The End of Print?

I went to the Envoy Gallery Monday night for the launch event of CRUSHfanzine, a quarterly publication who’s theme is to examine the intense moments of ones obsession.

According to co-editor Nicolas Wagner’s note, the magazine:

“…came out of both frustration and an unexplainable desire to see, collect, cut out, paste and gather visuals of the same person or subject.”

The Editor, The Cover Star and The Wife (Nicolas Wagner, Tal & Arthur)

I got invited because I know the person they chose as their first subject, Arthur K., who happens to be the biggest male model since Derek Zoolander and Hansel!  I keed, I keed; although, he does get booked for a lot of big jobs.  I was happy to check it out and at the same time I was intrigued by the fact that a publication would choose to launch in such a volatile economic climate, it definitely takes guts especially with all this talk about the end of print and the recent writings on the wall.  I tip my hat off to CRUSHfanzine in the name of independent publishing, call me old-fashioned, but I don’t want to see a world without print.  I’ve always loved flipping through a beautiful magazine’s pages or reading the Sunday times; although, I admit finding myself eating breakfast this past Sunday laptop open next to my plate!  Regardless, I still believe in independent publishing and the movement that still exists!  I realize that change is happening everywhere and that it has always happened even with the world of print, but I think there’s some balance and synergy that can be found between both the mediums of print and online.  That being said, I came across an interesting presentation by Jeremy Leslie of magCulture re: The End of Print (As We Know It), there’s no words, but you can get the gist of it visually: