LETTER FROM AN EDITOR
MAGAZINE STAFF Andres Leon, Editor-in-Chief editorinchief@22westmedia.com Jensen Puckett, Managing Editor managingeditor@22westmedia.com Avery Keller, Lead Copy Editor copyeditor@22westmedia.com Lianna Schieber, Distribution Manager distributionmanager@22westmedia.com
This one is all about fear, baby. As we inch closer to our own graduation, the real world becomes ever more apparent with all its ugly, its bad and its uncertainity. It seems like all we can really do is try to make sense of what we already know to better ourselves for what’s to come. Boldly seeking out our fears, drop kicking them and more importantly learning from them. But man does it come in many forms. From post grad, to clowns, to long words, to even therapy, there’s lots to be said and lots of fighting to do. I believe reading through what we have presented here
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will give you some tips and tricks and maybe even a couple cheat codes to fight
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your own fears. But don’t take my word for it, I’m literally just the person who
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makes this whole thing look pretty. And yet nothing about this issue is at all pretty. My goal as the Art Director for this issue was to have things be visually off. Stretched headlines, jumbled headlines, headlines that look like dirt, headlines that look hairy, headlines that look... you get the point. Of course, the idea of “fear” isn’t really a visual thing or at least something easy to reference from. In the beginning, I genuinely thought it was some controlled formula like, “red and black combo always mean fear everyone knows that, duh.” I immediately realized that wasn’t at all the case, and that this theme of fear was more about disbelief, confusion and ideas so big that it’s impossible to wrap our heads around. That’s why to me fear is really just something we don’t understand and to make sense of that we block it out thereby giving it power over us. However, once we accept a fear in all its weirdness, confusion and scale is it really ever that scary? At a first glance of course, but I think if we just know a little bit more about what it is that acutally scares us, conquering it isn’t such an unattainable feat. Hopefully through one of these articles we got here, you reach that realization with one of your own fears. But I guess you gotta read this to find out.
JAKE WINKLE, ART DIRECTOR
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