FLUX your innov8ation

A friend of mine is a distributor/promoter for innov8 magazine, so I came home from school today to find it on my coffee table. I skim through the occasional issue when I find it and I have to say, I really like this magazine. This is the March/April issue and the cover is a picture of the Haiku Stairs. This immediately caught my eye because it's one of my favourite hikes on the island: the combination of the rush of getting past security, scurrying up the stairs in near darkness and then the solitude at the top all make for a great morning - not to mention the killer views.

I was disappointed when I found out this issue didn't contain an article on this hike. It was simply a small, five sentence paragraph about the Haiku Stairs (Stairway to Heaven). Bummer.

I first compared innov8 to FLUX magazine, because they're both designed with that modern, simple, big-arsty-picture-small-text design that appeals to the hipster population. But once I read through both of them, I realize the articles in innov8 are about two (small) columns on average, while the FLUX articles are much longer and go more in depth.

Overall, both magazines are really well put together, especially in a city that seems to be struggling so much with journalism.

In other news, I'm going to First Thursday/Slam Poetry tonight, and by tonight I mean in 40 minutes and I'm really excited. All the artsy fartsy people gather together and show off how artsy fartsy they are, but it's actually really legit.