Zine Review: Isolation Resurrect
Isolation Resurrect
True Zine Marin
https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin/
https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/
Isolation Resurrect is a full-colour, a bit wider than A5 collage zine.
Collage is a lot like poetry for me: I know what I like, but explaining why I like it is difficult.
Set on maps as backgrounds, Isolation Resurrect features collages made from cut out paper elements, mail-related bits, stickers, and more. There are few words in this colourful collection (those used having impact) but plenty to pour over visually from page to page.
Using the title as the base, I really picked up on the quarantine/isolation feelings from this zine. Using the maps as backgrounds is an excellent choice and visually represents huge part of the change of view in our new world. Travel, going places, road trips… They’re all different. The same goes for the collages on top. The importance of mail, filling up one’s time…
What really makes the tone stick for me is the distinct glimpses of the darker side of these times as well. A few words and a few images make a big impact.
My favourite page is a tough call in this, but I really love this quote:
“Be welcome to and offer help as we are healed by it”
Isolation Resurrect is an interesting collage zine that made me feel and made me thing. All said and done, that’s always the goal with art. Definitely a keeper for me.
Zine Review: My Opinions on the Stardew Valley Bachelors and Bachelorettes
My Opinions on the Stardew Valley Bachelors and Bachelorettes
localamity
https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/localamity
My Opinions on the Stardew Valley Bachelors and Bachelorettes is a full-colour A7 zine about the marriage candidates in the game ‘Stardew Valley‘.
The top of this zine says “A zine that nobody wanted” but I absolutely wanted it. I just didn’t know I wanted it until I saw it.
If you’re not familiar, Stardew Valley is an incredibly popular farming simulation game that incorporates other elements like combat and dungeons. You also have the option of romancing and marrying a number of characters in the game.
As a zine about a specific game, this is going to be a touch lost on some people. That said, I’m a big fan of the game, and I’m thrilled to see this mini.
Each page features two marriageable characters with a colour picture and Localamity’s thoughts on each candidate.
I found myself chuckling quite a bit because my thoughts line up with Localamity’s a lot. (Harvey is the first character I ever married, Abigail was my first wife, and I also haven’t pursue Leah for absolutely no particular reason.) I love that Localamity included Krobus as a candidate as well even though they technically aren’t. I 100% support the inclusion of shadow babies in a future update. Fingers crossed.
If you like Stardew Valley, then grab this mini. It’s a fun addition to a relaxing game.
What’s Happening? Techmageddon 2020
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Life doesn’t slow down – especially not this year.
This is a quick update video about what has been happening. I’m currently unable to edit videos, which means pretty much everything except these one-off small vids are on pause until I get a new computer.
These are the days of our lives…
ZineWriMo Day 30 – ZineWriMo Wrap Up: Blame It On 2020
Hello, happy Monday, and happy final day of ZineWriMo! We’re here! We made it and, from what I have seen and been told, we’ve had a great ZineWriMo.
Give and take a little. Haha.
ZineWriMo Wrap Up – Write/Zine about your ZineWriMo 2020
With the way this year has been going, I was a little bit nervous about ZineWriMo, but I was also excited to start creating. I knew I wasn’t the only one who hadn’t been creating much – if at all – this year, and ZWM was a great, low-stress, low pressure way to get going.
I didn’t finish the mini-zines, but the prompts proved to be an unexpected kind of inspiration, and it felt so very good to get started.
Of course, the 24 hour zine day was the big day. I was completely unprepared and loved every minute of it. I didn’t finish this either, but I smile so much thinking about this! Everyone was wonderful and supportive, the prompts were awesome and thought-provoking, and it was so much fun.
I was looking forward to finishing it before the month was out but…
Yep! I had to take a trip to emergency yesterday. I am okay and there are a few things yet to be worked out. I have been sleeping in between pokes and prods, but I’m resting at home and will have some answers soon. I’m so sorry about the silence around here.
It’s been an eventful month but, overall, a great one with plenty to look back on and smile. Did I accomplish all the goals I set at the beginning of the month? Nope! But that’s not what this is all about.
I hope everyone else had a great month. I’d love to see what you all did. I know there’s a problem with my comments section here, so feel free to tag me on Instagram and/or email me your blog post links at seagreenzines@gmail.com
Until next time, spread a little sunshine…
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Other Participants:
*https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
*@spaghettinightinc
*@juelule_
*Echo Publishing
*Rachel Getts
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Get the full list of prompts and find out what this whole ZineWriMo thing is all about here.
ZineWriMo Day 28 – Celebration
Hello and happy Saturday, zine friends. How are you? Did you celebrate Thanksgiving? If yes, are you finding interesting and creative ways to use your leftovers? I’m really missing pumpkin pie right about now. Hahaha. Along the theme of being grateful and thankful comes today’s prompt…
Make a zine celebrating someone in your life
It’s all too easy to go through life thinking that those we care about know that we care about it. They know, right? In the way we check in, in the way we have our in jokes or our favourite memories… But I think it’s also all too easy to forget that we are cared about. That we are special to someone. The kindest hearts are often those bearing the most pain. So it certainly wouldn’t hurt us to share the love a bit and celebrate those who are special to us.
