Mike Johnston now is putting out a printed photo newsletter. No price listed in the announcement, but since it involves printing and postage costs, I assume it is not free. (I don't know if this has been noted on this list yet, if so I missed it.) BTW, I believe one of the testimonials at the bottom is from this list. Bob _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release / June 14, 2001 THE 37th FRAME A Photography Newsletter Written by Mike Johnston, "The 37th Frame" is an ink-on-paper newsletter intended to entertain, inform, and amuse. Published quarterly with the seasons for the time being, its contents are all new, entirely about photography, written exclusively for the newsletter, and not available from any other source. "The 37th Frame" is available by subscription only. No advertising is accepted. Each issue features: THE RANT--Mike sounds off. Fools deserve, and folly receives, no quarter. Blunt, funny, sometimes even wrong. But definitely entertaining. There is a lot of foolishness in our field, even a bit of injustice, and it sometimes provokes me to wax witty and acerbic. If you've had a bad day, this might help you feel better. THE LENS TEST--A subjective aesthetic appraisal of a different lens in each issue, in the tradition of the great Japanese optical savants. For the connoisseur. Folk who like their world strictly by the numbers may want to steer clear. Those with a poetic streak or an aesthetic sensibility will understand. THE SCOOP--This is where we dish the dirt. Good is the reward of the good, but scoundrels get their just desserts. Anecdotes, apocrypha, tales and legends of the old days, industry shenanigans, inside stories, and straight talk like you won't hear in the commercial magazines. THE VIEW--Photographs, photographers, books, techniques, viewpoints, reviews, verities. Guest opinions and reviews. Personal prejudices and product loyalties, good stuff, plugs for things that work and work that satisfies. THE NEWS--The rest of what you'll want to know from me till next we meet. All written in a style that is a cut or two above the usual semiliterate corporatespeak. The first issue is ready to go to the printer. To sign up, contact Michael C. Johnston at: 37th Frame 316 Windsor Drive Waukesha, Wisconsin 53186 Inquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Your piece is among the 3 best that have ever been written about my work...I think you are a very good writer." --Helen Levitt, responding to a review of her one-woman show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "You are a punk." --A manufacturer, following an overly honest product review "A writer's first duty is to be stimulating...You are not _bland_!" --Dave Jenkins "If you leave the [mailing list], how am I going to get my 'Johnston fix'?" --Name withheld "You may not agree with everything Mike Johnston has to say, but you'll be entertained by how he says it...one of the most interesting writers about photography in America today." --Phil Davis, author of _Beyond the Zone System_, the textbook _Photography_, and Professor Emeritus of Photography at the University of Michigan "Your writing is so _tasty_." --Sally Mann, renowned art photographer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
