Comments on: MARSHALL MCKINNEY, Art Director at GARDEN & GUN

By: luke

luke — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:33:09 +0000

nice design but the magazine depicts a fantasy south where everyone is rich and happy and white

By: Stile E. Coyote

Stile E. Coyote — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:37:41 +0000

I have known MM for years and he’s never anything but professional. He’s redesigned magazines for me and he’s just, well, a genius.

By: kombizz

kombizz — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:55 +0000

Good luck to your future projects.

By: J.M. Giordano

J.M. Giordano — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:20:36 +0000

Rob,
Unlike most of the hypocrits above ( I won’t send MY book there “sniff”..oh wait you WANT to hire me…well then…) , I’m from the North and all ABOUT the guap! I’ll be hitting up this mag. Thanks again!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:17:02 +0000

there’s a similar title in Australia called Bacon Busters , although the demographic requires that any article must be able to be read in the time it takes for the average bowel movement.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/02/1028157844684.html

By: CellPhoneDriver

CellPhoneDriver — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:51:36 +0000

PE. Thanks for keeping things fresh here. Even if it drags out the trolls with their sharp elbows. Maybe Gun&Garden isn’t my thing but I thank the editors for putting their cash on the line by expanding offerings on today’s new stand.

By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:01:31 +0000

Nuke the South.

By: sam

sam — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:00:19 +0000

We need a publication that is succeeding in this dismal economy right now. Personally I’m a fan of being hired! Beggers can’t be choosy. I’d shoot for them any day! (pun intended)

By: anoners

anoners — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:14:43 +0000

whatever…you want to own a gun and talk about in a magazine? go for it. That is why we live in america. Personally, I don’t own a gun, have never even shot one and don’t really have the desire to but, if you like it then so be it. I’m glad we have that choice here.

By: TeeJ

TeeJ — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:52:10 +0000

I hear you PE…kinda reminds me of those guys who get those random shots in on someone who is tangled in a fight with someone else. Everybody wants to take a swing out of sheer frustration…and not really knowing WHY?

By: A Photo Editor

A Photo Editor — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:21:00 +0000

Why so harsh? It has a different demographic. What’s the big deal? If you don’t like guns or gardens. Don’t read it. They couldn’t be more helpful with the title. Some of you are way to wound up over this. I don’t want to debate politics here.

By: Sierra

Sierra — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:08:26 +0000

For the record Rob, I spent most of the life as a southwesterner (some have been featured on this site) and now live in the northwest. I feel that I have hung with the best in these places and NEVER EVER would the folks I know be out shooting cow pies. This mag is a not so subtle nod to imaginary rich people living out stupid mythologies of aw shucks culture memes aka Dick Cheney shooting with his ‘friends”. In other words, not real people.

Get richer off it if you will, but it doesn’t make it real, or true.

I recalled after reading some of the comments about doing a story–my first that sold–for a big outdoor hunting magazine. As time went by I was so sorry I had been lured into it as a young eager journalist. No, I don’t think anything counts, or is ok. But maybe that perception comes with time.

By: Davin Ellicson

Davin Ellicson — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:49:19 +0000

America is a gun culture. With all this talk about people being against abortion during the presidential race, I am trying to understand those who are against the practice even in the case of rape or incest yet are pro guns. Guns by their very nature kill other people, especially innocent civilians in such places as Iraq and Afghanistan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/us/29texas.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=teachers%20carry%20books%20and%20guns&st=cse&oref=slogin

By: christian

christian — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:24:38 +0000

Well, I still have trouble with the title of the magazine, but since they ran a six page spread of my WaterWomen photos in the July/August issue I had better get over it. I loved working working with their editors.

By: Robert Wright

Robert Wright — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:10:45 +0000

I should have been clearer…

Being from Canada, I’ll never understand this endless AND morbid fascination…with, er, “GARDENS”…

By: Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:32:22 +0000

Rob, ….. I shoot shit! : )
I’m from South Carolina, … and having a buddy to throw dried cow pies in the air while you shoot them with a 20 gauge is cool.
Really, ….. it is!

