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.
if we digitize it.
it should be on a solar run web page with reduced graphics....
Like this
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/06/rebuilding-a-solar-powered-website/
and
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.
@corlin @LaurelGreen @MLClark
Lynx compatible ;)