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Took this photo while sitting in my car Sunday afternoon waiting for the rain to stop. While sitting there, I began to ponder the nature of my relationship with the various subscribers to the zine, mostly the ones who get theirs by mail, and what I wanted that relationship to look like going forward. TheContinue reading “subscribers only”

I sit here in my usual chair with poetry books all around me, and a new notebook into which I have entered words appearing to be of a poetic nature, eight so far, poems not words. Rewatched the movie, Paterson, this past weekend, about the city bus driver, played by Adam Driver, who writes poetryContinue reading “the shape shifting”

And yes, downsized to 9×7. Available by mail in the States, no international mailing, after all it is free. Contact me if you would like one. Cheers!

While I wait to hear from the printer, and their ability to downsize the zine to 9×7, I will talk about how I’m shooting right now. As I mentioned in a prior post, I have a Holga plastic lens that works on my digital Olympus camera with the use of an adapter. The lens isContinue reading “holga”

Zine 8 went to the printer today, will see a mock up tomorrow. It will come in the new economy size, roughly half the dimensions of the prior ones, and shorter, just 32 pages instead of the usual 40. The design made it a little more complicated to put together, but I am pleased withContinue reading “#8”

Three Canons:Be still with yourselfUntil the object of your attentionAffirms your presenceLet the Subject generate its own CompositionWhen the image mirrors the selfAnd the self mirrors the subjectSomething might take over-MinorWhite This is a quote from Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations, a Minor White photo book, that I would really like to own, but it is outContinue reading “photo books”

Or, does size really matter? I have been seeing and handling smaller zines like the one below over the past months and really liking the esthetics of the smaller size. Seeing it juxtaposed with my last zine, the size they have all been, has got me thinking about size, and playing with the smaller format.Continue reading “downsizing”

This is sort of going to be a “how the sausage gets made” post. My friend, and zine subscriber, Scott, has heard a lot of this already. My process is not very complicated, especially compared with the online publishing places like Blurb. I design the zine totally on my ipad pro. I do not evenContinue reading “design”

It just starts from photography. Cheers!

As my last post indicates, I don’t play well with authorities, except my own. This goes way back to grade school. We had to say the pledge of allegiance before class started, and in some cases back then, the lord’s prayer. There was always a voice in the back of my mind asking what doesContinue reading “anarchism”