TALK IS/NOT CHEAP
This issue is about the costs of communication. Our contributors offer varying opinions on whether linguistic shifts in an era of text messaging, blogging and MySpace have enriched or impoverished our social relations and our sense of self. And when people from televangelists to guerrilla marketers can profit from shooting their mouths off, should we feel exploited for paying attention? Other contributors champion undervalued communication – drunken foolishness, shyness, small-talk cliches, and formerly obscure music that has come subtly to underscore our lives. Have a listen. It’s worth it.
~ From this issue ~
Exchange Ratings
BY Penny Modra
Penny Modra interviews Danielle Freakley, a Melbourne-based artist currently undertaking a performance project entitled The Quote Generator, which requires Danielle to speak using cited quotations over a period of three years. READ ON →
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Go Fashion: Text is Book by Mel Campbell
Letters by Albatross Books; U.S. Congress; Pope Julius II; Carlton and United Breweries
Story Unspoken by Elgar the Ape
You Can't Teach A Talking Head Cheap Tricks by Seany Bhoy
Careful Whispers by Rowena Robertson
Arking Up the Wrong Tree by Ray Edgar
Payrolls Off the Tongue by Natasha Ludowyk
Gramma Ain’t Yo Mamma’s Mamma by Kane Daniel
An Old Dog in a Black Kettle is Worth Nine Fools in the Bush by Robert Cook
Say It To MyFace by Jasmine McGowan
No English At the Table by Nghiem Tran
Etymologies by Emah Fox
Money Grows On Grapevines by Diana Jenkins
RU Mad @ Me? by Claire Wiltshire
Sounds of Silence by Richard MacFarlane
A Man Walks into a Bar… by Simon Kingsley-Hall
Smart Society by Alvin Kumar
Friday September 26, 2008
No more Is Not Magazine! Ever!
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!
Wednesday August 20, 2008
Fire Sale - your final chance to buy Is Not Magazine!
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!
Tuesday July 22, 2008
Is Not Retrospective Exhibition on now!
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.