Found & Ready Made
While taking a break from Daylights yesterday (I just finished my editing for the fall 2004 issue, by the way!) I discoverd links to a couple of interesting magazines in a comment on Slashdot.
Found Magazine’s website is full of things lost by one person and found by another. But not just anything — these are items most of us would ignore if we saw them, and have probably lost and not missed many times ourselves — mostly notes and old photographs.
Most of the dozens of photos and notes on their website come with a few comments from the finder. Some comments offer the circumstances of the items finding, while others give commentary and speculations as to the story behind the item. The drama in everyday life intrigues me, so these small, anonymous tidbits fit my style.
Ready Made appears to be a quirky design magazine with other funky “how-to”s thrown in as well. The magazine’s tag line is “A bimonthly print magazine for people who like to make stuff.” Well, I don’t do a lot of “making stuff” other than food, but the features you can see on this magazine’s website make me want to start. Lampshade made from old slides? Turning soda cans into a camping stove? That’s cool. A humorous article well worth the read: “How to seem like you read several newspapers.” 
I’m looking forward to tracking down the print versions of these magazines sometime soon.