Nice to visit but you wouldn’t want to Dwell there
“Daddy was making them watch yet another documentary on the impact of Bauhaus on American architecture.” –from Unhappy Hipsters, a deconstruction of the photography in Dwell magazine.
Paper doing the white man’s overbite
I find it difficult to get excited over Esquire’s “Augmented Reality Issue,” out next week. As a veteran of magazines — a casualty of them, actually — I have to say that this kind of thing is just dead wrong. You get a magazine with a glyph on the front that you hold up to [...]
Ceci n’est pas une chanteuse
I was looking around at the state of pub-it-yourself magazines (in one of those Screw all y’all, I’ma make my own damn magazine moods) and found this amazing document on a site called MagCloud. It’s called Gigi, the Black Flower by Josh Gosfield, and it’s a collection of retro-designed media that tells the fictional story [...]
Nutty buddy
When Vibe went down, Complex pulled together an impressive look at dead hip hop magazines. Ballsy considering Marc Ecko himself is about out of cash. (Or has Complex solved the puzzle? Complex Media’s publisher says they have, but that’s his job.) Many years ago when I spent my days in the south Bronx tapping out [...]
Correction
Mentioned in last post that “all the originals are still alive in the UK.” Not so anymore — Maxim UK has shuttered. (As has Arena, which I always liked.) Bugger.
Sent off
Blender’s dead. Yes, another magazine obit — who cares, right? Magazines are toast, right? Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t — whatever the case, Blender’s not the canary in the coalmine. But Blender’s end, to me, is a sad final gasp for the British Invasion that was never as good as it ought to have [...]
53 free Playboys
Well this is fairly cool. Fifthy-three complete issues of Playboy magazine, one from each year, availalble at playboy.covertocover.com. The issues are complete, so you get all editorial content. Complete, and that means advertisements, too — always some of the more interesting items in the time capsule. Complete, with front cover, back cover, table of contents, [...]
If you could bottle it
Hmm. Magazines can’t sell ads. Alcohol is one of the few sectors of the economy on the rise. Enter… magazine beer?
Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
BestLife is dead. I can’t decide whether to be surprised. I thought it never had a chance in the first place, and I have never really known a lot of guys who would buy it. But somehow it hung in there, weathering tsunamis that were leveling other magazines, so I had to suspend my disbelief. [...]
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