Emulsion Magazine

[SAShruby]

What's up with Emulsion magazine?
I subscribed for two years and received first two issues but since then, nothing.

I red somewhere they have had some technical issues or so but... does anyone received any subscripions recently?

Thanks.

[clay harmon]

My skeptical side tells me that we'd better just write this little adventure off to experience.

[David Spivak-Focus Magazine]

I haven't heard anything from Aggie's son in a very long time... I have no idea how Aggie is.. last I heard though, she was very, very ill.

[David Spivak-Focus Magazine]

Ill is not an excuse. Not when the masthead shows a number of capable people involved. Not when we were told that up to 4 more issues were already laid out and ready to go to the printers. Not when many paid for one or two years, were promised magazines and nothing comes.

This isn't a bloody cold here, Dakotah, this was life threatening illness #1. And #2, several people on this and other reputable forums are and have been friends with Aggie and know her very well. My former editor Steve Anchell knew Aggie and although they had a falling out, he knew she was not a swindler or thief. I think this is a story of someone got too sick to run a magazine probably made up of mostly volunteers. Probably many of them are in the same boat you are and have no idea what's going on. I do wish there would be some kind of formal announcement about it, though.

[jnantz]

What's up with Emulsion magazine?
I subscribed for two years and received first two issues but since then, nothing.

I red somewhere they have had some technical issues or so but... does anyone received any subscripions recently?

Thanks.

i think a lot of people are wondering the same thing ...

[eddie]

i think a lot of people are wondering the same thing ...

yup. i am glad i played(paid) it slow......only lost an issue or two.....

[clay harmon]

I think we all made a non-tax deductible donation.

[Turner Reich]

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Ill is not an excuse. Not when the masthead shows a number of capable people involved. Not when we were told that up to 4 more issues were already laid out and ready to go to the printers. Not when many paid for one or two years, were promised magazines and nothing comes.
The real problems?
First... it comes out of Utah, the fraud capitol of the US. Currently there is one major swindler (23Million $$$) and it looks as if he will not even get jail time. The FBI calls Utah the Fraud Capitol. Jake Garn, co-author of the Garn-StGermain bill came up with it in Utah. (you remember this, S&L scandal and Billions in Federal bailout money... and they did not go after anyone who "only" too $5 million or less) Utah is the home of more multi-level marketing scams than you can count.

Looks as if this is another idea that might fall under the scam title as the money was paid but the product is not coming and no money seems to be coming back to those who paid.

Come on, all who were on the editorial team, get with it, raise the money and pay back every dollar of the subscription price collected. To do less is fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and just plain greed on the part of all who received the money and did not deliver.

Missing a deadline or two is understandable but missing a year or so is not. Failing to answer for the money collected is not. Take the money and run.... Utah business as usual. Now all we need is to find that this bunch is using the money to support their extra seven Fundamentalist Mormon wives and 32 kids.

Here let me shout it a little louder for you.

You need professional help; Psychiatric.

[Merg Ross]

My subscription to Emulsion magazine, and subsequent experience, is most likely similar to other subscribers. My recollection is that I paid for four issues and received three.

However, having been down similar roads before, I did not expect to receive what I had paid for. Such magazine ventures are often driven by passion, not business acumen. For example, the afore mentioned Steve Anchell magazine, Photo Vision. It was another unfulfilled promise to deliver a magazine, and ended prematurely with a substitute magazine of inferior quality to satisfy remaining subscriptions.

But my greatest disappointment was a subscription to the British magazine Album, a gift from my wife who had saved enough on our meager means in the 1960's. It was a wonderful gift while it lasted, but the promise of a full subscription was never honored. Again, passion was the driving force, the inspiration of publisher Bill Jay. Some may be familiar with his contribution to Lenswork.

There is a sense of betrayal in not receiving promised goods. However, it might be well to look at the intentions of those who have failed to deliver. I have no doubt that the three mentioned here, Aggie, Steve, or Bill had anything but a strong passion for photography and good intentions to deliver a good product. For a short time, they all did.

Some take chances and fail, others take none and berate. I will side with the former.

[Joe Lipka]

But my greatest disappointment was a subscription to the British magazine Album, a gift from my wife who had saved enough on our meager means in the 1960's. It was a wonderful gift while it lasted, but the promise of a full subscription was never honored. Again, passion was the driving force, the inspiration of publisher Bill Jay. Some may be familiar with his contribution to Lenswork.

Be disappointed no longer Merg. Album lives on. Bill Jay has pdf files of album magazine on his web site.

http://www.billjayonphotography.com/

The Album reprints are only part of his site. There is an amazing amount of great information on his web site. It's too bad this reply is hidden in this thread.