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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Mr Gethin on November 07, 2006, 08:59:24 PM
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I just wanted to let the Getbig family now about my new publication that went to print today.
The best way to explain the content of 'Kaged Muscle' magazine is 'REAL'
The editorial and pictorial of the training content is 'fly on the wall' coverage' - what I see is what you get! The majority of the images I shoot are in black and white and very hardcore.
In the Premier issue which will be available as from tomorrow will feature a furious back workout with Branch Warren and Mike Ergas within Metroflex gym in Texas, a pictorial and editorial diary with the blind British Pro Ricky Welling 48 hrs prior to a contest, a tell all interview with Cathy Le Francois and the 2006 Olympia review.
Writers on board so far with Kaged Muscle are Dorian Yates, Lenda Murray, Bill Grant, Dr Nick Evans and many more. I also have UK and Australian writers and photographers to ad to the US content.
There are some entertaining pages to lighten the load such as a bodybuilders Horror Scope amongs others.
As I am situated within Venice there will also be a general 'Venice Insider' page as well as some Mindless Self Indulgence'.
The magazine will be available via various outlets throughout the US or you can subscribe directly through me @ kris@kagedmuscle.com
Below is a couple of the pics from the Warren and Ergas sparring session and also the unedited 'rough cover' copy.
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I think you should replace all of the C's with K's, not just the one in 'Caged'. Then you will be truly hardcore in a way that only Mortal Kombat has ever succeeded at ;D
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Hi Kris How ya going ya mad pom!!
Hopefully Gaz and crew here in Oz will have our own similar mag up and running in May.
aussie content Only, of course!
all the best mate
Neil.
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Very cool pics. I hope the mag keeps that style going.
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how many issues per year are you planning on running?
how much $$$$ for a subscription?
any other material you care to share with the group? will it truly be a "hardcore" pub, or a giant muscle tech ad with a couple articles in between?
potential buyers want to know!
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let me know if I can subscribe from Ireland to it and how much it cost me and you got yourself a new customer
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That looks pretty cool! How much for a subscription?
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Yikes! You have Dorian Yates on the cover of your first issue. :-[
Put Arnold on there and you'll sell copies! 8)
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A cool idea for a magazine would be to dose up a pro bber on all the nubain, clen, roids they can eat; then make them work out till they are dead and just laying there shitting themselves and take photo's. Everybody loves death photo's. That would be hardcore.
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MonstaDwarf - Hey Neil, I have been talking with Gaz on a regular basis about his new project - sounds great! I have quite a bit of Aussie info in the mag so maybe in the future we could possibly have a Monstadwarf edition . Whens the next Pro show for you?
Chris - Subscriptions rates within US are $30 for one year (6 issues), $50 for two years.
FreshMintBlue - Yes, its available in Ireland and every other country around the globe
Wes Mantooth - No, its not going to be drowned with ads, I hate that! Providing I get good subscription numbers I can keep ads to a minimum. I was left with two choices to fund print costs - higher subscription rates or lots of ads. I'm not publishing this magazine to make a mountain of cash but to drive home the hardcore and positive influences this sport beholds.
This magazine will keep its 'REAL' hardcore pulse if WE want it bad enough. I can speak for myself. Thats why I have put nearly all of my funds into the first issue. I hope to vastly improve every issue and cover every pro contest on the US calender whilst and continue booking 'REAL' training shoots and interviews along the way.
Getbig Ron has been very supportive of my project as have many other people in the industry. I count on everyones feedback to make this grow.
Give me an email at kris@kagedmuscle.com if you want to subscribe. Thanks ;)
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Looks pretty hardcore
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Looks pretty hardcore
no doubt! awesome
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muscle mags one step away from gggggay..
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Now you just gotta add a section with 'pro stacks and cycles' and you'll be selling like hotcakes ;)
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Those pics are shot at Metroflex.
Hey do you guys need a good writer to penn articles and funny stuff seen or heard at various U.S. shows?
Contact Special'Feel the burn' Ed. He's your huckleberry!
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"Kaged Muscle"?
Sounds like something BayGBM would subscribe to.
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I just wanted to let the Getbig family now about my new publication that went to print today.
The best way to explain the content of 'Kaged Muscle' magazine is 'REAL'
The editorial and pictorial of the training content is 'fly on the wall' coverage' - what I see is what you get! The majority of the images I shoot are in black and white and very hardcore.
