[Noisebridge-discuss] Zine Planning Session, Wed. Dec. 12, 9 p.m.

Tue Dec 13 11:18:02 UTC 2011

Yes, I'm retarded, and meant Wednesday Dec. 14

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Tony K. LeTigre
<anthonyletigre at gmail.com>wrote:

> When:              Wednesday, Dec. 12, 9 p.m. (1-2 hours)
> Where:             NoiseBridge
> What:               Planning session for NoiseBridge zine-in-progress
> Who:                Me, you, and everyone we know
>
>
> Apologies to anyone for whom this is redundant (I've been talking to a lot
> of people in person tonight).
>
> I've organized a planning session for the NoiseBridge zine /
> publication-in-conception for this Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 9 p.m., at
> NoiseBridge. (Should I put it up on the Wiki?) Between 5 and 10 people have
> already indicated a high probability that they will attend. If you'd like
> to attend, RSVP or just show up Wednesday. After that meeting I'll set up
> an email list just for those interested in the zine project, so as not to
> bombard the general discuss list with zine posts.
>
> Maybe the 3D printing thing Daniel was talking about could be integrated?
>
> I believe it's generally agreed that contributions from the
> female-identified populace are desirable, as are those from people of
> color, people of different cultures, races, ages, trans folk, little
> people, leprechauns, martians. Diversity, etc. A hacker zine could easily
> devolve into a boy's club, and as much as the part of me that remains and
> forever will be a 12-year-old boy addicted to video games and comic books
> and having virtually no contact with "the opposite" sex would probably
> enjoy that, I took some courses on feminism in college, and became kind of
> "enlightened" and whatnot, and I think we should try to break away from
> that.
>
> I'm (hopefully) going to have a little mockup ready for the Wednesday
> meeting. Of course, it will all be open for discussion. A January 2012
> launch seems like a reasonable goal - that gives us a month to get a first
> issue together, yeah? I thought some of the pages could be done by hand
> using old-school cut-and-paste style and handwriting and some could be done
> digitally, with Photoshop or InDesign (I have both on my PC). Zephyr
> suggested printing all or part of it with the laser cutter, resulting in a
> look that might be best described as "really cool."
>
> I'm in favor of color covers and possibly one or two additional
> plates/pages in color, with the majority in black & white. (The online
> version could be full-color, though, obviously.) Where should we host the
> online version? Can it be a growth from the NoiseBridge wiki page? I
> confess I'm not the computer tech/programmer/web design kind of hacker. I
> know some basic HTML code and that's about it. I don't even have Unix, for
> Christ's sake. My OS is Windows XP Professional! (Hey, that's not nice.)
>
> Here's the CCC zine, Die Datenschleuder <http://ds.ccc.de/>. It appears
> to be a publication of intimidating coolness and excellence both in its
> graphics and cover images, and in the quality of its content. This might
> make us rethink the whole endeavor. By what colossal stroke of insolence
> will a ragtag band of American upstarts challenge the preeminence of our
> German rivals? F*** that noise, that's loser thinking! We can blow them
> away! Or we can drop the hegemonic, schoolboy mentality and think of DD as
> a friend and ally rather than a rival that we must compete with and crush.
> *Shrug* Whatever, I'm torn.
>
> There's also 2600 <http://www.2600.com/>, a quarterly which has been
> around since 1984 (when I still occasionally crawled into bed with my
> mother after a thunderstorm).
>
> Anyway, I'm working on a possible cover image. Scatterplot<http://itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda33q.htm>(suggested by my squatmate, Cloud, also an NB regular) is still my favorite
> title so far. Alex already sent a possible cover image that's great, and
> works with the existing "pissing rainbows" motif. I'll bring 'em both
> Wednesday.
>
> 9pm.
>
> See you there.
>
>
>
> Tony Longshanks
>
> anthonyletigre at gmail.com
>
>
> P.S. - On a virtually unrelated, yet highly exciting note, I received
> copies of my new novella, The Witch's Garden<http://www.amazon.com/Witchs-Garden-Tony-Longshanks-LeTigre/dp/0615554229/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323765488&sr=1-2>,
> from the publisher today. I'm on Amazon! You can totally buy a copy for
> $9.99! Please do. The royalties will help us install shag carpeting and
> roach motels in our squat. Plus, I designed the front and back covers at
> NoiseBridge!
>
>
>
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