Date of Premiere Issue : May 2003
Creative Direction, Editing, Design : Stella Bugbee, Jon Milott, Cary Murnion
Dimensions : 11" x 16"
Frequency : 2 issues a year
Country of Origin : New York City, USA
Website : www.stayhonest.com
Statement
Welcome...to the first issue of HONEST. This has been a long labor of love for everyone involved. In the fall of 2002 we decided to create a publication that would expose and explore the ingenuous, confessional, trusting, faithful, equitable, sincere, candid, genuine, sticky, ugly, embaressing and soometimes off-putting aspects of being HONEST. We hope that by self-publishing a magazine full of things that interest us, other people will recognize, enjoy, and maybe even re-evaluate them. Twice a year we plan to cover topics as far-ranging as arts, sports, sex, literature, performance, ethics, shopping, marketing, architecture, politics, music, fashion, media-anything and everything can be examined through the HONEST filter. We don't follow demographic suggestions about what people are interested in based on arbitrary age subdivisions or bizarre notions of brand affiliations, etc. So you can expect to find surprising juxtapositions in content inside every issue.
Some of the sections like BEFORE & AFTER will recur, each time taking a look at a different kind of transformation. CONFESSION, CRASS EXAMINATION, and WHAT YARE YOU LOOKING AT?, are some of the sections that we're introducing in this issue, however we have about 20 sections taht we hope to cycle through over the course of future issues. We will always dedicate the last 2 pages to YOU ARE WHAT YOU DRAW, where we invite a wide range of people to contribute a drawing of an object that we've chosen. For this issue we've created the THE ATTENTION SPAN-O-METER, found at the beginning of each article, indicating how many Ritalin you'll need to finish an article. ORPHANS are the small texts that run in the margins throughout the entire magazine.
We thank our generous contributors for helping us realize this project. When we say "labor of love," we have a whole new appreciation for the term now. We couldn't have made this happen without a lof of support and patience. We hope you enjoy the first issue. Look for the next one in the fall of 2003!