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Readymade

19th May 2006, 04:36 pm

Earlier this month, at the Maker Faire, one of the guys from ReadyMade asked me why I didn’t re-up my subscription when I told him I used to subscribe. I half truthfully told him that I just couldn’t afford it since we bought our townhouse. but, the real reason why I didn’t resubscribe is because I got the feeling that you could count the number of people of color that appear in Readymade for the past 6 months on one hand. Paid advertisements don’t count. Not that they’re obligated to represent a diverse cross section of our society, it just got really creepy… every month, a magazine of somewhat-cool ideas and lots of skinny white people. That and the non-stop “renew now!” junk mail I got from them contributed to why I did not renew my subscription.

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  • übercherry

    i couldn’t agree with you more, and i’m glad that i’m not the only one who’s noticed the absence of pigmentation in their pages! this is the first year that i’ve had a subscription (because it’s sometimes a little difficult to find the mag here in canada), and overall i’ve been pretty disappointed. i started getting those “RENEW NOWNOWNOW” letters only one month into my subscription (yowzah!) and i’ve found the projects to be pretty lame on the whole, and the articles even more useless. i think the concept of the mag is pretty interesting, and it’s visually nice to look at. however i don’t think i’ll be throwing down another $30 Canadian for another year of info and projects that just don’t appeal to me.

  • übercherry

    i couldn’t agree with you more! i’m glad i’m not the only one who’s noticed the absence of any pigmentation in the people on their pages. this is the first year that i’ve had a subscription and overall i’ve been quite disappointed. the projects have been überlame, and the articles aren’t all that interesting. *plus* i started to get those “RENEW ME NOWNOWNOW” letters about one month into my subscription (yowzah!). i think the concept of the mag is really interesing and i like the colours and general style of it. but i don’t think i’ll be throwing down another $30 Canadian for another year of projects and articles that just don’t appeal to me.