LonerMatt
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Having sold out of ASC#1, the team (@artishard116 , @thatoneguy and @g transistor ) are keen to get the ball rolling on issue number 2.
What is it?
In case you missed it, All Styles Considered is a printed magazine made up of submissions from the StyleForum community, which are then sequenced, edited, designed, printed and sent by our team. Our first issue was themed 'place' and sold out in a few days.
We're a weird mix of honest and upfront, sentimental, serious, tongue-in-cheek and playful. Hopefully there's something for everyone.
With the first issue we were able to include everyone who submitted, and get them a magazine as a way of saying thanks, hopefully we can do both again.
What's different about this issue?
First of all, we have worked out a lot of what took us so long with the first project, so we will be delivering this in definitely much less than the year it took us to make the first one. We have a timeline, and we're hoping to stick to it and get magazines out in the world by September, although again we all work and have busy lives so that's a guideline.
Secondly, we would like as many submissions as we can possibly get. We were really lucky with the excellent quality of submissions last year, and we're sure that we'll get excellent work from lots of people, so please submit, submit a lot, submit 2 things, submit 5, email us a lot of great art that we can include. Want to write something and draw something else: great. Do it.
Thirdly, the theme is different. This issue's theme is: softness.
The Theme: softness
Think of cosyboy knits, think of gentle moments and kind things, think of lilting songs and misty mornings, think of spider webs and a kid giving you a thank you note they made themselves. Think of songs that feel like soundtracks to a dream, photos that almost have a texture you could sink into, that part of Stand By Me where the older protagonist erases the line 'I've never had as good friends as the ones I had when I was 10' (might have mangled that one), think of that epsiode of the Simpsons where Homer explains how his love for Maggie drove him back to the soul-crushing job at the Plant, think of how soft puppies are.
That's what we're getting at here - cool stuff that isn't gritty or hardcore and brutal, but is gentle and important and essential.
I'll post some inspiration and ideas up in subsequent posts to keep things alive.
Submissions
To submit, please send an email with your submission to [email protected] - submissions close 1st of April, 2017, Australian time.
We accept every type of submission:
- Writing
- Photography
- Illustration
- Music
- Video
- Graphics
- Painting
- Food related things (recipes would be ggggggreat)
- All the art that I can't think of at 7.40am on a Sunday morning, but it is all good and has a place
If you send us images submission, please make sure that they are at least 2500px on the long edge (or around 8" printed at 300dpi). If people want to be considered for two-page spreads, we need 4k+ images.
No matter what you send us please include your SF name, your actual name and a brief description of what you've sent us.
Got Questions?
1. Ask here
2. Email us: [email protected]
3. PM me
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