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2012/1
Contents APRIL 2012 | EDITION 1 | FEVER MAGAZINE
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Music Movies and More
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HOW TO: Start a Blog
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Hot Gadets: iPad 3, Kindle Fire, iPhone 4s
Featured P10
Cover Model: lMarie Blanchard
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Cover Story: Official Hot Mess
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UK Report: Simmy Wilson
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FL Studio Mobile for iPad
Other editorial P26
Up & Coming: Maria Shiferaw & Leon Dawes
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Hotness: Lorena Amore
Game Reviews
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Ghost Recoan
Liesure Section
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Wine & Dine
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Best Travel Destinations for 2012
Cover Model | P10
OHM Exclusive | P16
UK REPORT: Simmy Wilson | P20
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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | P36
EDITOR
DIRECTOR’S CUT
MESSAGE FROM
THE EDITOR EDITOR: Darrell Green
EMAIL: editor@fevermagazine.com
Not everyone has a tablet or color ereader, but we can use digital book trends to see where digital magazine availability might be going. It’s official, the world has become gadget happy. While this isn’t exactly breaking news, the state of digital format magazines is continually changing, and the prospect of reading on electronic devices has become more and more plausible for people. Even for those who swear by paper.
ous other “me too” tablets along with color and multimedia versions of the ereaders. While there are some hold outs for paper, they are a dying breed. News, and particularly entertainment is becoming far too interactive to keep still on paper, even if it does have a glossy cover like the magazines do.
covered that in order to sell people on digital editions of books, they would have to have the opportunity to experience reading a digital copy without buying a device. Soon people were reading on their phones and PCs and as device prices dropped, more and more made the investment of an ereader or tablet.
Obviously, we’ve seen the decline of newspapers in favor of online news sources. Then ereaders came out and eventually evolved to share properties with paper that greatly reduced or eliminated the computer glare factor. Then came the iPad and the vari-
Of course, not everyone has a tablet or color ereader, but we can use digital book trends to see where digital magazine availability might be going. When the first ereaders came out, in order to read an eBook one had to own a device. Soon the leaders in ereaders dis-
Right now, a growing number of magazines are available with a digital subscription option, most are available exclusively on tablets and possibly Nook Color or Kindle Fire. Some are available on PC or Mac computers as well. One of these is Cosmopolitan, which is
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the leader in print magazines and have just announced reaching the 100,000 paid digital subscriber threshold. With top print subscription reaching the millions, digitals still have a ways to go. It’s clear, as more and more people carry around electronic tablets, the stronger digital subscriptions will get. Perhaps you still love getting your paper magazines in the mail, or you don’t have a tablet, but digital formats are here to stay. If the eBook market has taught us anything, it’s to never say never.
FEATURE
cover girl
Haitian Bombshell PHOTOS BY: BARRY SMITH
marie Blandchard
UK REPORT
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IMMY WILSON Now I couldn’t rap properly, so I started doing a 2Pac rap. They said, “We like your voice, but you sound American,” something that’s haunted me to this day but that is my style. I’m from Manchester, not London. I grew up listening to American hip hop.
Since being 22, I’ve been to New York 14 times and lived there for almost 3 years in total so I’m influenced by the culture. I’ve even co-produced a beat in Miami with Slip-n-Slide Records so I’ve recorded with American artists and been around American lifestyle for years. I would say my inspiration to become a model started from Voice Newspaper. After being in a few studios, I saw it was male dominated. So that’s when I went to college. I feel my life is a journey. I’ve been through so much joy and pain but I know the sunshine is soon to stay. At one point, you took a long break from music. What avenues did you pursue to pass the time away? Yes, it was about 6 years. I just focused on me, still entered competitions and did a bit of modeling but I was with my first serious boyfriend for 6 years which was not a good time of my life. He brought me down a lot and told me I’m too old to try and make it. It was just a dark period of my life but at least I’m out of it now so in 2008 I just moved to London with nothing and embarked on the second chapter. I thought I’ll give it one more shot because I’m talented and we will see where it goes. I started doing music videos and became the #1 UK Video Girl of 2009. That was my plan. Then in 2011, I saw my comeback in the music game and there more bombs to drop! I’ve directed my
first video shot in Egypt, “Shake,” with no budget but my creative ability shined through. I believe that is what music is all about not about…40k budget music videos. It’s about raw talent which I think lacks in this day and age. The soul is not in the music, it’s in the money.
Your music is quickly spreading over the Internet. How soon do you foresee your music entering the US airwaves? Pretty soon! I know it has hit Jamaica…many people tweet me from Jamaica saying “Hot Boi” was amazing. I was talking to Damien Marley when I saw him live in concert and he even had seen my video! I was like wow! I met Nas, another big influence of mine. I was just like, “This is so surreal! America are about to feel the dragon soon.” I’m sure you learned a lot during your long multi-industry career. Can you give others some words of inspiration that you live by? I’ve learned so much but my #1 rule is… Don’t let anyone affect you with horrible and negative things! People say I’m very fiery and many people know that about me but my advice would be don’t rise to them. If I could learn to do that, I think that would be my biggest achievement to date but I guess I am who I am. I’m not a bad person…I’m just not a push over! Being a female in the business, I’m thick-skinned…you have to be or you would crumble! Be your own inspiration, first by believing in your dreams! If you put your mind to anything, it is achievable. Just don’t let anyone sway you into not believing in your vision and the power of believing. When you give up on dreams, your dream dissolves. The power of imagination makes us infinite!
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GAMING
Soft Spot
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
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nyone familiar with gaming knows that the market is flooded with shooters. The Call of Duty crowd and the Battlefield Bad Company crew are all as diehard as they come, but even many of them are tired of the same old first person shooter experience. Enter Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The Ghost Recon series has been hit or miss at best, having had both crowning successes and miserable failures. The franchise gained a foothold in the PlayStation 2 era, but quickly lost its footing with the next generation of systems like the Xbox 360.
screaming demon or barbarian has become the norm for other shooters like Gears of War and Call of Duty, and Ghost Recon will seek to alleviate that with their advanced cover system and recon abilities. Cover is nothing new, but Ghost Recon adds advanced cover systems and the new drones that are available to plan attacks with squad mates and avoid having to respawn because of reckless gameplay. With all of the new features, and focus on immersion and strategy, Ghost Recon looks to appeal to the many gamers that have stepped away from shooters and those that are looking for more depth and strategy from their gaming experience.
The developers at Ubisoft have refined their approach with future soldier and are back to the heart of the series: recon and realism. The Ghost Recon team combined with former Navy SEALS and Delta Force founder Charles Alvin “Charlie” Beckwith to bring the tactics and methods used by real Special Forces members. The SEALS were used to capture the real essence of real movements and actions and the aim was to bring absolute realism to the new installment of Ghost Recon. Ghost Recon will be a third person shooter, and the intent behind that is to provide better immersion and awareness of the player’s surroundings. It is no easy task to simulate the advanced training and skills of a real Special Forces member, and having the ability to see things a first person view simply cannot provide is one step towards doing that. In addition to the third person view, Ghost Recon is providing unprecedented depth to the amount of tools and weapons at the player’s disposal. Rushing into battle like a
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