#tech fanzine

[fanzines]

Issue 7 (Nov / Dec 1991) of CYBERTEK - a cyberpunk zine / newsletter featuring articles on technology, security and self-reliance. Shared with permission from Dr. Aure Schrock (original tweet), who kindly told me that some issues of CYBERTEK can be found on the Internet Archives (here's Issue 9 from Jan / Feb 1995). Edit: With regards to some of the comments from people on this post, I asked Cyber-Tek's editor if he'd like to add a clarification: "1. That issue came out over 20 years ago. 2. I'm a quarter Jewish. 3. Most of the kleptocrats who comprise what might be called The New World Order are WASPs. 4. Some people have too much time on their hands."

[melymigo]

We need Gregor's cookbook! With notes and everything in each recipe. Like, how did he come up with that recipe? Where did he learn it from? If it's an original one or if he just modified it. Notes of other clones, which are their favorites. If Gregor named one dish after someone, Illustrations of the dishes. Special recipes like a "birthday cake" that Hunter asked Gregor to do for Omega. People who make Star Wars zines, please do this, and I will give you all my credits. Pleaaaaase!!!!

[lornaka]

So excited to finally show you all my submission for the wonderful charity fanzine @thebadbatchzine! I had a lot of fun with this one, going for maximum family feels. As a treat <3 Check out the zine for lots of wonderful art & writing by many talented people from TBB community! There's still time to pledge for the physical book (with all the bonus merch stretch goals unlocked) on kickstarter + there's a pdf digital version available too! badbatchzine.carrd.co

[stra-tek]

Star Trek fans are hardcore. The U.S.S. Akula from the unlicensed technical manual Ships of the Star Fleet, Volume 2.

[wildwestzine]

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[wrenkenstein]

Mark your calendars - Cosmic Love: A Juntech Zine goes LIVE for kickstarter preorders on Valentines Day, Feb. 14th!

We have 43 amazing contributors, two yet to be see merch reveals, and an active twitter page for early updates! And, as The Bad Batch gets closer to airing its final season, there's no better way to celebrate or prepare than to keep your eyes on Tech and Juno's adventures!!

----> https://twitter.com/JuntechZine

art by @echojedis

[everythang-studio]

Full spread piece I did for the Take to the Skies Haikyuu Dragonrider Zine @hqtaketotheskies

(it took me so long, but I like the final where's waldo and chaotic feel. lots of hidden gems here!)

[harpersbizarresketchbook]

I've been a busy little gremlin adding new spooky offerings to my funky little sticker/zine shop... if you are in the US, you have FREE SHIPPING.

[h0peful-gh0stt]

hi!!! i recently was a part of the alphajam 2022-2023 zine!! go check it out! @zine-stuck 

https://homestuck-zines.itch.io/alpha-jam-2022-2023

[tfoyzine22]

“Ryan can make a website faster than u can blink but doesn’t know how to add people on discord. we love her ❤️"

INTRODUCING: Spotlight Saturdays!! ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ Get to know our artists and contributors! This week: @fredtheskeleton

Applications: https://oikophobiazine.crd.co/

[storybookprincess]

Do you have any tips for an aspiring librarian who’s going to college in a few months?

my first instinct upon reading this ask was to give you some good but fairly generic advice about getting library experience via your school's work study program, exploring different career paths within the library umbrella, interning at your local public library if possible, and so on & so forth

but then i realized that that is the sort of information you can find pretty much anywhere & i will instead give you my personal insight into what has helped me be successful in my current library role.

do whatever weird shit you are passionate about with your whole heart & soul, because you will learn invaluable skills without even intending to

what i mean by all that is that my current position as the assistant manager of a small, rural library branch is really just twenty-nine different jobs in a trench coat. i'm alternately an it specialist, a graphic designer, a career counselor, a preschool teacher, a customer service agent, or whatever else a particular situation demands.

and so much of my current skillset is a result of spending my high school & college years doing random nerd bullshit on the internet.

i'm dead serious. my ability to troubleshoot basically any possible tech issue, my knowledge of graphic design software, my extensive research capabilities, my written communication skills, and my absolute certainty that if i don't know how to do something, i can figure it out if you give me fifteen minutes to poke around on google are all products not of my formal education or work experience, but of the countless hours i have devoted to online nerd bullshit

enjoy college. explore your passions. get super into modding minecraft, or archiving lost media, or formatting fanzines, or literally whatever niche nonsense speaks to you. librarianship is a career of quick thinking & problem solving skills, and you'll best develop those doing something you truly care about

in the words of the mountain goats, the things you do for love are gonna come back to you one by one

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/hun-industrial-tech-04-2021/mode/2up

