"Ever wanted a magazine that could synthesize all the latest fashion, movies, art, and travel into one? Then lie back and relax as this month sees the launch of the online magazine Gunpowder, which means goodbye to spending endless money on magazines and countless hours trawling shops to find innovative features. With new ideas delivered daily and a team of award-winning journalists, photographers and designers from the best magazines across the globe, Gunpowder aims to bring you the first quality online magazine which has a squad of the finest researchers working around the clock to bring you lifestyle news as it happens. With a weekly e-newsletter (G-News) for those still lusting after printed magazines, the G-News brings the week’s best updates straight to your inbox. Gunpowder has managed to fulfil every reader’s digest including culture, design, eco, fashion, gastronomy, motoring and travel, as well as interviews with the leading figures in these industries. To be launched this November 5, Gunpowder Magazine is aiming to make your lifestyle a little more explosive.
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Read All About Us We're a vain bunch here at Gunpowder, and we love nothing more than reading fabulous things about ourselves. This is our Press section, where you'll find just that, with media praise, gratutious photos of the team enjoying themselves and other narcassistic things. Lavish us with praise, please. We can't get enough! Madame Arcati, Premier Showbiz & Media Clairvoyante "I can't imagine anything more dreadful: an Anna Wintour-Tyler Brûlé sandwich (with ancient old me as the filling) in my canopied four-poster. And yet that is the dread image summoned up as I click through a newish online fashion daily called Gunpowder Magazine. It confessedly aspires to match the work of the two divinities of Fashion & Style (Fasyle?) - my Wintour/Brûlé body warmers - though I can't help but wonder whether either of them would ever willingly showcase the work of, say, photographer Justin Monroe and his Muscle Mary fisters (almost) or The New InterCourses Cookbook and its Creamy Stuffed Figs, as Gunpowder does. I fear that editor Nick Clarke is dangerously contiguous to Arcatiland and its intermittent preoccupations with cock-cunt permutations. If this is the case then of course I am deeply honoured and welcome the future cross-fertilisation of ideas between Gunpowder and the unreadable and deadening zombielands of Vogue/Monocle/Wallpaper*. Certainly, Anna looks like she could do with a Creamy Stuffed Fig. Even an Enache Florin-designed Peugeot, 'with its lightweight body covered with sexy touch-sensors,' is headlined I Touch Myself. Can you imagine Tyler, whose carbon footprint makes him the Yeti of International Travel, touching himself? Actually, I can. So Gunpowder Magazine gets my ringing endorsement: anything that can sexualise a fig or a Peugeot can't go wrong. The fashionistas are sure to catch on once they've learnt there's life after Ugly Betty and death assured to Anna. Perhaps these two trends can be hastened in a legally nice way. Click here to have sex with Gunpowder Magazine" http://madamearcati.blogspot.com/ The Handbook L'etoile Magazine "Those of us feeling the heat of the economy know that there are certain little sacrifices we make in order to get by. It may even come down to ditching a copy of your favorite indulgent fashion zine. Luckily, the online magazine Gunpowder understands going virtual doesn't mean losing quality or edginess. Comprised of some of the best stylists, writers and photographers in the biz, Gunpowder Magazine might even qualify as more current than its printed competitors with interactive links that are constantly updating articles - and no waiting between issues. From glamour to gastronomy, Gunpowder's motto is 'In Gorgeousness We Trust. So Shall You.' And the best part of it all? It doesn't cost you a cent" Things Magazine "Every credit to Gunpowder for being the only publication to take issue with what we wrote and respond, indicating that they're not simply cutting and pasting from the LVMH press wire" www.thingsmagazine.net Three's A Crowd "If Gunpowder magazine is as glamourous as their launch party, then it looks like we're in for a treat" Helen Grant, Showbiz Writer StyleWillSaveUs And the not-so-good... (fortunately, we're a tough bunch here at Gunpowder, and are more than prepared to take the good with the bad). Luan Goldie, New Media Age "With a tagline like 'In Gorgeousness We Trust', I should have guessed that this magazine site wasn't going to be groundbreaking. Aiming to be a high-end lifestyle magazine covering the well-stomped grounds of food, travel and culture, this site just comes off tacky. It's impossible to understand why anyone into design and fashion would leave Vogue or Wallpaper* to visit this bland site. Little effort has been made with the design, with it sticking to a white, green and pink look throughout. There are also rotating images of disco balls, diamante and models pouring champagne in the background, which is all a bit clichéd. Content is thin, especially in video and audio, but it's still a fairly new site" |