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6th May 2009

Being an intern at Amelia's Magazine

Amelia's Magazine has a rotating batch of interns who run the music, fashion, art and earth sections of Amelia's Magazine online. We need several newbies to join the team in the next few weeks. If you are interested then read on...

You will need to be a capable and fast writer, able to edit and co-ordinate other contributors, interested in the role of the arts in inspiring discussions and action over Climate Change, and most of all bursting with enthusiasm for your topic. You will get to go to numerous gigs, art gallery openings, Climate Change talks and fashion events (for free of course!) as well as getting to interview inspiring creative people. You will need to be capable and fast with social media such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Last.fm and Myspace, all of which are integral to running the online magazine. This is an internship like no other!
You must own a laptop, be self-motivated and have a passionate interest in any or even better all of the above topics. If this sounds like you then drop me an email at info@ameliasmagazine.com with the heading I WANT TO BE AN INTERN with:

your cv

a relevant example of your writing

which is your prefered section to work on

You must be able to stay for at least a 3 months! You will be working Monday-Thursday 10am-6pm at my house which is just off Brick Lane in east London. Please do not apply if you cannot work here for a 3 months or more. Please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. On occasion I will need people for shorter term internships to help out with admin and the like - for these you should stay tuned on Twitter and Facebook for messages.
Please note that these are all unpaid positions, but I do make you lunch every day!
I look forward to hearing from you.

Amelia x

7th April 2009

Being an intern at Amelia's Magazine

Amelia's Magazine has a rotating batch of interns who run the music, fashion, art and earth sections of Amelia's Magazine online. If you would like to join the team then read on...

You will need to be a capable and fast writer, able to edit and co-ordinate other contributors, interested in the role of the arts in inspiring discussions and action over Climate Change, and most of all bursting with enthusiasm for your topic. You will get to go to numerous gigs, art gallery openings, Climate Change talks and fashion events (for free of course!) as well as getting to interview inspiring creative people. This is an internship like no other!
You must own a laptop, be self-motivated and have a passionate interest in any or even better all of the above topics. If this sounds like you then drop me an email at info@ameliasmagazine.com with the heading I WANT TO BE AN INTERN with:

your cv

a relevant example of your writing

which is your prefered section to work on

You must be able to stay for at least a month! You will be working Monday-Thursday 10am-6pm at my house which is just off Brick Lane in east London. Please do not apply if you cannot work here for a month or more. And please note that you should apply a week or so before you would like to start as I don't plan internships in advance. On occasion I will need people for shorter term internships to help out with admin and the like - for these you should stay tuned on Twitter and Facebook for messages.
Please note that these are all unpaid positions, but I do make you lunch every day!
I look forward to hearing from you.

Amelia x

7th January 2009

Amelia's Magazine currently has all the interns that are needed - if you think you may like to help out in the future then be sure to sign up to our mailing list for all alerts, and also keep an eye on this website. New section editors will be needed sometime at the end of February, and interviews will be near the start of february. If you can commit 3mths to working with me on the new website from March-May then please contact me with reasons why I should take you and for what section in the first week of february, and with an example of writing that is relevant to the section. Please don't write now - I'll forget about it.

9th December 2008

Amelia's Magazine now has all the interns that are needed - if you think you may like to help out in the future then be sure to sign up to our mailing list for all alerts, and also keep an eye on this website. New section editors will be needed sometime at the end of February.

The new issue will be in most shops in the UK by next week, and is available to order online now.

4th November 2008

Calling all interns!

Amelia's Magazine is looking for four interns to help run the music, fashion, art and earth sections of Amelia's Blog. This is an exciting time for the website because it will soon be the only Amelia's Magazine and it is set to become even bigger and better – so I need people who are bursting with ideas.
If you own a mac laptop, are self-motivated and have a passionate interest in any or even better all of the above topics then please drop Sarah an email at marketing@ameliasmagazine.com by tuesday 11th November with:

your cv

a relevant example of your writing

an idea (review, event, feature) for something to write up for the relevant blog section

a description of your favourite band, artist or fashion designer and why

I need interns to start from Monday November 17th and you will need to be able to work for 4 days a week (barring a few weeks over Christmas) from then until the end of February, which will include working on my big launch party in conjunction with Last FM in mid January.
Only those who are passionate about contemporary culture in the current climate of change need apply!
Please note that this is an unpaid position
I look forward to hearing from you.

Amelia x

Wednesday 2nd October 2008

Illustrate for Amelia's Magazine issue 10 – Open Brief

Theme: Everything is Connected

I cannot tell a lie, I have had a good idea of what this brief would be for some time, but I have been finding it very hard to find the right words with which to express my ideas - which is why I think that it is so important that illustrators can come to our rescue here and help out. The trouble now is that I don't have long to finish my magazine and so this brief will have a very short life. Please work quickly! I will need to see your final works by HALLOWEEN, ie the 31st of October. I apologize that you only have a month.

