Another magazine from my stash. What was inside the August 1982 edition of Street Machine? A six wheeled, two-engined monster, the prettiest Volvo Amazon, and the last ever Belle Vue custom car show, amongst other things.
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Another dip into the vintage magazine pile pulls out this early 80s issue.
Let’s have a look at the state of the customising art in 1979. Another vintage magazine, full of old school builds and fascinating how-tos.
Looking inside another vintage car magazine. Another all colour issue of Chrome & Flames, with a look at several very different Corvettes, amongst other things.
And will I have to pixelate any of it?
Another old car magazine leafed through for nostalgia and inspiration.
Another old car magazine perused for cool content and nostalgia.
Let’s have a look at some custom cars from the early nineties. A fair amount of pastels and sharp graphics. And some very crazy limousines.
Another magazine from the stash. Chrome & Flames was a Belgian based magazine, published in French, German, and English (and maybe other languages, I don’t know).
Significantly more glossy than the British mags I’ve collected, it was focused almost entirely on finished cars, where UK magazines would be full of how-tos and product reviews. The cars in Chrome & Flames are, generally, easier to find models of, and much, much more flashy.
A new model magazine has hit the shelves, dedicated to one of the subjects I’m interested in. I don’t remember there ever being a British model car magazine, so I hope it does well. Let’s have a look inside the first issue.
The magazine, and others, is available from Guideline Publications.
From research we’ve learnt that what most women find erotic does not at all match what is typically thought of as an erotic image of a man designed for women. For example, on average, women prefer:
* men who are not muscle-bound
* men with more feminine face shapes
* men with attractive faces
* images that show the subject’s character and the environment he is in.We also know that women’s tastes vary quite a lot, and we aim to cater to that variety too.
I should consider this for future erotic comickery, as I want to make stuff that works as well for women as it does for men. This is taken from the site of Filament magazine, which I learnt about through Warren Ellis’ blog about the problems they’re having with printers.
Explicit images of women are available at any newsagent, but Filament, the world’s only magazine featuring male pictorials designed for the female gaze, is finding itself between a rock and a hard place when it comes to printing explicit images of men.
Filament only prints explicit images when these are of high photographic and erotic quality, and clearly designed for women – we won’t ever be putting hard cocks on every page. The problem is, all the printers that a small, independent magazine like Filament can afford have said they won’t print images of the male of the species in a state of obvious arousal. Reasons given include that printing these images may cause offence to ‘women’s groups’.
If they get enough pre-orders they’ll be able to take their magazine to a printer that does larger runs and is less squeamish. You can support them here.