Posts Tagged ‘diy’

The Golden Age Of Indie Fanzines [Flickr group] – Ally of dusty7s.blogspot.com has started what should hopefully become a great resource of old zines. If you have any knocking around, now you know where to put them!

The Treehouse Gallery – "The Treehouse Gallery is an innovative public project featuring a free daily program of events, arts, musicology and activities in Regent's Park, London. Open from 19th July until 6th September."

Newspaper Club – A work in progress – "We're building a service to help people make their own newspapers. This is the blog where we're alarmingly honest about where it's all going wrong. And occasionally smug about where it's going right."

Geninne's Art Blog: handcarvedstamptutorial [via Pikaland –

The APF on Sunday was pretty good fun, but I have way too many half-written posts I already want to finish, so I don't have time to say much about it. None of my photos came out, either. Fortunately, there are loads of reports up at Bugpowder, so head over there if you want to know what happened. Yay!

Also on the comics front: the latest Scott Pilgrim book is out this week. Awesome sauce.

I went to Zine Fest last Saturday, which was pretty cool. I think I first spotted something about it on upcoming, but for some reason didn't add it to my list of things I'm interested in as I usually would (and I can't even find it listed now), so I forgot all about it [...]

makerfaire.com: Maker Faire Newcastle 2009 – I've been dying for the Make geeks to come to the UK, and they are! Plus, this gives me an opportunity to visit Newcastle, where I have never been. Suh-weeeet! Who else wants to come? 14-15 March 2009 [upcoming link: http://is.gd/gIKV ]

As you can probably tell from these extensive notes, I had fantastically interesting day on Saturday, learning about new projects, thinking in new ways, and making new friends, and spending all of Sunday thinking about them and writing about them. As Matt Ward said in his summation of PaperCamp, it was a fantastic convergence of [...]

There were a couple more sessions before lunch. First was Cheathco's Pirates and Scalpels: travel guides/one shot books/newspapers. As Chris confessed right at the start, he has "something of an obsession" with guide books (delineated in more detail in this post), although he is not particularly precious about them as objects. Quite the opposite; all [...]

After Aaron's talk, Tom Taylor gave a little spiel about his microprinter, a standard till printer hooked up to the internet to print whatever you command it to, which in Tom's case are things like his daily calendar, weather reports, and @towerbridge opening times to help him plan his cycling route. Nifty! The notes for [...]