Our First Outing

What we can probably call the Cardboard Box Launch happened at Kraftbomb this afternoon... we are very stoked with the response to our hard work, some sort of sign would have gone down well but apart from that we are SO happy with how well our little zine went.

Here's Nicola at our stall - maximum air flow was great! Thanks Karla and City for our prime location!

And of course thanks to everyone who purchased a copy - ENJOY.

We had A3 sheets of 10 of our spreads on the table, on top of a very last minute fitted bed sheet that I had to sprint home and get when we realised the paper wouldn't cover the entire surface! 

As well as the two piles of the zine we also sold a few brooches each. Check out our stall at Kraftbomb next month - Nicola's promised an addition of Birthday Cards!

Kraftbomb!

This is a bit late considering Kraftbomb is tommorrow but here's the sweet little flyer for it! We've got a table in the middle.. So excited!

Issue One

This incredibly well taped up box contains the first run of 100 zines!! 

Thanks SO MUCH to Blair who totally suprised us by not just printing the entire run but collating, trimming, saddle stitching and trimming down the brown paper cover, staying on at work into the early hours of the morning that also happened to be his birthday!

Some of the interviews you can look forward to reading are with Lisa Black, Marita Hewitt, Linden Simmons, Elliot Collins, Jennifer Mayer, Karla and City from Kraftbomb and Brian Jonestown Massacre. Thanks to all these people as well as those of you who sent us images, articles and reviews, Issue One would not be looking as amazing as it does without you!

The zine so far..

With Issue One pretty much published already (it's getting printed in 2 days!) it's probably about time something was actually put on our blog..
We have been busily working away on our layouts, hassling late contributors and learning a thing or two about computers along the way - thank god for Jess!
Nicola and I always intended for our little zine to be very cut and paste for the very reason that neither of us (especially me) are any good at computers, so here are a few of our layouts ready to be scanned - literally cut with scissors and pasted with glue sticks.



We put an ad on The Big Idea for contributions and Lisa Black was one amazing artist who got back to us, she creates what she calls 'Fixed Animals' - real taxidermy animals that she then inserts mechanical parts into. We were a bit shocked at first having never seen anything like it but her work is very powerful.



My buddy Jen is studying in her final year of photography at AUT where Nicola and I also studied, she is making some pretty great work so of course I had to interview her. In the foreground there is a wee ad that'll be featured about an Art Swap - anyone interested - contact us!




I interviewed the lovely ladies behind Kraftbomb about what goes into organising one of the best craft fairs to hit Auckland recently.. Issue One will be on sale there this Sunday - Grey Lynn Community Centre, 1-4pm.


Ah.. the sweet hook ups of working at a printing factory - the first run of our zine is only going to set us back 2 dozen beers - excellent!