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All Else / Re: Layout Concept
« Last post by ElSJaako on May 30, 2013, 10:00:45 AM »
Do we really need a theme? Don't most magazines just have stuff most of the time, and a theme sometimes? A themed intermittens is fine of course, but I think we shouldn't be scared to just put stuff together. If we want to do a themed Intermittens I think it would be better if someone has an inspiring theme and we start off from that.

I will go through the stuff and say what I really like. Especially your stuff, because I would be more at ease putting my own stuff in a magazine if someone told me I should.

The cover point is good. I really like the cover - the picture, the font, the colors - but the joke isn't necisarry and doesn't make sense. Besides, it will still work for intermittens 12 to 14, so maybe we can find a better fit.

I'll try to write a list of something fluffy, a list or something. Also, I think there are plenty of images already, but a lot of them are mostly stand alone. If you want images for specific pieces of text please tell us.
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Intermittens written submissions / Re: Editors thread for IM11
« Last post by PlacidDingo on May 30, 2013, 07:56:31 AM »
Right, let's scrap the current schedule. I was really trying to burn into something quick, but since then I was suddenly employed in a school contract i didn't see coming and really can't dedicate any kind of time during weekdays.

Cram, I'm happy to help out in any way you like, provided I can do so mostly on the weekends. I just want to be helping someone else's vision for this one, more than commanding the direction myself. Though layout isn't really high in my skill-set.

Would you like me to go through and select content for inclusion? I can set up a thread of what I would like to see included.
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Intermittens written submissions / Re: Editors thread for IM11
« Last post by Cramulus on May 29, 2013, 04:39:31 PM »
that is a pretty crazy schedule considering you've bowed out of the editing and layout

I really don't want to get stuck making this whole thing myself
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All Else / Layout Concept
« Last post by Cramulus on May 29, 2013, 12:36:38 PM »
I found some public domain magazine layout files and spent a little bit making a short mockup, mainly as a proof of concept:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/144394990/Intermittens-1-29-layout-concept?secret_password=v5ooyboitonkpl0m3ss

thoughts:

-The drawback of this layout is that almost none of the submissions perfectly fit the article space. It reminds me of why real magazine editors require articles to be a certain length - 200 words, 500 words, 1000, 2000 words. It's taking a lot of coaxing to get the material to fit. Obviously the template can be screwed with, but the more of the original layout we can use, the less work this will be.

-This underscores the need to pick out which content is IN vs which content gets CUT. If people could please please nominate their favorite stuff, it would make these decisions much much easier. Dingo, I know you said "I don't want to be an editor" but you gotta get your hands dirty! Don't make me do this alone!

-The majority of the submissions are fractalcult related, which almost makes me want to make it a fractalcult themed issue. But I also don't want to be a spotlight hog, and there's a substantial amount of material NOT from fractalcult. Could use some advice about how to position this stuff. I always hate laying out a project that's supposed to be a collaborative group thing and then putting in 80% of my own content, you know?

-The current cover is a riff on the internet meme "I am 12 and what is this". I love trip's cover design, I just don't think it's a very good joke. It's not terribly Discordian and if you're actually familiar with the rather obscure meme, you'd realize we're not even using it correctly --- unless the magazine is filled with adult content.

-On the note of content - Magazine layout suggests magazine style articles. Most of our submissions aren't really magazine themed. I mean, magazine articles are usually things like tips, advice, journalism, stuff like that. Fiction doesn't look quite right in this format. A few of the submissions work perfectly - like bwansen's discordian chakras - because it reads like a wacky health article.  I can't help feeling that if we had a real theme, it could act like a writing prompt which we could use to solicit a few more submissions.


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Intermittens written submissions / Re: Headline material
« Last post by Cramulus on May 27, 2013, 07:20:08 PM »
whoops this should be in the all else category, mybad
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Intermittens written submissions / Headline material
« Last post by Cramulus on May 27, 2013, 07:19:08 PM »
Which of the submissions should be the "front page" articles?

it would be rad if people could nominate their five favorite text and art submissions
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lol
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Well, I don't know it, but if it was bullshit, then it was strong in the sense of smell. 8)
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Strong in what sense?
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Intermittens written submissions / Re: Email Spag's Email Spaggotry
« Last post by High Priest on May 24, 2013, 05:10:34 PM »
Here are .doc files for the four previous posts (preserved formatting)
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