In the Premier issue which will be available as from tomorrow will feature a furious back workout with Branch Warren and Mike Ergas within Metroflex gym in Texas, a pictorial and editorial diary with the blind British Pro Ricky Welling 48 hrs prior to a contest, a tell all interview with Cathy Le Francois and the 2006 Olympia review.
Writers on board so far with Kaged Muscle are Dorian Yates, Lenda Murray, Bill Grant, Dr Nick Evans and many more. I also have UK and Australian writers and photographers to ad to the US content.
There are some entertaining pages to lighten the load such as a bodybuilders Horror Scope amongs others.
As I am situated within Venice there will also be a general 'Venice Insider' page as well as some Mindless Self Indulgence'.
The magazine will be available via various outlets throughout the US or you can subscribe directly through me @ kris@kagedmuscle.com
Below is a couple of the pics from the Warren and Ergas sparring session and also the unedited 'rough cover' copy.
Congradulations Kris, you are one of the hardest workers out there. Look forward to seeing the first issue. Take care
Guy
www.fitnetusa.com
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thanks fot the update...i will be on the lookout for the first issue.....
best of luck
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You aren't going to sell shit with a cover like that. Try hiring a pro designer instead of putting something together in what looks to be corel draw. Using pre-made "word art" isn't going to catch the buyers eye.
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MonstaDwarf - Hey Neil, I have been talking with Gaz on a regular basis about his new project - sounds great! I have quite a bit of Aussie info in the mag so maybe in the future we could possibly have a Monstadwarf edition . Whens the next Pro show for you?
Chris - Subscriptions rates within US are $30 for one year (6 issues), $50 for two years.
FreshMintBlue - Yes, its available in Ireland and every other country around the globe
Wes Mantooth - No, its not going to be drowned with ads, I hate that! Providing I get good subscription numbers I can keep ads to a minimum. I was left with two choices to fund print costs - higher subscription rates or lots of ads. I'm not publishing this magazine to make a mountain of cash but to drive home the hardcore and positive influences this sport beholds.
This magazine will keep its 'REAL' hardcore pulse if WE want it bad enough. I can speak for myself. Thats why I have put nearly all of my funds into the first issue. I hope to vastly improve every issue and cover every pro contest on the US calender whilst and continue booking 'REAL' training shoots and interviews along the way.
Getbig Ron has been very supportive of my project as have many other people in the industry. I count on everyones feedback to make this grow.
Give me an email at kris@kagedmuscle.com if you want to subscribe. Thanks ;)
I may have some interest in advertising in your magazine. I will email you.
Chris
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You aren't going to sell shit with a cover like that. Try hiring a pro designer instead of putting something together in what looks to be corel draw. Using pre-made "word art" isn't going to catch the buyers eye.
I agree, but I also agree and think that your concept of "true" coverage is great,should be good
Cool pics and Good luck!
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Thanks, I will take this into consideration. I need feedback like this to improve. I have a good friend working on a new cover as we speak. I am not the best with computers and still patiently learning. I will post it when it is completed.
Guy - good to hear from you mate and congrats on your citizenship. Your new DVD is featured in the first issue of Kaged Muscle buddy and thanks for the piece about me in this months musclemag.
BTW, I have former Mr World Nick Jones coming over to stay with me this weekend. We will all have to catch up.
You aren't going to sell shit with a cover like that. Try hiring a pro designer instead of putting something together in what looks to be corel draw. Using pre-made "word art" isn't going to catch the buyers eye.
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You aren't going to sell shit with a cover like that. Try hiring a pro designer instead of putting something together in what looks to be corel draw. Using pre-made "word art" isn't going to catch the buyers eye.
Do you think something like this looks a little better ???
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Yeah looks better
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Yeah looks better
Great, any more for/against?
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It looks ok but again doesn't look proffesional. You might put something in the bottom right hand corner to balance it out. I'm not digging the background graphic as it's a bit busy. If this is going to be a proffesional quality magazine you're going to have to hire a designer. I hate to imagine how inside the magazine will look.
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yea the last cover looks much better than that first one you threw in ms word
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muscle mags one step away from gggggay..
whew... thats a close one lol :D
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It looks ok but again doesn't look proffesional. You might put something in the bottom right hand corner to balance it out. I'm not digging the background graphic as it's a bit busy. If this is going to be a proffesional quality magazine you're going to have to hire a designer. I hate to imagine how inside the magazine will look.
