Four Matthew Crowther zines

A couple of months back, I heard Matthew Crowther mentioned in a podcast (or maybe interviewed on one?), went to his site to check out his work, and ended up ordering a couple of zines.* A week or so went by, and I got an email apologizing for shipping delays, and another week or two after that, I got a package with 5 zines in it: Listen… I’ve been drinking vol. 1, Listen… I’ve been drinking vol. 2: When the summer ends.; Nothing can hurt me; All I Ever Wanted 2; and All Night Long Vol. 17, a split zine with Nathan Pearce (of Midwest Dirt fame).

Score!

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‘Edward Weston: Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio’

‘Edward Weston: Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio‘ is a beautifully printed reproduction from Michael Smith and Paula Chumlee‘s Lodima Press. A copy of the original, owned by Ansel and Virginia Adams, is in the Weston Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, and Bonham’s auctioned off an original in 2013 for $80,500, so a reproduction, especially one as handsome as this, is a great thing to have available, 65+ years after the original came out.

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perfect for us our light

Here’s a good dua for Martin Luther King day, from Surah at Tahrim (66:8):

رَبَّنَا أَتْمِمْ لَنَا نُورَنَا وَاغْفِرْ لَنَا ۖ إِنَّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

rabbana atmim lana noorana waghfir lana innaka AAala kulli shay-in qadeer

Our Lord, perfect for us our light and forgive us. Indeed, You are over all things competent.

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