THERE WILL BE AT LEAST ONE MORE issue of the MISCmedia print mag in its current format, probably out at or shortly after our big art opening (see left column of this page).
Beyond that, I’m wrestling with a conundrum.
It’s unprofitable, and doomed to stay that way, in its current incarnation as a 12- to 16-page newsletter of rather refined, esoteric taste. It needs to either shrink to something one person can easily put out (a la the original Misc. newsletter of 1989-94) or grow into something sturdy enough to carry its own weight (a real magazine with multiple contributors, quality printing, real ads, etc.).
Lemme know your thoughts in either direction.
MEANWHILE, some more hype for my upcoming Seattle coffee-table photo book (still tentatively titled City Light), in the form of the introductory passage to a pitch package I’m preparing for potential backers:
Photography books about Seattle invariably serve up the image of a bright, antiseptic “Emerald City.” An aggressively bland fantasy realm bereft of problems, or of passions.
This book won’t.
CITY LIGHT will offer a highly personal look at a real city, a place where real people work and play; as depicted in short-but-sweet text blocks and at least 200 vivid color photographs.
It will also tell a story of a city that had always struggled to find its own identity, only to have a new identity thrust upon it by an unprecedented wave of high-tech wealth–a wave which just might have now finally crested.
While almost its images are new, and its few old pictures are only a few years old, it will still be a work of history. Its text will explain the pasts of the places it covers, providing a sense of continuity to a city forever bent on reinventing itself.
It will be a narrative book, rather than a tourist or entertainment guide (or an institutional promo device). It will tell of a city of smug contentedness yet perpetually trying to prove itself, a hotbed of “progressive” politics that still sees official crackdowns on minority and youth cultures; a high-tech capital full of simple-living advocates.
NEXT: We revisit our Krazy Koffeehouse Kharacters.
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