I only buy Playboy just to read the articles!
Never has those empty words been so prophetic.
Playboy Indonesia is now out, much to the chagrin, dismay, outrage, and pure joy of many Indonesians.
Conservative groups swore they will never let the magazines fall into the hands of the common man (too late, Indoscene has 5 copies already), while free speech advocates aplaude the bravery of Velvet Silver, the local Playboy publisher.
Magazine hawkers either openly display their copies or wait until asked by numerous curious potential buyers.
Even so, sales have been swift, making it difficult to land a copy as of lunch time.
But as they had promised, the Indonesian version of Playboy has been toned down, focusing more on its editorial content.
Out of the 160 pages, roughly 22 featured pictorials (plus a centerfold) with most of them being extremely tame.
One reader on Detik.com commented that is was like glancing through a women’s magazine like Her, Femina or Harpers Bazzar.
To be sure, the content is hard-hitting.
There are interviews with Jamie Aditya, Indonesia’s best ever MTV VJ, as well as Pramoedya Ananta Toer, its greatest writer.
Other articles talk about East Timor after independence, graphics novels and how American car manufacturers are struggling in their own country.
The general air of disappointment (one man said after reading Playboy Indonesia, his original excitement when buying the magazine is lost) reflects on Indonesia’s culture of reading, or the lack of it.
Playboy Indonesia is like the Playboy of Indoscene’s grandfather’s era, full of artistic photos but was no slack in the writing department, which unfortunately is completly missing in the likes of FHM, Stuff and others.
To be a writer of Playboy is up there as a reporter for Time Magazine. You ARE a writer if you made Playboy.
So, will Playboy Indonesia close within a year? Will sales fall? Will conservative groups win the battle to kick the bunny back overseas? Indoscene hopes not, as judging by the quality of writing in the first edition, other "serious" news and lifestyle magazines should take notice.
What’s wrong with this Ad?
This ad appeared on this month’s issue of Fortune Asia.
From the cover of the ad, themediaslut initially thought that the ad was for the recent yellow ribbon campaign that looks to encourage the business sector to employ former inmates. Therefore, the ad space on Fortune Magazine made sense.
But the outside back cover of the ad showed that its’ a prison recuitment ad…
themediaslut finds it weird that a prison recuitment ad should appear on Fortune magazine where the readers are mostly top earning businessmen… Maybe they are looking at this businessmen to look at a 2nd career as prison’s captain. Maybe the ad looks to get these businemen to get their kids interested in a career as prison captains..
themediaslut wonders if the ad would have been better place in magazines like Teenage and Teens to target youngsters to consider such a career?
The real return of Tongkat Ali
Sorry girls about taking down the return of Tongkat Ali pic earlier… If you like the guy, drop a comment.
World’s longest (most irritating) mag cover
This could be the World’s longest magazine cover.
Its front cover consist of a two page fold ad and the back cover has a three page fold ad.
If one was to extend the cover from one end to the other, it measured up to one metre in length (92.5cm to be exact).
Should be in the record books for having the longest magazine cover!!!
PS: The cover belongs to "Wireless World".
Just Like Mike
A journalist wanted themediaslut to put this photo on a official online publication..
It was a No-No though.
themediaslut wonders if a cover like this would sell like a hotcakes?
