Posted by cianmm 5 days ago
Recently, Seattle's been trying to make a comeback downtown. We lost gobs of tenants and the riff raff tookover. One element of the comeback strategy is this Seattle Restored project. Basically, rent free storefronts to small businesses.
For father's day my ladies brought me to one of them:
https://seattlerestored.org/locations/paper-pushers-print-sh...
They had about a thousand zines and variants. I was told my minimum spend and nailed it. So much fun. In the area, go!
Not trying to get into an argument but you are no more entitled to the city than your fellow citizens aka the "riff raff"
I don't agree with use of the tongue-in-cheek term "riff raff" for unhoused people living in tents and shanties on the sideway. And I think such people deserve help.
But yes, they have less of a right to live on the sidewalk than the right of people and businesses that pay rent and expect public spaces that are usable, safe, and free of people so intoxicated that they have lost contact with reality and are not safe to be around.
Is someone living with their friends, relatives, family, entitled to less in a society?
I, a renter, can’t renovate the house I live in. The owner can. You, a house guest, can’t unilaterally decide to change my WiFi password.
Zine meetup every other Friday downtown: https://seattleprintersguild.org/
I picked up a slightly different format which is double sided and two per piece of paper.
PDF example and Affinity Publisher 2 files: https://limewire.com/d/Vi7Td#q7xsY0HXLY
The hardest parts of formatting these are (a) not making the font too small (b) getting the folds to land in the middle of pages (if you are OCD about that like me)
(edit, added both file types for a few examples)
This is another online zine maker I came across as well which supports markdown / json: https://zeenster.com/ | https://github.com/virgilvox/zine-maker
If you want to mass produce them
- Brother Inkjet Printer
- HFS guillotine paper cutter
- Martin Yale P7200 RapidFold
Here's a Google Drive link with the same files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jjp8fOn1fsQ0vvix84dm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition
I use the psbook command-line utility for this kind of thing.
pdfjam in.pdf '1,8,7,6' --angle 180 --outfile /dev/stdout | pdfjam /dev/stdin '1-4' test.pdf '2,3,4,5' --nup 4x2 --landscape --frame false --outfile out.pdf
They were punk rock expressions, with large amounts of collage art, mix media art + poetry, and amateur fiction, and sometimes fan fiction. It was creative expression for people with no outlet: the punks, angry about economics. If you think punk was about music, that's the lie, it was about dead end careers.