Inspired by @corlin's latest post on the return of #Print...
We're all old enough to have been in the trenches with 'zine culture, right? π Hand-printed, cut, collaged, block-painted, haphazardly aligned, chaotically edited ziiiiines! (You know what I mean. π€)
So! Question for you louts:
If you were to start a 'zine today, in the style of one of those grand old pubs, what would you call it and what would it be about?
Off the top of my head:
Title:
Unplugged
or
AbZurd
Content:
A mixture of solar-punk, hope-punk fiction, and real world how to do stuff. How to build, create, and nurture. Ya know with what you find, left over by the end of consumer capitalism.
Oh, I LOVE AbZurd as a name; you could build so much mystique and mythology around that uppercase Z in your content.
And in an era of many tech-optimist-co-opted solar-punk/hope-punk mags, I would be delighted to see your take on related themes.
First edition will feature a future anthropologist discussing if Justin Smith-Ruiu was real or factious. Along with tips on personal hygiene and waste management in the deep forest.
HOW could I love this 'zine any more? π
The only thing I am a bit twitchy about is that words like "fundamental" and "survival" keep popping into my head, and then I think of our current day Fundamentalists and Survivalists.
It's not them :)
I'm envisioning a section called - What's Your Problem?
With sub-sections like - I'm Cold, I'm Hungry, I'm Alone, I'm Scared, What Is This Strange Rash?
Yes! One lesson I remember well is - Never drink water anyplace near where humans live ;)
Oh actually another book I bought recently, based on a Youtube streamers videos.
It's called Primitive Technology, and shows, with lovely illustrations, many skills and crafts we have all forgotten.
The vids are also kind of ASMR-ish, in that he never talks in them, he only shows, but he is always perfectly clear.
You just hear the sounds of the nature, the tools, the materials.
I do love that little magazine something fierce. We should give it free promo space, if we draw from its first principles to develop our own version.