00110: What Digital Darkness Magazine is, and what it aspires to be
By: omnicolorThis is kind of a mission statement, kind of a plea for your support, and kind of a self-review/advertisement. I just decided to look back on the first six issues, and ponder them. Remember that it may be very flawed, since not even I, the almighty editor, can read into the future, and the review will definitely be biased, since there is no way in hell I'm giving my own rag a bad review. Anyway, here's what I think Digital Darkness is.
Digital Darkness, thus far, has been a sounding board for anything and everything Digital Darkness members wanted to put in it, as well as anyone else that has the inclination to print something for the masses to read. We have never cut a submission out, with the exception of one that was borderline plagiarism, so some of the zine has been of low quality, but someone apparently thought it was good or they wouldn't have sent it. We probably will eventually have to cut something, but ya never know. Send us something, and see if we print it. You'll probably be surprised. We started out as an underground zine, but ended up as a more mainstream literary zine with an occasional piece on an underground related topic. Most of our readers seem to think we need more hacking articles, but there is a shortage of writers, so we print what we get.
The content so far has been very... distinct. After setting out to be a hacking zine, we got very few hacking related articles. The first zine had the most hacking articles to date, with seven out of eleven articles. Issue six didn't fair as well, with one out of nineteen articles about hacking. The other articles tend to be rather interesting, and are on a very diverse range of topics, from humorous articles like "Breast Implants" by Craqhore and "Tree Raping" by digitalboy, to short stories, such as "The Diner" by Citadel, to some sick and demented pieces like "Hell" and "Raping Gilliam Anderson" by Emperor Mephistopheles and "The 11th Commandment" by digitalboy. Other more serious articles include social commentary by omnicolor and Citadel, and some undescribable theories of Craqhore.
I would like for the zine to go into real print, and maybe make a little money to pump back into the zine. It will most likely be very low quality compared to the glossy, colorful corporate produced magazines, but it will hopefully make up for it in content. We will not be bought out by some big corporation, or even a medium size company. We will not let someone bully us into self imposed censorship. We will say what we want, print what people send us, and be happy with it. If you don't like it, don't read it. If you like it, please tell us. The purpose of us selling a printed zine is not to make money. In fact, I'm planning on losing money. Donations will always be accepted. ;) If the zine makes more money, we'll pump the money back into the zine after recouping our losses, maybe going for some full color, offset printed, glossy cover, heavy paper zine, but in the beginning you'll be lucky to find a thicker cover then the rest of the magazine. The color, if there's any, will probably be hand done, and the print paper will be the cheapest possible.
What this means to the average reader is: Digital Darkness e-zine might not be produced anymore. You will have to shell out maybe $2-$4 for a printed copy of it. You'll like it. If you don't, keep buying it anyway.
What this means to the more the average reader is: We need submissions. We need art that is still viewable when xeroxed. So send away. You know the address.
If you are interested in helping out with the zine, in the form of distribution, monetary backing, or anything else you can think of, send me an email. We'd appreciate it more then you can imagine.
-omnicolor
Not Copyright 1997
Pit Labs, Digital Darkness
Digital Darkness, thus far, has been a sounding board for anything and everything Digital Darkness members wanted to put in it, as well as anyone else that has the inclination to print something for the masses to read. We have never cut a submission out, with the exception of one that was borderline plagiarism, so some of the zine has been of low quality, but someone apparently thought it was good or they wouldn't have sent it. We probably will eventually have to cut something, but ya never know. Send us something, and see if we print it. You'll probably be surprised. We started out as an underground zine, but ended up as a more mainstream literary zine with an occasional piece on an underground related topic. Most of our readers seem to think we need more hacking articles, but there is a shortage of writers, so we print what we get.
The content so far has been very... distinct. After setting out to be a hacking zine, we got very few hacking related articles. The first zine had the most hacking articles to date, with seven out of eleven articles. Issue six didn't fair as well, with one out of nineteen articles about hacking. The other articles tend to be rather interesting, and are on a very diverse range of topics, from humorous articles like "Breast Implants" by Craqhore and "Tree Raping" by digitalboy, to short stories, such as "The Diner" by Citadel, to some sick and demented pieces like "Hell" and "Raping Gilliam Anderson" by Emperor Mephistopheles and "The 11th Commandment" by digitalboy. Other more serious articles include social commentary by omnicolor and Citadel, and some undescribable theories of Craqhore.
I would like for the zine to go into real print, and maybe make a little money to pump back into the zine. It will most likely be very low quality compared to the glossy, colorful corporate produced magazines, but it will hopefully make up for it in content. We will not be bought out by some big corporation, or even a medium size company. We will not let someone bully us into self imposed censorship. We will say what we want, print what people send us, and be happy with it. If you don't like it, don't read it. If you like it, please tell us. The purpose of us selling a printed zine is not to make money. In fact, I'm planning on losing money. Donations will always be accepted. ;) If the zine makes more money, we'll pump the money back into the zine after recouping our losses, maybe going for some full color, offset printed, glossy cover, heavy paper zine, but in the beginning you'll be lucky to find a thicker cover then the rest of the magazine. The color, if there's any, will probably be hand done, and the print paper will be the cheapest possible.
What this means to the average reader is: Digital Darkness e-zine might not be produced anymore. You will have to shell out maybe $2-$4 for a printed copy of it. You'll like it. If you don't, keep buying it anyway.
What this means to the more the average reader is: We need submissions. We need art that is still viewable when xeroxed. So send away. You know the address.
If you are interested in helping out with the zine, in the form of distribution, monetary backing, or anything else you can think of, send me an email. We'd appreciate it more then you can imagine.
-omnicolor
Not Copyright 1997
Pit Labs, Digital Darkness
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