Tag: zine
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Zine Vending Machine
So Thursday night I attended the Zine Vending Machine Launch at the start of You Are Here. The director of ArtsACT, David Whitney, made an intro and vended a couple of zines (one of which, I’m glad to say, was mine). The machine itself is a wholly mechanical affair, requiring no electricity to run, simply…
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Zine Lounge
I’ve only been to the Old Parliament House once. That for some work function, so many years ago. I suppose I never really had a reason to. However, the Canberra Zine Emporium have set up a Zine Lounge and I’m curious from the few photos they have supplied as to what the entire thing entails.…
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Unbroken Poetry Zine
Unbroken Poetry is a book about glyphs. The labyrinthine calligraphy winds its way on the page. Each are trying to tell you something, but it’s all cryptic white noise. If you want to see a sample of what might be in there, you can check this. What are they trying to say? Is there an…
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Zine Fair Round-Up
So it’s been a month since hitting the MCA Zine Fair. And finally, I’ve had the chance to read through the zines I picked up. Bizarrism* A font of counter culture and eccentric history, you pickup Bizarrism if you want to learn about the odder aspects of dictators, criminals, conspiracies and the occult. I particularly…
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MCA Zine Fair
Yesterday, I spent the day at the MCA which were running a zine fair. It was pretty packed and it was good to see a couple of people that I hadn’t seen since the last big one I visited, and of course, meet a few new faces. Also was the debut of Jeremy and Elouise’s…
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Mappa Mundi Download
Since I’m nearly out of hard copies of the Mappa Mundi zine I made back in March, I’ve decided to give away a digital copy for people to print at home. You can download it from here. Inside the zip is containing the printable PDF and how to fold it. The original was printed to…
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Bizoo-Ka!
Jeremy of former street press zine Bizoo and Elouise of Smells Like Zines are coming down to Canberra in late May to participate in a couple of events while in the capital. Here’s some dates. 22 May Something Else – Some of Our Parts, presented by Scissors, Paper, Pen at the Lonsdale Street Traders. 24…
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Zine Round-Up
So, last week I bought a bunch of zines. And then I sort of forgot about them. So here is what I bought Mr Unpronouncable by Tim Molloy Basically it looks and reads like like a mix between a Lovecraft and Woodring book. The art reminds me heavily of Jim Woodring’s The Frank Book. Here…
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Mappa Mundi
So for the last two weeks and a bit, I had been racing around in the spare hours to quickly throw together a zine for the Canberra Zine Emporium zine fair for You Are Here. Mappa Mundi is the working title for a new project where content is printed to single sheet of paper, which…
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