So it's been almost a year since the last post, but now that Year 12 is over, it's about time we got this show back on the road.
The zine fair table is booked, the word is out, the Facebook event is made.
More news as it comes to hand.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Well, the zines got a close up...
Hey look at that. We're [kind of] in a video that we didn't make ourselves! I did spot Mr. Marcus Westbury, artsy curator and creator of Not Quite Art, strolling around the Zine Fair with his handy dandy video camera, and I did hear him mention his blog while we were there. So low and behold! Here is said video and our zine does get a nice close up even if we don't. Enjoy!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Goods Posted
I just walked to the postbox to mail a package of 10 zines to Three Stories Artspace, a gallery in Healesville.
After a few emails back and forth, they finally purchased $30 worth of zines and as far as I can tell, they'll be sold in the gallery's shop.
I also just emailed Bird In The Hand to see if they have recieved our zines yet.
After a few emails back and forth, they finally purchased $30 worth of zines and as far as I can tell, they'll be sold in the gallery's shop.
I also just emailed Bird In The Hand to see if they have recieved our zines yet.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
To Newcastle!
Just sent 10 copies of Issue No.1 off to Bird In The Hand this arvo via the Post Office :)
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sellouts
Sticky just emailed me to say that we have finally sold all of the 10 copies of Issue No.2 that we put on their online mail order service.
That means that people bought 10 of our zine off the net and paid extra for postage and all... That's pretty impressive if you ask me.
That means that people bought 10 of our zine off the net and paid extra for postage and all... That's pretty impressive if you ask me.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Sean says:
Well I did it. Finally. I made it onto the cover of a fistful of buttons. This is amazing. No words can properly begin to describe the feeling I'm feeling right now. You know that Andy Warhol saying that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame? Well this has got to be at least 27 minutes.
I feel like I should be hiding my face when I go out in public, for fear of being mobbed. There are a lot of people who would kill to get a look at this face. I should know, I've seen it first-hand.
I know a guy who knew a guy who got a letter published in the paper. I think he said some negative things about an article or something. I dunno. Point is, some guy stopped him in the street and was like "HEY! Aren't you that guy who wrote that letter in the paper?". Long story short, some stuff went down and he ended up naked and in the gutter.
I don't want that happening to me! Maybe I'll just hire a bodyguard. I'll have the money to afford one what with all the offers for big parts in movies I should be expecting to get soon. I should get a publicist too! And a makeup guy and... what else do all those famous people have? It doesn't matter, I'll let my assistant figure that out.
Maybe I could score some hot Fistful of Buttons groupies! Who I could meet at the sweet Fistful afterparties. I must email Carl about these parties immediately. Nothing shall get in the way of me and my fame.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be in my trailer.
I feel like I should be hiding my face when I go out in public, for fear of being mobbed. There are a lot of people who would kill to get a look at this face. I should know, I've seen it first-hand.
I know a guy who knew a guy who got a letter published in the paper. I think he said some negative things about an article or something. I dunno. Point is, some guy stopped him in the street and was like "HEY! Aren't you that guy who wrote that letter in the paper?". Long story short, some stuff went down and he ended up naked and in the gutter.
I don't want that happening to me! Maybe I'll just hire a bodyguard. I'll have the money to afford one what with all the offers for big parts in movies I should be expecting to get soon. I should get a publicist too! And a makeup guy and... what else do all those famous people have? It doesn't matter, I'll let my assistant figure that out.
Maybe I could score some hot Fistful of Buttons groupies! Who I could meet at the sweet Fistful afterparties. I must email Carl about these parties immediately. Nothing shall get in the way of me and my fame.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be in my trailer.
Woa
Just finished uploading Issues 3, 4 and 5 to this thing and man there is a lotta stuff down the left hand side of the page now...
Enjoy!
Also I did recently recieve an email from someone at Three Stories Artspace in Healesville who is interested in stocking the zine, so I'm trying to follow that up and get some more information from them.
If all goes well, we'll end up in the Melbourne CBD, Newcastle and Healesville all at once :)
Enjoy!
Also I did recently recieve an email from someone at Three Stories Artspace in Healesville who is interested in stocking the zine, so I'm trying to follow that up and get some more information from them.
If all goes well, we'll end up in the Melbourne CBD, Newcastle and Healesville all at once :)
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sticky sent this around:
Hi Everyone,
We at the institute just want to thank you for making the fair so damn ace. The Love Secretary wrote the best thank you letter to you all personally on the day but in the ensuing chaos I fear I may have lost it. The second I find it, I'll send it out as a pdf to everyone.
Special shout outs to all those who made their table look so fantastic, especially Amanda Panda and The Fetus and the Fistful of Buttons crew. And Tango for sharing the balloon love.
We will be posting pics on our facebook page very soon - if you have any pics to share we'd love to see them.
Zine on.
Eloise, Luke and the Sticky Family.
We at the institute just want to thank you for making the fair so damn ace. The Love Secretary wrote the best thank you letter to you all personally on the day but in the ensuing chaos I fear I may have lost it. The second I find it, I'll send it out as a pdf to everyone.
