Link: The Thing Quarterly.
The Thing
"THE THING is an object based quarterly publication. Each issue of THE THING is conceived of by an individual artist, wrapped by the editors ( Jonn Hershend and Will Rogan ) and sent to the subscribers. "
Link: The Thing Quarterly :: About The Thing.
"THE THING is a quarterly periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors ( Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan ) to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped in brown paper packaging by the editors and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service.
THE THING’s current year of subscriptions ( issues 1-4 ) will begin in August with a project by the performance artist and filmmaker Miranda July, whose first feature length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. The subscription year will continue with projects by visual artists Anne Walsh, Kota Ezawa, and Trisha Donnelly."
Link: Afterall.
"Afterall is a publishing organisation based in London and Los Angeles.
Afterall journal provides a forum
for the critical consideration of contemporary art practice. Focusing on the work of living individual artists or artist collectives, the journal presents thoughtful, in-depth analyses of work, along with framing essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Grounded in a rigorous process of research and review, the editorial
team seeks to develop an account of contemporary art that encompasses interdisciplinary forms that press on the limits of art's definition, social practices that question the political efficacy of art, as well as the individual investigations into material and form more often acknowledged in the market. The journal is co-published by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles."
Link: Dumbo feather, pass it on : About |.
"In each issue of Dumbo feather five remarkable individuals tell you their stories. Their backgrounds and dreams are as unique as they are but what unites them is their creativity, passion and integrity, and somewhere they found the courage to fly. In their own words they tell you how they discovered their passion, what inspires them, the lows as well as the highs on the journey and ultimately why they do what they do.
Each person’s passion is unique whether it’s baking the best 100% natural sourdough bread in the world, producing fabulous fashion in remote Northern Pakistan, writing poetry, making music, fighting for human rights, finding a cure for malaria, painting, choreographing, exploring, wine making, film making…
Dumbo feather has been described as a ‘mook’ (half mag, half book). It’s like a magazine because it’s produced quarterly, sold in newsagents and supported by advertising partners. It’s like a book because it’s a great read (almost like a series of mini-autobiographies), sold in bookstores and design stores and feels like one with it’s beautiful matt paper and weighty cover. It’ll stand on a bookshelf no problemo.
Dumbo feather respects its readers (we do not ‘dumb down’ content), the environment (by printing on 100% recycled paper using soy-based inks by one of the most eco-friendly printers in the country), and its contributors’ work.
Dumbo feather is created by a small team of devoted individuals with love and passion." dfpio
Link: B�K America, Inc..
"A BUK is an inexpensive pamphlet—just $1.49—containing one provocative essay, short story, portfolio of pictures, collection of poems, or other surprising entertainment, readable in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. At 5 x 7 inches and 16-32 pages, a BUK fits easily into a pocket, purse or backpack, where it is always ready to serve up absorbing material by or about architects, artists, actors, composers, critics, directors, designers, divas, educators, economists, environmentalists, essayists, models, moguls, novelists, photographers, politicians, poets, singers, and scientists.
In style and spirit, BüK draws upon the heritage of 18th- and 19th-century pamphleteers, who sold their cheaply printed texts on the street to spread new concepts—like democracy. Likewise, BüK’s literary offerings put a 21st-century spin on dime novels, shilling shockers, and penny dreadfuls. Neither books nor magazines, BüKs are intellectual candy for people on the go—collectibles that cost less than a latte." - BUK America
Link: GOOD MAGAZINE | What Matters.
The Magazine The world of good, not just for do-gooders anymore
Welcome
We see a growing number of people tied together not by age, career, background, or circumstance, but by a shared interest. This revolves around a passion for potential mixed with fierce pragmatism and creative engagement. We sum all this up as the sensibility of giving a damn. But to shorten it, let's call it GOOD. We're here to push this movement and cover its realization.
For while so much of today's media is taking up our space, dumbing us down, and impeding our productivity, GOOD exists to add value. So here's our first issue. We worked hard to give you something that you'll like.
This is just the beginning.
Link: KAREN MAGAZINE - MADE OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
"KAREN is more interested in the weather than what to wear, sell by dates than celebrity. A glossy magazine without the gloss. KAREN MAGAZINE serves up a delightful dish of the humdrum and the homely, gently observed and twisted into something quite unique."
Things magazine was originally founded in 1994 by a group of writers and historians based at the Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art in the belief that objects can open up new ways of understanding the world.
Now an independent magazine, things has built a reputation as a home for new writing – essays, reviews, short stories and poems – about objects and their meanings. The website contains a weblog, photography galleries, special projects, searchable archives and the occasional on-line only article.
Link: Aesthetic Realism Foundation International Periodical.
Aesthetic Realism is based on these principles, stated by Eli Siegel:
1. The deepest desire of every person is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis.
2. The greatest danger for a person is to have contempt for the world and what is in it .... Contempt can be defined as the lessening of what is different from oneself as a means of self-increase as one sees it.
3. All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
Fab magazine is a tool to explore Fabrica's world through images, short stories and interviews with famous visitors who cross our paths. Fab is conceived to explore the fascinating interaction between images and text, at the same time, it is the result of different people and experiences that meet by chance. Fab, edited by the creative writing department, is published quarterly.
If you want to take a closer look click below to download a pdf file.Link: F A B R I C A / Projects / FAB Magazine / Current.
The end is a movie screen word.
The end may mean wonder. Fear. Surprise. Relief. Doubt.
Delusion. New start. Destruction.
The end is a border, a frontier, a goal.
The end is definite. The end is a new start. The end is unpredictable. The end. It’s expectation. The end erases.
The end rewrites. The end opens.
Things end in different ways.
One day you’re alive, the next you’re not. One day you’re a virgin, the next day you’re not. One day you’re
twenty-five, one day you’re single, one day you’re homeless , one day you’re wrong.
And then it’s all over.
Each of us determine our own endings. Sometimes we end something.
Eventually something will end us. And even then some endings are retroactive and we don’t realize that
something has ended until WELL AFTER it HAS.
Whatever it is whatever shape it’s got, the end comes and that’s it. It marks the end of a sentence without caring
about starting a new paragraph. It takes the start away with its characters and the turn of events. We’re used
to some kind of sequel even if it doesn’t exist after the end.
With this issue, on the contrary, we’d like to be definite. The end.-Fabrica
