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Their site offers TWO free issues with a subscription that's half off newsstand price.

I'm just sayin'.

thanks, wende!

I would buy this magazine just for the cover of this issue alone. Intriguing.

I bet he sails the fanciest pirate ship that the high seas have ever seen.

Pirates of the RSVP Cruise

I have a subscription, and 90% of the time, I find this magazine disappointing. I know it's all about the visual, but the articles are SO BORING.

I do not subscribe to ID, and I'm not a monthly reader, but the cover on this one had me at hello. I have to agree, this issue was exceptional. It wasn't just the cover that picqued my interest either. The content was thought-provoking and fresh -- nothing I'd heard a gadzillion times spun a different way. A refreshing read.

Now back to the mask.

How can you not love a hot boy in a decorative eye patch? Masked, or partially masked, there's that darn bad boy appeal again. Just why do we love it so much (but don't want to have a serious relationship with it)? Oh well, that's a whole 'nother blog.

Holly

Perhaps because boys with eye patches have no depth perception.

I.D. has had its ups and downs and it's definitely in an up phase right now. I think there was a change in editors not too long ago. Let's see how this lasts.

there's that darn bad boy appeal again.

Bad boy would be about 1,428th on the list of ways to describe the cover picutre, right under "looks like a Japanese Geisha.

: )

Naah, it's "Bad Boy via Martha Stewart." Look how tenderly she knitted his sweater.

I think perhaps *he* knitted the sweater.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

Perhaps that's how he scratched his cornea.

In all seriousness, that cover pic is a really great one... anyone know what photographer we should be giving the credit to?

Yaaar! Brown Beard has knit himself a sweater out of the hair of his victims. The pirate ship Martha's Mayhem takes no prisoners (but does lay out a lovely tea spread between watches).

We get this magazine at work. On page 10 it says:

"On the cover and right Sveinn Ingimundarson models the Pro Aesthetics eypatch by Netherlands-based designer Damien O'Sullivan.
Photo: Paul Mpagi Sepuya"

And just a personal aside: Sveinn's beard is "trimmed" on the inside photos. He looks much better with a thicker beard.

There is a fun article on page 76 called: MESSING WITH PERFECTION -- EIGHT PROPOSALS TO ORNAMENT THE FARNSWORTH HOUSE. Atelier van Lieshout's proposal is the most amusing. He creates a house under the house. Kind of like an ant farm complete with an S&M parlor that Van Lieshout refers to only as an "alternative fitness place."

Tony G.

Brown is not such a strange choice given their reasons for choosing it - I'd love to have gadgets that look better with age rather than worse - my old leather filofax just looks better and better as the years have gone by - I've yet to find a piece of modern electronic equipment that looks better much use - I really liked their ideas of casing it in copper - that would be amazing

I agree, brown is a great color and it's about time high tech designers started introducing earth tones into their palettes. Technology doesn't have to look like something out of a sci fi film just because it's new. Such a testosteron driven industry.

Does anybody know who the hombre on the cover is? Very attractive.

Actually I do happen to know who the hombre on the cover is. What would you pay for a night with the saucy pirate?? Start the bidding.

distasteful

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