"HUN / INDUSTRIAL TECH is an art lab and content creation workshop founded in 2004 focusing on alternative, dark underground and industrial electronic music and subcultures. Its purpose is to follow, analyze and spread local and foreign dark electric- and body-music, philosophies infused into metallic and industrial soundscapes, cyberpunk and electronic social and life aspects; to connect the players and followers of the scene, and also to create and publish the industrial underground subcult zine HUN / INDUSTRIAL TECH (abbreviated as H.I.T)." This is what László Farkas "Crit" Farkas, one of the most prolific musicians of the local industrial scene (under the Empelde moniker), and also its archivist, who, in addition to the industrial music blog hunindustrialtech.hu, or being connected to it, keeps the scene's only real industrial music magazine alive, providing enough reading material for a year - the issues get released around the end of each Q1. The material is really powerful not only because it is uncompromising even in 2023 (only in Hungarian, only in PDF, hundreds of pages, a review sometimes runs twenty pages long), but it also brings the exact raw momentum, honesty and educated understanding that Második Látás (the most important local zine there is) brought to the younger generations after the regime change - if you weren't a member of the scene, you immediately felt that you were LEFT OUT, if you were a member, YOU STILL FELT THAT WAY. Print that large number of interviews (including many local ones), reviews (no, even more of them!) and articles and that heap of paper will stop a bullet. And that smartness, that stops the bullet, too. H.I.T. is at the forefront of the contemporary fanzines more or less approaching the underground-cyberpunk theme (Élő-halott, T+U, Rrriot Nerdz, Xenotopia), the latest copy is always available only on the fanzine's official website: https://hunindustrialtech.hu/magazin /

[aliform]

Today at the library I checked out a book by Josepha Sherman, found out she passed, found an obit on someone's blog where the entire world commented including childhood fave Jane Yolen, discovered obit blog author was excommunicated for protesting against the church's fight against ERA (uncovering that historical event started my own path towards resignation so um, kinship?), unearthed two dead cons from the comments, and if anything I wish the world was as small as it used to be.

Watching Light & Magic/The Imagineering Story and seeing all of these passionate women and men fall into their craft, same with all these SFF nerds who wrote fanzines and Tor books and went to cons all over the place, never letting go of what made them happy and made them tick, carving out spaces in publishing and writing from it, I am just so jealous!

I want to be 27 in some 1970s kitchen talking about Spirk and making con plans and getting published for just being an active member of a community!

I want to show up at some small indie workshop that will eventually become a behemoth and say hey I like to paint! I like to clack clack on a keyboard and figure out programs, hire me! And then years later the same jobs will require an Iowa Writers Workshop graduation and conference meetups and a twitter or a move to the Bay, and a bachelors in illustration and a portfolio started when you were 11 and two internships during school and an uncle in an unrelated department.

Tech is really the only industry you can really bootstrap anymore and maybe my deep attraction to the SFF community (much stronger than actually reading SFF books lmao) is because these people were all so knitted together (leading to things like the geek social fallacies which in its darkest forms protected people like MZB and Breen).

I'm in a things are darkest before the dawn personal era where I'm attempting to, nonoriginally, pivot into a different career, a both banal (because of the hard work and all the thousands of people also doing this) and excruciating (creating the time to do so) effort.

I know my own inner strength and am putting on the extrovert networking mask to do this, and in a way it's invigorating (learning something new) and in another it's frustrating (seeing it through).

My failures post maybe isn't about failures as much as it is the ebb and flow of energy. Some interest will spark and I'll do a deep dive into it; pause or leave, come back perhaps -- is that not everyone? Am I just upset with time itself and how my whole life, and everyone else's, has phases? Why do I want to exist as all my interests at once? That's not even who I am as a person, but I want to be able to hold on to things and not let go.

Since I left livejournal (14 years ago omg) I've toyed with the idea of making a blog and maybe I finally need to do that to be the aggregator to collect all the interesting bits, and anyway I feel like a bother here (nonsensical). But it would be nice to have a custom-made space just for myself that's my own feel that does whatever I want. Ugh. There's too many lifetimes all around me and just myself, plodding along, captivated by too much, in love with the larger themes behind too many interesting small things. It's endless! Time is god.

[ylmckdesign]

Bibliography

Content:

Emotional responses to music: Hauke Egermann: Tedxghent (2014) YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/kzFgoaZ9-VQ?si=ozqGbpXkqD4y0KC7 (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

How does music affect your brain?: Tech effects: Wired (2019) YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/HRE624795zU?si=vwq-9_bp_VUkjW0k (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

The Healing Power of Music - How Does Music Impact Us?: DW documentary (2022) YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/QpeWTkVmUcY?si=LGEMomNOulBEvAA5 (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Music therapy and mental health: Lucia Clohessy: Tedxwcmephamhigh (2018) YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/-io-uld2JFU?si=H_OjZ_ehWE4fMud0 (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

How music can make us feel good (2021) NAMI California. Available at: https://namica.org/blog/music-that-makes-us-feel-good-playlist/#:~:text=Our%20favorite%20melodies%20release%20dopamine,energize%20us%20for%20the%20day. (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Psychologies (2022) The science behind why Music makes us feel good, Psychologies. Available at: https://www.psychologies.co.uk/music-makes-you-feel-better/ (Accessed: 11 December 2023).

