Rolling "edgy new magazine" thread 2008

F*@K! Magazine, Freelance Games, Film and TV Reviewers
date posted: Friday, 10th October 2008
F*@K! Magazine - the country's only alternative gay music rag is looking for new freelance contributors.

Annoyingly enough, we can't afford to pay you at present, but it's not too taxing, it's great for your press folder plus it's a lot of fun and there will be freebies galore.

We need the following...

A film-savvy columnist who will know what the hits and the misses will be for the forthcoming month.

A couch potato who can happily rant about the state of British television

A computer game geek who can get their hands on advance copies of games and give them a run for their money.

If you fancy any of the three roles please send an email to jess✧✧✧@sharpmediagr✧✧✧.c✧.u✧ stating which column you'd like to take on, with an example of your work.

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Fuck is just like every other crap free mag that's dumped in piles in music and clothes shops. But with even less content. I sometimes see it in that gay cafe nr where the Intrepid Fox is now.

Has that Peaches G mag editing reality show been on yet?

they're still hard at work editing it enough to make her look reasonable

http://www.mtv.co.uk/peachesgeldof

It's on Sunday.

I got asked if I wanted to contribute to that Peaches Geldof mag. I ignored the request. Isn't J4m3s Br0wn involved as well?

eaches - Editor

• Her vision for the magazine is to produce something 'underground and anti-mainstream'

• Passionate and highly outspoken in her views and tastes

Alice - Art Director

• Despite her stunning looks she’s never had a serious boyfriend, but doesn’t know why

• She hates pettiness, sticky tables in pubs, vending machines that have run out of diet coke

Camilla - Peaches’ PA

• Champagne lifestyle – wants to find a rich man with a country estate and write novels

• Energetic, highly intelligent socialite who loves astrology

Damien - Writer

• He can pull off any look whether it’s a string of pearls, a neon tie or a pair of black patent winkle-pickers

• A self-confessed prankster and a massive flirt

Dan - Business Manager

• Reputation as a drama queen when it comes to girls/romance – nickname Dan ‘Beyonce’ Jude

• Will always get what he wants and will do anything to get the magazine off the ground

Sarah - Fashion Editor

• She’s an obsessive list-maker and has to get up and vacuum in the middle of the night if it’s not ticked off

• She hates name droppers – it’s 'crude'

Sean - Writer

• Will speak his mind – and enjoys being the ‘innocent’ flirt

• A self-confessed joker, loves ‘stirring things up and watching people go’

These people are all fictional characters, right?

i just looked at the website and thought exactly the same thing. i'm totally going to watch this.

I got asked if I wanted to contribute to that Peaches Geldof mag. I ignored the request. Isn't J4m3s Br0wn involved as well?

― Matt DC, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:01 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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I know one of the dudes involved in that blurb - I've just emailed him to find out if he's actually in the programme.

This would be a better programme if they'd sent Peaches to work in a prison/at the stock exchange/to an army boot camp, rather than something she was inevitably going to end up doing anyway.

James Brown was very nice the one time I met him so he gets a free pass forever.

There's this shit rag called "Boosh" or maybe "Bloosh" that is in a bunch of freebie bins at school and has to be seen to be believed. One of the choadiest things I've ever flipped through.

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Okay wtf?

George folded didn't it?
I admit to quite enjoying it. It was pretty silly.

The godfather of Soul?

It was an edgy new magazine back in its day, that's all. (Some other time: a separate thread for defunct edgy magazines.

i thing ned t rifle started just such a thread a whiles back...

"What does it mean to be young and British today?
We're giving the under 18s in the UK the chance to take over our January issue. Dazed & Confused are looking for teenagers who have something to say. Whether they want to be a fashion designer, a writer, a photographer, an MC, or simply have no idea what the future holds but have something they want to shout about, we want to hear from today’s teens on what it’s like to be young in Britain today.

We'll then choose the best stories and our team of writers and photographers help make it happen.

