foraging through morgan’s zine collection: when language runs dry #3, if i can’t dance is it still my revolution? by a.j. withers, and an untitled one by griffin epstein
I will be tabling!
okay so many of my real life favourite folks and internet favourite folks are going to be here this weekend, and it’s killing me that i’m not. if you live in chicago, you should go! have fun on my behalf!
(Source: macklinssf)
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Tumblr… seems like a place where you can show off what a radical manic pixie dream human spirit creative such & such you are by showing off stuff you like, not stuff you made. Not your owns words, your own art. And that makes me uncomfortable.
…I write the stories I wish had already been written, I write the stories I wish I found when I was a teenager so maybe I could have struggled a little less, or maybe I could have had someone to relate to, or maybe I wouldn’t have made such a mess, or maybe I’d be able to clean up that mess faster. And when I write, I want it to be read, but more than that, I want you to write (or make whatever kind of art it is you like to make or want to make or talk about making but never get around to). I don’t want to see my fliers posted a thousand times on the internet; I want you to be inspired to MAKE YOUR OWN STUFF. Write your own stories, make your own fliers, use your own words, illustrate your own pictures. Don’t show me something you like, show me something you made.
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Maranda Elizabeth - Make your own stuff.
a great article maranda wrote in response to yet another piece of their writing circulating uncredit on tumblr with thousands of notes. a nice reminder of the importance of credit and basic tumblr etiquette.
"ABOUT CRAP HOUND Between a brief introduction and the end credits, Crap Hound is pure imagery. Each page is filled with high-contrast line art, culled from vintage catalogs, advertising, obscure books, and found ephemera. Through sheer volume of artfully arranged iconography, Crap Hound provides a visual survey of dozens of popular and lesser known superstitions. This all new issue is 100-pages including the cover and features two copyright free typefaces! Debuting in 1994 and created by Sean Tejaratchi, Crap Hound became a favorite of both zine readers and publishers, and has received enthusiastic reviews from sources including The New York Times Magazine, RE/Search Books, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum."
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CRAP HOUND IS MY NEW FAVOURITE THING.
hey y’all, this is a thing that is happening! please help me spread the word and finish this project!
Special Edition Book! & CONTEST FOR AWESOME THINGS!
The Outliers: West Coast (Special Edition Book) is now on sale for a range between $10 and $50.
This special edition book of the west coast portion of the trip is being offered to help raise funds to finish the project. The project is expected to take an additional 3 to 4 months of major travel to complete by March 2012 for an exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland that will be open to the public and free of charge.
The funds that this zine raises go towards processing fees, printing fees, and most importantly, travel costs associated with reaching as many people as possible, like car rentals to reach those who are out of city centers. Plus if you get one you will hve my eternal love and adoration, y’all. And also an awesome book.
CONTEST!
For those of you who would like a book but cannot afford to pay for one, I’ll be giving away A FREE COPY, + Other Outliers project related goodies to 3 wonderful people who re-blog this and are following The Outliers Project Blog. Winners will be chosen at random on September 18th, at 11:59pm EST. Goodluck!
support elle’s work! they are an amazing person and incredible photographer! when i ate too many pot brownies at ida, i spent all of dinner telling everyone in earshot that elle had made the croutons, and they were the best croutons i’d ever eaten. a fact i had completely forgotten about until they reminded me last night. thanks for that, elle.
Description of the Outliers: “The Outliers is a photographic project focusing on the genderqueer identity in America. People who identify as genderqueer identify as neither male or female, both male and female, transgender men, transgender women, intersex, two spirit, and other identifications as individual as the person who claims them. The project is currently in progress, and I am currently traveling the United States with a medium format camera, photographing as many people as I am able to. My hope is to be able to include an incredible amount of people of all sorts of identifications in the final body of work.”
sounds incredible! i tried to buy it/donate but it doesn’t ship to canada unfortunately. either way - signal boost this great work!
Princess Mononoke Backpatch Giveaway!!!
RED FOREST DISTRO is doing a free giveaway of this princess mononoke patch!
Winner will be randomly selected on September 31st!
All you need to do to be eligible for this sweet patch is
- Reblog this post
- Follow RED FOREST DISTRO
you can purchase the patch on etsy here!
OH MAN SO GOOD
"These days, the work of zines tends to be done using the Internet instead of glue and scissors, but Marcus says that’s okay. “Zines played an important function in the Riot Grrrl movement, but online communications can fulfill similar roles as long as we’re intentional about it. When I mailed somebody a zine in the ’90s, I would frequently include a long letter about what I’d been thinking about lately or what I’d thought of the other person’s last zine. It was much more involved than just hitting “like” or “reblog” on somebody else’s Tumblr post, and it meant we were having substantive conversations about ideas, discussing one another’s work and trying to carry the conversation forward."
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i hear this sentiment, i totally do. but my question is, why do we always have to have these conversations of zines vs. blogs/the internet? which is better, why? i don’t think they have to be diametrically opposed.
personally, i’ve been using the internet for just about as long as i’ve been reading zines. i mean just the other day i reblogged something that firesandswords had posted, and borninflames reblogged it and now it’s got like 1,400 notes. i mean, holy fuck! to think about that, that a radical zine that talks about privilege and race and heavy complicated but incredibly important shit, gets posted by a pretty cool person who mostly posts anarchist/political content ends up being shared by a fashion-centered tumblr and gets tons of exposure. in the course of a few days, tons of people, including many who might never come across this zine for any number of reasons, are exposed to this one zine. even if they just read that one page from one amazing zine, even if only a small percentage of the people who clicked “heart” took the time to click on the photo and read the original zine, i feel like that’s really awesome. that it is a step in the right direction. that someone might have just discovered zines for the first time, and might spend hours on zinelibrary.info. might go to the next zine fest in their town. i mean, they might just click “like” and leave it at that, but there is a chance it could instigate awesome, radical change in their lives. that it is a reminder of why i write on the internet.
i guess i’m just frustrated that lately i feel like i’ve been hearing a lot of internet/blog negative stuff and i think it’S more complicated that just falling into categories of “good” vs “bad” or even better vs. worse. i just feel like it’s too easy to romanticize the past (often simply because it is the past) and to write off the new (often simply because it is new). i’d like to get to a place where we can appreciate the significance and importance of both zines and blogs. that’s what i love about people like lookuplookup, patchthatsweater, hello-amber, they’ve all helped me realize a middle ground does exist and it’s a pretty awesome place to be.
cindy crabb is one of my personal heroes, and one of the nicest people i’ve ever met. she is trying to raise money to print her latest book, the doris encyclopedia. please please donate if you can! if you’ve ever read an issue of doris, you can understand what a phenomenal writer cindy is and why her stories need to be heard.
she has until july 15th to raise $4000 and has only $769 pledged as of this moment. i know i will be throwing in a nice amount as soon as i deposit some money in the bank. i hope you will, too!
i wanted to donate, but i don’t have a credit card. definitely sounds like an important project!
