Kent Hall (@windsorknot on Instagram and Twitter, and stop what you’re doing and go follow him NOW) is doing incredible, inspirational, wonderful things with Instax and Polaroid, grease pencil, marker, chalk, cardboard, stamps, paint, and various other media. I’m a fan and (secretly) jealous, want to find some way to do some things like that, …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Dave Rothschild – ‘Healing’
Dave Rothschild dedicated Healing to “all the clinicians and doctors out there who have compassion and honest intention to help their patients heal.” It’s a strange book to be dedicated to doctors, sorta, what with the pictures of forests and suburban-looking parks, mostly in the fall and winter, and it’s really a zine mostly concerned …
Romy van der Burgh – ‘Through the Timeless Windows of Havana’
Romy van der Burgh’s Through the Timeless Windows of Havana is/was the first second of Let’s Explore magazine‘s occasional journal series.* The zine combines van der Burgh’s journalistic account of her late 20-teens visit with photographs she made there, and works something like one of those long photo essays from Life magazine or something, without …
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Julián Péter – “Blue Mosque” & “まる” (maru)
I saw some mention of Julián Péter’s “Blue Mosque” zine on Instagram, and quickly ordered what, at the time, were his two most recent zines. The “Maru” project is on his website; “Blue Mosque” sorta came and went, maybe like zines should.
11 Café Royal zines…
It was March or April, 2019, and I remembered Café Royal Books, publishers of fine zines from from the British Isles. It may have been something on Twitter, though I only followed the account while working on this review. At the website, I once again found a bewildering array of zines and somehow stumbled into …
Noah Kalina – ‘Tiny Flock’
If you appreciate good photography and dry, sly humor, and you’re not subscribed to Noah Kalina’s superlative newsletter, do yourself a favor. I subscribed awhile ago, probably about a year after it started, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every weekly email. It’s also how I came to hear about Tiny Flock (and Bedmounds before it).
Noah Kalina – ‘Bedmounds’
2014 was the tail end of the Obama years, which was a time in our country where there was relative domestic peace and prosperity.I could bunch up a mound of sheets and it was fun and meaningless. Back then we smiled. Back then joy was possible. Kalina, Noah. Newsletter #47: “Bedmounds.” electronic mail, MailChimp. Retrieved from …
