Is Not Blog
No more Is Not Magazine! Ever!
Friday September 26, 2008
Well, it’s been almost a month since Is Not Magazine officially wound up. We’re all enjoying our new jobs, new creative projects and most of all, having our leisure time back again. We’re still running our regular internet video screening, YouTube Tuesday, as long as it remains fun and people still want to come. It’s on the second Tuesday of every month at LOOP in Meyers Place, Melbourne. Screening begins around 6:30pm or whenever Jeremy decides to rock up.We continue to check our Is Not Magazine email addresses with varying regularity, and we’re happy to make ourselves available for advice, interviews, enquiries on pending orders, &c. But we are not in a position to sell or post any more magazines or merchandise. No exceptions. Is Not Magazine is over now. Long live Is Not Magazine!
Fire Sale - your final chance to buy Is Not Magazine!
Wednesday August 20, 2008
If you’ll be in Melbourne on Thursday 28 August or Saturday 30 August, well lucky you! This means you can seize your absolute final chance to get your hands on a copy of Is Not Magazine. We have been advertising the Fire Sale since May, and now it’s finally happening!
Over two days, we’ll be selling our final bumper three-sheet Issue #11, “All That Glitters Is/Not Gold” ($30), as well as assorted mint-condition back issues ($20), Take-Aways ($5), slightly battered back issues (cheaper, POA) and extremely rare back issues we thought were sold out (more expensive, POA).
There will also be CLOTHING, OFFICE FURNISHINGS AND EQUIPMENT and IS NOT MAGAZINE COLLECTIBLES, plus ENTERTAINMENT consisting of mulled wine for sale, delicious baked goods and short stories written and emailed to you on the spot by an Is Not Magazine editor. Come and hang out with us, have some drinks and laffs, and bring your wallets…
Thursday 28 August, 5pm-9pm
Saturday 30 August, 12pm-6pm
Level 5, Vesta House, 1 Carson Place, Melbourne
After the Fire Sale, Is Not Magazine will be officially wound up and we will be unable to sell, let alone post, any more magazines or merchandise. So if you’ve ever wanted the warm feeling of supporting a foolhardy yet lovable independent publication that still owes money to its printers, BEEEEE THEEERRRRRE!
Is Not Retrospective Exhibition on now!
Tuesday July 22, 2008
Well, we are filled with a swelling pride when we look around the gallery and see every single issue of Is Not Magazine hanging there. Our debut issue with the overpowering ink smell. The ahead-of-its-time fluoro pink of Issue 3. The Merce Cunningham special we did for last year’s MIAF. And of course, the final, ginormous three-sheeter Issue 11, which you’ll also find posted on Melbourne’s streets, right now.
If you’re in Melbourne, come down and check out the show. It’s at 37 A’Beckett Street in the city, open 12-8pm every day until Saturday 26 July. This is also your second-last chance to buy a copy of the final issue, as we are only selling them in person for $30.
Oh, and don’t you forget about our Senior Prom, our final party to raise the necessary capital to pay those printers once and for all. It’s this Friday, 25 July.
Online store now closed
Tuesday June 24, 2008
Hello everyone,
Yes, we were as good as our word – the online shop is now closed. If you managed to put in an order, well done you! If you didn’t, don’t be sad – you will be able to buy our bumper three-sheet Issue #11, “All That Glitters Is/Not Gold”, at our retrospective exhibition in July, and at our Fire Sale in August, which we will shortly begin to advertise by getting Stuart and Jeremy to record an extremely hyperbolic, shouty voiceover.* At the Fire Sale, you can also buy our T-shirts, Take-Aways, and the remaining magazines, however please note that some issues are completely sold out and will not be available for purchase. Watch this space for details about this and our upcoming Final Ever Party.
* Do not expect an actual television or radio advertising campaign.
Last chance to buy Is Not Magazine
Saturday June 14, 2008
We are dissolving the incorporated non-profit association Is Not Magazine Inc. at the end of this financial year, 30 June 2008. This means no more bank account and hence no more online or retail sales! In order to give Tash plenty of time to finalise our accounts (factoring in sympathetic shoulder rubs and the consumption of tea), we are closing the Is Not Magazine Online Store on 20 June, 2008 at midnight, Melbourne time. All our retail outlets will also cease stocking Is Not Magazine from 20 June. If you’d like to order any Is Not Magazine back issues or merchandise online, now’s the time to do it.
Of course, we’d also like to give our interstate and overseas customers a chance to purchase the forthcoming bumper final issue, All That Glitters Is/Not Gold, so until 20 June, the store will allow a limited number of ‘pre-sale’ orders of this issue. These will be preferentially allocated to customers outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. That’s because Melburnians will be rather well placed to buy the issue once we’ve produced it. Between 20-26 July, visitors to our retrospective exhibition in Melbourne will be able to purchase the issue for $30, for cash only.
We are also planning a fire sale in August at our Melbourne CBD office, at which you’ll be able to pay cash for the entire range of Is Not Magazine merchandise (depending on availability – some issues are completely sold out), plus sundry office fittings and other random stuff we are trying to offload. It’ll be like the good old days of Welcome To The Jumble or the Cake Stall Corps! Or as Mel rather tragically offers, “like in Terminator 2 when the T-1000 falls in the molten steel and it flashes through the forms of the various people it has killed and impersonated.” Yep. Just like that.