PRINT

So I’ve been buying issues of PRINT recently. It’s probably the most expensive magazine I’ve been buying on a (relatively) regular basis — $30 per issue isn’t exactly cheap — but I’ve been feeling that it’s really money well spent. I’ve been trying to get my head around the typesetting and page layouts behind them and I’m still discovering new things every time I take a fresh read, and the writing’s pretty good to boot as well. The issue I just got had an article on designer baby stuff (surprise, Jo) and this quote was particularly awesome:

Orange especially is a ‘Fuck you’ to decades of baby-blue and baby-pink hegemony. It’s a way of saying, ‘We’re having children, but we’re still us.’ — Pamela Paul

New York’s been pretty good to me so far. I’m pretty sure I want to study here sooner or later; I just have no idea when, given the current financial market. My current plan is to work for a while in Singapore for a year or two and save some money so I don’t have to eat ramen every day. Expenses in New York are crazy — I guess it’s too bad I got out of the army just when the exchange rate started getting worse.

One thing’s for sure though — as much as I spend most of my waking hours either making music or sitting in front of the computer and getting my brain cells killed, I really dislike doing websites. Half the freelance jobs that come my way involve websites in one way or the other, and I really hate it when that happens.

I like working with something tangible; something you can hold in your hand and carry around with you. Books hold your attention much better than the internet does; if you’re looking at any given site, chances are that you’ve got Gmail open in another window and MSN popping up every minute or so. The viewer gets distracted and doesn’t absorb as much as you want them to. Books, on the other hand… it’s there, right in front of you and you’re not reading two or three books at a time, unless you’re doing something ridiculous like, say, studying.

I don’t really know how to explain it.