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July 2009 Blog Posts (84)

what makes a zinester

I posted this on my blog, but wanted to post it here too. Thanks to all of you for "getting it".

I am tired and need to wind down for tonight, but I wanted to post this while it was fresh in my head.

Driving to Kinkos tonight at 11:30 pm I thought what is it with me that makes me use my precious vacation time to stay home and make a zine? What is it that makes me stay in my house for 48 hours and work by myself on some folded pieces of paper?

I don't know… Continue

Added by Krissy PonyBoy Press on July 24, 2009 at 2:14am — 2 Comments

Portland Zine Symposium starts tomorrow!

Hey, just in case you're in the northwest area and you're not aware, PZS starts tomorrow at 2:30. We're driving down in the morning and will be there all three days. We've managed to gather manymany great things that are not on the distro: new isssues of Funwater Awesome, issues of Mend My Dress, a new Olympia zine about DIY culture and building community, the olympia punk paper Nuts, a bunch of buttons, a zine/paper that's all interviews with Swedish punk/hardcore bands and comes with a cd and… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 24, 2009 at 1:02am — No Comments

densensitized issue four

just finished!

Added by Nico. on July 24, 2009 at 12:05am — No Comments

www.avantafro.blogspot.com

I will upload the zines i have recieved in the recent days-
MY MANTRA ---I SEND THEREFORE I RECIEVE ---
its borrowed from MAIL ART ----------------------------------

chAT soon
KEEP SNAIL MAIL ALIVE

Added by AvantAfro on July 23, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Against and Among Institutions: Mail Art as a Subversive Medium by John Held, Jr. from "Going Postal!" #1

"Against and Among Institutions: Mail Art as a Subversive Medium" by John Held, Jr.

I know it’s wrong…but I’ve been waiting for some major American art institution to come along and ask me to assist in the production of their major exhibition of Mail Art. It’s not happening. I know that things like this don’t happen without effort on one’s own part, but it’s long overdue…and I keep waiting. For how much longer, I don’t know.

Some would argue that an exhibition on Mail Art,… Continue

Added by Kris M. on July 23, 2009 at 3:51am — 2 Comments

Full of Crow reviews Absent Cause zine

Full of Crow is an excellent new online literary magazine of poetry, fiction, art and reviews, created by Lynn Alexander and Aleathia Drehmer. Lynn also runs the very cool social networking site The Sphere. I'm really proud to have my zines discussed on Full of Crow.

Bolshevik, Worker, Revenant: Absent Cause

"I’m not even sure how I started reading… Continue

Added by redguard on July 22, 2009 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Zine Pages

Hey everyone,

I just uploaded some pictures of what the insides of my zines look like so you can get an idea of them before you buy/trade. They're in my zines album, so please check them out!

Added by Adrian Fynch on July 22, 2009 at 11:37am — No Comments

Hello.

I'm Gordon and under the name Chow Chow Productions I've been publishing zines since 1984. My first zine was called WDC Period and it was a music zine from Washington D.C. 1984 - 89. My next zine was a queer zine with the title Teen Fag and I published that from Seattle in the mid 90's.

Currently I am publishing a variety of mini zines: Skill Shot (Seattle's Pinball Zine), Chicken With Penis (a comic zine) and Dreamy Vs Sucks (sort of a… Continue

Added by Gordon Gordon on July 22, 2009 at 12:55am — No Comments

First Zine: Tears in my Schooner.

Tears in my Schooner: a guide on depressive aural indulgence is my first zine. It is a zine about depression, dealing with your emotions and using music to indulge. It's a A5 zine that comes with a Audio CD. More than willing to trade, or send you a copy for postage and construction costs.

Added by Beau Newham on July 21, 2009 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Visit me at the PZS this weekend and get a WMZ button!

I have a couple dozen of the "I'm on We Make Zines" buttons and will be giving them away free to all We Make Zinesters until they are gone. So, if you are at the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend, come by the PonyBoy Press table. Look for the red and white tablecloth.

Also new and for sale are the "as mentioned in my zine..." buttons. Hope to see you there!

p.s. I will also have postcards and promo cards for WMZ,… Continue

Added by Krissy PonyBoy Press on July 21, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Musea Art Contest 7/21/09 Test your art smarts.

The answer to, and winner (if any) for,

our last contest question of:

These 15 major complexes remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century. Name this complex of buildings.

IS

The complex of the Pueblo Peoples in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in the Four Corners region of the US. These complexes were the center of culture for the Pueblos between AD 900 and 1150. Many of the buildings are believed to be observatories marking… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on July 21, 2009 at 10:05am — No Comments

Karl Blau audio recording zine!