No chance of hiring anyone else at this time. Because of finances I am totally self sufficient to begin with. I am writing/shooting/interviewing/editing/creating for Kaged Muscle. I have even gone as far purchase my own business printer that I am feeding paper through myself. I am folding, binding posting out subscriptions - everything. I am learning and getting better as I go along but I either do it this way or the highway.
Thanks for the feedback. ;)
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Keep us updated, sounds liek alot of work being put into it, so I hope it pays off. Plus maybe your trying to make the cover to fancy, it's only the start.
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Second cover looks good bro!
Who cares about that anyway, put 'If you want nice covers, buy flex' on the cover and your set to go !
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Thanks guys. Im going to remain very hardcore at the end of the day. I dont want it too pretty - to me this isnt what bodybuilding is about , besides Dorian said he would stop writing for the mag if it was becomes that way. >:(
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Hey guys.
I am flying to Tampa, Florida next week and whilst I am there I will be shooting and interviewing Marcus Haley for Kaged Muscle. I have mentioned before that I consider the magazine as much the fans as it is mine so with this in mind I would like to offer the opportunity for you all to contribute to the flurry of questions I will throw out to him.
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I got a copy of issue 1 today, so far so good. I am impressed.
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Great, any more for/against?
Incorporate the message boards into it should be a sure winner, like a special page only with quotes from the board and such things... maybe you can do something with getbig?
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Hey guys.
I am flying to Tampa, Florida next week and whilst I am there I will be shooting and interviewing Marcus Haley for Kaged Muscle. I have mentioned before that I consider the magazine as much the fans as it is mine so with this in mind I would like to offer the opportunity for you all to contribute to the flurry of questions I will throw out to him.
Keep it fkn REAL, brah!
Q: Marcus...be straight with us...you ever POP any of the figure sluts in the top 10 of the nationals? Awesome! What class? Tall? Top 10? Okay...was she...top 8? 6? YES! How was she...beautiful, thats what I like to hear!
Q: Marcus...whats the most amount of injections you ever took in a single day at the very pinnacle of your cycling? I hear of some guys literally sticking themselves 6-8 times daily. OUCH!
Q: What do you think of some BB's hustling homos for money by showing them their taints. You dont do that pervert shit do ya?
Q: Marcus...whats the most money you ever made in a single 'gear hustlin' hookup? You ever pawn off 'vitamin b6' as dbols to the newbs?
Q: Which PRO BB do you think is the biggest joke and who do you think should hang it up?
Seriously...keep it fkn HARDCORE! Keep it OUT THERE! MD wont even touch questions like that. You have to do...what the other mags wont DARE to do...if not you will sink...do it different...you will flourish. You have lots of competition. Take a fkn chance and get NUTS!
Hire me. For $300 a month, a free subscription...I'll track down all these PROS(female, male) and hit them with the goods. Then I'll forward it all to you...do a 'write up' of my 'interview' and we're good.
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Keep it fkn REAL, brah!
Q: Marcus...be straight with us...you ever POP any of the figure sluts in the top 10 of the nationals? Awesome! What class? Tall? Top 10? Okay...was she...top 8? 6? YES! How was she...beautiful, thats what I like to hear!
Q: Marcus...whats the most amount of injections you ever took in a single day at the very pinnacle of your cycling? I hear of some guys literally sticking themselves 6-8 times daily. OUCH!
Q: What do you think of some BB's hustling homos for money by showing them their taints. You dont do that pervert shit do ya?
Q: Marcus...whats the most money you ever made in a single 'gear hustlin' hookup? You ever pawn off 'vitamin b6' as dbols to the newbs?
Q: Which PRO BB do you think is the biggest joke and who do you think should hang it up?
Seriously...keep it fkn HARDCORE! Keep it OUT THERE! MD wont even touch questions like that. You have to do...what the other mags wont DARE to do...if not you will sink...do it different...you will flourish. You have lots of competition. Take a fkn chance and get NUTS!
Hire me. For $300 a month, a free subscription...I'll track down all these PROS(female, male) and hit them with the goods. Then I'll forward it all to you...do a 'write up' of my 'interview' and we're good.
Blockhead dropping the in-depth Qs here!