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LMNO

If I had $1400, I'd be buying a new recording gear.


Just saying.

Triple Zero

i just want to say in front, i don't have that kind of money.

(and especially not for some vague project of people i hardly know over the internets, if you don't mind me saying)

but the financial side is what netaungrot knew those publishing people for right? we just need to come up with a semi-plausible plan.
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AFK

Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 07, 2007, 04:35:45 PM
If we were able to put together an attractive product I would have no objection to fronting one or two hundred bucks towards print. I'm sure if we put our hearts into it we can collectively scrape together enough cash to do it.

Unfortunately there are two other beating hearts in the WHN household.  Both of which I need to keep well fed so the mama heart will continue to grant me access to Funtown and the other so she doesn't try to chew my leg off, again.
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Cramulus

#48
Can I venture a stab at a mission statement? I'm not sure if we're talking about publishing a BIP magazine or a Discordian magazine - both have been discussed in the last few days. My intuition is that we should write a Discordian magazine that just happens to focus on the BIP and our ideasphere - that'll give us a fairly broad audience.

Discord Magazine
(title pending)

Mission statement:

Discord Magazine is a sampling of what's going on right now in Discordian culture. It will examine current trends and themes present in the Discordian 'stream.

Target Audience:
Discordians. At present nobody knows exactly how many there are out there. Also, nobody knows how many would be willing to pay a few bucks for a magazine about their "religion". But luckily, most of them use the internets to communicate with each other, and we have total access to that.


Each issue will include something like:

  • thumbnails of things happening which are relevant to the Discordian community (eris bar and grill, the Portland Discordian scene, discordian bands)
  • spotlight on a cabal
  • a fair amount of sermons, rants, and articles by Discordians (ie think for yourself shmuck, and now what?, fiction, BIP, etc ad nausea)
  • tons of zany graphics
  • interviews with prolific Discordians and their ilk (like RAWs living relatives)


Goal:
The first issue will test the feasibility of such an endeavor. We intend to put together enough articles to make a 20-page magazine. After we have some substance, and some research on who might buy such a thing, we'll try to pin down advertisers to fund a printing.

If we can't come up with the resources to print, we'll publish it in PDF form. Maybe from that, we'll get the myriad Discordian commutinies foaming at the mouth and have some idea whether it'd be possible to generate capital from a printing.

Triple Zero

:mittens:

just, whatever, congratulatory, blah, bu ti agree and it's more coherent than whatever i can write
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LHX

ok

how about we add this to the mix:

lets assemble something that we ourselves would want to see first


that way - even if it turns out to be a piece of shit that doesnt go anywhere - it will have some appeal to somebody


the worst would be to produce a piece of trash that even we want no part of


i get a hard-on for some of the visual material that comes thru these boards - the large images and the slogans

so to be able to hold something tangible like that in my hands - i would be interested in doing this based on that premise alone



odds are - if it looks good it will have appeal

if it also packs philosophical substance - thats a bonus for any potential purchasers
neat hell

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 07, 2007, 05:01:45 PM

Discord Magazine
(title pending)


I thought we'd agreed on "Threadjack"

1 - was my idea

2 - I spent all of 5mins coming up with a logo

failing that - "Freestyle Life"

1 - was also my idea

Let's face it it's either one of those or I'm gonna bitch and whine like a diva on a meth tweak and get on everyone's tits about it

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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LHX

Freestyle itself might be a interesting title
neat hell

Triple Zero

i like all three options actually

(not helpful)
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Cramulus

I do like those titles. I just said Discord Magazine 'cause I forgot about Threadjack.

but the title of a magazine, especially one nobody's heard of, should indicate what the magazine is about

A Discordian should see the title and think "cool, this is relevant to me, I'll click the link"

That's not to say the title couldn't have a subtitle like

"THREADJACK: for Discordians by Discordians"
"FREESTYLE LIFE: the journal of Discordians everywhere"
"FREESTYLE: What would Eris Do?"

hunter s.durden

How 'bout Silly Cybin Monthy?!?  :stfu:

I like Freestyle Life.

Threadjack makes me think of internet shit, so i'll expect Wired.
Freestyle alone sounds like a bike magazine.

Freestyle Life is the most fitting as far as i'm concerned.
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Thurnez Isa

Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.
Justice moved my maker on high.
Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.
Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

Dante

LMNO

Sounds like an extreme sports mag.

hunter s.durden

Quote from: LMNO on March 07, 2007, 06:02:45 PM
Sounds like an extreme sports mag.
Fuck. You're right.
I had a visions in my head at first of someone saying "Oh, live life by your own style, cool", but now that you mention it, I imagine a n00b will say "Oh cool, lets freestyle down a mountain."
This space for rent.

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: hunter s.durden on March 07, 2007, 06:00:41 PM

How 'bout Silly Cybin Monthy?!?  :stfu:


We have a winner! and we keep the little angry guy too

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark