Past Life: If you’re in New York between now and November 28, you may want to see the exhibit “Looking at Life” at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street). The exhibit is a selection of approximately 200 works examining “the history of the magazine through its coverage of politics and war, the fascination with celebrities, its exploration of various strata of American society, and its coverage of key social movements of the twentieth century, particularly civil rights.” (via artdaily.com)

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Photographic Life (The Timewriter)

Sniffing Glued: The insightful (all you need to do is add rexblog to your blogroll and you’ve won me over) weblog Jossip has an interview with the editor of a new magazine, Glued. Candace Korchinsky explains why she’s, “completely jazzed about creating a new magazine that combines the best of what’s on with fun, smart features about the world of TV.” As I’m not in the target audience (one would have to watch something other than football on TV to crack that demo, I’m sure), I’ll have to depend on others to tell me if what the world needs now is a magazine for the “TV junkie turned on by in-depth features and TV culture, and the on-the-go casual watcher who really just wants to know what’s on - fast.”

(Thanks to Eddie Rider and Greg Allen for heads-up from different directions.)

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Goodnight Mrs. Callahan, wherever you are: Well, now I’ve heard it all. Magazine veteran and friend Doug Shore sent me this link to a NYT article regarding an Atlanta-area vaporzine scam. According to the article, Mr. & Mrs. Callahan, moved into the upscale suburb of Alpharetta and announced a vaporzine called The Alpharetta Social Registrar, a magazine that fits nicely into the category I’ve dubbed, “The Nouveau-Niche.”

Well, ten months after the first issue was supposed to appear, Mr. & Mrs. Callahan are no where to be found.

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“Amid all the troubles, Ms. Callahan reassured (her landlord and others) by discussing a big inheritance waiting for her in Luxembourg. She told them that she had been raised by her father and an aunt, to whom the father was married and who she long thought was her mother. Her real mother, who she had thought was an aunt, had now died in Europe and left her $168 million from investments in hotels, she said….(The landlord) says he is owed more than $30,000 in back rent and penalties under the Callahans’ lease with him - how much advertisers are owed is hard to pin down - and recently received a report from a private investigator he had hired, Hal Johns. The investigation had found many names for a woman with Ms. Callahan’s Social Security number, including Sheelagh Callahan, Sheelagh Sinceè, Rupeb S. Sinceè, Sheelajh Malbroe and Sheila Malbrue. Over 20 years, the woman had lived at six locations in Southern California, six in New Orleans and four in Georgia, more than once at some of them. As for Mr. Callahan, “banking information is sketchy on him,” Mr. Johns said in his report. “They look like fraud to me,” he wrote.

All I can say is, “Come back, Callahans.” You have nothing to fear or be embarassed about. If it were a crime not to launch a vaporzine I know a few readers of this weblog who would be, as we magazine geeks refer to it, “bunking in with Martha.”

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Gaping void filled: Hugh MacLeod (gapingvoid) is in the idea business. Today, he posts a top ten list of his “sentimental favorites.” The one he’s perhaps best known for in blogland are Blogcards.

Inspires me to consider what I would link to here (other than my current idea that will lead to me earning $1 million when you seven readers download 20 million songs from my iTunes affiliate store).

Clone Covers, perhaps? At least it entertains me.