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BEEN VERY BUSY LATELY MAKING BLURB MAGAZINES of my various bodies of work, Adirondack Survey, Kitchen Sink, and Discursive Promiscuity to be exact- the discursive promiscuity one can be seen in the above photo. I made the discursive magazine-named LOOK magazine which has now been changed to SEEN magazine-on a bit of a whim; just to see the quality (paper and reproduction). To be frank, I was impressed especially so considering that the price for a 28 page Premium magazine -8.5"x11", 80# matte pages / 80# semi-gloss cover magazine-is $8.60USD + $4.99USD for a hi-res Pdf of the magazine.
FYI, the reproduction was excellent and the paper is very close to the finish and feel of the substrate I use to print my photographs. In fact, I could cut pages out of the magazine, frame them and put them on my wall(s) and I would be very content to present them as excellent examples of my work. This result has my head spinning inasmuch as I feel like I have entered a crazy world where a quality 8.5"x11" photo print costs $0.33/print. That’s truly a crazy world cuz I can not make a 8.5"x11" print on my printer for that price.
All that written, what has kept me busy for the last week or so is creating magazines for 8-10 bodies of my work. The idea of having 10 magazines representing a lot of my work in a single slip case is just flat out very seductive.