After a weekend up in Anacortes, Wa for What the Heck Fest, we come back bearing gifts. One of them being a really cool zine about the art of home recording from our friend and musical experimenter, Karl Blau. Check it out!
Conceptualizing Confluence: The Absolute Basics of Audio Recording ($2)

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 20, 2009 at 1:15pm — 2 Comments

2 Monsters

2 monsters of the 4 four i'm drawing for the Lucky Creature Attacks coloring book. (also, i've gotten the procrastination back on track--no more organizing the cleaning products. it's all movies and videogames and farting around).…

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Added by Monstress Zine on July 20, 2009 at 12:01pm — 3 Comments

Portland Zine Symposium!!!! NEW issue of Sinister Press ready to THRILL!

That's roight boils and ghouls! The Summer Bummer fourth issue of my horror nerd zine: The Sinister Press is done and juuust in time for my table at next week's ZINE SYMPOSIUM!!!! Muwaughahahahahahaha!!! Pics just as soon as I can.... hope to see y'all here in the wondrous City Of Roses!

Added by Jack Maraglia on July 19, 2009 at 12:24pm — 3 Comments

Feels good to clean...

Ahhh...you know that feeling you get after having really cleaned? You know, like Spring Cleaning? Well - I finally attacked my MySpace blog and really cleaned that sucker' out. Feels good!

Is it a bit more streamlined? Yes!

Is it a bit more relevant to my actual life? Yes!

Is it updated with plans for the zine? Yes!

It's wonderful! And I'm just very happy...as you can tell...

Check it out at myspace.com/hayheychloe30

Added by Chloe Rambo on July 18, 2009 at 9:50am — 2 Comments

Late NIght Thinking Issue 3

Issue 3 Paths and Shadows of Late Night Thinking (Ephemera for our Times) will be released at the Summer 2009 Shadow Art Fair.

* Waking up Refreshed and Tired
* Our Journey to Yoshi's
* The Audacity of Numbers
* Ginger Beer
* Connectivity
* Head Cancer
* Longing for Spring
* Shadow Art Fair Interview

Contact me to arrange a trade of this or back issues.

Added by St. Joshua Norton Press on July 17, 2009 at 7:23pm — No Comments

Candy or Medicine Vol. 7 Out Now. Just $1.

Candy or Medicine Volume Seven is out now. Just $1 (plus 50 cents shipping in the U.S.)

Featuring a wish fulfillment by JB Sapienza, "An Ice Cream Story" by Adam Wilson, a one-page gag by Morgan Kessler, a four-page space saga by Tyler Stafford, a random dream from the mind of Carl Alessi, two strips by Ed Keer, a five-person international jam comic, a wild back cover by west coast sensation Alex Chiu and the return of Andy Narwhal by… Continue

Added by Josh Blair on July 17, 2009 at 10:33am — No Comments

On Loving 'Dracula': a 24-hour zine

Here's the cover and a sample page of my 24-Hour Zine Thing creation, On Loving 'Dracula.' I created it on my birthday, July 16. It includes an essay on the 1931 film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi, quotes from the movie, recommendations for further reading, and many posters and images from the film. It's 24 pages, 1/2 size, black and white.

This was the first time I've done a cut-and-paste zine. It was lots of fun! If you have a day to devote to being… Continue

Added by redguard on July 17, 2009 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

56a zine library relaunch & benefit gig!

The amazing zine library at 56a info shop, Elephant & Castle, London is being relaunched at the end of the month.

To celebrate this, we are holding a weekend of queer DIY fun-ness!!

Saturday 25th July: Gig! JEAN GENET, CHAPS, HUSBANDS & CANDY PANIC ATTACK, with zine distros from Improper Fraction, Ricochet! Ricochet!, Cherry Bomb Comics, 56a and more....£4, 7.30pm, The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell/Brixton tube

Sunday 26th July: Workshops &… Continue

Added by Cherry Bomb Comics on July 17, 2009 at 2:35am — No Comments

Musea E-mail club #479 : Why We Sleep - a hypothesis

Readers,

This week is something different. I usually talk about some aspect of the arts and media, but this time my subject is science - specifically sleep, and a possible reason why we sleep. My ideas on sleep are certainly novel ideas. But you will also find a lot of casual evidence to support them in studies posted on the internet. I have put his essay on a science newsgroup, and I'm reposting it here. If these ideas are true, they may point the way to some important discoveries… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on July 16, 2009 at 10:25am — No Comments