Anyway, I have never seen this magazine before, and I am seriously thinking about spending $85 for a 6 issue/1 year subscription.  It is called Selvedge, tag line "The fabric of your life: textiles in fine art, fashion, interiors, travel and shopping.".  Check out their site.  You can sign up for a free month of the magazine in e-form.  They have wonderful photographs, articles, even great ads of some wonderful little shops.  I love it.  The issue I have is the April/May issue - I hope I can find the July/August issue - there was only one where I got it and as I said, I have never seen it before.

Another magazine (more reasonably priced) that Mike buys for photographic inspiration is Lenswork.  This issue, No 59, grabbed my attention for a few reasons.  First, Mike was looking through it and came across this wonderful quote in an article about creativity by Hugh MacLeod:

"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.  Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra, etc.  being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug us just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please'".

Also in this issue was work by Carol Golemboski, who teaches at a collage in Denver, CO.  Her work is so inspiring to me for both my collage and photography.  Here are some of my favorites:

Here is her Artist statement that I also find very intoxicating to read:

"Psychometry" is a series of photographs exploring issues relating to anxiety, loss, and existential doubt. The term refers to the pseudo-science of "object reading," a purported psychic ability to divine the history of objects through paranormal channels. Like amateur psychometrists, viewers are invited to interpret arrangements of tarnished and decrepit items, depending on the talismanic powers inherent in the remains of human presence. The success of the image relies upon the viewer's expectation of truth in photography, expanding upon age-old darkroom "trickery" to suspend belief between fact and fantasy.

A smaller group of photographs within the series specifically addresses the psychology of fortune telling. Through complex photographic manipulation, these images confront the desperate human desire to know the unknowable. Illegible text and arbitrary predictions in pictures with themes such as palm reading, tea leaf reading, and numerology, force the viewer to consider man's insatiable need to anticipate his own fate.

The concept behind each picture dictates its darkroom manipulation, sometimes requiring research and revisions that last days, weeks or months. Combining photography with drawing, seamlessly incorporating relevant photograms, adding pertinent borrowed text, and scratching the emulsion of the negative, creates images where horror, history, and psychology occupy the same imaginative locale."

So, where is all of this going?  Why it all leads into this weeks Question of the Week - What are your favorite magazines or zines, and why?