http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_divine_miss_m_needs_her_life_back And therefore, the wonderful online regional art monthly, Visual Codec, is on hiatus, probably permanently. From M., the editor and founder: When it became clear that, instead of drawing a sustainable amount of resources from my life, Visual Codec had instead eclipsed my life, I spent a couple of agonizing months exploring whether I could move the publication forward in a different direction. Regretfully, all roads ultimately led here, to the part where I'm telling you what I'm telling you. Visual Codec was great for a lot of reasons. It was smart and appeared magically, out of nowhere one day... Copyright 2008 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:03:16 -0800 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:50:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jen -

thanks so very much for the mini vc eulogy. i will pass it on to the vc contributors as they are the accurate target for your praise.

however, your slog headline gets to the heart of the matter of the 'behind the content' conundrum; i'm convinced my studio practice would have withered up and blown away in the wake of the publication this past year if my art medium of choice didn't happen to be plexiglass.

instead, the studio's just a bit cluttered and dusty, perhaps in the early style of grey gardens (but without the raccoons).

catchya on the flipside of the cleanup,

m.

]]> m. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_divine_miss_m_needs_her_life_back#c606412 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_divine_miss_m_needs_her_life_back#c606412 Arts Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:30:09 -0800 You need to have a party at the Hideout when the flipbook is released.

]]> Jim Demetre http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_divine_miss_m_needs_her_life_back#c608803 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_divine_miss_m_needs_her_life_back#c608803 Arts Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:50:03 -0800