A new magazine - and a new conceptualization of what a magazine is - has been launched; four yearly issues will contain not articles but short films on DVD, writes the Washington Post (via MediaBuyerPlanner). The DVD magazine, Wholphin (a cross between a whale and a dolphin), is being published by the people who publish McSweeney's and the Believer, two fairly avant-garde literary magazines.
The first issue of Wholphin is being given for free in the latest issues of McSweeney's and the Believer. The next issue, due in March, will sell for $10.
The debut issue includes a Spike Jonze portrait of Al Gore, an excerpt of David O. Russell's controversial documentary on U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and an adaptation of Alison Smith's award-winning short story The Specialist, starring Selma Blair (which originally appeared in McSweeney's).
It also contains Miguel Arteta's and Miranda July's short "Are You The Favorite Person Of Anybody?", which according to the website is "the closest thing to cinema haiku we've ever seen."
