Big ups.. good photo shop job Gene..
I read the article on sword by what his face with Li style tai chi. That was pretty good, a little condesending in the way some things were talked about, but I can understand.
I’ll get into more tom. I need to get too much junk done.
photoshop
You must be refering to page 67 and that was all Design Sifu’s work. 
And BTW, this is the JAN FEB 2005, not Dec/Jan. It just comes out in Dec.
Hey Gene… for us non subscribing mere mortals… when’s that issue hit the stands?
Sean, is there something that would interest you in the upcoming issue? 
Maybe… and you too!!
OH, and the ads are getting nicer (and some are a bit more risque` too).. woohoo.
sorry about the month thing, I realized that once I posted it.
On Stand Date 12/02/04
Of course, as I’ve said so many times here, the official on stand date is soft. Tomorrow is the official date set in our publishing schedules, but there are so many variables that will push that date a week or two forward or backward.
Sean (and JP), you’ll be interested in page 104. Our reporter Melissa did y’all up nicely.
And NP, thanks for noticing the ads. The graphic guys here enjoy their work
Re: On Stand Date 12/02/04
Originally posted by GeneChing
[B]Of course, as I’ve said so many times here, the official on stand date is soft. Tomorrow is the official date set in our publishing schedules, but there are so many variables that will push that date a week or two forward or backward.
Sean (and JP), you’ll be interested in page 104. Our reporter Melissa did y’all up nicely.
And NP, thanks for noticing the ads. The graphic guys here enjoy their work [/B]
From what I heard Melissa was a nice choice to do the reporting!
I need to finish up the mag after tonights workout…
Nice to see the sword issue out now though.
Whats next (any hints) are you guys going to do another weapons issue, or break them up (seems the direction you’d go).
Another weapons issue…
…as I say in the Publisher’s Corner, I’ve been wanted to do this issue for so long. It’s quite experimental - I can’t think anything quite like it ever published before - so I’m pretty excited about it. But it’s an experiment and experiments can fail. We will decide if we do another Sword Collector’s Issue depending on how this one does. So if you’re into Chinese weapons, and want to see more of this, buy up those issues on the newsstand now!
I can’t let you know what we’re working on next, but I can tell you that we are changing the format of our Featured Weapons section after this issue. We will start showcasing premium authentic antique collector pieces like the pieces from Wang Sheng Ji.
Nice..
I’d like to see a series personally..
Staffs and Spear issue
Exotics issue (I think you’ve had one already though)
Weapons of the South or something like that..
not one right after the other.. maybe one or two a year or something worked into the mix. Of course you’d have to find willing contributors, which would probably be a bit hard.
Southern weapons would be cool.
Give us a heads up to the work up on the issue if it rolls around.
one ca nonly hope but…
pin up girls?
not quite chase.. pic is the same as you have btw… except meatshake in a silly ol’ school arms crossed b-boy pose and sow chow are editted in.
the b-boy pose
Yeah, if you’ll remember, MS was teasing me for a while saying “Gene fears the b-boy pose” here. Now you know why. You should also mention that our dear kungfuchic is also there - she got in twice, one for her grand champion award and another for the forum. 
As for doing weapons issues that are more specific, ie. southern, spears and staffs, etc. that’s a fine idea, but let’s see if just a sword issue works first. Remember we only do 6 issues a year, and they can’t all be specials. Then they wouldn’t be ‘special’. Actually, there’s a bit of a logisitical problem with spear and staff, since for the most part, only spearheads remain, and while there are some fine examples, they aren’t nearly as coveted, and therefore adorned, as swords.
We have a lot of willing contributors - the problem is finding more willing capable contributors. Sean, if you want to do something on southern weapons, that’s fine, we’d enjoy looking at that. It’s a really messing field, hopologically speaking. But please don’t wait for an inviation to work on a special issue. Such invitations are rarely extended from us. Typically, the specials happen rather organically - we look what’s in our publishing queue, and the specials sort of fall out by themselves.
Thanks for the comments and critiques, guys! This is my favorite function of the forum and helps me get as sense of what you all want to see for our direction.
I remember, thats why I brought it up.
Thats why I’m saying space them out dude.. but whatever works ya know. I’m not going to talk about this too much more, as I think you guys do a great job. I’m just tossing out ideas that I’m sure has been passed around enough by you guys. Hopefully I’ll get to the rest of the mag this weekend.
Southern weapons… I’ll see what I can coax out of my sifu.
page 66 has the good pics though :o
yeah that meatshake pose was nice. lol that was a good photoshop job.
ok , now I’m all excited and stuff