Four years in the making, the third version of this mildly exciting talkie/video features newer, cleaner, re-mastered audio, a new history section, and 50 new visual shots & pieces of archive material to break up the talking heads. Includes two brand new bonus short documentaries - "Tennessee State Prison" and "Record Playerz".
A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of zines, the resources and community available for zine makers, and the future of zines. Interviews with about 70 zine makers, ex-zine makers, and readers from the northwest. Featuring footage of the Portland Zine Symposium, a zine bicycle tour of Portland, and activities bringing zine culture to life. An original documentary culled from over 64 hours of footage. Best suited for people with a new interest in zines, pros, and novices. The video sparks untapped creativity and new interest into zine making and reading. Artwork by Cristy Road and music by J Church and Defiance, OH! Created by Basil Shadid, Rev. Phil Sano, Nickey Robo, and Joe Biel. 51 minutes with 47 minutes of bonus material. ISBN 0-9770557-5-2*** VHS now only $2!!
*** Winner of Microcinema Fest "Best Documentary" Award!
Contact us if you are interested in setting up a screening in your town!
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19c. is Jaimey's account of a year spent reading nothing but 19th Century fiction. This zine is really unique! I can honestly say I've never read another zine about recognizing Napoleon's place in history through his appearance in the fiction of the times, or the illustrations in David Copperfield, and Moby Dick and their usefulness. 19c. is scrappy yet informative, like zines oughta be. If you want to know the dish about individualist philosophy, or Louisa May Alcott, forget cliffnotes and pick up 19c.
Our list of self published zines, books, stickers, buttons, patches, t-shirts, posters, postcards, talkies, etc on the website but featured on stapled pieces of paper! Stop spending all day on the internet! Get a paper copy! If you would be interested in receiving a stack of catalogs to distribute around your town just drop a line and we'll send a stack. Illustrations by Liz Baillie!
Our list of self published zines, books, stickers, buttons, patches, t-shirts, posters, postcards, talkies, etc on the website but featured on stapled pieces of paper! Stop spending all day on the internet! Get a paper copy! If you would be interested in receiving a stack of catalogs to distribute around your town just drop a line and we'll send a stack. Illustrations by Steve Larder!
Wow. This year we're the main distributor of Slingshot Organizers! Which makes us feel pretty darn lucky. For now, we have a limited selection of colors, but by the beginning of November, we'll have every color offered, so watch for that! For those who haven't seen a small Slingshot, it's a pocket sized calendar and day planner. It includes space to write your phone numbers, a contact list of radical leftist groups around the globe, a menstrual calendar, info on police repression, and extra note pages to record all your important revolutionary ideas. It also lists popular activist and alternative cultural holidays. The highlight is how to say key phrases in multiple languages; phrases such as, "freedom and mutual aid," and "where is the library?" If this wasn't enough, it also serves as a fund-raiser for the Berkeley radical newspaper, SLINGSHOT.
**Covers are printed with black ink unless otherwise specified!
(color depicted is strawberry soymilk)
** From the slingshot website: "Due to technological limitations, colors on the screen often only approximate real life. The actual colors are much cooler than they are represented here!" Likewise, we have described the colors the best we know how. We've tried to use obvious descriptions such as "light blue," or "caution orange" instead of the Slingshot naming system which although funny, doesn't always describe the color. i.e-"pixie puke." We're sorry if the color you received was not what you expected. However, we will *not* offer exchanges based on color! Choose carefully! <3
Hey all! We're offering as a late in the season organization option, the Toolkit Organizer. It's put together by Hott Off the Press which is a printing collective in Philadelphia. It's very Slingshotty, but it's thematically different, since each month teaches you a new skill. 2008's skills include: Challenging gentrification, dance party pointers, bicycle touring, constructing a pinhole camera, stencil tips, treating injured animals, a guide to diy fun in Philly, common birds of the city, the hankie code, and how to make an awesome mixtape. While some of the entries are Philly-centric, the more general instructions totally make up for it. Plus it's just pretty inspiring and maybe you'll get excited to make a guide to birds in your town? Or a list of amazing things to do there! And lest we forget, it's also a functional organizer.
We can't do specific colors, but you can request a color and we'll do our best to fill it!!!
