Din is coming into focus

I think we have enough brilliant ideas to start four mags right now, but i am concerned about a cohesive feel to the mag. I noticed several common themes that came up for folks:
-Slowing down readers (inviting them into the safety of a fallout shelter, encouraging still images as appear in comic books, celebrating new ways to mess with text that force folks to go slowly).
-Materiality (hadwritten, DIY, clean/animation)
-Minimalist (don't fear white space, less we say the more we do)
-Retro (fallout shelters, handwriting, repurposing older images)
-Interaction (facebook, inhabiting a space)

One thing it seems we'll have to hash out is whether to mimic books or mimic space.

Really like the idea of a serious focus being placed on Facebook and Twitter as outreach for authors and readers.

Content:
Will we separate it:
One group - Audio
One group - Image
One group - Text

What does this do to celebration of integration of forms and modes?

Reading WWII images

I love this image of a woman clutching letters from her lost love serving overseas.

It's from: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/its_a_womans_war_too/images_html/longing.html

I think it's pretty genius as far as the use of shading, color (red everywhere - love, danger) and subtle symbols - the star banner standing in for the soldier serving overseas, the ring on her finger symbolizing marriage. Her gaze is interesting too - what's she looking at? The future, a time when he is back?

Gettin' Literary

I'm pretty psyched to get up-to-speed on the world of lit mags and am thrilled that we are joining the ranks. I'm still mulling over our call for submissions but plan to post on that tonight or tomorrow. Just wanted to get a first post up and running.