So this week, Blender announced that its April issue will be its last. This is interesting news since Blender was one of the top music magazines out there. 30 jobs were lost from the 8 year old magazine. This makes me think. Is a music magazine really relevant at this time? With all the phone applications and the sheer vastness of the internet and what you can do on it, are magazines, as we know them, a dying breed?
Well thank God I work for CHAOS! Because not only are we the only magazine of our kind out there, but we're also...DIGITAL! Though we may print once a year just for fun. ;) That is if you people out there want us to. It's all about demand. You want it? We'll give it, simple as that. This is what I believe to be the direction of information as we know it. Everyone nowadays is all about having their personal little computers in their pocket. You can read books, play Nintendo games, even find where you parked from the palm of your hand. So, why not get fashion news the same way? Of course there are some moguls like Vogue, W, Bazaar, etc that will never die...ever. But, who wants to trudge to the bookstore or Walgreens to pick up a 800 page magazine that's just full of advertisements anyway? How much longer can we expect the ancient magazine to last, especially today when paper distribution is just not economical?
Thank you, Blender magazine for all the coolness that you provided over the years. Unfortunately for you, on this end of the decade the Plastics are here to stay.
