print/edition”, starting for our project in the 70s, as we think it is a rich decade culture-wise.
The idea is to get across different artistic trends in some selected fields (photography, films, dance, music, ...) that happened during the 70's. We will highlight some masterpieces or great artists of that time and present some visions from those days. We want to share a quick approach to become familiar with some art from a close past and understand a bit more the historic context back in those days. What does art say about that generation?
PUBLISHING FREQUENCY. Time Oddity would be a trimestral magazine, which means 2 actual years = 10 years explored. Each print is dedicated to a specific year in a decade (this year and next year: the 70’s; then, it would be 60’s for instance), except for the summer edition which will contain 2 years, as people tend to read much more during the holidays.
TARGET READERSHIP. Our target audience would be quite specific. Probably already knowledgeable in some kind of art (music, cinema, theatre and so on...) and with an interest in the second part of the last century.
With a time-machine set in the 70s, we are sure to catch readers who are curious about art at that time. We want to share a part of art history and let our audience discover pieces and anecdotes they don’t necessarily know prior to reading us. Therefore, we’d have to be specific or original in our angles and present something more than just what everyone already knows about the subject.
Our ideal reader is a curious person, between 15 and 45 years old, that’s looking for an agreeable yet culturally enriching time when reading our magazine.
HOUSE STYLE. We think it would only be fair to present our magazine in a visually pleasing way, as we’d also be talking about visual arts.
Additionally, we think it’s appropriate for a project such as ours to reflect a part of ourselves in the writing style: creativity and expression make sense for our topic! Some of us pointed out Rolling Stone Magazine interviews, which are often delivered in a very narrative style.
Considering our subject is close to the public, we decided we would use informal language. As we’re in Europe, we’ll prefer British English for our magazine.
