Issue 01 LENGTH
Autumn / Winter 2024
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ISSUE 01 Length ๐ explores the awkward teens of the measuring units we use today, and the fine tuning done over thousands of years, โperfected" (depending on how you define perfect) into the measuring standards of today, and how we misuse them.
Consider that weโve had the word thermometre a century and a half earlier than the invention of the metre. Even if this inaugural issue is all about length, meter ( metron in Greek โ ฮผฮญฯฯฮฟฮฝ) first meant โto measureโ, and only after became a dimension.
Shock yourself at the incredibly recent imprecision of things we consider to be done at the highest calibre since forever, such as flight and marathon record setting. And look up at the moon and know that you are at one thumb, or two clicks away to finding out how far it is from you.
17 x 24 cm
104 pages
The inside covers use 34.914 m / 114.547 ft of paper with millimetric gradations to sculpt out a quote from Georges Perec (from Species of Spaces) about the โjournalโ unit of measure being the surface one labourer can work in a day. The printing, cutting, creasing, folding, stapling, arranging and photographing of it took one day. By its own measure, this makes the size of the magazine (when opened and laid flat) equal to exactly one journal.