When I sat down with my mini-zine blank, I didn’t have anyone in mind to make a zine for. In previous years, I always went in with a plan. This time, I sat down… and it was the paper that did it for me. The cover is one small part of a 12×12 piece of paper featuring a blurred but beautiful blue sky and stunningly green grass. Then, like that sun shining, the lightbulb went off in my mind, and I knew.
Unfortunately, this one is a bit of a personal variety, so I won’t get too much into it. Like the others, it’s not finished yet. Still, I enjoyed expressing myself through colour, patterned paper, and washi tape. I enjoyed making a zine, but I also enjoyed making something purely for appreciating this person’s completely unexpected but now so important existence in my life.
How did you go with today’s prompt?
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Other Participants:
*https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
*@spaghettinightinc
*@juelule_
*Echo Publishing
*Rachel Getts
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Get the full list of prompts and find out what this whole ZineWriMo thing is all about here.
Check It Out: Theee Urban Spacecat – A Mike Nobody Cassette-Zine
ZineWriMo Day 27 – Friday Night Highlights
Happy Friday! How is it the last Friday in November already?! My goodness gracious me. Time flies and flies. Being Friday, you know what’s up next…
Friday Night Highlights – Show off your work in progress
As much as I had other plans for my works in progress, here is the big one! Yes, my 24-hour zine will be a 24(+)-hour zine, and that’s totally okay. This is my kitchen table for the time being. Hahaha. I’ve had to spend the day catching up (and will spend a bit more time doing so over the next few days, but I’m going to be getting my zine on hard to get this baby done sooner rather than later!
Do you have a Friday night highlight to share?
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Other Participants:
*https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
*@spaghettinightinc
*@juelule_
*Echo Publishing
*Rachel Getts
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Get the full list of prompts and find out what this whole ZineWriMo thing is all about here.
ZineWriMo Day 26 – Warm Up Blackout Poetry
Hello, and happy Friday. I’m doing yesterday’s prompt today because I want to catch up, and I really like…
Warm Up – Try making blackout poetry
If you’re not familiar, blackout poetry is where you take an already established text and black out part of the text to create something new.
There’s something intriguing to me about blackout poetry. I never know where it’s going or where it’ll really end up until I’m finished. For a long time I was actually a bit intimidated by blackout poetry and didn’t do it. What could I possibly create? Would it be easy or hard? Would I love it or hate it?
It turned out I really love it. It’s like unlocking a hidden puzzle inside every piece of text. And you can do it more than once to unlock different puzzles. I know it can feel a bit daunting, but I recommend giving it a go if you haven’t yet.
Have you tried blackout poetry?
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Other Participants:
*https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
*@spaghettinightinc
*@juelule_
*Echo Publishing
*Rachel Getts
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Get the full list of prompts and find out what this whole ZineWriMo thing is all about here.
ZineWriMo Day 24/25 – 24 Hour Zine Day & WIP Wednesday
Hello and happy Thursday, zine friends!
Well, well, well. I don’t know about you, but Tuesday and Wednesday certainly snuck up on me! I apologise for the silence around here, but I was busy diving into the prompts…
24 Hour Zine Day – Make a zine of any size or type in 24 hours
Work on your work in progress
Work on your work in progress
You have to start somewhere…
This is the third 24 hour zine I have made, and one thing that stays consistent is a colourful ‘introduction to the 24 hour zine challenge’ page. It ends up being a great warm up that helps me loosen up creatively and use all the colourful things.
I didn’t really know for sure if I was going to try for the full 24 consecutive hours. I started at noon on Tuesday and figured I’d just go with the flow of how I felt. In previous years I’ve broken up the process over a couple or a few days. This year, even though I think I had more prompts than I’ve ever had before, I thought I’d leave myself open to the idea.
There were so many creative prompts this year. (My 24 Hour Zine Thing zines are all pages I’ve made but the pages are based on suggestions people send.) A lot were thought provoking and one even made me laugh out loud.
At midnight, I called it for being a good 12-hour creative session and decided I needed some sleep. Well, more like my body and my brain fog decided it for me. That said, that’s the longest solid creative session I’ve had making one of these zines.
I started at 10am the next day. I spent a little less time on social media and ended up getting further than I thought I would. There are still quite a few pages left to complete, but I did get all the prompts started with my ‘page base’ ideas. I have a lot of writing in my future…
I didn’t completely finish the zine within 24 hours, but I really loved the process. I did stop pretty regularly for social media updates and whatnot. Would I have finished if I hadn’t done that? Possibly. But, for me, the social media and stopping to chat to people is part of the fun. People were very encouraging, I got some last-minute page prompts, and I overall didn’t feel alone any second of those 24 hours.
No matter how you do it, I highly recommend giving it a try.
Have you done the 24 hour zine challenge? Will you? Oh my gosh, are you doing it right now? Let me know in the comments.
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Other Participants:
*https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
*@spaghettinightinc
*@juelule_
*Echo Publishing
*Rachel Getts
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Get the full list of prompts and find out what this whole ZineWriMo thing is all about here.