Maybe you know someone who has an amazing story to tell. Whether all the ideas ends up making it into the magazine or not, we'll do our best to make sure that something from everyone gets onto Dazed Digital. And who knows what it might all lead to? Under 18’s wishing to enter should go to: dazeddigital.com/ArtsAndCulture/article/1336/1/Dazed__Confused_Teenage_Takeover

Ideas must be in to us no later than Monday October 27 and the stories we choose will appear in the January issue of Dazed & Confused, out on the 11th December. The cover story is shot by Dior Homme’s Creative Designer Hedi Slimane and the magazine will contain a portfolio of youth, street cast from London’s most creative and stylish teenagers. "

Front page of tomorrow's Mail: VILE TRENDY MAGAZINE PERVERTS ASK FOR PHOTOS OF UNDERAGED CHILDREN

and for once the Mail might have a point, not with the photos so much as with the grasping fetishisation of the young

"What does it mean to be 40 and British today?
We're giving the over 39s in the UK the chance to take over our January issue. Dazed & Confused are looking for people who have something to say. Whether they want to be a fashion designer, a writer, a photographer, an MC (someone who announces people into parties held by Royalty), or simply have no clue what the future holds but have something they want to shout about, we want to hear from today’s not exactly old but.. on what it’s like to be more than 38 in Britain today.

Annoyingly enough, we can't afford to pay you at present

Bleh, there's no excuse for this. If you can't afford to pay your contributors, then don't start a fucking magazine in the first place! Morans.

I think you'll find this is all covered in ES Magazine, every Ftiday (Grouty xpost)...

Every FRIDAY ARGH

So is this actually an episode of Nathan Barley?

This doesn't seem very edgy at all though, more... rubbish

Seriously, those covers of Buck Magazine make it look like the most odious publication in history, to the point where I'm strongly considering buying a copy to see how bad it is.

My guess: not as bad as "Intellectual Life".

Peaches - Editor

• Her vision for the magazine is to produce something 'underground and anti-mainstream'

• Passionate and highly outspoken in her views and tastes

Alice - Art Director

• Despite her stunning looks she’s never had a serious boyfriend, but doesn’t know why

• She hates pettiness, sticky tables in pubs, vending machines that have run out of diet coke

Camilla - Peaches’ PA

• Champagne lifestyle – wants to find a rich man with a country estate and write novels

• Energetic, highly intelligent socialite who loves astrology

Damien - Writer

• He can pull off any look whether it’s a string of pearls, a neon tie or a pair of black patent winkle-pickers

• A self-confessed prankster and a massive flirt

Dan - Business Manager

• Reputation as a drama queen when it comes to girls/romance – nickname Dan ‘Beyonce’ Jude

• Will always get what he wants and will do anything to get the magazine off the ground

Sarah - Fashion Editor

• She’s an obsessive list-maker and has to get up and vacuum in the middle of the night if it’s not ticked off

• She hates name droppers – it’s 'crude'

Sean - Writer

• Will speak his mind – and enjoys being the ‘innocent’ flirt

• A self-confessed joker, loves ‘stirring things up and watching people go’

― Matt DC, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:02 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

poll pls

Is 'Camilla' Camilla al-Fayed?

I can't stand glossy magazines that do not pay for editorial contributions; they have no business being in business. At the very least they should provide a token payment, because the whole 'look at the work you'll get from this association' argument is spurious, at least where writers are concerned. Fashion photographers are normally paid a flat per-page fee for editorial and might get expenses; this is true even at Vogue etc. because their efforts do lead to well-paid commercial work in a way that writing does not.

There are a few new fashion glossies where even the office-based staff are 'volunteers'. I've been approached for contributions by a few of them and have to decline when they say nobody gets paid. Some things are just WRONG and this is one of them.

