MUSEUMS

NEW YEAR, NEW BAG

2011-01-04T09:59:00.001-08:00

MUSEUMS PRESS now has an incredible new website! For all the latest news & reviews, whats hot and whats not, as well as an incredibly simple & easy to use new shop, CHECK IT OUT
C U THERE!xxxxxxx

2011 CALENDAR

2010-12-15T14:07:00.000-08:00

JANUARY

MUSEUMS III - It's been a long time coming but it's almost ready! Two newspapers, one print, two booklets, one screenprinted comic, and a couple of inserts all in one sweet ass package!

THE LAUNCH OF MUSEUMS SMALL PRESS*,
Zines by
DAMIEN CORRELL
MICHAEL CROWE
HARMEN DE HOOP

FEBRUARY

MUSEUMS SMALL PRESS ZINES BY
ALEXANDER CHEVES
MEGAN WHITMARSH

MARCH

FURTHER SMALL PRESS RELEASES BY
EKTA
MATTHEW FEYLD

And more forthcoming releases from

KEITH SHORE
DENISE KUPFERSCHMIDT
KELLY LYNN JONES

*museums small press is a new series of A5, 12 page, laser printed zines, released twice monthly, starting in January 2011

Also look out for the MUSEUMS PRESS website!
Hot tamale!

MUSEUMS ONE HAS SOLD OUT!

2010-10-14T15:49:00.000-07:00

MUSEUMS ONE HAS SOLD OUT! However, COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE have now released the compilation tape and is available HERE. It is WELL worth it!

There are about two copies of BIGGEST FAN still available HERE

SCARS OF THE NINETEEN NINETIES is also still in stock at the same place, as well as in-store and on-line at GOOD GRIEF
Expect news of nation-wide stockists around the time of the official release of MUSEUMS THREE, expected this coming November. Booklets, Newspapers, Prints & Various Ephemera of Stories, Poems, Interviews, Essays, Drawings, Documentations and more from Ethan Swan, RLPerry, Simon Joyner, Matthias Connor, Jess Hilliard, Tao Lin, Heather Rose Dominic, Rachel McFarlane, Nick Ainsworth, Andrew Beswick, Julia Scott, Miriam Avery, Edwin Stevens, David Bailey, Matthew Walkerdine & a few more TBC.
VERY VERY VERY EXCITING.

GOOD GRIEF now has a pretty amazing subscription programme that is well worth signing up to for both the seasoned and novice zine reader. Check out all the different packages you can get HERE . Also, sometime this winter, the shop will be moving location about one block down to the from Afflecks Palace to the basement of the Soup Kitchen. Watch out!

COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE have just released their very first 7" ! And it's been a very eagerly anticipated event. One side FORMER BULLIES (who's last 7" came about something like 6 years ago, like before I was even born). The other side WAITERS (who've really never had a 7" before). It's a beautiful & impressive thing, and is available from their online shop and from GOOD GRIEF. Expect a NISSENENMONDAI/WAITERS split on the horizon! YES!

SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY has been away from Islington Mill for quite a while now but will be back, with shelves and tables and chairs to help you read pretty soon! Before then it goes to Essex for a little while, with workshops and more! It has already visited Durham Art Gallery, The CCA Book Fair in Glasgow, the Ffotogallery Bienalle in Penarth & the Picadilly Self Publishing fair. They have a pretttty cool new banner too! Check it out if you have a spare afternoon!

Also at Islington Mill, from now until 30th October, OBJECT LESSONS, an exhibition curated by Sophie Perry, in collaboration with the Working Class Movement Library, Salford will be open & constantly worked by a rotating group of artists in different medium & forms.

SHIELD AROUND THE K: THE STORY OF K RECORDS has another screening! 22nd October, Islington Mill, Salford, 7.30 pm. This is as part of OH AYE, a monthly night (organised by the people of MUSEUMS, SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY, IRMA VEP & NO WOMB) with a film screening each time and some pretty cool bands. This month, 'SHIELD' is accompanied by
GROPETOWN, GUMMY STUMPS, SLOWCOACHES, FATHER MURPHY & NO WOMB
click HERE for a poster and some more information.
IT'S FREE!

