People who do zines... how does it differ from blogging or tumblr culture? Is it just a hipster throwback to late 80s or something?
I like the “underground” vibe, but don’t quite get it. It’s not like there’s a reason for undergroundness like samizdat. So, it’s about community?
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Also wondering if there’s an interesting way to zinify my new blog chain format. Like collect the latest “blocks” into a single printable PDF or static site or something.
My own tack on undergroundness is more epistemic than social
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You get to do the words/pictures/layout too which may not be your strong suits. Tangible yeah. Ad free. Self-contained. And for sure just joyous nostalgia. Print is still a pretty amazing technology.
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PDF zines are great. It's a great old/new hybrid that readers can determine their own engagement level. It's fun to print things out and give them to friends.
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Zine publishers surely have more active control over the content experience in a bespoke manner.
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I’m not a part of that community but have long been adjacent to it. I think there’s a profound appreciation of the physical and tangible. Similar to collecting vinyl or recording reel-to-reel. You can feel it, smell it, break it, etc. like humans evolved to do.
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Shared aesthetic, handcrafted away from the corporatized anodyne marketing apparatus that kills any true art it manages to find.






