Steno zine

Feb. 10th, 2020 11:15 am
brainwane: My smiling face, including a small gold bindi (Default)
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"Gotta Type Fast!: An introduction to hobbyist stenography" by Ewen Cluney is available (interior photo). "A lot of it is about the technical details of how to get started with open-source steno, but I also get a bit into the history and culture around it, which is pretty interesting if you're into that kind of thing."
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Avast! Happy New Year! 🎉

I feel as if this is the last possible occasion that I can, in good conscience, plug my little fanzine of wintery festive traditions and monsters, so, ah, here we are. Fashioned on an old PC and a velobind machine, it contains all my advent calendar entries from 2008 - 2016, but, ah, if you want a more up-to-date version, there's also a digital version covering everything until 2018.

That's it. That's my sales pitch. I'll be quiet about this now until December 2020.

Gosh. Feels like I haven't spoken to you guys all year.

Boom boom.

/end dad jokes.
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Hi all! Hopefully there's still someone reading this!

So, just a brief post about two upcoming zine fairs in the UK: Norwich Millennium Library Zine Fair 2019 on the 23rd November in, you guessed it, Norwich, and Weirdo Zine Fest On Edge Edition on the 30th November near London Bridge in South London.

I will be there! So please come and say hello if you are so inclined!
brainwane: The last page of the zine (cat)
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Coming up on December 1st, 2018: New York Tech Zine Fair, currently calling for vendors. (I'm not involved - just signal-boosting.)
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Late last year I made a zine to hand out at Maker Faire: "Playing with Python: 2 of my favorite lenses". That blog entry also includes page-by-page scans and transcripts, process photos, and thank-yous.

Feel free to view it in that blog post, view it as a PDF, or download and print the single US letter-sized sheet of paper and cut and fold it for yourself into an 8-pager! I'm such a fan of the format, because it doesn't require any stapling so it's simpler to reproduce, and because when I'm giving it away to someone they can engage in the process of making it. In 2015 I gave away a bunch of my zines at Maker Faire and passers-by really got into learning how to cut and fold them. In 2016 I remember at least one child coloring her "Quill & Scroll" after folding it, which, my heart just grew three sizes, you know?
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My friend and I made "Quill & Scroll", a children's book-style zine about a hedgehog who runs an all-night bookstore for other nocturnal animals. People call it "adorable". Feel free to view it as a PDF, or download and print the single US sheet of paper and cut and fold it for yourself into an 8-pager!
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I just came across this community and realized I had not yet joined it and let y'all know about "Cat, Dog, and Badger Each Own A Bookstore. They Are Friends." It's 8 pages including illustrations and has a children's-book vibe. At the link you can view it as individual images, read the text as plaintext, and/or download the whole thing to print on one sheet of paper and cut/fold. Enjoy!
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'Cipher' #2 (cover)I'll break the ice with an awkward promo post.

My most recent zine came out 18 months ago, but i haven't really promoted it anywhere and so it still feels new to me.  I do Cipher zine, the most recent of which is #2.  The table of contents is:
  • poem
  • prologue
  • the (not so) invisible piano
  • dance of the potato dumpling fairy
  • Cinderella takes herself to the ball
  • wordnerdery! — apparatus
  • poems
  • food of my people: vepro-knedlo-zelo (minus vepro)
  • student, interrupted
  • epilogue a: enjambment
  • epilogue b: finis
  • poem
You can read an excerpt at my website.  It's about $2 and, since i also run a distro, is only available in the Crabby Media store.  Cipher #1 is also still in print and available.

Oh, um, and yes, i also run (with [personal profile] raanve) Crabby Media, which is a distro, an information hub, and a discussion forum for all things zine-related.  As a distro, we specialize in "Resource materials for zinemakers and D.I.Y. publishers — zines about zines and zine-making techniques, zine history, zine culture and community."  Crabby Media is based in Seattle, so you may have seen me tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium or at Short Run.
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