Improves creativity by osmosis - Read
READ covers fiction, fanzines, zines with no fans except for us, websites, blogs, magazines, artist's books and other independent releases. Chances are, if it's been published then we know about it and chances are, if it's not in TwoThousand, then we didn't like it. READ is for people who were born with ink in their veins and a fat balding critic on their shoulder. READ has also created more best-sellers than Oprah's Book Club and more wannabe to be writers than Hunter S Thompson.
Weekly zine review #4 - Goblin
The latest zine to make waves this summer is Goblin issue 3, packed with 'the best in town' (as advertised) by a mysterious unknown zinester supreme, with each issue hand coloured by his younger brother. In one word: goblicious. The weapons catalogue section includes Crabs In Ya Pants, Swords of Manliness, and Crystal Imbedded Grenades; there are coupon sections, comics, cut-out song lyrics (‘my brother is small / not very tall / with his hands / on the wall') and a joke section where the joke.
Conor O'Brien box set
Many readers will be more than familiar with Conor and his work. He's a lovely fellow, a photographer from Perth who lived in Vancouver and Melbourne for a while and now resides in a place called Shag Cottage in Sydney. He's had a few memorable exhibitions in the cities he's lived, and to accompany each one, he produces a little book.
Built By Wendy Dresses
Everyone comes up with weird ways to save money. Ok, not everyone. Poor people. Like yours truly. Anyway, my favourite method is thus: when I see an item of clothing I like, if there is any fathomable way I could possibly attempt to try to make something similar myself, I'll confidently state ‘I could make that'.
The New Order magazine issue 03
The first two issues of NZ based street culture magazine The New Order were wildly ambitious affairs, squeezing every hip name imaginable in between the covers from Ian Astbury to VisVim. The results were overwhelming and a little boring, akin to skim-reading a google search for 'cool'.
The third issue is different.
Weekly zine review #1 - 'Astrobabble: the zine for astrology nerds'
Zines are awesome. They're just small photocopied low-fi mags and often targeted at a niche group of nobodies. Robot nerds. Nerf nerds. Articulate shoplifters. Those with a penchant for drawings of toasters. And so forth. Well, here's a zine "for astrology nerds" but it deserves a much broader audience.
The Internetwork
It's true, producing a city guide has a lot of perks. Complimentary tickets, free CDs, drugs, R.S.I., drugs for R.S.I. But undeniably the best perk of the job is the amazing people that we get to meet. People who don't view the world in terms of ‘life' or ‘work' but simply continue to create because they love what they do.
Fashematical
Jonathan Zawada is a man of many forms. He is one of the artists behind Glory Holes, he is the designer of What I Think About When Dancing, he is Petit Mal!, he is the creator of Rockmen, and the collaborative mind behind some of the silkiest tie-dye we've ever worn. For the purpose of this article, Jonathan is Fashematical, a limited-edition zine to commemorate the 50th (or 55th, who's counting) equation on his blog, Fashematics.
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