I am still not sure that I have found the right words, but I am going to give it a good bash... Earlier this week a strange image came to me when I was standing with some friends outside the pub, and I think it is worth relating here. We were talking about where the hell you can source ethical metals from (I need to buy some silver to use on my jewelery course) and we started to discuss the rising price of many rare metals, many of which we have never heard of but have become intrinsic to our lives; for these metals are used in mobile phones, TVs, computers and increasingly in renewable technology fixes such as in solar panels. Prices are rising because they are all becoming much rarer and harder to find. I think the phrase bandied about is that some of these metals are "running out." But actually, that isn't quite true is it?

Humans have evolved a way of life that involves digging stuff out of the ground, fiddling about with it to make stuff... and then when it has broken or we are sick of it we dump it back into the ground, usually in a landfill.

So the metals that we have taken out of the earth are all still here; they've just been split up, purified, reappropriated and turned into things and stuff - like earrings and mobile phones. And it suddenly occured to me - what will the planet look like when we are long gone? What will the make up of the earth look like? And I had a strange vision that all our crap would have decayed and slid back into the earths crust, particularly in places where large quantites of humans had once gathered, ie. on the sites of cities and landfills. So any future "intelligent" species would have to hunt around for very very small pockets of all the metals, scattered across the globe. If you wanted to find a ruby you might have to dig where London once stood and hope to find a shining gem somewhere!

My point (I think) is, that everything that ever was is still here, just maybe in a new form. We were all born in a star, to which we will inevitably return, but in the meantime we are all here on our Earth together, and this is all we really have. And how often do we stop to think about where things really come from? In the age of consumerism we have grown so detached from the stuff of our everyday lives that we hardly stop to consider the provenance of our things. Once upon a time (and for most of our time on this planet) humans were more connected to their land. They could tell you where their things came from - that bone necklace came from the mammoth that they killed last year (okay, probably not, I expect the teeth were far too big to wear around your neck) and that earthen ware pot was made from the clay in the valley across the way. But as for us, us modern people, we haven't a clue where most of our stuff comes from. We have become so accustomed to acquisition that we no longer question or indeed care where something comes from - if it looks good and we want it, then stuff the rumours of child labour, polluted rivers or catastrophic mining practices halfway across the world. If we can we'll have it, regardless of the possible (but unknown) provenance of that thing.

Well, I think we should care. We should wonder about where that plastic toy came from, and how it came into being. What materials does it contain? What about that cheap gold necklace? Who mined that gold? What was their life like? What river was polluted in the process? And then, imagine again where our stuff goes when it is thrown away. Does it stay here in the UK? Or does it go on a slow boat to China, to deteriorate slowly over many millenia in a huge toxic swill at the bottom of a once beautiful but now ruined valley? What does that landfill site look like? What do the children who live next to that landfill site look like? What is their life like?

I also believe that now we live in our wonderful globalized society nothing is special anymore. All cultures have spread their artistic tentacles across the world. We no longer need to go to India to buy a lovely embroidered bedspread - that kitsch "ethnic" gift shop down the road stocks a fantastic variety at great prices. What is there to treasure - what has become special to our spoilt selves? I would argue that the only things that are truly special are those that are handmade with love for one person from another - hence the rise and rise in popularity of make and do, of knitting, of stitch 'n' bitch, of local choirs, book groups and so on. Things that are done with love, for ourselves and our close community. There is not a festival that I have been to this year (and I have been to lots) that hasn't had a whole host of tents devoted to making things. I see this as a sign of dissatisfaction with what we have created for ourselves at the altar of consumerism.

I have rattled on for a long time - it's a big subject, and one that has been bothering me for many years. Believe me I am not anti stuff - my house is full of wondrous crap as any of my interns will tell you, but most of it rescued from another life, ie. second hand. These are just thoughts that I would like you to go with on an imaginative tangent. I am looking for illustrations that question where things come from, and where they go. And that can visualise our great interconnectivity with everything that ever was, is and will be. I am excited!

Resources follow important technical data

Technical data:

IMPORTANT INFO - PLEASE READ THIS! To be considered for inclusion you will need to do the following:

Complete your work to the following specifications and send me a LO RES GIF or JPG before Friday October 31st 2008 to Katie at earth@ameliasmagazine.com with the email titled Everything is Connected: Artwork, so that we know what it is for and we don't lose it in our bulging inboxes.

This lo res image will be a smaller version of your final file, which will fit to these specifications:

SIZE: page size: 400mm wide x 245mm high, with a bleed of 3mm all around; ie. final size of your artwork: 406mm x 251mm.

Gaian Philosophy

Gaia theory

what is Gaia?

Ecopsychology

An ecotherapy course that I attended last year

Ecotherapy

nature keeps us sane

video about interconnectivity

Consumerism

What stuff is made of

The Story of Stuff

Candles

sweatshop info from Anita roddick

Loo paper

Indium - used in tellies

ethical toys

poisoning our babies

Cradle to Cradle philosophy

remaking the way we make things

sustainable materials library

Where stuff goes

Reduce, reuse, recycle, or chuck it in the garbage – Do we really know which is best?

Your Trash Just Doesn’t Disappear, Stupid! (Or How to Make Sure Useful Things Stay out of Landfills)

Where does waste go?

landfill info from the US

basic landfill info

Upcycled art

end.

