Really hot stuff arrived at our GuteSeiten headquarter: Elke & Nicole just published their new Giddyheft #5 and Jungsheft #8 - packed with hot naked girls & boys from the next door and a lot of crazy stories about having sex with baldheads, Milfs and shejaculations. Oh, yes, there will be a lot of wrongly-routed googlers with these keywords! Get your copy now - again only 2500 have been printed. And please welcome our new member Manfred Naescher, an artist and designer from Berlin, who is doing this lovely cinephile picture fanzine Screenshots: A series of drawings based on images from films. Read more about this fascinating concept, have a look inside - or order it immediately here.
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Great art project from Berlin: “Papergirl Nr. 4 knocks on your door! Thanks to all the participants Papergirl is getting 4 this year and we hearby want to invite you all, to take part! Papergirl is an artproject, which in the style of american paperboys distributes rolled art pieces by bicycle in the streets to random passers-by. This happens once a year, when it´s summer in Berlin! All given work is exhibited in a big show before the distribution. This year, additionally, we plan a bike-workshop. The artwork: Papergirl is distributed like a newspaper, but not edited or printed like one. It consists of art pieces which are rolled up together. Contributions are handed in by mail or personally and are later included in the art rolls. There are no guidelines as to format, subject matter or quantity, so originals, prints, photos, copies, texts etc. come together. Each roll contains 10-15 different works, meaning that each one of them is unique! Only premice for contributions: the work has to be rolable and it has to be at least 2 pieces so we can exhibit one distributed one. We have 3 meetings in Berlin to collect the artwork. Each date is the third wednesday in the month from 7 till 9 pm: april 15th, march 13th and june 17th at Gulasch. Or you can send something by airmail. For postal address contact: info (at) papergirl-berlin.de. The final deadline for all contributions is june 17th.” See a video of Papergirl #3 here, the little sister in California here, find all other information here and see all artworks here. Via Mail, thanks Anne!
Hi people, we really could need some help! If you’re a fanzine lover or fanzine publisher, a magazine whore, media journalist or paper fetishist and if you like our little project - please write us a mail! It don’t matters where you live – if you can write english (just a little bit, like us), are deep into paper maga/zines – then you’re our wo/men! It would be wonderful if you can help us to keep this blog alive and post regularly news from your country – we cannot really pay you something, but you’ll get you an amazing profile like this and we’ll feed you with some new zines, of course. Ok, guys and girls, hope to hear from you! Greetings from Hamburg, *Alain
The german Vice Magazine has a funny comment about zines: “Früher enthielten Zines zumindest noch irgendwelche Informationen, sogar wenn es eine beschissene Liste von Argumenten war, warum man Kraft Ketchup hassen muss. Oder ein Sonnenaufgangs-Dossier darüber, dass im Fastfood-Laden um die Ecke nie etwas passiert. Oder wie man Wolle mit roter Beete, die du in deinem verfickten Stadtgarten angepflanzt hast, einfärben kann. Oder irgendein anderer Scheiß, der zumindest vermittelte, dass du des Lesens mächtig bist—zumindest ein wenig. Aber jetzt ist alles, was wir noch zugeschickt bekommen, dieser Müll, geschaffen aus einem kleinen Fleckchen Wald. Es gibt keine Titel, Bildunterschriften, Credits oder überhaupt irgendein Wort. Uns ist egal, ob es interessant oder „gut“ aussieht (tut das hier jedenfalls nicht). Die Gehirnkapazität der Leute spielt sich heutzutage sowieso auf der Ebene eines Brotes ab und Verteidungsmaterial für Analphebeten zu verbreiten, hilft auch niemandem weiter. Wir wissen, dass wir oft Zines zeigen, die eher auf Bildern als Texten basieren, aber an dieser Stelle revidieren wir diese Angewohnheit. Verdammt, baut zumindest eine Hieroglyphe ein… irgendetwas. Egal was. Bitte!” Too make it short: It’s funny to read – and what they want is more text in zines, not only colorful and funky collages and pictures. It’s true that most of the zines today are more picture books than theoretical text deserts. But we don’t care – we at GuteSeiten feature fucking great art magazine like Nazi Knife (crazy psychedelic artworks – and every word would be too much) and magazines like Von Hundert with almost no pictures. And the end: It’s all in the mix.
Joost van der Steen and Bouwe van der Molen just published their second issue: “Failure, or how I learned to appreciate my mistakes.” Again, this lovely magazine is full of great details. Great idea: the magazine itself has been submitted to an accident-prone production process. And the first 32 pages has been exposed to multiple print errors that make every copy of this magazine unique. My favorite picture series: “Urban Failures” from Marieke Vromans and Jet van Zwieten. ”Every square meter in the Netherlands is subject to regulations and urban planning. Years of preparation ensure the optimal functional design of public space. But the public is relentless, tracks appear where architects screwed up. Continuous traffic forms so called “desire-paths”.” After you saw this photographs you will also discover “desire-paths” everywhere in your city. You’ll find an essay about failing (Inger ter Schure), a portrait of designer Arnout Visser, great “test prints” from a silkcreen workshop of Paul Wyber, a fascinating article about cartography – and the skills (and errors) of mapmakers – and much more. There are only 1500 copies – and you can order your copy here (for 11,50 €).
Designboom has a nice feature about the making process of the “papier” bags from german designer Saskia Diez. “The different-size travelling bags are made of DuPont™Tyvek®, a synthetic paper that is extremely light but at the same time robust. A silk-screen printing technique was used on the surface of the material. the bags are light, waterproof, recyclable and tear proof.”
Doing art works from magazines: Lauren DiCioccio makes sculptures and paintings about his “anticipatory nostalgia for obsolescing paper media objects”. “Fashion magazines are the source materials for my series color codification dot drawings. I make each piece on a sheet of frosted mylar laid over a magazine page. After assigning a color to every letter in the alphabet (numbers are in grayscale, 0=white and 9=black), I apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page. Each drawing I make has a different color codification, and therefore a different palette. The resulting painting is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout — like a system of Braille for the color inclined.” Via
The next Zinefest Mülheim will be in April from 25th to 26th 2009: There will be lectures, workshops, bands, exhibitions, film screenings – and of course, a lot of reading corners. Everybody is invited to participate – and also the entry is free. Via
Our friends from the International Stickeraward just released their first magazine: Klebstoff. The creative behind this new project is Matthias - who wants to create an experimental playground magazine - read it/use it/have fun with it. All in all you got 103 stickers, on 43 pages, made by 24 different international artists/groups, coming from graphic design, illustration and graffiti. The featured artists are: Bang (ITA), Finsta (SWE), On_ly (Venezuela), BTSA (GER), Marcel Tasler (GER), Shaf (GER), Pixelpopulation (GER), Turbo (FRA), Kid Gringo (GER), Waakabund (GER), ttursk & rusack (FIN), Zonenkinder (GER), Edjinn, Ibie & UiU (SPA), Doppeldenk (GER), ZEK Crew (SLO), Endtrend (GER), Saner & Mookiena (MEX), Thomas & Martin Poschauko (GER), Dirk Sandbaumhüter (GER). We absolutely love this idea - after reading and enjoying this magazine you can spread the word/stickers all around your city. There are only 1000 copies (9 Euro) - so better order fast if you want this first issue.
