{"id":292,"date":"2008-03-25T00:51:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T00:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2025-06-22T06:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T06:34:34","slug":"magazine-graveyard-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Magazine Graveyard: The Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It led the way in a lot of respects &#8212; taught people what a culture magazine could be and it taught with style. At one point The Face could have been considered a setter of trends, a creator of them, but there was some kind of imperceptible shift and suddenly it seemed to be running to catch up. I think that it fell victim to its own irony and sense of humour. Sometimes people can\\&#8217;t be bothered to cut through the tongue in cheek clever-cleverness and start to look elsewhere for a more instantaneous hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ID shifted more towards the fashion market. Dazed and Confused, having forged it\\&#8217;s own market, swallowed up old Face readers too. Sleazenation burned bright as an alternative for a short period before changing into an even shorter-lived butterfly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Face lost track of what it\\&#8217;s readers wanted and the slow fall off in circulation numbers suddenly rocketed. There was a change of editor, a change of owner and poof &#8212; a change in attitude that relegated it to yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br>\nNow playing: <a href=\"\\&quot;http:\/\/www.foxytunes.com\/artist\/the+chemical+brothers\/track\/galvanize+ft.+q-tip\\&quot;\" title=\"\\&quot;\\'The\" chemical=\"\" brothers=\"\" -=\"\" galvanize=\"\" ft.=\"\" q-tip\\'=\"\" open=\"\" on=\"\" foxytunes=\"\" planet\\\"=\"\">The Chemical Brothers &#8211; Galvanize ft. Q-Tip<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"\\&quot;color:#999999;font-style:italic;font-size:10px;\\&quot;\">via <a href=\"\\&quot;http:\/\/www.foxytunes.com\/signatunes\/\\&quot;\" title=\"\\&quot;FoxyTunes\" -=\"\" web=\"\" of=\"\" music=\"\" at=\"\" your=\"\" fingertips\\\"=\"\">FoxyTunes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It led the way in a lot of respects &#8212; taught people what a culture magazine could be and it taught with style. At one point The Face could have been considered a setter of trends, a creator of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=292\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,20,42,77,101,102,116,134,160,171],"tags":[387,1066],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-blogging","category-culture-vulture","category-ideas","category-magazine-graveyard","category-magazines","category-papershop","category-ramblings","category-theories","category-updates","tag-culture-magazines","tag-the-face"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/Face-Magazine.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}