Monday 28 November 2011
Saturday 1 October 2011
Thursday 1 September 2011
Monday 1 August 2011
Friday 1 July 2011
Thursday 30 June 2011
Monday 27 June 2011
The Ghosts of Deadlines Past
The last few months have been full, full, full, and when they're fullest, it seems that you're able to accomplish more than normal. Like when you buy a kilo of rice and you make it all fit into the recycled sauerkraut jar by pouring, gung-ho, then tap-tapping the vessel so that all the unleashed grains settle and compact. And sometimes at the end there is still a surprising amount of space - but not without a little tap-tapping. This technique usually works for deadlines, but not always.
Unforeseen issues with toner, missing printer parts and posties are guaranteed to thwart the zine process, as will moving and renovating a house, working, other blogs, and life in general - but this is what it's all about. And what Disinflection is not, is a magazine. We're regular, guaranteed to deliver, but not like clockwork.
Now that I've justified Disinflection's tardiness to the three loyal followers of this blog (one of whom is myself), June's edition will be hitting the shelves in early July...early-ish July.
Unforeseen issues with toner, missing printer parts and posties are guaranteed to thwart the zine process, as will moving and renovating a house, working, other blogs, and life in general - but this is what it's all about. And what Disinflection is not, is a magazine. We're regular, guaranteed to deliver, but not like clockwork.
Now that I've justified Disinflection's tardiness to the three loyal followers of this blog (one of whom is myself), June's edition will be hitting the shelves in early July...early-ish July.
Friday 20 May 2011
A new location
In addition to its current locations, Disinflection is now available from Sticky Institute (and its still free): Shop 10, Degraves Subway, Melbourne.
Sticky, a zine paradise, is open Wednesday to Friday 12 - 6 pm, Saturday 12 - 5pm.
Thursday 12 May 2011
May's is on its Way...
...This week, I completed my five-page letter in text and image and posted it to Emma in Melbourne. Although there is a lot of subject matter begging to be used, it has been difficult (for me, at least) to conjure the words and images - quite fitting for this time of year.
May is the month the Antipodean Persephone looks forward to returning to her part-time husband. She takes with her the warmth her mother, Demeter, usually lends the land. Persephone's trees - poplars, according to Homer - line the drive to her marital home.
While we rug up, red-nosed and grappling with a low and bashful sun, Persephone, in front of that great fire with a god at her back, is unaware that she herself has never felt the cold.
May is the month the Antipodean Persephone looks forward to returning to her part-time husband. She takes with her the warmth her mother, Demeter, usually lends the land. Persephone's trees - poplars, according to Homer - line the drive to her marital home.
While we rug up, red-nosed and grappling with a low and bashful sun, Persephone, in front of that great fire with a god at her back, is unaware that she herself has never felt the cold.
Sunday 24 April 2011
April Zine
The month of April features in a variety of poetry - as "the cruellest month", if you're T. S. Eliot, or, if you're Ms Plath, the 18th signified a future lost. Other April-centred poems are love-lorn, whimsical, brutal and everything in between.
To us in the southern hemisphere, April is the middle month of Autumn and a visual marker of the season, a rustling, scented, red gold month. April means the beginning of the dying off and decay that is essential for new life to begin - the year's 'little death'. We plant the seeds that will lie dormant and germinate at the end of Winter.
Saturday 16 April 2011
Friday 15 April 2011
Thursday 31 March 2011
Better late...
The March edition of Disinflection is ready and, once again, it is more than the sum of its parts! It will be distributed to its usual (and some extra) outlets over the next day or so. Please get in touch via the comments section if you would like a copy posted to you...
Wednesday 16 March 2011
delayed
As Ali explained in the previous post, the zine has vanished between the UK and Australia.
While a delayed correspondence is simply a part of the organic development of the zine, its replacement will be out shortly....
Friday 11 March 2011
Zine...? Zine! Anyone seen a zine between here and Europe?
The March edition of Disinflection is a little way off as yet - the first package headed my way has vanished and a second incarnation has been sent forth in its place.
Emma is currently in Germany, having first stayed in London for a couple of weeks, and we both thought what a great idea if she sends her half of the zine from the UK. Neither of us had factored in the UK postal 'service'.
Most likely, it'll be keeping my husband's parcel of clothing company - the one that the Royal English Homing Moth Service, four years on, has yet to deliver. Or we could end up with twin zines.
We're hoping the German postal service will prove efficient and we can get Disinflection assembled and out in galleries, cafes and other haunts in Melbourne and Bowral.
Emma is currently in Germany, having first stayed in London for a couple of weeks, and we both thought what a great idea if she sends her half of the zine from the UK. Neither of us had factored in the UK postal 'service'.
Most likely, it'll be keeping my husband's parcel of clothing company - the one that the Royal English Homing Moth Service, four years on, has yet to deliver. Or we could end up with twin zines.
We're hoping the German postal service will prove efficient and we can get Disinflection assembled and out in galleries, cafes and other haunts in Melbourne and Bowral.
Sunday 30 January 2011
February Zine
The February zine is currently in its trans-sister stage and will be arriving at its usual haunts (sewed and sealed) late next week.
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