By: R.T.

R.T. — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:15:56 +0000

Wait a minute — what about those other dive bars on the outskirts of Charleston that they overlooked — what about “Second Bedrooms and Switchblades”, and “Dungeons and Daggers”, and “Alcove and Anal Sex”? I guess I’m just a tad sensitive to this, being from the south. God knows the stigma is tough enough to break as it is, without some cutesy elitist magazine like this piling on.

And let them be thankful that there are no big advertisers that are based in Columbine or Washington DC or central Florida, where the concept of the gun is not quite so warm and fuzzy.

But it appears that they’re comfortable in the quaint little name that they’ve carved out. I guess if you’re going for that elite crowd, you’re talking about handcarved rifles instead of sawed-off shotguns, so that makes it OK, right? Maybe their next feature could be on Palin, McCain’s VP choice, who’s been a lifelong member of the NRA. What a great cover story — you’ve got guns, and five children, and even an ex-beauty pageant contestant. I smell circulation bonanza.

I’m sure in their own backyard of SC, the name all seems like a cute little inside joke, but if you don’t know the source of the name, it just reinforces the stigma even further. I predict that after the Palin cover comes the Ned Beatty cover — squealing like a pig, but dressed in Ralph Lauren.

But yes, this Marshall guy seems OK. It’s not his fault.

By: NAME IRRELEVANT

NAME IRRELEVANT — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:47:02 +0000

That cover is a disaster. Maybe they should grow a set and jump over the hurdle of not taking a chance on “young hungry talent.” Might be surprised by the quality increase from the current ‘old fogey’ they’re using to shoot crap like that. I bet it was taken with a Canon 5D too!

Anyway, Marshall McKinney seems nice enough.

@3: Gardens in America provide beauty and tranquility that rarely exists in our country anymore. I understand the obsession completely. We’ve become numb to our senses. Gardens remind us what it’s like to be in nature, even if it safe and controlled.

By: Robert Wright

Robert Wright — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:13:19 +0000

…also gives new meaning to “dead tree media”…

By: Scott Lessing

Scott Lessing — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:17:59 +0000

Are you kidding me, I just called them this morning to schedule an upcoming meeting. Oh well, those who wait.. anyway, they are a good magazine. I’ve been hearing more about them recently. I know some writers who have worked with them and they liked both the assignments and the pay.

I enjoy the photos too as they are used predominately. They definitely have a lifestyle slant, which I think is at times a little too advertorial, but all in all its a good mag.

By: A Photo Editor

A Photo Editor — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:08:57 +0000

It’s not a joke. You are obviously not from the south or northwest or soutwest. People are a little less pc and use guns to hunt and shoot holes in shit.

By: Sierra

Sierra — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:16:55 +0000

I am an avid reader of this site but this piece gives me the creeps. This appears to be a boutique magazine with a very sick message. Money can buy anything in America. I really don’t care how interactive their web site is, promoting gun culture is outrageous.

Send my book over. Never. I honestly thought it was a joke when I first saw it.

By: rucker

rucker — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:41:05 +0000

That’s awesome Rob, i just saw a copy of G&G @ my parent’s house in KY. best name since ‘Guns & Roses’

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:48:29 +0000

Good luck to you.

By: Robert Wright

Robert Wright — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:32:27 +0000

being from Canada, I’ll never understand this endless American fascination with gardens…

By: jay

jay — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:54:45 +0000

i like the regional lifestyle idea, yet national readership. amazing how little niches of regionals spread out and adapt and i am sure there is a market as far as you can imagine. also really enjoyed seeing peter frank edwards web site, it feels like the south, well done!

By: Rosh

Rosh — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:39:52 +0000

I enjoyed the interview very much. It makes me want to send my book over. But, of course, the magazine doesn’t seem to fit under my areas of specialty.

I also appreciate the magazines focus on online content.

Thanks for sharing.

Rosh
http://www.newmediaphotographer.com

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