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zines and connectedness

So this last weekend marked the end of September and the deadline set for the print run of the little zine that me and D have been working on. It’s essentially promo for D’s clothing store, with some info about a couple of things happening around town. For the fashion layout I took photos of her, her store and some of the clothes she’s got for sale. There’s a page entitled “Customer of the Day” which shows one of her customers sporting an outfit from the store. Then we put in some of our doodles from our notebooks. There’s an article about a hip restaurant with live music, an article featuring a local artist and pics of his work and an interview about a ‘cutting edge’ community tv show that highlights the poorer neighborhoods in the city and cool stuff that is going on there.

It was a bit of a rush Sunday night, I wanted to have at least a few prototypes printed by October 1st. It was like 12:30 and I was driving to the 24 hour printer with a cd still hot from getting burned. But I got it printed so that’s good. Now I’ve got a few little mistakes to correct, lighten some photos up and we’ll do a print run of 100. D wrote the opening statement and in it she mentions the ‘next issue’. So I guess we’re doing a next issue for sure! It’s hard to believe, but this is the first time I’ve put together a little zine like this. And I’ve always loved looking at other people’s zines – some are really slick and some are totally hand-drawn – it’s cool to check them out.

So now I’m starting to think about the content for the next zine… and maybe I’ll do one that is full of just doodles and bad poetry… and hybrid photographs or something. Maybe it could tie in to my vlog that doesn’t exist yet…

I guess there are tons of topics, so many it makes my head spin like in the Exorcist and then everything goes blank. It’s freaky. But for example, the video below is a lighthearted look at global warming. I definitely need to do a lot more web surfing looking up pertinent stuff.

But I saw this cool thing coming up: this writer called Derrik Jensen is coming to town, doing a talk. My friend told me about him and I think I’ll go check that out… He talks about social-political issues and the state of the world that we’re in. And what the world could be – if we act differently it changes everything. So we act with the fact that we are all connected in mind, and it’s an amazing source of inspiration. Because time is running out and we have to hurry.