ZinesFromOuterSpace! a spark of life returns

[lucy]

GT-

Cool. 

I'm out of town this week but look forward to next weekend and beyond. If you are looking for TATTERDEMALION  contribution let me know because I am so in.

I've been to NB a handful of times, more for German Chats than electromechanical projects, though I'm a maker by trade and spirit. Definitely new to writing and zining, but loving the possibilities and challenges. 

Later 
-l. 

Am 21.01.2013 um 03:20 schrieb "gl at mortr@mp" <glamortramp at riseup.net>:

> On Fri, January 18, 2013 11:01 am, Lucy (diN0bot) Mendel wrote:
>> Hi Tony and everyone -
>> 
>> I'd like to get involved (haven't been involved before). Is anyone up for
>> some kind of collaborating / brainstorming /working session at NoiseBridge
>> this Sunday or next weekend? I'm not sure where we are in the upcoming ZIP
>> process: (a) I'd love to learn more about how to make zine's with more
>> than
>> a typewriter, pens and a copier, and (b) I'd love to contribute, so maybe
>> a
>> bit of a community-finding and then writing session could be fun.
>> 
>> Lucy.
> 
> 
> Hey Lucy,
> 
> 
> Please forgive my belated response. I sent you a brief response off-list a
> few days ago promising to follow up. Whatever that flu was that's been
> going around, I got it, & it was not a pretty sight. I've been kind of a
> wreck for the past week or 2 on account of that + my own special blend of
> delightful problems, which is why I've been so totally off the ball with
> this.
> 
> This Sunday is today, & it's doubtful I can successfully take on a new
> engagement for what "remains of today" (wasn't that a movie starring
> Anthony Hopkins?) although as it happens I may be coming to NBridge this
> evening on some business. I assume you've been to the space before? You
> said you haven't been involved....with Noisebridge you mean? It sounds
> like you have some zine-making experience, at least at the beginner level.
> I haven't been to NB myself for a week or 2, ever since I got sick &
> flaked on the screenprinting workshop I organized....I'm afraid I
> alienated some people with that, & it's making me wonder how much
> commitment I can realistically take on at this point. ZiP03, the third
> issue of the Noisebridge-y "Zine in Progress" that I do (with
> contributions from other NBridgers), is pretty much done & my immediate
> goal is to get the rest of it up on the website. Then I need to figure out
> how I'm going to print some copies of it - free ones for the contributors,
> & hopefully some extra ones to sell to anyone who wants one.
> 
> Then I want to take a break from ZiP for awhile & do a new zine, something
> different, a low-fi, black & white, easy-to-mass-produce zine in the
> classic style (ZiP is more of a zine-magazine hybrid, higher production
> values, which is why I call it a MegaZine). I think it's going to be a
> zine devoted to alternative housing situations & the various ways that
> people in SF & elsewhere live Off the Grid, i.e. without paying rent or
> buying a home & all the other things that go along with that prepackaged
> stereotypical mainstream existence. This is a subject on which I have
> experience to share & quit ea lot to say, so it should be fun. I have the
> perfect title, too, one I've been sitting on for a long time now:
> TATTERDEMALION.
> 
> I'm also working on a sizable data collection project that involves
> converting a series of Excel spreadsheets into a database with a user
> interface that I can host on a secure website. I don't know how to do any
> of that, but I've found a gent named Stan who seems knowledgeable & has
> offered to help. I believe we've made a date to meet & work at NB this
> Wednesday, & I'll be around other nights as well.
> 
> UPDATE: I fell asleep in the midst of typing this letter & just woke up
> from a nap at 3am. So Sunday is definitely out :-) Let's meet soon! Can
> you help me find other zinesters & build a coalition? A loose confederacy?
> A consensual reality subdivision? A Mandatory Enjoyment Commission? What
> are you working on right now? Tell me now in writing or we'll talk in
> person soon.
> 
> +11+
> 
> I guess I'm gonna send this to the zine list in hopes it may come alive
> again....wake up wake up it's time to work!
>