Little Mind Vacations: Teen Magazine Edition
It’s 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon; you’re in your bedroom surrounded by scissors, blank paper, and magazines in convenience-store hues.
In doing research for last night’s ⭐ 15 Minutes ⭐ episode, we came across Creme, a New Zealand magazine for teens in the early 2000s. For The Spinoff, writer Amanda Robinson describes the impact of the magazine on New Zealand’s preteen girls and wonders what’s lost in a post-print world — a world where (this is Very Famous editorializing here) teen publications tend to be blended with publications for women in their 20s and 30s. Anyhow, these last few lines of Robinson’s article we liked a lot:
“I threw out my stack of Cremes years ago, but not before cutting them up and collaging together a vision board. Looking at the finished board felt like a blueprint for the kind of life I wanted for myself; whether that was a bestie, a boyfriend, or a signature scent. It was a naive activity, of course, but it made me ambitious and optimistic and hopeful for the future, exactly as a teenager should be. I only hope teenage girls get to make vision boards for generations to come.”
Google Image Search of the Week: “Teen Magazine Collages”
Next up, a classic BuzzFeed situation…“Do You Remember These Obscure ’00s Girl Groups?” Feels somehow fitting that this listicle is missing all its images!
–> Teen Magazine Nicola
Blingee Museum Entry of the Week: “Purple Megan” by ferrisballer
Look at these incredible miniature board games by ChicKawaii on Etsy!!