28 Chapters is Christoph's first zine in 2 years! In it he apologizes for being delinquent to his PO Box, and vows to start clean. He also decides that at 33, he should fulfill a dream of his--to hike the Appalachian Trial! But wait, this zine contains a bonus mini-zine written during his practice hikes! It's called "Defeated by Maryland," and is a wild food-poisoning/hiking adventure. It's 1/4 size and is 14 pages.
A carefully crafted and humorous hand done personal zine by a father, philosopher, and buddhist. This is probably the most exciting issue ever. It's blown up to a larger format with the "trim" piece from the printing, being a separate zine telling stories from his partner's work day, and an Amish man falling dead in the checkout line at Kroger. The primary document here talks about pissing out a fire they had, the joys and intracacies of their new hybird car, the similarity of the Cleveland police emblem to a pig, a bit about the difference between love and marriage, and Herbie's (their son) love for trains.
A spastic collaboration of stories, random thoughts, and anecdotes. Included is an epic four month ride on a pedal powered boat from Pittsburgh to Paducah, a poem a day for the ending of a squatted house in Minneapolis filled with artists, their work, and their memories, a piece on protesting the war through non-participation, a how-to article about surviving on the Mississippi (with edible plants, boating tips, etc), tales of bike-riding, favorite cats, and hilarious drunken happenings. Written in a poetic style, this zine grips you till the end!
This classic is back after a many year hiatus! Mike writes a personal zine about his life that used to consist of punk rock insanity, drinking, and rabble rousing. Now he's a father who works in a chocolate factory and "got punched in the face by responsibility". Mike's zine has always been painfully honest and emotionally charged and gripping. He really puts his heart out for all to examine. This issue focuses on Cleveland winter, quitting smoking, his dad dying, how to get free food, and Mike's obsession with dinosaurs. In it's heyday it inspired a sea of imitators but it was all well deserved and no one could affectively use his style as well as he did.
This classic is back after a many year hiatus! Mike writes a personal zine about his life that used to consist of punk rock insanity, drinking, and rabble rousing. Now he's a father who works in a chocolate factory and "got punched in the face by responsibility". Mike's zine has always been painfully honest and emotionally charged and gripping. He really puts his heart out for all to examine. In it's heyday it inspired a sea of imitators but it was all well deserved and no one could affectively use his style as well as he did.
This zine is about something incredible. It is about a group of punks in SF stumbling upon an abandoned set of buildings and filling them full of beautiful murals...and then having shows inside...and then serving free food to those in need...for four months!!! Until they were shut-down and evicted from their squat. Here in interview format is the absolutely true story of what people can and will do to create the free and open artistic spaces they need. Read this zine and be inspired. Or at least enjoy a well-written zine of our people's history. Contributors include Iggy of Scam zine and Melissa of Inkling zine among many others.
To benefit in our recent attempt to pay off some massive t-shirt bills - Here's a splendid collection of things we've published: Flow Chronicles, Things are Meaning Less (1st Edition), The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #1-4, On Subbing, $100 & A T-Shirt DVD, Doris Anthology, Xtra Tuf #5, Hot Damn & Hell Yeah / The Dirty South #1-3, Best of Intentions: The Avow Anthology, Dreamwhip #14, Cantankerous Titles & Obscure Ephemera, Vol 1 DVD, Sounds of Your Name (1st Edition), Coffeeshop Crushes, Homeland Insecurity DVD, and your own print of the new Microcosm Hanggliders T-Shirt by Sarah Oleksyk. We're going bookwild - and you get a $22 savings! **(cat not included)
This zine talks about the ways that ABC was alienating to its neighbors and neighborhood and that the art and expression presented there talked more to issues affecting the burgeois rather than the working class people of the neighborhood. The rest of the stories discuss successes and failtures of incorporating different kinds of performance art into ABC's schedule as well as dogs puking, people walking onstage with guns, chicken suits, and a woman pissing in a vase. Not to be missed.
This zine collects history from 1985-1990 at ABC NO RIO, a period where Matthew Courtney organized the wide open cabaret, an open mic series that was a very central, defining event in the East Village. Many people honed their craft there and moved on to other projects. People talk about their experiences and Matthew's non-judgmental nature and appreciation for eccentricity and marginal points of view. It stood in pale contrast to the club scene - being inviting to street characters and people who didn't identity as performers who just wanted to talk about their day.