BUCK magazine / Freelance Updates
BUCK magazine has announced that buckstyle.com will be re-launched during the coming month, with a bi-annual printed publication launching autumn 2009 to compliment the website. The new-look content will feature video interviews and an interactive shopping map for cities around the world. For more information, contact i✧✧✧@buckst✧✧✧.c✧✧

All staff members are now part-time and available for freelance work.

Called this.

does 'disappear here' exist?

We can also use this thread for the worst people to show up on Gorkana:

J*mes C*ngdon is now available for commissions. James is a graduate with a BA Hons in English Language & Media, and has covered a variety of features, ranging from sport, to Women’s issues, the sex industry, the pharmaceutical market and even the mobile communications Industry. He has also contributed to Pensions Management Magazine, part of the Financial Times Group. Currently employed as an Editorial Assistant/Content Editor for a large scale e-commerce company, James writes a number of articles, blogs, SEO (Google ranking) articles and features on a daily basis. James is currently writing a wide spectrum of topics with the company acting as publisher for a range of sex, pharmaceutical and sports websites, all of which require regular, concise and informative content. Assistant to the Content Editor, James writes up to six small features and three or four blogs a day, in addition to any number of SEO (search engine optimization articles). Alongside his course, James undertook a number of journalism modules and has undergone a number of work experience placements.

Are you taking your inane online beefs to the B2B sphere now?

There must be worse people that that. I'm disappointed in you Dom.

Matt OCD

Kudos.

I normally wouldn't do this but good grief this is a terrible piece of writing.

The double edged sword of gentrification has been thrust into the armpit of the East end; off the back of incredible regeneration projects such as the Whitechapel rides the parasite of faceless brands, rising higher and coming faster like a tsunami of overpriced coffee. Is gentrification beneficial to the surrounding artistic communities who, I suppose, do drink coffee, or a sign that all the bells and whistles that made it the cats’ whiskers in the first place are being squeezed out to make room?

How many mixed metaphors can you fit in a paragraph?

"a sign that all the bells and whistles that made it the cats’ whiskers in the first place are being squeezed out"

amazing

"Would Willie's fencemending eggs bear fruit? Or would his olive branch be torn apart by woodpeckers of mistrust? That night fate wore a cummerbund...of suspense"

The National Front still had a hold on the area - distributing their newspapers where only two decades later trendy bars would stand.

we were poor, but we were happy. you used to be able to kick an immigrant in the street.

"Let’s play with the devils avocado for a moment"

"On the contrary (my dear Watson)"

It's a goldmine, this piece.

"The Olympics will exasperate the symptoms of gentrification as more land and vacant buildings are sought for demolition to make room for stadiums and whatever else – changing rooms?"

Too right. Stadiums I can live with but changing rooms are just taking the piss. They'll exasperate things no end.

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ALOHA! FROM THE HILLTOPS OF NORTH WALES TO YOU DOWN THERE IN YOUR MISERABLE ACCOMMODATION. RESTRAINED BY THE INADEQUACIES OF YOUR PITIFUL LIFE. YOU. WHINING INCESSANTLY ABOUT BANKERS AND ESTATE AGENTS. NOT REALISING THAT IS IT YOU WHO CAUSED THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN, WITH YOUR PETTY GREED AND VULGAR IMPATIENCE. YOU CAUSED THE BLACK CANCER THAT ATE JADE GOODY'S CERVIX WITH YOUR DEFUNCT EMOTIONS, AND AS WE SIT HERE IN OUR TEPEE, WE INJECT MORE MESCALINE INTO OUR EYELIDS AND LAUGH BOOMING CRYSTALLINE LAUGHS ACROSS THE GREEN HILLS WHEN WE THINK ABOUT YOU AND HOW BORING AND UGLY AND POINTLESS YOU ARE. THEN WE SPREAD OUR GOLDEN GOSSAMER WINGS AND SOAR INTO THE ETHER, LEAVING YOU TO MASTURBATORY SOBBING AND SELF HARM. YOU BIG TWAT.

That's the editorial, in case it wasn't clear