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I had several starts to college, and took a lot of English/writing courses across a few schools. I remember they always had a unit on Zines. I never really unde
by sircastor 6y ago
I had several starts to college, and took a lot of English/writing courses across a few schools. I remember they always had a unit on Zines. I never really understood it. I always thought “Why wouldn’t you just put this on the web?” Not really appreciating that everyone wasn’t like me.
This is pretty cool. I tend to think that if you have a computer and images and a 3D printer ups just put it on a website, but then again I’m thinking only of my narrow world view. Sometimes distributing literature needs to grow beyond the digital.
Also sometimes simple tech makes for really interesting engagement
- konjin 6y agoYou have no control over how something looks like on the web. The screens are not color calibrated, the screen sizes are arbitrary, layouts are not respected by browsers, hell tex is still the best layout engine for text and it's 40 years old.
- Robotbeat 6y agoYup. And there’s just something special about paging through the weird, poorly-photocopied zines that you find at your local anarchist coffeeshop.