Just published Just tattooed: Doing a magazine about tattoos is interesting, no doubt, but getting a magazine tattooed is fucking amazing! The swedish magazine Tare Lungt (means: “take it easy”) has published their third issue as a tattoo. Don’t believe it? Watch the Making-of-Video here. Via
“Tim Devin, a conceptual artist based in Boston is producing one of the most striking magazines in the world: you can’t buy it from a newsstand, nor from any bookshop, and you can’t even read it on the Internet. The encounter with “i left this here for you to read” (this is its name) can only happen by chance. About once a month, a new issue is printed of just fifty copies, and, thanks to a network of volunteers, is distributed in 25 cities across the USA and Canada. These copies are left in public spaces; you might find one on a park bench or on a bus seat.
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Mainstream print media is dying like flies: Yesterday Vanity Fair closed down their german edition. “Conde Nast, publishers of Vanity Fair, said it would stop producing the magazine (est. February 2007) in Germany due to the downturn in the global economy. Circulation has also fallen sharply, from about 500,000 an issue to 120,000 an issue, Deutsche Welle reported Wednesday. Conde Nast Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Newhouse said: “In a normal economic climate, we would have bravely carried on publishing Vanity Fair,” Newhouse said. “In today’s bleak economic climate, it is impossible. We did everything we could. We bought in talented people, invested in content and advertising and committed a significant amount of time, money and energy. But in the end we failed.” Glossy Lifestyle is over! Long live independent and real media!
Babylon Falling, a concept driven independent bookstore in San Francisco, with a focus on the spirit of Revolution, in association with It’s About Time are presenting an exhibition of radical underground newspapers from the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. The exhibit will be comprised of a variety of original copies of Berkeley Tribe, Berkeley Barb, The Realist, Chicago Seed, East Village Other, Catholic Worker, Civil Liberties, I Wor Kuen, American Report, SDS New Left Notes, and the Black Panther Party Newspaper. Billy X Jennings, who has graciously opened up his archive for Babylon Falling, will be leading a brief discussion on the history of the radical underground press in America. Exhibit runs through March 11th 2009. Via: Mail
La Fanzinoteca Ambulant is a mobile zine modul, based in Barcelona, Spain. But the project travels around the country introducing people to zinecraft - and has a collection with around 200 international fanzines.
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