{"id":6935,"date":"2016-05-25T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2016-05-25T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:47:35","slug":"5-true-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=6935","title":{"rendered":"5 true facts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6936\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=6936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Vol-36-No-2-Metalsmith-cover-b-805x1024-600x763.jpg\" alt=\"Metalsmith Spring 2016 - featuring Hanna Hedman's glorious works\" width=\"600\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Vol-36-No-2-Metalsmith-cover-b-805x1024-600x763.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Vol-36-No-2-Metalsmith-cover-b-805x1024-440x560.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Vol-36-No-2-Metalsmith-cover-b-805x1024-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Vol-36-No-2-Metalsmith-cover-b-805x1024-768x977.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Vol-36-No-2-Metalsmith-cover-b-805x1024.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metalsmith Spring 2016 &#8211; featuring Hanna Hedman&#8217;s glorious works<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few facts you might not know about Metalsmith &#8211; the industry publication that started for and is partially funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snagmetalsmith.org\/join\/\" target=\"_blank\">SNAG membership<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qmags.com\/Magazines\/PubHomePage.asp?publication=203&amp;sessionID=49DDB25FBF02E1188F30F1AE5\" target=\"_blank\">digital copies online<\/a> for only $5.99 (USD) and can buy it singly at news stands or news agencies.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snagmetalsmith.org\/metalsmith-magazine\/about-metalsmith\/\" target=\"_blank\">year-long digital subscription<\/a> of 5 mags is $31 (USD, or approx $43 AUD, or <span class=\"_Tgc\">\u20ac<\/span>28 or \u00a321!)<\/li>\n<li>It features some of the best writing on jewellery in print anywhere, with regular contributions from such luminaries as Liesbeth den Besten, Andrea DiNoto and Bella Neyman. And it&#8217;s the only place where you&#8217;ll find special contributions by artists and collectors like Susie Ganch and Helen Williams Drutt English (and that&#8217;s just in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qmags.com\/Magazines\/PubHomePage.asp?publication=203&amp;issue=8472&amp;sessionID=49DDB25FBF02E1188F30F1AE5\" target=\"_blank\">Vol 35 No 5!<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snagmetalsmith.org\/metalsmith-magazine\/metalsmith-extra\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metalsmith Extra<\/a> has all the online content you can&#8217;t get in a print publication but expect from an online-only source, like videos by and about the artists and artisans featured in the magazine. They&#8217;re listed by issue, with folks in the newest edition featured at the top.<\/li>\n<li>The current issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snagmetalsmith.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Metalsmith-36-2-TOC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">which features<\/a> profiles on Mirjam Hiller, Vivian Beer and obviously Hanna Hedman, and a <em>LOOK<\/em> section written by Jillian Moore, is in my opinion <strong>THE BEST<\/strong> issue <strong><em>EVER<\/em><\/strong> produced by editor Suzanne Ramljak and her crack team of writers.*<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So as my mate Molly likes to say &#8211; do yourselves a favour, yeah?<\/p>\n<p>*I&#8217;m not just saying that because I&#8217;m on the editorial advisory committee, nor because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snagmetalsmith.org\/metalsmith-magazine\/metalsmith-extra\/\" target=\"_blank\">even the editor described it as<\/a> the &#8220;Women in Metal&#8221; issue, and you know I&#8217;m all about women and metal. Turns out it&#8217;s a bloody solid read \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metalsmith Magazine y&#8217;all. It&#8217;s a doozy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,112,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-context","category-dialogue","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6940,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}