Contribute To My Zine: The Body Attacks Itself
Britny Kutuchief on Nov 19th 2009
I am artistically frustrated. From the looks of this blog, we all are. We need to write, take photographs, listen to good music and play soccer to feel like we live an enriched and satisfying life. Presumably most of the people in our class are writing majors or at least have a sliver of an interest in writing. So I am proposing to you a plan: you express yourself, I relieve my artistic frustration. For years two of my best friends, one a writer and one an amazing painter, and I have discussed making a zine. I myself already have a blog The Body Attacks Itself which features poems, stories, photos, etc. and I have decided that this winter break I am going to extend my blog into a physical in-print zine. It will be The Body Attacks Itself In Print, to say. For those of you who don’t know what a zine is, it is defined by Webster’s Online as n. 1. An inexpensively produced, self-published, underground publication. Basically, I am going to collect short (very short, ideally less than 300 words) stories, poems, anecdotes, poems, etc. to compile and distribute guerrilla-style around the city and the places I go. The idea is to create a collaboration of writings and such without bounds, grades or limits. It is sort of like a homemade Encounters.
If you want to contribute or help, I would be thrilled to the highest mountain and beyond. Truly I am open to all contributions and want to get the ball rolling here. Consider it!:)
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This sounds like a great idea! It also sounds pretty fun. Since the deadline has passed for Encounters, I think I might consider contributing to your zine. 🙂
:Note: I don’t think I’m artistically frustrated xP
That’s a great idea. You never know who’s reading what. You might just get a following of artistically frustrated New Yorkers (or German tourists) who need to express themselves and know the pulse of society. You may potentially have a successful blog or paper zine one day. Good luck!
I feel artistically frustrated as well. I went to an art high school and coming to an all business school where people call you weird is such a mood killer. I miss building my models. I miss going down to Pearl Paint in Canal Street and buying watercolors. I tried to teach myself how to make dresses. It filled that artistic void for awhile but then I had to come back to Baruch. I would love to contribute to your zine. We can make it better than Vanitas Underground (pure genius).
If we wanted to submit something, where would w go? Is there a site or email for this?
Cool 🙂
You can send it to my e-mail:
[email protected]. I would be very happy to add it!