Aside from everything listed above in the coming months, be excited for... HALLOWEEN, BONFIRE NIGHT, CHRISTMAS EVE, CHRISTMAS DAY, BOXING DAY, NEW YEARS EVE, NEW YEARS DAY and then... once that's over... there are some pretty good things planned for 2011
a) more OH AYE nights
b) a pretty exciting monthly lecture series entitled GENERAL INTEREST, involving some pretty nice people from Manchester collaboratively curating a total ALL-STAR line-up of speakers.
c) MUSEUMS is purchasing a LASER PRINTER, which means big plans for frequent A5, monotone, under £5, totally rad and really really good zines from really really good people from really really good places.

NEWS

2010-07-15T17:21:00.000-07:00

SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY is going to be moving some of it's collection, including (I've been told) a large portion of the STOMACH PUMP ARCHIVE to Durham Art Gallery for a couple of weeks! The whole thing is arranged by EMPTY SHOP. If you live in or around Durham you should definitely go! It runs from the 24th July - 10th August

I don't know if this's already been mentioned, but ALEX HUMPHREYS & SAVWO from May's REAL HORROR SHOW at Islington Mill have rehoused their work on the walls of Common over the summer and is pretty good to drink with. On 22nd July they're going to have a changeover and hang up totally new work. VERY EXCITING!

Also on exhibitions, it's worth visiting Whitworth Art Gallery' to look at their exhibition of the Musgrave Kinley outsider art collection. It's pretty amazing! No rush though, it's on for a whole year...

Both MUSEUMS ONE and MUSEUMS TWO:BIGGEST FAN are nearly sold out! Act fast! Only two copies of each remain available for online purchase from the bigcartel shop & a few more in GOOD GRIEF. On a similar note, G.G is now fully stocked with SCARS OF THE NINETEEN NINETIES..... so if you're in the area, pick one up! It'll be worth it. Blurbs forthcoming!

Luckily for the most of us who don't have £17 to spare, once MUSEUMS ONE is totally gone, COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE are going to release a run of their compilation tape, which is a total BELTER and deserves to be a staple item in all of our homes. As a brief reminder, it has songs from some of the best bands in the world, like WAITERS, IRMA VEP, FORMER BULLIES, THEE OH SEES, SIC ALPS, DUNES, NISENNENMONDAI, TY SEGALL AND SILK FLOWERS (who're playing at the Deaf Institute this Wednesday 21st July, which promises to be the night of your life!)

The 22 track tape will come in a proper case with an incredible cover in usual C.O.A.T style. excellent!

Keep those crab eyes peeled for more releases in the next couple of month, everything has gone quiet over the high summer, but MUSEUMS THREE (yet unnamed) is set to be released on the 17th September 2010 and it's going to be totally heroic and a little like a DIY version of McSweeney's San Francisco Panorama. There's going to be various sections & supplements in one big package (no pizza box this time though), and include interviews, fiction, non-fiction, photograph, comics, illustrations, and more from HEATHER ROSE DOMINIC, JESS HILLIARD, JULIA SCOTT, TAO LIN, MATTHIAS CONNOR, MATTHEW WALKERDINE, RLPERRY, ANDREW BESWICK, MIRIAM AVERY, DAVID BAILEY, LUCY JONES, GIRL MOUNTAIN, EDWIN STEVENS, RACHEL MCFARLANE and far far more tbc.

Also look forward the first in a series of split release tabloids, first up DYLAN HUGHES & ALEX HUMPHREYS.

cannot wait.

'SCARS OF THE NINETEEN NINETIES OR THERE IS NO US BUT THERE IS A VERY DEFINITE THEM' by RLPerry

2010-06-25T16:13:00.000-07:00

The third official release is OUT NOW, available for the first time at today's D.I.Y D A Y, GOOD GRIEF and HERE

First released back in March '09 as a supplement to the pre-historic/pre-MUSEUMS release 'W.A.Y.A.W.A.T', R.L.Perry's seminal short story; "SCARS OF THE NINETEEN NINETIES OR THERE IS NO US BUT THERE IS THERE IS NO US BUT THERE IS A VERY DEFINITE THEM" is now available to you as it's own, heavy* in the hands, easy on the eye, enriching to the mind BOOK. The efforts of LAETITIA GLENTON, LUCY JONES, JESS HIGGINS, R.L.PERRY & DAVID BAILEY were all part of making it whole & proper. It is also the first release that can be easily carried around (and should be at all times), fits nicely on most domestic shelving units AND comes in it's own, protective plastic wrapping. It starts like this...

