Pretty funny tag on MagHag...they go through the cover lines and compare them to the actual stories, calling out gross misinterpretations. Hysterical and quick.
So far they've done Marie Claire, Glamour, Elle and Cosmopolitan. Cosmo is def. the most fun.
Also from InStyle Weddings. I detest the wedding dress. As my sister just got married, I've had a lot of time to consider my own options whenever it comes to that.
First, I don't want any 'princess' type gown. The goal is to be able to go to the bathroom ALONE and hence, I automatically cut out any dress that requires a petticoat.
Second, I want something that is slender. I like the above dress because I have a Jane Austin kick, but would consider taking this and hemming it to my mid-calf? Something very springtime and outdoorsy.
The above dress isn't really my style, but I love those flowers. My friends will know--I bought an obscenely expensive dress from Anthropologie even though it really doesn't look very becoming on me because it had flowers that that sewn along the bottom.
That is all.
So my friend Mike Davin sent me this link today about wedding etiquette. The first chapter is all about wedding invitations and details in a rather hysterical way what all that paper actually means to the layman guest.
Official invitation
What It Is: One sheet of paper will contain a lot of writing on it, and for that reason you will be tempted to skip over it. Don’t; this is the actual invitation that contains essential pieces of information, including who is getting married, where and when the ceremony and reception will take place, and whether the couple would consider themselves “honored,” “blessed,” or “honorably blessed” by your presence.
Thought I would record some of my inspiration in film:
The opening credits of Velvet Goldmine
I really like the color combinations during the credits--lots of fun color choices here.
Returning the Painting in Thomas Crown Affair
The soundtrack during the scene is great, even if the plot is illogical.
The Credits during Thank You For Smoking
The colors, the graphics, the retro feel....wonderful.
Magazine Guru Samir Husni was interviewed on his take of the magazine industry going into 2008, with these comments to say:
"Publishers no longer launch magazines looking for a million readers. The new face of magazines are niche titles that may never exceed 10,000 in circulation," he said.
But the magazine business as a whole remains relatively healthy because of the rise of so many niche publications and the staying power of glossy entertainment news," he said.
Wal-Mart plays magazine God...
...its shoppers, apparently, aren't foodies or New Yorker snobs
Real Simple develops a Wedding magazine...
...isn't the idea of a 'simplified wedding' an oxymoron?
Golfweek gets in trouble for a noose...
...how is this 'tabloid' journalism?
You will be fired...
...but not if your only a temporary employee!
Magazine are doing well...
...Just not well enough
Rachel Ray loses staffers...
...Wow, and I thought she was invincible...
MPA chairman stirring up trouble...
...Measuring success by readers, not ad pages...what's next, editorial standards?
Ms. Magazine hates Jewish people...
...Is it just me, or did anyone else think they didn't have any advertisers---therefore hating everyone (just like women)
I understand photoshopping stars on magazine covers is something we have to live with. [Check out Faith Hill's transformation here from Jezabel] In the past few months it's been more and more prevalent, in my opinion. But I'm not sure if that's just because I've only started to notice the obvious fake-ness because my own Photoshopping skills have increased, or because they're just using the technology more and more.
But the recent issue of GQ really troubles me. Strangely bizarre pose aside, the girl still looks sickly. The question is, is she really anorexic, or was she just photoshopped to look that way?
In my analysis above, I pointed with red arrows to body parts I feel could have been photoshopped, the work given away by the clean lines and uber-perfect lighting on their skin. Seriously, if you took Ugly Betty's arms and examined them alone, or Faith Hill's back (it's hard to tell with the cover line over it) or the left side of Rachel Bilson's stomach, all these seem a little too perfect.
I sincerely hope GQ didn't photoshop in that right oblique muscle below her rib cage, because that would be alarming. GQ isn't a women's magazine, so putting Bilson on the cover isn't directly intended to screw with women's self-esteem as much as Glamour or Redbook. Instead, you would think GQ puts Bilson on there because that's what the guys obsess over...so does this mean guys want to sleep with a pile of bones? God help us if this is what turns men on...
So Blueprint was axed in December. It was a sad time for all of us here in my department, mostly because we pretty much worshiped that magazine every month. It seems like only yesterday that my friend Megan showed me a copy of the first issue.
1. WHITE SPACE. They took Real Simple's idea and ran with it. Their tiny columns surrounded by empty space made the rest of us look like simpletons with our lack of text.
2. TYPOGRAPHY. They brought back Victorian elaboration in a quirky new way that worked with modern sans serif types. I could stare at that ampersand for ages.
3. INNOVATION. Not ones to just keep things the way they were bought, they came up with creative craft projects that made anyone think they too could decopague their own chest of drawers. It was a ReadyMade, but with sophistication.
4. COLORS. Their pallet wasn't just limited to the basic pastels. Everything in the book was so soothing to look at, and yet they changed with the seasons.
Interesting study in Science Daily:
African-American women's magazines are more likely to encourage fad diets and reliance on faith to lose weight, while mainstream women's magazines focus more on evidence-based diet strategies, according to the study by UI researcher Shelly Campo, published in a recent issue of the journal Health Communication.
Marshall surveyed 9 magazines from a grocery store rack --Essence, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Women's Day, Women's World, Ladies Home Journal, Glamour, Vogue and Beyond Breast Cancer -- and found that all of them trumpted breast cancer articles on the covers of their October issues, but only two also covered domestic violence. What's worse, she writes, "of the coverage dedicated to breast cancer, much of it was offensive, superficial, misleading, or flat-out wrong."
