My dad likes to think we're Estonian or Swedish or something (or perhaps he likes building bonfires) so we celebrated Midsummer's Eve with a bonfire and rockets in the back garden.
Created: 2008-06-24 19:07, Tags: family, home, photos, Scandinavia, Comments: 0
On my many wanderings in cyberspace (how uncool am I?!) I came across a blog that caused me great concern. The girl who writes it seems to be worryingly obsessed with magazines. Monthlies, quarterlies, rare publications, mass publications, Vogue, Dazed and Confused, ID. You name it, she buys it. She works to get money to buy her magazines, she eats less so she can get her hands on the latest issues, she goes into Stockmanns every day just to see if they have anything new, she knows exactly (probably to the hour) when the fresh copy of French Vogue will be on the shelves. Somehow I totally admire her willpower, her passion and her 100% devotion to her obsession. It's a true skill. The thing that worries me with her is the sheer amount of money she spends each month. (Of course that's her business, not mine.) International magazines are never cheap, but totally satisfying to buy. The whole thing got me thinking about magazines. I found some pretty nice ones out there that you may be interested in. I also decided to do some research into online magazines, which are free to download and a good source of eye candy and inspiration.
Somewhere out there I found an online directory of loads of magazines published in Europe and the rest of the World. There are listings for independent publications and for the more well known ones as well. I also found an online directory of PDF magazines. My search (as usual) seemed to take a Baltic/Scandinavian direction (they have the best taste, after all :) ) and I came across a new glossy magazine called B EAST dedicated to fashion/design/general coolness in Eastern Europe. Then I found Bulgaria magazine (some of which you can access online), which is an annual Finnish publication dedicated to life/stuff/weirdness/design/ art/Scandinavianess (which I love). On this note I found a directory of Swedish magazines, many of which you can browse through online. Some other graphic design/arty/fashion publications online are Candy magazine and Stockholm New. The last link goes along the crafting/fashion/objects tangent and is a pretty magazine called Neet that I came across a while ago.
Well, I'm sure all this is just the tip of the iceberg. Feel free to send me more links via comments. I like eye candy as much as the next crazy obsessive :)
Created: 2007-09-22 21:33, Tags: baltic, links, magazines, media, scandinavia, Comments: 0
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