Are unpaid internships the new normal?

In the last three years, Fallis has used about 50 unpaid interns for duties in marketing, editorial, advertising, sales, account management and public relations. She's convinced it's the wave of the future in human resources. "Ten years from now, this is going to be the norm," she says.-- From an article in Fortune magazine, quoting Kelly Fallis, chief executive of Remote Stylist, a Toronto and

Bensimon Byrne agency cleans up at Magazines Canada's Best on Page ad awards

Magazines Canada has announced the winners of its 2011 Best on Page awards, honouring the very best in magazine advertising from across Canada and around the world. The awards were presented Thursday night at the Allstream Centre in Toronto.
Cleaning up was the Toronto advertising agency Bensimon Byrne, which won Best in Show, Best Full Page or DPS and Most Innovative for their ad for Ultimate

Toronto Mayor, vexed by cover illustration, orders NOW magazine copies destroyed

[This post has been updated] Municipal staff in Toronto have been instructed to search out and destroy all copies of NOW magazine from City Hall and all municipal facilities because it features an unflattering cover image of Mayor Rob Ford. An internal memorandum published by the magazine says the purge was ordered by the mayor's office.
The image for the cover story by Enzo Di Matteo, is clearly

Best Health magazine unveils winners of inaugural best blog awards

Best Health magazine, published by Reader's Digest, has announced the winners of its inaugural best blog awards. Readers were invited to enter the names of their favourite blogs in four categories. The winners were: Look Great Focus: Beauty; www.imabeautygeek.com 
Get Healthy Focus: Fitness, athletics and wellness: www.weightymatters.ca 
Eat Well Focus: Cooking and healthy eating:

Rogers' former digital boss joins social media agency Sycapse

Claude Galipeau, who recently departed Rogers as general manager and senior vp of the digital division, has fetched up at social media agency Syncapse as chief service officer, according to a report in the Hollywood Reporter.

Comedian Rick Mercer writing weekly election column for Maclean's

Comedian, commentator and TV personality Rick Mercer has signed on to write an exclusive column for Maclean's magazine during this federal election. According to a Rogers Publishing release the first column will be in the issue on newsstands today.Mercer is the host of The Rick Mercer Report, the highest-rated comedy show in Canada, returning to the CBC for its ninth season this fall. He

Got Jelly

Layers

Boots

mmmmmmmmm.....Melrose flea market.

Bens Replica

Spotted this Duke 998s Bostrom replica (with double bubble screen) outside Yoshis place the other day. Nice.

Big Bad

That's brilliant! many thanks John, now I know what I'm going to be doing for the next month.

Bugs and Taz

go for a ride

This Coming Friday Night...

...Is not that far away.
The Redwood Bar - Downtown Los Angeles.
9pm - 2am.
$8.00 - 4 bands.

Harold's Iron Works.

Harold's Iron Works is an Oakland, CA based metalworking shop. If you need anything done...let them know!
haroldsironworks@gmail.com

Duane Peters

Saw this on Trawlers blog!!

Western River

Our good friends at 'Western River' sent us the new 'Up Sweep' magazine and it looks excellent! Thanks Akira!!

Weesner Skull

Our cuddly friend Keith Weesner designed this great semi clad girl skull motif for us. We then printed it onto some 3/4 sleeve raglan jerseys and now they are for sale. 100 limited edition shirts only. When they are gone they are gone. Unless we print some more of course. Yoink.
You can buy one H*E*R*E

MoneySense ranking of his city dismissed as "nonsense" by Port Alberni mayor

While many cities (like Victoria) bask in the glory of being near the top of the list in the annual rankings of Canadian cities by MoneySense magazine, one small city mayor on Vancouver Island is steamed. Port Alberni ranks 172 out of 180 cities, slightly better than its 175 last year, according to a report in bclocalnews.com The Best Places to Live rankings are done based on 24 criteria,

Rogers launches magazine for the wealthy called Canadian Capital

Rogers Publishing has launched a new magazine aimed at Canadian entrepreneurs. It's called Canadian Capital and has a companion website called Capitalmagazine.ca. The new quarterly is designed to meet the special needs of business owners in a complex world of building and managing wealth, says a release. The first issue's cover story features clothier Harry Rosen talking about handing over the

Chopper Robot

Long form comes to digital; Atavist offers pay per view articles up to 30,000 words

A new company called The Atavist is offering long journalistic stories on the Kindle and Nook and in an iPad app. The company doesn't yet offer a subscription model, but has hopes to do so soon, including allowing readers to buy a bundle of articles. According to a story in Folio: the stories are being sold for US$1.99 each on e-readers like the Kindle and $2.99 in the app, which offers

To Doll Baby Eyes.

I Miss You.

Tablets change the way people read and perceive magazines, research shows

According to research conducted by Bonnier Publishing anad CP+B Group, an advertising agency, it is no longer just rival publications that will lure away a magazine's readers but publishers must now consider that they are competing for attention with apps and tablet features. This, from a story on Audience Development. It also found that on a tablet, readers sometimes can't distinguish between

PMB spring data shows that younger magazine readership still strong

“It’s not as if there is a diminishing level of interest in the printed copy of magazines. The media world is changing rapidly, but the reality is people are still reading printed magazines.”-- Steve Ferley, president of the Print Measurement Bureau, >commenting in Marketing magazine on the just-released spring results of the twice-a-year research report.  The Marketing  story says that,

Moon Goodies.

Got a nice little package from the boys at Mooneyes last week, which included the new Yokohama DVD and this super sweet new motorcycle parts catalog.
Thanks guys!

Bullnose

Jessica's beemer has a new fairing. Awesome.

In About 2 Weeks Time

Friday night Dice party, Saturday bike and car show, Saturday night Agent Orange, camping, Sunday canyon ride. I mean what more do you need?

'Special' 79

Jay sent me a suprise package.






Damn these bars are so nice. The Shrimp Boat Captain never looked so good. I knew a girl in London once called Helen Back. Thanks mate, you're a star. xxx

Mental.

Stole this from the Speed Seekers blog....Wow!

Sweet Ride

For sale.





Stevie is selling his '73 Dodge Tradesman. 318 auto. Good driver. Lots of stuff done. Comes with NOS heart windows and tags for 1 year. Located in Burbank. Email steviezombie@aol.com for more info.

In The Studio

So today we hightailed it over to Jason's photo studio (and apartment) right under the 4th st. bridge in Boyle Heights, downtown LA where Michael Schmidt was shooting the Born Free knucklehead for an article in Dice. Music was played, Malboro's were smoked, Red Bull was drunk, all by Michael I might add, and the photos of the bike are superb. A very talented bloke that's for sure. You're a muppet if you don't buy a $25 ticket to be in with a chance to win this gorgeous piece of machinery.