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Lucire 39 Typography and layout by me. Lucire KSA November 2018 also uses this cover image.
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Travel Writing- The Less Glamorous Side and Me
Over the weekend I signed up to and attended a travel/social media webinar, hosted by two travel bloggers I follow. The topic at hand was essentially how they created their success story and now travel the world full time for a living. As I’ve been following both bloggers for some time now, I too get caught up in the luxury, the glamour, the romance of it all, but I can tell you first hand that IT IS NOT ALWAYS AS GORGEOUS AS IT SEEMS.
As some of you know I’ve done a few travel assignments for Lucire magazine and, while I unashamedly posted photos of sunsets, coconuts, and the gorgeous ocean, I was having a TOUGH TIME. Not only did I find cockroaches in my room, get stung by jellyfish and swear for a minute straight in front of all of the locals, but it was also about 574389 degrees and I was not cute!
Let’s also talk about the faultlessly filtered Instagram photos, the Facebook posts, the Tumblr, Pinterest, Youtube and Snapchat updates that show how gorgeous each place is and how much fun the blogger is having. I don’t doubt at all that they’re having a good time, but is spending hours crafting social media posts what you really imagine when you think of travel writing? I certainly didn’t - and that’s why I got the shock of my life when I spent majority of my time in the Solomon Islands killing mosquitoes on my body. Potential malaria: 1 - Alex: 0. That was definitely not going to appear on my Instagram, but here I am now, giving you the truth of travel writing.
So as we all sit at our 9-5 jobs, secretly scrolling through Instagram and wishing those travel bloggers’ lives were ours, just remember that they’re probably sun burnt, jet lagged, and covered in mosquito bites. Or that could’ve just been me. They might be having the times of their lives and doing EXACTLY what it looks like. In that case, I can’t help you. Keep being jealous, I am too xxxx
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Lucire 38 We’re so proud of our latest cover, photographed by Jock Robson, styled by Sopheak Seng, hair by Sara Allsop, make-up by Paige Best. More details on our website next week.
Lucire 38 My contribution here was the typography—I’m very happy for the crew, including our own fashion editor Sopheak—for scoring the latest cover.
Yet we forget those face-to-face lessons. We see the pettiest squabbles delivered in blog comments. We sit comfortably lecturing others on why they are wrong. On the internet, we see leftists sealing themselves off from rightists; rightists sealing themselves off from leftists; and no one ever seems to want to understand the other side as a few minor parties engineer campaigns of hate. Isolation and polarization seem to be the order of the day, whether one is arguing about war, health care, or international politics.
Our squabbles and our division are exactly what the terrorists want to see from us.
I wrote this in 2009, and it seems even more relevant today (apart from the blog thing, because we now do this on social media). Here’s the link.
Friends Every now and then I see two of the same vehicle on the home page in Autocade. The odds of this happening are less than 1 in 12,250,000.
New for ’17 The 2011 layout for Lucire Home, a site we don’t update very often, has given way to the 2016 skin that we’re already using on Lucire Men. It looks so much fresher.
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WOW ’16 New Zealand designer Gillian Saunders has scooped the Brancott Estate Supreme Award at tonight’s World of Wearable Art (WOW) Awards’ Show, with her design, Supernova. Lucire was the first publication to break the news (as usual)—read more here.
First means little to Google Once again, Lucire was first with the news from World of Wearable Art. Again, as with the past few years, Google News isn’t sending many readers our way. So much for the independent publication that works that much harder—establishment firms like Google only want to suck up to other big businesses nowadays.
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Lucire 35 Our latest cover for the international edition, photographed by Jennifer Massaux, make-up by Joanne Gair, hair by Eloise Cheung, and modelled by Margarida/Trump Models. Assistant photographer was David Geffin. Typography by Jack Yan, using Joshua Darden’s Freight Big Pro. Order now at http://lucire.com/print.
Hunter Really not thrilled with some of the ads that appear via our agencies on the Lucire website sometimes.
Targeting Well played, Prime TV. This article mentions Sofía Vergara, and up pop ads for Modern Family. (Not the first time we have had a connection to this series: ABC did a mass buy on the Lucire website when the series first débuted in the US.)
Quick Autocade stats
I was curious tonight to see the rate of growth of entries on Autocade. It hasn’t changed greatly. The initial 500 didn’t take long, but, since then, every 500 entries has taken 18 months to be added. However, the traffic has grown at a much faster rate.
March 2008: launch July 2008: 500 (four months for first 500) December 2009: 1,000 (17 months for second 500) May 2011: 1,500 (17 months for third 500) December 2012: 2,000 (19 months for fourth 500) June 2014: 2,500 (18 months for fifth 500)
March 2008: launch April 2011: 1,000,000 page views March 2012: 2,000,000 page views May 2013: 3,000,000 page views January 2014: 4,000,000 page views September 2014: 5,000,000 page views
We’re now sitting on 5,317,738 page views, which means we’re doing roughly 100,000 a month.
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Matt’s enjoying his post-Who For all the Whovians on Tumblr, here’s Heather Kerzner and Matt Smith at the Chivas Regal party at at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, in Cap d’Antibes, on Friday, photographed by David M. Benett. Full story (and one more Eleven pic) here.
At the Festival de Cannes Here’s Eleven, partying away (and for a good cause).
Kate Well played, Topshop: your ad appears right above the article on you.
Thank goodness: a Mediawiki user who writes in English, not technobabble
I want to thank the people contributing to this page about Mediawiki and Dynamic Page List for writing in English. I had been through so many pages on this very subject for hours and they were all written in computerese. Glycerine102, whomever you are, thank you—all one needed to do was add the line as you had written it.
The official manuals all listed $allowUnlimitedResults = true; or some variant thereof without mentioning that you had to put ExtDynamicPageList:: in front of commands for this. For those of us who don’t know much about computers, it would have been wise to mention this.