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NodeMagazine is now online: http://www.nodemagazine.com/
Want to write for a magazine that doesn't exist about a fictional world yet to be published? Here are some of the open positions:
To apply, post a sample story here by Friday February 16. We will then poll the discussion group members to see who makes the cut. Node goes live on Tuesday February 20, 2007 if the interest is there. If the buzz doesn't take off, we might be closer to real fictional non-magazine that ever. - patternBoy (nodeMagazine.com) |
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What, didn't you notice how hard we were ignoring you?
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Thanks, Martin. I will sign you up as the Lifestyle Reporter.
A friend told me that I would never be able to start a fake magazine / blog with help from people in a discussion group. I thought I would at least try to prove him wrong. I guess we will see.
- patternBoy (nodeMagazine.com) |
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I guess I could give it a shot, what's to lose eh? I'm too lazy to go repost things here, but you're a hunter, you can find the cool.
 ___________________________ mirror mirror on the screen who's the stuff of what I dream? The New Site!!!! |
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Of course, the moment you actually start publishing stuff, that makes the magazine "real" doesn't it? It will certainly manifest something in the real world (of which the internet is part, right? Right?).
»» "Forget infinity. I've got books waiting for me to read them." — colin »» "Speculative novels of last Tuesday." — William Gibson |
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It is a bit pretentious to appropiate such an idea before it becomes public. Not to mention the likely possibility that Node is a cover for the NSA to send Holly doing their dirty work. Or the unlikely possibility it is a magazine for satanist worshippers working on paving the way for the antichrist.
Get your own ideas and do not expect others to do your job. Names. Numbers. Held as though they might be a map, a map back out of the underground. |
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I don't think ordinary magazines are easy to start, so you probably shouldn't expect a virtual one to be much easier.
I've already found that trying to produce output on a schedule is more difficult than I had imagined at first, and I have many more personal projects than hours to pursue them, so I'm afraid I won't be able to help you at this point. I think it would also be more encouraging if you appeared to have some idea what you wanted to do with this non-existent magazine, some kind of direction. Still, I wish you the best of luck. Some people have mentioned they're interested, so talk to them, and pay no attention to the naysayers. |
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I don't think anyone can really take something like this seriously, but I think I see it as a slightly more engaged extension of "write something now" play. A quasi-graphical MUSH for big cyberpunk kids.
This message has been edited. Last edited by: TwiliteMinotaur, ___________________________ mirror mirror on the screen who's the stuff of what I dream? The New Site!!!! |
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It goes beyond naysaying. The attitude just rubs me wrong, and it itches. So I scratch the itch.
And I still think this shows an amazing lack of imagination combined with a desire for easy hits when the book comes out and the unavoidable googling begins. The Node, with William Gibson board new fiction! Names. Numbers. Held as though they might be a map, a map back out of the underground. |
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>>I think it would also be more encouraging if you appeared to have some idea what you wanted to do with this non-existent magazine, some kind of direction.
>>I don't think anyone can really take something like this seriously To paraphrase lithos, we ca'n't even get on a plane yet. Not really. Of course, a book could bring you the signs faster maybe (tho with its own subjectives and problematics), but we haven't got that either. This message has been edited. Last edited by: matthew, |
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Hmm. Interesting criticisms. What I thought might be a fun means for encouraging some creative collaboration is actually:
Thanks for the great quotes. They will make great copy for the home page. Glad that I didn't have to come up with this myself! If you are still interested in messing around with this apparently misguided experiment, your contributions are welcome. Who knows? Maybe you too could become a filthy rich web celeb riding on the coattails of the enormous traffic to come when the actual work of creativity comes out. This message has been edited. Last edited by: patternBoy, - patternBoy (nodeMagazine.com) |
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Thanks for the encouragement, Colin. I appreciate any support I can get.
- patternBoy (nodeMagazine.com) |
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That is awesome! Looks like a frame hijacked from some late 80's government funded sex-ed video, an inner-space 3d rendering of sperm racing for the egg before the advent of texture mapping!
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Oooh that's PERFECT! It gets the pretentious angle going strong - [sotto announcer's voice]"Witness, first hand, the conception of an amazing new magazine... NODE Magazine! [cue Thus Spake Zarathustra music]
AND it covers the whole 'sex sells magazines' thing. AND it's got the retro 80's thing going for it. AND it's MUCKy and pre-texture mapping quasi graphical to boot. ^ ^ we could be ON to something here... |
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Wow! This is really prefect!
Can we use it?
- patternBoy (nodeMagazine.com) |
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yeah, sure - it's 100% pure pretentious quasi graphical home grown DITware, and, patternBoy, you and nodemagazine.com are hereby free to use it as you see fit (as am I). Please be kind to it, it's had a rough day. It would be nice if you attributed it to www.dreamingintechnicolor.com.
And let me know if you'd like any text plastered all over it, mods, different res versions or whatever. BTW, the fake UPC code is liable to cause bar code scanners to become quite irritable and start smoking again, FWIW. |
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Cool. I will definitely add the attribution / link. I need to do a re-design (actually a design given that what is there right now is a generic template. Thanks again!
- patternBoy (nodeMagazine.com) |
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