Make Something is a GO!

It's pretty much all I've been thinking or talking about these last two days, a cool magazine project called Make Something. I have set up it's very own Blogspot and have a few pages of content already. Also Weaponizer is running a little "contest" for the second issue, send them micro fiction in a Twitter burst to @Weaponizer and you can be part of their two page spread. Also did I mention the whole first issue's pages have all been taken up by very talented people? All of this in just a weekend. Hell we already have spots filling for the second issue. It's making me very excited and happy. Sure there's still some technical bits that need to be settled, but that's fine, and part of the fun. I also need to start work on my portion of the issue, I have a decent idea on format, but need to kick the content itself around a bit until it fits right.

And this has me thinking. I want to do more. I'm doing quick bursts of research here and there, making notes for after the holidays are done and the magazine's skeleton together so it will just be a matter of clicking all the pieces in at the end, but I have another idea that is peculating that I hope to get going soon. I'm in entering the talking the what if game with friends right now, which means it's getting close. Like I said, very exciting times.

Make Something Magazine Proposal

Inspired by the whole Get Excited and Make Things meme and just always having fun piecing together an eclectic project, I present for your consideration the Make Something Magazine (working title). The whole point of the thing would be to let people mess around with 2 or 4 pages in a magazine. Whatever the hell the person wants, goes in, photos, art, words, whatever. Since magazines switch format, topic, and style at the flip of a page, I think it should work out with little to no problems. Plus who doesn't like to be able to actually hold something in their two hands that they created? Flipping through just the other magazines on MagCloud the sky really is the limit here. The whole thing would have no mark up, it'd cost just what MagCloud charges and shipping.

Anyways, I'm looking for more people to pitch in. If anyone would like to contribute to this (or if it all goes smoothly enough, future iterations to this) contact me via makesomethingmag @ gmail or here, whichever. Or if you have questions or suggestions, also welcome at either. I do have a working list of page counts to hand out to hit the page total I'm aiming for (28 though that can scale in different directions).

Of course all work submitted is and remains owned by the creator, just want to give another outlet for creative work!

An idea on how to use MagCloud

MagCloud is this neat little website that lets you make your very own magazine, for free! It's a pretty neat service and I want to play around with it. So here is my plan/idea as I don't want to just create a magazine by myself.

I'd like to give out pages to people so they can do whatever they want with it, be it words, pictures, or both. I'd take a few pages to add things myself, try and give some room for an interview with someone who is creating things of their own, and maybe an opening editorial. When I have stuff and it's needed throw in stuff I created as well.

The whole thing would cost just the 20 cents per page and the shipping, no profit. I just want to create something and give others a place where they can show off what they create. I am still working out things and then will try to find people to contribute.