Fun Magazines You May Have Missed

Sometimes there is a whole section of magazines that you have always missed somehow.  Or maybe you just didn't expect it.

Dirt Rag #154, while having the expected articles of Where to Ride in New Zealand, also writes about access in Colorado, the relationship between bike trails, wilderness, and the roadless rule.  Even though it was right on the cover, I almost missed one called "America's First Mountain Bikers".  You may have heard about the 10th Cavalry regiment, but I was completely unfamiliar with the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps, a unit African-American soldiers based in Missoula who did a demonstration bike ride in 1897  from Missoula to St Louis, Missouri.  (Further reading here and here)

Or you can find Prehistoric Times in our science and natural history section.  A fun mix of paleontology, museum info, toys, art and models.  This issue has James Gurney (Dinotopia), and article about the Chicago Field Museum, and Top Paleo Events of 2010.

And if you are looking for something more hip, there is the oversize The Last Magazine (pop culture).  The sixth issue, in its own non-standard format.

Magazines at Bulldog: Color and Colors

A couple of weeks ago, I opened my email and found my latest update from the Landscape Photography blog.  (I stumbled across this blog while looking for information about one of my obsessions, and the blog has many accounts of travels by Philip Hyde in the time and area I am interested in.  You are most likely to have run across Philip Hyde's work in classic Sierra Club publications such as Time and The River Flowing: Grand Canyon a rafting trip led by famed river runner Martin Litton in 1964 when the Bureau of Reclamation was planning on damming the Grand Canyon.)

Philip Hyde is one of the featured photographers in the current issue ofColor Magazine, you can check out the previous issue here, or the current issue at Bulldog.I

Also featured are Robin Lasser, Dave Anderson, and David Graham.










Not too surprisingly, Color is a popular name for magazines.  There is the Canadian magazine COLOR, a magazine founded by two Canadians (Vancouver) about skateboarders and their lifestyle.  Then there is COLOR magazine, a multicultural magazine for professionals, with a focus on the New England - New York regions.

And then there is COLORS, a Benetton project, now on issue 79 Collectors, showing the expected to the not so expected.   The next issue will be Superheroes (who are today's superheroes?  Send ColorsLab your favorite stories, characters, pictures, and they may publish it.

Holiday reading

All sorts of magazines came in last week, you can see most of them by following this link.

Zoetrope All Story's guest designer is Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who in days before Sonic Youth was in a band with Jeff Rabid, editor for the last 30 years of The Big Takeover magazine.

Maximum Rock N Roll is doing a Punk Comics issue, which includes Jaime Hernandez (Love & Rockets)



Signal to Noise writes about a student run radio station's struggles to survive.

Bomb is an art, music, photography, film magazine with a lot of text.  You can find it in our Pop Culture section, near the Music, Art, and Film sections.

Juxtapoz just has an awesome cover and Michelle recommends it.

ID , back to the future issue.  You can also find it in our Pop Culture section, but if you just are interested in really creative fashion photography it may hit the spot.  Founded 30 years ago by former Vogue art director Terry Jones, the magazine started out in classic zine format, hand stapled with typewriter text.

And a completely different direction, Hobby Farms writes about how to grow nut trees.  If you are successful, you can watch Cat or Dog lurking below while Squirrel and Blue Jay tussle above over the bounteous nut supply.  (You might also check out their sister publication, Urban Farm)