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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
from: Oreilly Media % Heather Harmon
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Label: Oreilly Media % Heather Harmon
Magazine Type: Trade magazine
Manufacturer: Oreilly Media % Heather Harmon
Number Of Issues: 4
Publisher: Oreilly Media % Heather Harmon
Studio: Oreilly Media % Heather Harmon
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Product Description:
CRAFT is the first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, Craft's goal is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative people who are transforming traditional art and crafts.
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A lot of the reviewers here have mentioned problems with one cover story. Don't let that put you off this mag. It and its sister mag MAKE are great. They show a different look at the craft industry than you get when you look in chains like Michaels and Hobby Lobby. Craft and diy are huge and it's not all about scrapbooking and decorative painting. There are heaps of indi crafters doing great things and who, until now, have been largely hidden from mainstream consumers. CRAFT gives these people a platform to showcase their stuff - and it is great - the only pity of it is that in publicising these new takes on old crafts indi is now becoming mainstream! Go figure. Do yourself a favor and check out the magazine - there is plenty to look at and to enjoy. There are things that provoke you to think about materials and crafts in new and different ways - it's not all about step by step projects (although there are plenty), it's as much about challenging you to think outside the box.
Rating:  -
I'm glad I checked this mag out at the bookstore before coughing up the dough for a subscription. I looked at the "Play!" themed issue. It is not as thick as you would expect for a $15 magazine, and there are still ads. I was disappointed by how many articles were just, "Hey, look at pictures of the cool stuff these people are doing, but we're not going to give you any information on how to do it yourself." There were also way too many "articles" that were just advertisements for artists' products.
Then there were silly columns on things like the pitfalls of making handmade gifts for friends and family. Who cares? Give me projects! I wish there were more projects in the issue for the price. Then for the 10 or so projects, the instructions for some of them seemed kind of skimpy. I see other reviewers here have also complained of incomplete directions.
This is a relatively new magazine, so maybe they just haven't hit their stride yet. Maybe I will check ... Read More
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This magazine might have a couple good ideas and articles, but it's way too much about its own hipness as the vanguard of the supposedly new craft/DIY movement, with more self-congratulatory paeans to neo-crafty scenesterism than actual inspiration. The DIY movement is not new. Rather, it is, in what I think is the most telling sentence in the whole issue that I read, a "$30-billion dollar industry." Well, there's this mag's DIY ethos in a nutshell: it's ok to be a consumer as long as your wallet is made of duct tape. Oh, and if you want actual substance, I guess you don't Get It, and you're never be one of the cool kids who are ever so free of this cookie-cutter world!
There were a couple of articles about individual crafters that were interesting and I laud their commitment and talent. However, the editorial articles that purport to be so insightful about the "deeper meanings of the movement" are pseudo-intellectual horse-spoor: poorly articulated, scattered, and trite. ... Read More
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They don't give you the pattern for that robot, I have no idea why they would give coveted cover space to something they wouldn't tell you how to MAKE in a zine all about how to make things. I won't ever buy another copy. It has neat stuff in it, but on principle I just can't.
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It's a fine memory chip. Not once has it exploded, covered me with acid or radioactive goo, or allowed creepy ghostlike overlays of ancient tragedy onto pictures of my new house. Go wild, get one.
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