I visit Forbidden Planet every week, to check for the any new artbooks and novels that get the best release/signatures and "select" hobbyist promotions for film, entertainment and art.
And yet, I have yet to see IFX sitting next to famed japanese mags like newtype, edge or empire.
Perhaps the current solution of asking to keep it in computing, and film/entertaintment is the right sales choice for long term growth (even though it should really be in art)
It is akin to awaiting for Ian McCaigs long awaited shadowline book that is a year overdue now to appear. A good source to stock to is the Sheffield Space Centre, Sheffield. It has a high fantasy,scifi, art audience
I'd have to agree with the others as well. I found IFX because it was in the computers / tech section of Chapters, the book chain round these parts. If the magazine had been in any other section I never would have found out about it. I usually only hit up the tech and photography sections of the magazine area of the store. Rarely do I look at the art section. Mostly because there's never any magazines there that catch my attention.
I'm not sure where the best placement is, but I think the tech / computer area is working really well at the moment.
"Live life like a fantasy. Reality is only in your mind!" - Fabledgoat
I too found my first rub with IFX in the computer Isle. In all
honesty it was sitting next to Photoshop magazine which on the by and
by is a good magazine but I rarely read it and almost never buy it for
the main fact that I usually that I can thumb through it at Barnes and
Nobles and just put it back.
When I saw IFX, it was like this
light had come out of the sky, broken through the ceiling and and hit
the display where the magazine was. It was full of art tips in both
photoshop and painter which included step by step tutorials that were
created by artists so you could share in their thought process. I said
to myself " YES! THIS is what I have been looking for!"
I spent a
good deal online looking through forums and posted tutorials on
Deviantart and finally, a magazine that had taken what I was scrounging
for on the net different areas for in one convenient page by page
place. After my 3rd issue I had to get a subscription just to get
savings AND beat the 1 month lag found in U.S. shops.
So I guess
the comment about it being in the computer isle instead of the art isle
as a choice is pretty spot on otherwise I never would have found IFX or
your sarcastic folks.
Koshime, is there a way to get IFX into Forbidden Planet? Do we have to enough people asking the manager to stock it to the point where they may consider doing so?
IFX is really, really good and I think we're all singing to the same song sheet here. It was revelation when I first discovered it. What I have noticed tho', is there always seems to be females on the front cover!
What I have noticed tho', is there always seems to be females on the front cover!
It's starting to become a running joke with my sister now - every issue she goes "Another girl? You can really tell the target audience can't ya?" For the past few months she's also added: "Can't they put Zidane [Tribal of Final Fantasy IX] on the cover? That'd make me happy. "
I would have thought that once a chav started creating, as opposed to destroying, he or she was no longer a chav.
I think you've got a negative opinion of chavs there cowboy.
Yeah, hang about. I come from the stock that uppity middle class types call 'chav', and I'm a lover, not a fighter. Some of you artsy types should know better than to paint everyone with the same brush, to mangle an analogy.
Actually, the root of the word is 'chavi', a Romany term for friend or associate, also beloved of the early 20th Century British gay community when they subverted fairground workers slang into their own secret argot, Polari. So it's not necessarily a bad thing to be called one, and the term has been around for a heck of a long time before the first Burberry cap rolled out of the sweatshops.
Yeah, hang about. I come from the stock that uppity middle class types call 'chav', and I'm a lover, not a fighter. Some of you artsy types should know better than to paint everyone with the same brush, to mangle an analogy.
Ned to Chav, best of luck with your new gig. Superb.
Actually, we've got our own version of chavs and hippies down Bristol way. Round these parts you're either a Jitter or a Meader. The Meaders are slightly Chavesque, working class fighting types who repel anything not 'normal', while the Jitters are anyone a bit alternative. In the past, Jitters have been anyone from hippies, punks, goths, emos, grebos, or indeed anyone who looks a tad alt. While Meaders I think started out mod, went casual, then hoolie, and are now a tad Burberry and sportswear tinged.
I still, to this day, get the occasional rustic Meader bark out of a poorly souped up Ford Fiesta - "Oi, Jitter! Get ur farkin 'air cut!!!"
Ah, the joy of the West! (And a lovely slice of rural English life for our colonial readers).
Well there's two schools of thought on Meader. One is that they orginate from the North Bristol estates of Southmead, (Which I think is feasible, as there's a South Bristol equivalent from Bedminster called the Bedmie - although that's less heard these days). The other is that they're called after all the kids in caps who hang around MacDonalds in the Broadmead shopping centre downtown. Although I reckon the first option is historically nearer the mark.
Jitter, on the other hand, is a complete mystery to me. Although there's a lot of old Saxon still used in the more rustic corners of town, so it might come from there. I'll look into it!
cool, that'll be interesting, i used to live in Whitley Bay & there was an town close by called North Shields, which had an estate called the "Meadowell Estate". It tended to attract a certain kind of person (i don't know if anyone remembers the riots up there?), before they prettied the name up (Meadowell is allegedly pretty) I think it was called 'The Ridges' or was nicknamed that, i can't quite remember.
Anyway, anyone who was of the chav nature was called a ridgey up there, probably still is.
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