Editor's Note:
You know - sometimes you need try something completely different in order to move on. And sometimes - this means you need to give up on control and let things come together differently.
That's what happened with this issue.
I decided to take a back seat and make an issue, but not an issue of Brave New Word. Instead, i've decided to provide a platform for another magazine that was unjustly shut down before it could really blossom.
The magazine i'm talking about is Nimbus. It was a Facebook-based publication all about exasperated tongue-in-cheek mocking of self-serious digital publications that have more bark than bite.
Here's what Nimbus editor Jeremy Hight says:
"Nimbus
was created initially as a conceptual prank.
The initial idea and posts were absurd exaggerated characters parodying
clichés of publishing.
The work also was
intended to explore the concept of a literary magazine existing in an
alternative and seemingly unusual space like within a social media platform in
a place for events or selling products.
The quality of works almost immediately pushed it to a level of a truly
high quality publication of text and image works from around the world. It only
lasted 3 weeks as Facebook anonymously engineered breaking the notes function
making it impossible to function."
So - after the unfortunate shutdown happened - i thought - why don't make a memorial issue - so that everyone could experience what the Nimbus was outside Facebook? That's how this issue came together.
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Issue Line-up:
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Issue Line-up:
- Vuk Cosic - A KICK IN THE AI
- Talan Memmot - google result sonnets
- Annie Bergson - Five Word Clouds
- Louise Bak - Tegument
- Margie Schnibbe - Two Pieces
- Paul Corman-Roberts - Break Up Series
- Shane Jesse Christmass - Two Visual Pieces
- Michael J Maguire - Consider (Waiting for) the commuter bus…
- John Trubee - T'n'I
- Alan Sondheim - schisms/intruder/ruptures
- Ariel Riveros Pavez - T'N'I
- Jeremy Hight - Gerald prefers it this way
- Alexandra Naughton - Wakka Wakka Wakka
- Borys Tsyperdyuk - Not Giving a Damn: The Frequencies