Musings

ZINE-MAKING 101

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I love taking, editing and posting photos online, but often find an incongruence with how much thought goes into creating an image versus how little time is spent taking it in. With a turbulent digital space of shifting algorithms and trending styles, I wanted to create a tangible home for my photographs, something I really felt to have WORKED on. Zines, with their low cost of production, seemed the perfect place to start.

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Starting is the hardest part - Do it anyway

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Starting is the hardest part - Do it anyway

Have you ever seen someone do something skillful or create something great and wish you could too?

I do all the time. Envy is one of the worst emotions - but if someone else is doing it, it means it's humanly possible. And if it's humanly possible, you can do it too.

This is for everyone who wants to start a creative project, make something that doesn't exist yet, or learn a new skill, but is unsure whether it's worth the bother. It doesn't matter if it's painting, photography, drawing, design, styling, poetry, animation, dancing, filmmaking, writing, coding - anything you feel an itch for is relevant and worth investigating. 

The truth is that learning a new skill, trying something out of your comfort zone, and devoting time to a pursuit takes EFFORT. And when you start, you are going to SUCK. Good news is, it's the same for everyone. We aren't born as experts, besides at pooping and crying.

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Sharing the Process

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Sharing the Process

As a kid I always thought, 'how cool would it be to create for a living?' without any idea of how it was actually possible. But duh! There ARE millions of people out there creating the music we listen to, the stories we read, we information we digest, the spaces we inhabit, the photos we admire, the art that moves us, the films that entertain us, etc - and getting paid for their creativity and hard work!

So why not me?

Why not YOU?

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