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Monday, April 19, 2010
A kind of introduction
5:51 AM |
Hello and welcome to Zine per diem, a blog dedicated to documenting my new personal resolution: I challenge myself to to produce a quotidian zine for a whole year. If I'm successful, I'll keep on going. Who knows, perhaps I'll keep making a zine a day for a decade! But let's not let me get ahead of myself.
Take a look at my original blog post if you would like to learn how a friend's housefire led to Zine per diem. The progression is fairly logical, I swear!
If you'd like to see how easy it is to make a little zine of your very own, take a look at SamProof's YouTube video (it's the same one I linked in the above blog post, so if you watched it there then don't worry):
I'm really excited to come up with a format that I can use to upload each zine that I make so that y'all can print and construct any and all of them for your viewing pleasure. Alas, it's never so simple as scanning and posting. Nonetheless, I shall endeavour to come up with a workable format ASAP.
I was going to set a collection of rules and limitations, but then I realised I was working against myself - the entire point of this challenge is to foster creativity, not to force conformity to arbitrary rules. The single rule is that I produce some kind of zine every day.
In the future I hope to collect various zine-related info and create feature posts as well, but there's too far in the future for me to think about while still struggling with my first serious full-time job. But the thought is there, marinating away.
I'm keen to get moving on beautifying this blog, so here I will leave it. I look forward to posting a zine per diem from now until the foreseeable future. Au revoir!
~Jessica
*This post was written in cranky spirit as I had already composed it and was just about to post when my phone checked a tantrum and deleted it completely.
Take a look at my original blog post if you would like to learn how a friend's housefire led to Zine per diem. The progression is fairly logical, I swear!
If you'd like to see how easy it is to make a little zine of your very own, take a look at SamProof's YouTube video (it's the same one I linked in the above blog post, so if you watched it there then don't worry):
I'm really excited to come up with a format that I can use to upload each zine that I make so that y'all can print and construct any and all of them for your viewing pleasure. Alas, it's never so simple as scanning and posting. Nonetheless, I shall endeavour to come up with a workable format ASAP.
I was going to set a collection of rules and limitations, but then I realised I was working against myself - the entire point of this challenge is to foster creativity, not to force conformity to arbitrary rules. The single rule is that I produce some kind of zine every day.
In the future I hope to collect various zine-related info and create feature posts as well, but there's too far in the future for me to think about while still struggling with my first serious full-time job. But the thought is there, marinating away.
I'm keen to get moving on beautifying this blog, so here I will leave it. I look forward to posting a zine per diem from now until the foreseeable future. Au revoir!
~Jessica
*This post was written in cranky spirit as I had already composed it and was just about to post when my phone checked a tantrum and deleted it completely.
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