Eat The Darkness

Got a call from Romain tonight. We bullshitted for a while about different things as my leftover chicken fried rice got cold. No big deal, tasted good anyway. As we continued to talk, he asked me if I knew Jonathan was self-publishing a new magazine inspired by his handmade journals and his blog I Like To Tell Stories. I said I didn’t, but thought it was a great idea and couldn’t wait to visit ILTTS to learn more about what he’s up to.

So it turns out, he’s hoping to publish four issues a year, either quarterly or randomly, using MagCloud, a company that enables individuals to publish their own magazines. Every issue is custom printed when it’s ordered using HP Indigo technology (whatever that is) on 80-lb paper. Sounds good, right? We shall see. The magazine’s content comes from the blog, great stuff, but I’m hoping there will be new or unseen work mixed in as well, either in the first issue or future issues. The description on the MagCloud site says it is “A touchable, quarterly version of randomly selected entries from: http://www.iliketotellstories.com Photographs and stories by Jonathan Saunders.”

I’ve admired Jonathan’s photographs for a long time. And although I really like visiting his blog, and other photographer’s blogs as well, It’s so exciting that more and more people are taking risks and control of their work and experimenting with new tangible or “touchable” self-publishing technology. I’ve already ordered my copy of one, get it here, and can’t wait to pull it from my mailbox, kick back in my hammock with a cold brew, bask in the fading light of a warm, south Florida evening instead of the cold glow of my monitor, and flip through the pages.

Copyright © 2008 Jonthan Saunders All Rights Reserved.

Jonathan writes “…it also just feels really good to make something you can touch and share it with others that enjoy the types of things that i do.”

Thanks for sharing.