UPDATE, July 11th...

HOORAY!!!!! THE USBS HAVE ARRIVED!!!!!!!!! They will be picked up by my printers today to be affixed in the magazine so you should get them early next week if you have ordered online! Do it now if you haven't already! I am so excited! Amelia x

NEW! LIMITED EDITION ARTWORK ON SALE NOW! Amelia's Magazine has become a well-known hotspot within which to find the best upcoming illustrators. So we thought it would be a good idea to introduce some limited edition artwork by this lovely talented bunch. So... we will you can now buy limited edition artwork on this website. Buy your own high quality archival art print and display it somewhere wonderful where you can gaze upon a better future forever more, smug in the knowledge that you are also helping to support both the magazine and burgeoning young talent. Just go HERE to order online. DO YOU WANT TO ADVERTISE IN ISSUE 10?

Amelia's Magazine desperately needs your help. If you think your brand would look great in our magazine, then please do contact us for a media pack... times are tough and we need your help to survive. Contact us on advertising@ameliasmagazine.com for more information.

Please note that as there are now so few copies of issue 05 left they have gone up in price. Get one now before you regret it - there will be no reprint! I have also rediscovered a few copies of issue 03, which is now onsale again for the first time in years. Again, make sure you buy them before they vanish forever!

15th May 2008

All intern positions have now been filled for the upcoming issue.

Illustrate for Amelia's Magazine issue 10 – Open Brief

I will be posting a new theme on the new website soon. If you are interested then please keep an eye on the site and get thinking as soon as you can as I get alot of submissions every issue. To see the brief for the upcoming issue 09 please read on below!

Shoot a fashion story for Amelia's Magazine issue 10 – Open Brief

This is now closed.

Download links for issue 07

If you missed the download album that went with issue 07 (why?! where were you?!) you can still access it by going to this link http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/free_download.php, logging in and then entering the keys. If you still can't find the keys then feel free to email me!

Wednesday 16th January 2008

Illustrate for Amelia's Magazine issue 09 – Open Brief

Theme: A Positive Future

We are familiar with the notion of an apocalyptic nightmare vision of the future – as depicted in the likes of Blade Runner and its ilk. But who shares a more utopian view? Not so easy to come by eh? And maybe that is why it is so hard to envision – because we can't see what it looks like... and why I think it is important that we should set out to inspire the creation of a more positive future through the power of illustrations. Go for it! You could help to inspire our future...

Following the technical data there is a list of resources. I can't pay you but my magazine is a fabulous place to get your work seen. Successful contributors will be contacted at some point after the closing date. Feel free to use words or send me some to describe what you have illustrated, but the illustration should stand up well on its own.

Technical data:

IMPORTANT INFO - PLEASE READ THIS! To be considered for inclusion you will need to do the following:

Complete your work to the following specifications and send me a LO RES GIF or JPG before Friday March 28th 2008 to hello@ameliasmagazine.com

This lo res image will be a smaller version of your final file, which will fit to these specifications:

SIZE: page size: 400mm wide x 245mm high, with a bleed of 3mm all around; ie. final size of your artwork: 406mm x 251mm.

Don't put important stuff in the 3mm bleed zone (but do continue your image into it) as this is where the printers may cut bits off when the magazine is cut and bound.

RESOLUTION: 300dpi, as a photoshop file in CYMK mode, using Photoshop print profile: euro standard swap coated 20% (or euroscale V2)

GUTTER: please also note that my magazine has a very deep gutter in the middle of double page spreads because it is such a thick beast, so it is good to keep important parts of your illustration away from the centre of the spread.

MY STYLE: if you want to know about my taste in illustration you should check out the current issue of the mag!

ALSO, AN EXTRA NOTE: you should do an exclusive piece for the magazine. It will be very obvious to me if you just send me something that you have tried to shoehorn into the brief - I will be looking for images that have really gotten to grips with the idea of a positive future and come up with something inspiring and original! They should not appear anywhere else.

Below is a list of resources that contributors to the open brief might want to look up as sources of inspiration.

My article about the Greening of Illustration
Eco Villages
Plane Stupid
Train Smart
Green roofs
www.livestockforlandscapes.com/
Rent a Ruminant
trees for cities
Zero Carbon Britain
The Great Turning
Foraging
Freeganism
Upcycling
www.starhawk.org
Walking to School
Pangea Day
World Future Council
Ecopsychology
Climate Camp

Movies to watch:
The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil
Who Killed the Electric Car?

Writers to read:
Rob Hopkins
George Monbiot
Joanna Macy
Thomas Berry

Places to inspire:
Lammas, Wales
Totnes, Devon
Cae Mabon, Snowdonia
Hockerton Housing Project, Nottinghamshire
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Missouri
Findhorn, Scotland
Brixton, London
and many more all over the world

Books and Mags:
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Be The Change, Trenna Cormack
Wild, Jay Griffiths
Adventure Divas, Holly Morris
Last Child in the Woods, Ricdhard Louv
Ecopsycology, Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner
Resurgence magazine
Permaculture magazine
Communities magazine

XXX Amelia