Comments | muchabstracted: Request for materials

muchabstracted

Request for materials

Aug 19, 2006 20:42

Does anyone Boston-area or DC-area have old, non-Jewish themed magazines they're not using? I will take them off your hands and REUSE them for a happier tomorrow. Though if you're DC area, I won't be able to take them off your hands until fall ( Read more... )

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magnetic_pole August 20 2006, 01:16:16 UTC

We got a subscription to Architectural Digest this past year that we haven't read and would like to get rid of. If that's the kind of thing you're looking for? *somewhat confused*

Maggie, DC area

muchabstracted August 20 2006, 01:23:08 UTC

If you have the old magazines still lying around when I next visit DC, and the timing works out so that I can pick them up, that would be great.

(But that's a lot of ifs, so feel free to just recycle them instead! It would probably be loads easier for you.)

In any case, just to explain, I'm looking for old magazines so I can do collages with clients. I've just learned that collage is a particularly useful way to engage people in art therapy, because clients might do collage even if they're overwhelmingly worried about a perceived lack of artistic ability.

magnetic_pole August 20 2006, 01:32:54 UTC

Try me again when you're here next. I'm feeling too guilty to recycle them (the susbscription was a gift). The art-therapy sounds interesting and, yes, I would do a collage where I too wouldn't touch pens or pencils! M.

muchabstracted August 20 2006, 01:38:34 UTC

Awesome, I will do so. That's exciting! I've never seen the magazine, but I imagine there's lots of pictures. *grins* AND I wouldn't have to censor it for the younger folk .

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strange_selkie August 20 2006, 01:54:29 UTC

Come 'n get 'em. :) Mostly food magazines. Some Smithsonian Magazines. Work for you?

muchabstracted August 20 2006, 03:14:47 UTC

Awwwesome. Sounds good. I'll be in touch when it's closer to the time, then?

(And if you decide to clean up and recycle it first, I do not at all blame you. I am moving in two weeks. I don't want to hold onto anything.)

rymenhild August 20 2006, 04:22:39 UTC

Collages for clients is a fabulous idea, especially since you can teach the clients your fabulous Symbolic Collage Skills. I approve.

Alas, I don't think I have any magazines I can get to you.

muchabstracted August 20 2006, 13:43:11 UTC

I feel that I am a person who proves the rule of Willing To Do Collage Even When I Draw Like A 13-Year Old!

Yeah, geographical distances interfere. Ah well.

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muchabstracted August 20 2006, 13:41:48 UTC

That would be fabulous. For me and the older folk, if not for the young children. I'll talk to my supervisor about appropriate ages. Um, the TV-Guide is probably not the most useful, but the others seem great. I don't know how many you have, but I don't think I'd want more than 5-6 of celebrity type mags at the very most. (Though I might hit you up again in a year.)

lyriendel August 20 2006, 20:45:08 UTC

Alas, I just gave a huge stack of magazines to my mom last week. We have subscriptions to Wired and The New Yorker that we never read, although having just purged we only have the newest to offer. Also, Wired inexplicably came this week with an issue of 'Fashion'. Once I finish with some of these Time magazines you can have those too, if you'd like.

muchabstracted August 22 2006, 00:29:25 UTC

Oooh, Time and the New Yorker sounds awesome. Just a few works better than a large stack anyway.

...Fashion, in Wired? I want to see that one just for my own sake.

Let me know when you're set to get rid of them. I'm in no hurry. (I know that most of my unread magazines are, uh, several months old...)

lyriendel August 22 2006, 21:09:05 UTC

Well, not *in* Wired. It just came bundled with it. Our Wired subscription was a free trial to begin with, so I guess they figure they'll try to get us hooked to other magazines as well.
When do you need 'em? I could give them to Justin next time we see him, or (even better) we could find a time to all get together and hang out. :)

muchabstracted August 23 2006, 02:26:36 UTC

Ah, that sounds less eccentric. Too bad, I was curious about fashionable computers. The mental images were wonderful.

I'm in no particular hurry -- I'm moving next week, so pretty much anything would happen after that. Hanging out would be lovely, if timing works out, and if it doesn't, I could easily just drive by and pick it up. Oh, by the way, you might know my soon-to-be roommate; dushai's cousin, who I believe went to the same college.

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