Anyone headed up to MKE next weekend for the Milwaukee Zine Fest? Let me know if ya want to carpool.
Library Adventures Foreverrrrrrr: ~*The LIBRARY Call for ZINES!*~
Does anyone have any zines they would be willing to donate to the Oconee County Library in Georgia? We are starting a teen zine section! Zines on any topic are accepted but cannot contain excessive cursing, nudity, sexuality or drug/alcohol use. UNLESS in the context of a greater cause such as…
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To celebrate International Zine Month 2012, I’m posting a video review of a different zine every day throughout July! Some of them will be favorites from my collection; some will be new purchases and trades. I am also open to submissions! If you want your zine reviewed, mail it to:
31 Flavors Zine Review
c/o Hannah Sheehan
PO Box 3445
Springfield, MO 65808Credits: The zines shown in this video are Dark Side of the Building (fiftysticks.com), Peulah Shaveh Chaiyim (peulahshavehchaiyim@gmail.com), Brainscan #22 (here), The Indifference of Places (here), Clark 8 (here), No One on the Corner Has Swagger Like Us (here, sold out?), Pieces #6 (here), The La-La Theory #7: “Nix Besser” (here, sold out?), Culture Slut #23 (fightboredom.com), Forever Analog (vickeh.com), Loud Mouth #3 (here), Booty #24 (treesandhills.org), and A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse (here). The song is “Boring Ways” by Smokemonster.
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The Postal Service Is a Civic Institution, Not a Business
This week the U.S. Senate is debating the 21st Century Postal Act of 2011, a proposal to reform the U.S. Postal Service and change the way the USPS does business in order to make it more profitable. In December, the Postal Service proposed to cut Saturday delivery, close half of its 500 processing centers around the country and dozens of local post offices, and lay off thousands of workers. The bill under consideration this week would delay closures and require studies to determine how best to proceed with any reductions in delivery. Although those are laudable goals, they will not solve the fundamental problem: Congress assumes that this vital government service will somehow become profitable.
In the midst of a long decline in the volume of mail, the demise of the Postal Service — at least as a public institution with universal service throughout the United States — often seems inevitable. Yet the critiques and suggestions offered as solutions for what ails the Postal Service see the problem only in terms of commercial and financial concerns. The circumstances of the Post Office’s founding suggest a far broader and more important mission: guaranteeing the sanctity of civic participation and political debate.
Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]
Important for zinesters.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m31hqkQ2dT1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Postal Service Is a Civic Institution, Not a Business
This week the U.S. Senate is debating the 21st Century Postal Act of 2011, a proposal to reform the U.S. Postal Service and change the way the USPS does business in order to make it more profitable. In December, the Postal Service proposed to cut Saturday delivery, close half of its 500 processing centers around the country and dozens of local post offices, and lay off thousands of workers. The bill under consideration this week would delay closures and require studies to determine how best to proceed with any reductions in delivery. Although those are laudable goals, they will not solve the fundamental problem: Congress assumes that this vital government service will somehow become profitable.
In the midst of a long decline in the volume of mail, the demise of the Postal Service — at least as a public institution with universal service throughout the United States — often seems inevitable. Yet the critiques and suggestions offered as solutions for what ails the Postal Service see the problem only in terms of commercial and financial concerns. The circumstances of the Post Office’s founding suggest a far broader and more important mission: guaranteeing the sanctity of civic participation and political debate.
Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]
Important for zinesters.
Just a reminder — Team Zine is tonight, 6-8PM at PS1.
Zine Reference in How I Met Your Mother
“And FYI, Shannon and I have decided to wait until we’re married. You can read about it in my zine!”
-Flashback Barney, Season 1 Episode 15.
Team Zine is this coming Tuesday, April 10, 6-8 PM
Just makin’ zines this month, no funny business. Make it your spring cleaning, bring in some magazines that have been taking up space in your apartment or those Land’s End catalogues they won’t stop sending.
Milton Glaser ad for Olivetti, 1970/1
This Tuesday, we’re talking about copyright, copyleft, creative commons, and intellectual property as it relates to zines.
It’s gonna be a little more structured of a workshop, so get ready for a little bit of structure, friends.
March 13, 6-8 PM, PS1.
Photo via segon acte on Flikr.
Team Zine is a self-publishing workshop series held at Public Space One in Iowa City.
2nd Tuesday of each month, 6-8 PM.
2nd Tuesday of each month, 6-8 PM.