Special shout outs to all those who made their table look so fantastic, especially Amanda Panda and The Fetus and the Fistful of Buttons crew. And Tango for sharing the balloon love.
We will be posting pics on our facebook page very soon - if you have any pics to share we'd love to see them.
Zine on.
Eloise, Luke and the Sticky Family.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Zine Fair Enjoyed By All
Yesterday, between 3pm and 8pm, we found ourselves sitting in the Degraves St Subway selling zines like there was no today.
I'd been collecting people's work since last October and spent the whole week putting together three brand new zines at once. After hours of aranging pages in photoshop, spending all my free periods in the library with the guillotine, and way too much time at officeworks, everything came together as we set up our table crammed full of zines, brown paper bags, buttons, stickers and posters.
All in all we sold over 50 zines, with only around 20 going to people we actually knew.
The leftover zines will be going to the Sticky Institute to be sold as well as a Newcastle zine store called Bird In The Hand. A few will also probably be sold around school.
Thanks to everyone that contributed, helped put them together, and came to keep us company in the subway. It was a great success!
Issues 3, 4 and 5 will be uploaded to the blog shortly :)
Saturday, September 5, 2009
One Month Later
We did it!
Congratulations people! Not only did we actually create and sell all 10 copies of our first zine, we've now actaully followed all the way through to a second issue!
Today we sat in Sticky finishing off the buttons and sticking them on all the bags before we handed up 20 copies of issue no.2
10 of them hit the shelf while 10 more are being sold online through Sticky's Mail Order Department. 7 more will be sitting in my locker at school for direct purchase at the low low price of $4. (Better get in quick though because John and Sam.M have already claimed one each... so there are really only 5 now).
You get 36 pages, a free button AND a sticker!
The deadline for issue no.3 has been set for the end of September (and will not be changing like last time) so you've got a lot of the school holidays to work on something. Get anyone you think might be interested to send us something also. Hopefully it will only get bigger and better!
By the way, we've pretty much run out of good button designs so if we're to have free buttons with the next issue you guys are gonna have to whip up something awesome. (I'm looking at you drawy people!)
I think that's all I had to announce for the moment so yeah...
Let's do it again! (because apparently it was quite popular last time around)
Congratulations people! Not only did we actually create and sell all 10 copies of our first zine, we've now actaully followed all the way through to a second issue!
Today we sat in Sticky finishing off the buttons and sticking them on all the bags before we handed up 20 copies of issue no.2
10 of them hit the shelf while 10 more are being sold online through Sticky's Mail Order Department. 7 more will be sitting in my locker at school for direct purchase at the low low price of $4. (Better get in quick though because John and Sam.M have already claimed one each... so there are really only 5 now).
You get 36 pages, a free button AND a sticker!
The deadline for issue no.3 has been set for the end of September (and will not be changing like last time) so you've got a lot of the school holidays to work on something. Get anyone you think might be interested to send us something also. Hopefully it will only get bigger and better!
By the way, we've pretty much run out of good button designs so if we're to have free buttons with the next issue you guys are gonna have to whip up something awesome. (I'm looking at you drawy people!)
I think that's all I had to announce for the moment so yeah...
Let's do it again! (because apparently it was quite popular last time around)
Friday, August 7, 2009
We Got Reviewed by Some Goat Guy!
A moment ago, I pulled a 'Sticky Institute' email/newsletter thing out of my junkmail, (why it was in there, nobody knows) and guess who got the first review in it!? :O
A Fistful of Buttons
A5 28 pages, done by a total of 8 magic people.
comes in cool paper bag
I never knew how to start a review. There we go, much better.
Well, a Fistful of Buttons (aka FFB) starts in a little paper bag
with a sideways exit. In marker, the name is spelled on the front, setting the scene for this quaint, dirty, urban, teenage zine. Being a teenager myself, it struck many chords.
Inside the paper bag, you are met with a yellow-stained photo-cover of Hosier Lane (Melbourne) graffiti tourists.
Inside cover: flowersand butterflies and oddly cutesy drawings, which remind me ofthat old-school, kitsch wallpaper. The stories are all pretty genuine and interesting. 'Holidays' has to have pinned the feeling down of being a teen during summer vacation. Wonderful use of leet speak.
The photography really stood out for me, looking really grungy and photocopier-aholic-like. The poetry, well, I couldn't tell whether it was tongue-in-cheek or just plain innocent-naive-style. In general, I like this zine, although the magic 8 ball told me to do otherwise. A little cliche at times, but still, I would read another zine if you made one. Yep...
-GOATMAN
No idea who GOATMAN is but it's still cool :)
A Fistful of Buttons
A5 28 pages, done by a total of 8 magic people.
comes in cool paper bag
I never knew how to start a review. There we go, much better.
Well, a Fistful of Buttons (aka FFB) starts in a little paper bag
with a sideways exit. In marker, the name is spelled on the front, setting the scene for this quaint, dirty, urban, teenage zine. Being a teenager myself, it struck many chords.
