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 :)
Easy to overcome.
We poke fun at them, with no mercy.
And we should just re-appropriate the terms.
Can we take back "creationists" while we're at it?
Aye! Creation is a lovely word. So is Truth while we're at it :)
Oh, our poetry section is going to be lit. :) So many good ideas here!
Looks like you touched a live wire :)
With thanks to Corlin for flipping the switch!
And I imagine that when @BosmangBeratna comes online again, he'll be on board to provide AMAZING shop talk for us, too.
@MLClark @ceorl @LaurelGreen @BosmangBeratna
@BosmangBeratna
Will have a irregular column called
"Of course you make that out of wood, and it ain't hard to do"
@corlin and a column titled βYes you can create that with encaustic!β @MLClark @ceorl @BosmangBeratna
@LaurelGreen @corlin @MLClark @BosmangBeratna
That's a new term to me, and I see some lovely encaustic paintings out there ;)
That's the sort of stuff I would like to be learning of in our 'zine :)
@ceorl its fabulous! Beeswax, plant sources of colors. And such a lovely scent as you create paints! @corlin @MLClark @BosmangBeratna
@ceorl @LaurelGreen @corlin @BosmangBeratna
I'm finishing a Patreon post right now, but be warned, I'm going to type up and organize all of the ideas on this thread once my other tasks for the day are finished. :) We're not through with this brain seed yet!
@MLClark @ceorl @LaurelGreen @corli
Count me in, kopeng.