Improves creativity by osmosis - Read
READ covers fiction, fanzines, zines with no fans except for us, websites, blogs, magazines, artist's books and other independent releases. Chances are, if it's been published then we know about it and chances are, if it's not in FourThousand, then we didn't like it. READ is for people who were born with ink in their veins and a fat balding critic on their shoulder. READ has also created more best-sellers than Oprah's Book Club and more wannabe to be writers than Hunter S Thompson.
Conor O'Brien box set
Many readers will be more than familiar with Conor and his work. He's a lovely fellow, a photographer from Perth who lived in Vancouver and Melbourne for a while and now resides in a place called Shag Cottage in Sydney. He's had a few memorable exhibitions in the cities he's lived, and to accompany each one, he produces a little book.
Weekly zine review #4 - 'Goblin'
The latest zine to make waves this summer is Goblin issue 3, packed with 'the best in town' (as advertised) by a mysterious unknown zinester supreme, with each issue handcoloured by his younger brother. In one word: goblicious. The weapons catalogue section includes Crabs In Ya Pants, Swords of Manliness, and Crystal Imbedded Grenades; there are coupon sections, comics, cut-out song lyrics (‘my brother is small / not very tall / with his hands / on the wall') and a joke section where the joke.
Built By Wendy Dresses
Everyone comes up with weird ways to save money. Ok, not everyone. Poor people. Like yours truly. Anyway, my favourite method is thus: when I see an item of clothing I like, if there is any fathomable way I could possibly attempt to try to make something similar myself, I'll confidently state ‘I could make that'.
Monster & Midget
GFC, thank god it's mostly over. I had to give up my passion for all things magazine, but don't worry fashion filled pages - I'm back. While spending the weekend trolling tumblr blogs, I came across something. Monster & Midget is what it read, but what the hell is that, I thought?
Monster & Midget is a magazine for 'the weirdos and the wonderfuls.
Weekly zine review #1 - Astrobabble: the zine for astrology nerds
Zines are awesome. They're just small photocopied low-fi mags and often targeted at a niche group of nobodies. Robot nerds. Nerf nerds. Articulate shoplifters. Those with a penchant for drawings of toasters .And so forth. Well, here's a zine "for astrology nerds" but it deserves a much broader audience.
A Beginners Guide to Dying in India
So your house burns down, your gff cuts sick and joins a cult, and you lose your job. What do you do? You could make like Harmony Korine when his house burnt down and move to Peru to hunt magical fish. You could exact revenge. You could become a 'suit' and join the nine to fivers. Levi, protagonist of A Beginners Guide to Dying in India, instead, finds himself diving headlong into a curious adventure into the depths of India (extremities included).
Fashematical
Jonathan Zawada is a man of many forms. He is one of the artists behind Glory Holes, he is the designer of What I Think About When Dancing, he is Petit Mal!, he is the creator of Rockmen, and the collaborative mind behind some of the silkiest tie-dye we've ever worn. For the purpose of this article, Jonathan is Fashematical, a limited-edition zine to commemorate the 50th (or 55th, who's counting) equation on his blog, Fashematics.
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