Why does music make you happy? (answered) (no date) Cloud Cover Music. Available at: https://cloudcovermusic.com/blog/music-and-happiness/ (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Rosen, M. and Blake, Q. (2011) Michael Rosen’s sad book. London: Walker. 

Visual inspiration:

Piascik, C. (no date) Ads for sale riso zine, Behance. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/68541307/Ads-for-Sale-riso-zine (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Emotional responses to music: Hauke Egermann: Tedxghent (2014) YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/kzFgoaZ9-VQ?si=ozqGbpXkqD4y0KC7 (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Elsabarnitt (2022) Spaces between, Tumblr. Available at: https://elsabarnitt.tumblr.com/post/701648777818341376/spaces-between (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Vuong, O. (2023) How I did it: Forward first collection special - ocean vuong on ‘Seventh Circle of Earth’ • Poetry School, Poetry School. Available at: https://poetryschool.com/how-i-did-it/i-forward-first-collection-special-ocean-vuong-seventh-circle-earth/ (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Tagg, M. (no date) CD booklet, Behance. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/89503479/CD-Booklet (Accessed: 11 December 2023).

Chan, F. (no date a) Brave new world, Behance. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/13610095/Brave-New-World (Accessed: 11 December 2023).

Lloyd, L. (no date) Too much to ask about - fanzine - strong feelings, Behance. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/118209831/too-much-to-ask-about-fanzine-strong-feelings (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Kuo, H.-H. (no date) Huanglin X Chingwen live concert｜lyrics design, Behance. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/55784619/Huanglin-x-Chingwen-Live-concertlyrics-design (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Guarnieri, L. (no date) Entre nós, Behance. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/136841441/Entre-Nos (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Alderton, C.J. (no date) Album Lyric booklet // the Amazons, Behance. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/149531199/Album-Lyric-Booklet-The-Amazons (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Olufsen, M. (no date) Visions. album cover + lyric book, Behance. Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/68352575/Visions-Album-cover-lyric-book (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Title:

Roberts, M.S. (2021) Musical terms: A glossary of useful terminology, Classic FM. Available at: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/musical-italian-terms/ (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

Sheet music:

LessonsOnTheWeb, O. and Instructables (2022) How to read sheet music for beginners, Instructables. Available at: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Read-Sheet-Music-for-Beginners/ (Accessed: 11 December 2023). 

[wildwestzine]

✨CONTRIBUTOR PREVIEW ✨

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[toutmontbeliard-com]

Le 19, CRAC Montbéliard : programme d’octobre 2023

Voici le programme du 19, Centre Régional d’Art contemporain, de Montbéliard d’octobre 2023 : Exposition Fais-le toi-même si t'es pas content (F.L.T.M.S.T.P.C.) Commissariat : Stéphane Prigent (alias Kerozen) Du 23 septembre au 14 janvier au 19, Crac. F.L.T.M.S.T.P.C. est une maison de micro-édition qui publie des livres, des fanzines et des disques. Depuis 1999, elle rassemble et diffuse les pratiques d’artistes contemporains issus de différents horizons invités, par Stéphane Prigent, à répondre à des protocoles ou aux logiques sérielles qu’il orchestre. En savoir plus sur l'exposition. Mercredi 18 octobre 14h30 à 16h30 POV : DONNE TON POINT DE VUE ! On revient au format papier pour cette édition spéciale fanzine. Photo, sérigraphie, photocopies, sur papier, autocollant, carton, t-shirt et sur les murs, adopte les techniques low tech pour diffuser tes idées. Atelier d'analyse critique d'image pour les + 15 ans. Gratuit, entrée libre. Du 24 au 27 octobre de 14h à 17h STAGE VACANCES D'AUTOMNE Je le fais moi-même ! Pendant les vacances, c'est toi l'artiste ! Au centre de l'atelier trône une impressionnante et bruyante machine qui offre des possibilités infinies à celui qui sait la maîtriser : la photocopieuse ! Dessins, collages, photos, mains et visages, tout y passe dans un joyeux bazar créatif qui donnera naissance à ton propre fanzine. Un goûter-vernissage sera organisé le dernier jour pour présenter tes créations à tes amis. Pour les 7-12 ans, tarif 30€. Sur réservation au 03 81 94 13 47 ou mediation@le19crac.com Vendredi 27 octobre à 10h et à 11h BÉBÉ BOUQUINE : comptines et petites histoires, c'est le moment des tous petits ! Un rendez-vous animé par la Médiathèque de Montbéliard dans le cade de l’événement Bébé bouquine proposé du 17 octobre au 10 novembre. Pour les enfants de 0 à 4 ans, durée 30 min. Gratuit, sur réservation auprès de la Médiathèque au 03 81 99 24 24. infos > 03 81 94 13 47 ou mediation@le19crac.com Read the full article