Inside the paper bag, you are met with a yellow-stained photo-cover of Hosier Lane (Melbourne) graffiti tourists.
Inside cover: flowersand butterflies and oddly cutesy drawings, which remind me ofthat old-school, kitsch wallpaper. The stories are all pretty genuine and interesting. 'Holidays' has to have pinned the feeling down of being a teen during summer vacation. Wonderful use of leet speak.
The photography really stood out for me, looking really grungy and photocopier-aholic-like. The poetry, well, I couldn't tell whether it was tongue-in-cheek or just plain innocent-naive-style. In general, I like this zine, although the magic 8 ball told me to do otherwise. A little cliche at times, but still, I would read another zine if you made one. Yep...
-GOATMAN
No idea who GOATMAN is but it's still cool :)
Thursday, August 6, 2009
All Gone!
Today, John's travels into the city confirmed that we have sold all 10 copies of Issue No.1 :D
That means a tidy profit of $12.50 for the FFB kitty and it is likely that we will print 15 to 20 copies of Issue No.2 :)
That means a tidy profit of $12.50 for the FFB kitty and it is likely that we will print 15 to 20 copies of Issue No.2 :)
Get back 'ere!
ah-HA!
You all thought I'd neglected the blog!
(That is, assuming you even ever looked at the thing more than once... which you didn't but oh well)
The point is that the second issue is STILL hapenning!
It'll be put together with whatever we have before the Friday 7th (aka. tomorrow)
Also, sorry to all those people who handed their stuff in ages ago :\
But also thank you, because now this issue is looking really awesome!
(Quick! Go draw / write / photograph something else!)
You all thought I'd neglected the blog!
(That is, assuming you even ever looked at the thing more than once... which you didn't but oh well)
The point is that the second issue is STILL hapenning!
It'll be put together with whatever we have before the Friday 7th (aka. tomorrow)
Also, sorry to all those people who handed their stuff in ages ago :\
But also thank you, because now this issue is looking really awesome!
(Quick! Go draw / write / photograph something else!)
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Lucky You
You guys now have until Wednesday night on the 29th of July to get your stuff into us!
It doesn't matter what it is you send just get it in by then and everything we have on Thursday will be considered... but it's your very last chance so go go go!
It doesn't matter what it is you send just get it in by then and everything we have on Thursday will be considered... but it's your very last chance so go go go!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Mission Accomplished x3
Yesterday, Dana travled into the city and reported that we've already sold at least three copies of Issue No.1 in three days!
Good work team!
Good work team!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Foot in The Door
Yesterday we took ten copies of Issue No.1 into Sticky Institute under Flinders St Station in the city. Everything went smoothly and within a few minutes they were sitting on the shelf selling for $2.50 each.
Now that we've done it once, it's time to do it again, but better! We are now calling for all entries to be submitted by the 24th of July so we can release the next issue by the end of the month.
We are going for a tri-weekly kind of thing at the moment and hopefully we'll be able to keep it up with your help.
I'm kind of getting sick of chasing up people one at a time so from now on this'll be the place to get all your news and updates. You can also use the comments to ask questions and to confirm your involvement in each issue.
So for Issue No.2 if you're in, you're in and if you're not, you're not. Anyone is welcome to add something but please don't stuff us around with maybes. Everything we receive before the 24th will be considered no matter how big or small. Just contact / send your entry to dacarldude@hotmail.com and we'll get back to you asap.
The zine is set out in A5 (half an A4) pages but you can also have A4 (landscape) double page spreads for your artwork.
If you are writing for us, just send us the text and we will format it ourselves. Entries may even be hand written as long as they're in pen or something the photocopier can actually see (no greyled).
The key to contributing is to not think about it too much, don't worry about how good or bad you think it is, just send it in and hope for the best! Just make something you are happy with.
Hope to get an entry from everyone who has been sent to this blog :) So hurry up! haha
Now that we've done it once, it's time to do it again, but better! We are now calling for all entries to be submitted by the 24th of July so we can release the next issue by the end of the month.
We are going for a tri-weekly kind of thing at the moment and hopefully we'll be able to keep it up with your help.
I'm kind of getting sick of chasing up people one at a time so from now on this'll be the place to get all your news and updates. You can also use the comments to ask questions and to confirm your involvement in each issue.
So for Issue No.2 if you're in, you're in and if you're not, you're not. Anyone is welcome to add something but please don't stuff us around with maybes. Everything we receive before the 24th will be considered no matter how big or small. Just contact / send your entry to dacarldude@hotmail.com and we'll get back to you asap.
The zine is set out in A5 (half an A4) pages but you can also have A4 (landscape) double page spreads for your artwork.
If you are writing for us, just send us the text and we will format it ourselves. Entries may even be hand written as long as they're in pen or something the photocopier can actually see (no greyled).
The key to contributing is to not think about it too much, don't worry about how good or bad you think it is, just send it in and hope for the best! Just make something you are happy with.
Hope to get an entry from everyone who has been sent to this blog :) So hurry up! haha
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