The latest installment of the fascinating history of the conception of art/punk club ABC NO RIO. Performance art, avant garde poets, punk rock shows, food not bombs, protests...ABC NO RIO is legendary for a reason!
This issue focuses on the weekend matinee punk shows, poetry forums, and politics involved with the space!
This zine shares the fascinating history of the conception of the art/punk club ABC NO RIO in 1979; it talks about the formation, negotiations with the city, responses from the community, and getting the neighborhood kids involved in the center and art projects going on there. Many of the founders are quoted and talk about the political and housing climate that led to their belief in a need for such a place.
Two years later, Jonathan Spies brings another beautiful issue of Abort! Full of insightful writing about the good everyday things - roommates, crushes, bikes, 40oz, and amputated body part illustrations. Contributions from both familiar and brand new folks are sure to make you cry, then laugh, then cry again. Definitely check out the latest in punks vs. hippies by Colin Atrophy. And my favorite, Daniel Immerwahr's "Assignations" and his super sleuthy logic puzzle for Jonathan. Get 'em while they're hot.
For years, Dave Roche seemed invincible. He survived on a strict diet of free bread and vegan ice cream from fake coupons. After awhile his health caught up with him though. This zine is about his onset and diagnosis with Crohn's Disease and how it has since affected his life. A powerful document to make us all feel mortal and understand that serious health problems can already be happening in our lives.
Robert Eggplant's zine anthology covered in a 1" thick book. Pieces by Larry Livermore, Aaron Cometbus, and many more adding their part to this essential history of East Bay punk rock! This book is great bathroom reading material combining 11 years of Robert's zine. It is rather hard to read in one sitting due to the fact that a lot of the pages are taken from the original zines and there isn't a lot of continuity among pages though it's got a got plenty of gems littered along the way to keep you reading. Essential bathroom reading material!
Andrew Dickson plays the character, AC Dickson, who is obsessed with Ebay as a way to better humanity. He truly feels that Ebay will make lives better and serve as a tool for our generation to overcome massive layoffs and lack of job security. This zine lays out the nuts and bolts for what and how to sell on Ebay for profit, how to get health insurance, and how to turn it into a part time business with a full time income.
This is the second edition of the zine and includes more info, slang, and crazy eBay stories, plus an updated timeline, an appendix of essays, and the greatest hits from the AC Dickson blog. The additional info that folks have been requesting about EBAY!
Ever wonder what lies beyond the doors, fences, and ladders you pass by everyday? A hidden world of mystery, beauty, and free fun awaits the curious who choose to seek adventure off the beaten path - without even leaving their own city. Access All Areas takes you behind the scenes to little known urban spaces like utility tunnels, rooftops, abandoned buildings, construction sites, and storm drains, unveiling the possibilities - and perils - of the world of urban exploration.
Through step by step instruction and examples, experienced explorer Ninjalicious guides an illuminaitng off-limits tour of the urban landscape, sure to whet the curious appetites of eager initiates and archair explorers alike.
This shiny paperback features more than 240 pages pages of illustrated information and advice from Ninjalicious, the editor of Infiltration zine. Topics covered include training, recruiting, sneaking, social engineering, equipping, preparing, abandoned buildings, active sites, construction sites, drains, utility tunnels and more.
Ad Astra Per Aspera #2 is a sweet little zine. In one word, it's "unicorncentric." Each page is one half writing and the other half is progressing comic strip prominently featuring stickfigure unicorns. The writing is smart and sentimental. Sarah Kate writes about her history with injured birds, gives a brief lesson on pickling, and explores a bit about the trappings of academia. The back cover is thematically consistent and features a stencil you can copy and cut...of a unicorn under a microscope.
We here at Microcosm have a lot reading material about being on the rag, but nothing quite like this new zine by Chella Quint of Chart Your Cycle. Funny and heart wrenching stories are interwoven between hilarious analysis of old (20's-50's) menstruation product ads (which are quite a chuckle onto themselves). It's really good to see humour injected into this subject, done in a smart and clever way. A very fun read - pick this up in addition to serious period zines in our catalog.
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