(Post Master Supreme)

10/09/14 07:57 PM

decided to take the road less traveled UPDATE

with alot of the online magazines and print magazines not on top of the Ultra4 racing scene as of late (it's gaining a bit more steam now), alot of the magazines and sites already have freelance photographers on hand.

this morning at 5am, i decided to take the road less traveled and created my own online publication with my photos from recent races and club rides/events that I covered. this is a small inaugural issue. if the response is positive, I might take it to a paid subscription

please tell me what you think

http://joom.ag/WGTb

UPDATE

i finally released my official first issue. the content in the previous issue was only enough to consider it a feeler and a teaser. As of today, I had 80 views of the teaser issue and with publishing my first real issue this morning, I had 35 views of that issue in less than 6hours

on a positive note, one of the main companies that makes axles for racing, Spidertrax, allowed me to create my own ad for their product line using their photos for the magazine. they approved of the ad this morning. heavy metal concepts, the main company that supplies the best images and dvds for the Ultra4 organization allowed me to create and run an ad for them in the magazine as well.

i'm releasing the magazines every other month (Oct/Nov) until i can get enough material and content to justify a monthly magazine. my newest challenge will be to gain funding thru ads to justify the $40/mon charge for mobile device access until i start working again

http://joom.ag/yhgb

(Post Master Supreme)

10/09/14 10:01 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Great idea! Looks really nice to me.

(Post Master Supreme)

10/09/14 11:33 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Spell check the shit out of your magazie before you publish.

(Post Master Supreme)

10/10/14 01:23 AM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Originally Posted By: chef

Spell check the shit out of your magazie before you publish.

This.

Numerous misspellings and words that should be capitalized but were not.
fpor
magazie
youtube
dvd
asad
thru
...and for the love of god, drop the fucking Oxford comma.

You've got a good start! It should have been reviewed heavily by an editor prior to publishing though.

(Post Master Supreme)

10/10/14 09:55 AM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

thanks guys. will un-publish the magazine and make those changes

things have been moving good with the photography work but the downtime between shoots is something that I need to work on. I'm trying to maximize the amount of work I have until i get into another regular gig

(Post Master Supreme)

10/10/14 10:04 AM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Originally Posted By: Kierf - ПЇ?

...and for the love of god, drop the fucking Oxford comma.

Keep banging away at it Duc.

(Post Master Supreme)

10/10/14 02:05 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

There is nothing wrong with the oxford comma

(Post Master Supreme)

10/15/14 06:49 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

huh, never knew that had a name. it was just what i was taught in school

(Post Master Supreme)

10/15/14 07:11 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

I swear it exists solely for grammar nerds to fight over. With or without are both correct, just be consistent with it; though those who choose to go without the Oxford Comma have to be more careful with their lists to keep this from happening:

Note, the only thing making it necessary there is the list order. "JFK, Stalin and the strippers" works just fine.

(Post Master Supreme)

10/17/14 08:39 AM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

update at the top

(Post Master Supreme)

10/17/14 12:16 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Originally Posted By: scootergeek

I swear it exists solely for grammar nerds to fight over. With or without are both correct, just be consistent with it; though those who choose to go without the Oxford Comma have to be more careful with their lists to keep this from happening:

Note, the only thing making it necessary there is the list order. "JFK, Stalin and the strippers" works just fine.

The oxford comma provides clarity imo - It's a part of my style guide at work.

(Post Master Supreme)

10/17/14 01:04 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

LMAO....

(Post Master Supreme)

10/17/14 09:58 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

cool man, some good work in there still a number of spelling errors. try reading the articles backwards. you'll stop consuming it as a sentence and start seeing individual words. proof reading has got to be one of my biggest pet peeves. nobody does it!

$40/mo for mobile access is what you pay so that mobile devices can read it right?

(Post Master Supreme)

10/17/14 11:19 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

yeah chef. they want $40 a month for me to enable that feature

i pulled all of the articles out of the magazine and plugged them into MS Word and it found a few things that I changed but that was it

(Post Master Supreme)

10/18/14 12:21 AM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

hehe, can't rely on the robot for everything. "had alot of fans" should be "had a lot of fans"
I'd change has changed to had changed because it's past tense. Some of the stuff like "Saturday morning. Wet from it raining the night before and continually through the morning," I'd change. Some stuff is personal preference, like the sentence structure in the beginning of the Willys article (nice job on the no apostrophe ;D) "For having on the competition" is just missing the w. "The factor front seats". Some of the personal stuff would be like "AtoZ Fabrication demonstrated that having a long day was a true statement that day" I had to read that a few times to get what you were getting at. It's all stuff that'll get better as you write more though, this is great progress man.

(Post Master Supreme)

10/18/14 03:11 AM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Originally Posted By: rcurley55

Originally Posted By: scootergeek

I swear it exists solely for grammar nerds to fight over. With or without are both correct, just be consistent with it; though those who choose to go without the Oxford Comma have to be more careful with their lists to keep this from happening:

Note, the only thing making it necessary there is the list order. "JFK, Stalin and the strippers" works just fine.

The oxford comma provides clarity imo - It's a part of my style guide at work.

It does! Or at least, can. IMHO.

I vote as I always have and always will, in favor of the Oxford comma.

(Post Master Supreme)

10/18/14 05:31 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Nice job Ty, I think with a bit more refinement and better font choices you could have yourself a nice looking deal.

Nate

(Post Master Supreme)

10/29/14 05:29 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Thanks Nate just received a job offer yesterday. If all things go well, this will be the funding to open up a way to pay the $40/month for mobile viewing and increased fonts

Doing things on your own gets expensive after awhile. I think that this will probably kick me into the $75/month bracket for web hosting etc for all my ventures

**DONOTDELETE**

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10/30/14 12:18 AM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Originally Posted By: Duc

Thanks Nate just received a job offer yesterday. If all things go well, this will be the funding to open up a way to pay the $40/month for mobile viewing and increased fonts

Doing things on your own gets expensive after awhile. I think that this will probably kick me into the $75/month bracket for web hosting etc for all my ventures

$75/mo for web hosting? Explain.

I paid $200 for 3 years

(Post Master Supreme)

10/31/14 06:57 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Originally Posted By: Duc

Thanks Nate just received a job offer yesterday. If all things go well, this will be the funding to open up a way to pay the $40/month for mobile viewing and increased fonts

Doing things on your own gets expensive after awhile. I think that this will probably kick me into the $75/month bracket for web hosting etc for all my ventures

Yeah fuck that web host man.... I pay $120 a year at Dreamhost with essentially unlimited everything. $75/mo is like adult site hosting prices.

(Post Master Supreme)

11/02/14 03:21 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Originally Posted By: tenplanescrashing

Originally Posted By: Duc

Thanks Nate just received a job offer yesterday. If all things go well, this will be the funding to open up a way to pay the $40/month for mobile viewing and increased fonts

Doing things on your own gets expensive after awhile. I think that this will probably kick me into the $75/month bracket for web hosting etc for all my ventures

$75/mo for web hosting? Explain.

I paid $200 for 3 years

Joomag wants $40 on top of whatever else to host my own online magazine. I pay wix $20/month for my photography site

**DONOTDELETE**

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11/03/14 08:40 PM

Re: decided to take the road less traveled

Damn...it's amazing what these hosts charge for the whole "free website builder/no coding necessary" approach.

I host 4 domains on my plan and have unlimited everything. I paid $286 for 3 years ($8/mo)