Mayday - new mag set to take the movement by storm

[The Black Hand]

Look here -

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/382291.html?c=on#c181684

A link to the new magazine front cover. That's a cool cover Better than the other shite you see and the politics covered looks at recent movement mobilisation campaigns. The polemic "Reading Autonomist Marxism Politically" looks great too

 

[butchersapron]

Sorry, it's a shit Ghetto cover.

 

[CyberRose]

Have I got this wrong, but I thought Libertarians were economically extreme right wing capitalists?

 

[The Black Hand]

Sorry, it's a shit Ghetto cover.

Though cool and stylish too. I am still very black bloc at heart and the aim is to the movement at present, you know, those that actually fight back.

NOT those who foolishly imagine you can speak to an imaginary general public 'just like that' (although they and others never manage to speak to or publish anything for this 'general public' themselves).

 

[marty21]

sorry, the cover is rubbish

 

[chico enrico]

Oh No.....

really don't understand the purpose behind that. Don't like the look of the chap on the cover either. Looks a bit of a smelly.

why don't you just have a look through some old copies of Xtra and do something like that?

I thought the whole purpose of @ ideas was communicating them to the general public, not alienating any folk who aint already @s who may come into contact with whatever it is you're on about.

 

[The Black Hand]

Oh No.....

really don't understand the purpose behind that. Don't like the look of the chap on the cover either. Looks a bit of a smelly.

why don't you just have a look through some old copies of Xtra and do something like that?

I thought the whole purpose of @ ideas was communicating them to the general public, not alienating any folk who aint already @s who may come into contact with whatever it is you're on about.

Feel free to have a go and send it on.

 

[chico enrico]

nah, i just don't gettit. the folk listed as having contributed to this mag are sound and have their heads the right way round, and the mag's got a great name...so why all this fanny-talk bout 'autonomous' this & that and 'praxis' and some bloke who looks like a hunt sab on the cover?

 

[revol68]

Have I got this wrong, but I thought Libertarians were economically extreme right wing capitalists?

you've got it wrong.

and Attica that's an awful cover, almost as shite as your own politics.

 

[The Black Hand]

You know little and I am being genorous my tedious little dwarf.

 

[The Black Hand]

Have I got this wrong, but I thought Libertarians were economically extreme right wing capitalists?

In America libertarian does have the use you describe, I do not know whether anarchists use the term. But in the UK and elsewhere it is an anarchist term.

 

[The Black Hand]

sorry, the cover is rubbish

Just for balance here is a good quote I have lifted from Indymedia about this magazine (and it wasn't me who wrote it!)

"Cool cover, should get the kids interested while the articles bring in the grownups! Good stuff, I can't wait to buy it."

I think that is a good way to look at it - so perhaps it is cleverer than you might imagine

 

[butchersapron]

Or, the cover will put off the grown ups and the articles will put off the kids.

 

[the button]

Nice to see you put your spat with Larry on the front cover as well. Always good to lead on items of mass interest.

 

[butchersapron]

I fear attcia may have missed the irony behind the comments he's bigging up as well - the poster (Mike Giggles) does go on to say:

PS: Glad to see you're covering the Wombles, the most important pan class movement in recent European history.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

I fear attcia may have missed the irony behind the comments he's bigging up as well - the poster (Mike Giggles) does go on to say:

PS: Glad to see you're covering the Wombles, the most important pan class movement in recent European history.

Perhaps he should stick to writing his own comments...safer that way.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[the button]

PS: Glad to see you're covering the Wombles, the most important pan class movement in recent European history.

Either that, or Monte's got himself a new username.

 

[cockneyrebel]

Sorry but the cover is terrible.

 

[The Black Hand]

I fear attcia may have missed the irony behind the comments he's bigging up as well - the poster (Mike Giggles) does go on to say:

PS: Glad to see you're covering the Wombles, the most important pan class movement in recent European history.

I saw that bit - i thought he was exagerating that... The first bit of what he said has truth in it though. here it is again;

"Cool cover, should get the kids interested while the articles bring in the grownups! Good stuff, I can't wait to buy it."

I think that is a good way to look at it - so perhaps it is cleverer than you might imagine

 

[The Black Hand]

Perhaps he should stick to writing his own comments...safer that way.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

What are you doing? No, seriously, just what ARE you doing? You follow behind like a bad smell....

 

[Louis MacNeice]

What are you doing? No, seriously, just what ARE you doing? You follow behind like a bad smell....

I'm laughing because it's funny.

Louis MacNeice

 

[cesare]

*sits back and watches the movement being taken by storm*

 

[free spirit]

that cover's looks pretty amateurish IMO

If it's not already gone to print, at least sort out the typesetting at the bottom so there's not a / in front of the Autonomous Anti Facism bit at the start of the 2nd line, would make it look slightly less like some bad high school magazine project.

 

[chico enrico]

ok, practical and hopefully constructive suggestions re the cover.

it does look pretty piss.

do a good logo. all mags should have a good logo.

if the photo of the guy in the afa hat is meant to be related to the article on anti-fascism, have that as the first title in the contents list, in a large font with all the other stuff smaller (like the cover of new statesman or something)

if that aint the point use another image as that photo looks staged, like something off darren's daft australian cw stickers.

if the cctv sign aint related to a story get rid of it. you're just throwing money away on the plate for another spot colour.

drop the words 'autonomous' and 'praxis' . using them is just giving folk a stick to beat you with.

have a competition or something. to win a car or a holiday or whatever. that'd get more folk buying it.

 

[The Black Hand]

I'm laughing because it's funny.

Louis MacNeice

really - it looks like U R being sad...

 

[Louis MacNeice]

really - it looks like U R being sad...

Writing my own reviews would be sad.

Louis MacNeice

 

[dash_two]

The bloke's beanie hat should be tighter-fitting on the skull. Instead there's lots of material sticking up, making him look like a Smurf doing a Bela Lugosi impression.

Find a pretty girl to stick on the cover instead. If you don't know any, just pay some East European chick in a coffee shop a few quid to pose for the camera.

 

[The Black Hand]

Writing my own reviews would be sad.

Louis MacNeice

I have done no reviews, i am publisizing the magazine against the usual nay sayers like yourself. Fighting the shite and coming out kicking thru' t'other side

 

[cockneyrebel]

Attica in all seriousness I'd take some of the suggestions on board from chico enrico.

Why are you using words like praxis most people will have no idea what that means. Also why not use a more collective picture of struggle that more people can relate to?

Seriously it just looks like a stereotype of something the right would produce to discredit the left.

 

[The Black Hand]

The bloke's beanie hat should be tighter-fitting on the skull. Instead there's lots of material sticking up, making him look like a Smurf doing a Bela Lugosi impression.

Find a pretty girl to stick on the cover instead. If you don't know any, just pay some East European chick in a coffee shop a few quid to pose for the camera.

Damn you - you spotted our plan for the front cover of issue 2.