04 March, 2007

Whipping POST

I finally got a chance to check out the much-maligned Post, the print version of the blog-driven online magazine offered up by Capital Newspapers. The Dulcinea gave me her copy of the second issue. Since I already frequent the electronic version, there wasn't much I hadn't already read or had the chance to read. I found the layout and typeface to be nice – something that certain folks have complained about.

OK, so the links here aren't hyper. That's a given so get over it. My main gripe is really that photos which are endowed with color online are bleached to black & white here. Take the one of the shanty out on the ice. In color, there's the blue skies and the yellow shanty which sticks out like a sore thumb sitting on the snow. But in black & white it looks like an FSA photo from the mid-1930s.

Just as with coreweekly, the print version of Post isn't aimed at me, though for different reasons. Tampons aren't marketed to me either but I don't go around trashing them. Perhaps the publication will snare folks who don't get online much or those who do but don't read blogs. Post seems a rather egalitarian enterprise so far as anyone can submit themselves as a contributor. It should be interesting to see how the publication eventually pans out with at least some non-journalists writing for it.

Personally I was just happy for the absence of "My Piece of Sh*t Car" or its current equivalent.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:26 PM

    Perhaps the publication will snare folks who don't get online much or those who do but don't read blogs.
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    This is the exact target market. You're the first critic I've seen that has figured that out.

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  2. I haven't picked up a copy yet, but I thought I'd chime in because I really like the FSA pics from the 30s and 40s. I got a book from the UW Library sale called "This Proud Land" that is all FSA pictures and I'm a big fan of it. But I'm guessing you're really just saying that their black and white pictures aren't very good. I'll have to get a copy so I can check it out.

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  3. I've seen a fair amount of FSA photos and think they're great. Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, etc. took some amazing pictures.

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