Th'other day someone said to me "I like your zine". I certainly appreciated the compliment, but "zine"? I've always associated that term with collages of old magazine photos with anti-establishment text scrawled over them. I mean, I'm all for that and everything, but dang.
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04/27/2009 17:52 #48519
Zine?03/18/2009 20:03 #48115
Fair's FairGF will be at this week's Buffalo Small Press Book Fair. Come on down and say "Hi".
This fair was sort of the catalyst for Greenfern. When I attended last year, I looked around and said "huh. so it is possible". I'm looking forward to being on the other side of the tables this year.
This fair was sort of the catalyst for Greenfern. When I attended last year, I looked around and said "huh. so it is possible". I'm looking forward to being on the other side of the tables this year.
03/12/2009 10:10 #48025
Gutenberg FTW
Here's another geeky webcomic railing against e-books. Should it strike me as odd that the hardcore nerds are anti? I'll bet it strikes Amazon that way.
03/09/2009 18:05 #47999
I Hear They Shine ThroughI've been giving color a lot of thought recently.
Color can become a part of something's identity. That particular orange on the binding of a Penguin book, or the blue -- dare I say cerulean? -- of a box from Tiffany. Immediately recognizable.
I would love for Greenfern to have a particular color associated with it, and I'd love for it not to be green.
On a related note, have you been to colourlovers.com? Am I sadly behind the curve on this one?
I put together a putative site for the GF last week. I headed over to one of those free website deals and just used one of their templates. It just happened to be greenish. Maybe it's fate.
Color can become a part of something's identity. That particular orange on the binding of a Penguin book, or the blue -- dare I say cerulean? -- of a box from Tiffany. Immediately recognizable.
I would love for Greenfern to have a particular color associated with it, and I'd love for it not to be green.
On a related note, have you been to colourlovers.com? Am I sadly behind the curve on this one?
I put together a putative site for the GF last week. I headed over to one of those free website deals and just used one of their templates. It just happened to be greenish. Maybe it's fate.
tinypliny - 03/15/09 19:12
I love colourlovers.com!! I am a somewhat lurky colourlover though.
I love colourlovers.com!! I am a somewhat lurky colourlover though.
drew - 03/10/09 08:46
wordpress is a great way to go for free web stuff.
wordpress is a great way to go for free web stuff.
greenfernmag - 03/09/09 23:23
- 1 - Powder blues was the color of our first cover, and it did look pretty sweet.
- 2 - Yeah those ads are U-gly. Just using webs.com until I figure out exaclty what we want the web presence to be,
paul - 03/09/09 23:19
Sorry but the crush center adverts make me want to puke. Can you get rid of them or do they come with whatever package you signed up for.
Sorry but the crush center adverts make me want to puke. Can you get rid of them or do they come with whatever package you signed up for.
joshua - 03/09/09 19:37
I vote for powder blue. On a rack it would stand out and not be as painfully obnoxious as say, Big Bird yellow or any color associated with hazards of any kind. Also, I'm extraordinarily biased and prefer the color blue (or black) almost every time. I might as well be honest! I think that would look kind of slick on the folding edge of a magazine.
I vote for powder blue. On a rack it would stand out and not be as painfully obnoxious as say, Big Bird yellow or any color associated with hazards of any kind. Also, I'm extraordinarily biased and prefer the color blue (or black) almost every time. I might as well be honest! I think that would look kind of slick on the folding edge of a magazine.
03/02/2009 17:45 #47925
bufblopofoOh yes, my friends, it's back. Prepare yourself for Buffalo Blog-Posting Fortnight 2009.
James -- nice.
Theli -- Oh, I agree. I mean, the guy named his online persona after a pre-industrial astronomer, fer chrissakes. I assume, though, that Amazon is hoping that the geekier folks will jump on the new tech. They won't. Geeks like to collect stuff, and you can't leaves piles of ebooks laying around your apartment for your girlfriend to yell at you about.
joshua -- I did. Thanks for the headsup! I've tried twice contact the organizers to no avail. I may just show up with a table.
I have a steampunk version of a kindle.
Actually, I just glued some Auden to an oil burner.
"a very" Gah.
The one author of the strip is actually very a literary guy.
Just because you're a hardcore nerd, that doesn't mean that you think that all things technological are superior. Nerdom includes things like comic books, painting physical miniatures, a huge variety of boardgames, and, of course, novels of all types. Not to mention all those nerds that love things anachronistic, ancient, and historic. (Steampunk, anyone?)
And while there are plenty of "nerds" that fit any given stereotype, there are also a great many that just do not.
This has been an estrip public service announcement. Thank you.
Yesterday morning I grabbed a little ad card for an upcoming small book fair. Know anything about it?