SPLICED MAGAZINE /
Behind the creaking door / Cutting it close
ISSUE 01
Cutting it close
About three months ago I came across a video on YouTube that would start the ball
rolling and give myself and the rest of the team the kick-start to finally put Spliced
out there for all the world to see.
by Chris Savides
That video was Neil Gaiman’s
commencement speech to the School
of the Arts in 2012. His message was
simple. Enjoy the ride; let it take you to
remarkable places. Enjoy yourself in the
midst of your adventure. Go and make
interesting mistakes, break rules, learn
from them. But above all, if you want to
do something, just get up and do it. Start
it. Make good art. I immediately shared
that video with my long time close friend
Pippa. Needless to say we were both
blown away and inspired. A week later
we were meeting with another friend of
ours, Tim, whose beautiful photos you
will notice throughout this issue. He
agreed to join us and our team grew to
three. All of a sudden things were falling
into place, we held editorial meetings
with our writers, created a plan of attack,
and now here we are, a fully fledged
magazine filled with all things awesome.
By now you’ve hopefully read the
magazine from cover to cover and gotten to
the very last page of our launch issue. Thank
you for making it this far. Hopefully it took
you hours and hours to go through each and
every page, soaking up each delicious word,
drinking in each beautiful photo.
What you don’t realise is that it’s the
night before our first issue goes live, I still
have to write my final column, I still have
to finalise a few design decisions, I still
have to sleep (Oh God, to sleep again!).
To be honest I haven’t had this much fun
working on a project ever, I say now that
the issue is out and making its way through
the interwebs.
I want to say to everybody involved,
well done team! We did it. We actually
did what we set out to do, create a
magazine filled with awesome “stuff”,
all of it original content that we’d want
to read. Thank you to our Editor Pippa
for the hours poring over printed pages,
making corrections in red pen all over the
place and making sure we could come
as close to perfect as possible with this
inaugural version of Spliced. Thank you
to our amazing photographer Tim who
spent hours, days, giving our vampire
shoot just the right amount of sexiness
with a dash of Halloween terror. Thank
you to our two beautiful models, Lauren
and Nika, you ladies set the bar high for
future issues. Thank you to all the writers
for sending in your articles on time and
for being so eloquent and articulate with
your words. Thank you to Dark Carnival,
FLD, Cosmic Comics and Balkan Burger
for providing us with great prizes to give
to you, our readers.
And finally, thank you to you, our
readers. We put this magazine together
with passion and care, we made good
art, and we hope you like it. See you in
December for issue two, more great stuff
is being planned even as you read this.?
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