"His scar was approximately one and a half inches in each direction. Roughly round. The lifeless white all history is awash with. Depending on one's theory of scar dating - from cut (or conception) or from when the sticky scab dries and dies and reveals what remains (birth, you might say)- the scar was either twelve years old (to the day), or else two weeks shy of it's silk anniversary."

£5.00

Edition of 100

*it is not really that heavy, but due to high quality paper stock if feels good & substantial to hold, open, leaf through, look at, be around and read.

D.I.Y D A Y AT THE DEAF INSTITUTE

2010-06-18T16:45:00.000-07:00

D.I.Y D A Y

Saturday 26th June 2010

AT The Deaf Institute.

EXCELLENT. COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE.

There will be live performances from Please, Golden Grrls, Mazes, Human Hair & Prize Pets

A screening of SHIELD AROUND THE K, a documentary film about K Records

Stalls including GOOD GRIEF & SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY

A BBQ & maybe another CHARITY BAKESALE.

It will also be your very first opportunity to purchase & subsequently own the third official MUSEUMS PRESS release, "Scars of The Nineteen Nineties or There is no Us But There is a Very Definite Them" by RLPerry.

COME!

The best part about it is, the days proceedings will be over by around seven o'clock, so that everyone can go back to watching the football. Or for some of us, home in time for tea.

sensationally beautiful poster by Lucy Jones

THESE ARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RECENT GOOD GRIEF GROUP SHOW

2010-06-18T16:08:00.000-07:00

D A V I D B A I L E Y

F A Y E J O H N S O N

L U C Y J O N E S

J O H N B U T C H E R

D Y L A N H U G H E S

R E B E C C A C R O M P T O N

J E S S H I G G I N S

UNTIL 24TH JUNE 2010, 6pm

GOOD GRIEF EXHIBITION

2010-06-08T08:18:00.001-07:00

THIS IS INCREDIBLY EXCITING. the wondershop that is Good Grief now has an exhibition in a couple of weeks time. Dave Bailey has gone and collected together some of the best people around Manchester to fill the walls of The Art Corner in Fallowfield, for a week and a day. It is essential that everyone attends! Exhibitors include terminal Museums contributors DAVE BAILEY & LUCY JONES, Museums Two contributor ALEX 'John Butcher' HUMPHREYS, sure to be a future fixture DYLAN HUGHES, and REBECCA CROMPTON & FAYE JOHNSON whose work is new to mine eyes but I absolutely love it! Yours truly will also be exhibiting and it is an honour, privilege and a pleasure to be a part of.

OPENING NIGHT,

16TH JUNE, 7.30 PM FOR BEER & MUSIC.

CHELSEA WONG

2010-05-11T14:31:00.000-07:00

SENT THIS BEAUTIFUL ZINE,

along with prints of her work from MUSEUMS ONE for the previously mentioned exhibition which is to be dismantled tomorrow (Wednesday 12th May). Unfortunately the prints didn't come until today, which was by far the largest in a long line of Royal Mail based let downs recently.

The zine is screenprinted, multi coloured, eight pages long, has a special surprise inside itself and is just about perfect. She made 40, but I'm not sure where you can get them.

She recently exhibited and made the flyer for THIS and had her FIRST SOLO SHOW.

JACK TEAGLE is about to have HIS FIRST SOLO SHOW TOO

He's also been self publishing some zines recently which can be seen around, and has a book due to come out at the end of the month. YES!

ALEX HUMPHREYS will be part of the REAL HORROR SHOW exhibition at Islington Mill, there will also be work from SAVAGE WOLF, A.G MAGEE & S.J HOCKETT, and LIVE SCREENPRINTING! The opening is on Friday 21st May & is not to be missed, Pumping Iron DJs and MORE!

HERE are two photographs* from the recent/past MOUNT PLEASANT exhibition.

There was a lot of LOVE in that room.

On 26th June 2010 at the Deaf Institute there will be a screening of "SHIELD AROUND THE K", a documentary film by Heather Rose Dominic about the story of K records as part of an all day DIY fest organised by COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE. The film includes interviews with Calvin Johnson, Slim Moon, Ian MacKaye, John Foster & a tonne of other people, as well as super 8 footage of Beat Happening, Mecca Normal and Halo Benders. It feels good!

MZ-003, "SCARS OF THE NINETEEN NINETIES...." should be ready for release next month. WATCH OUT.

* not taken by me

MZ-002 BIGGEST FAN

2010-05-11T13:01:00.000-07:00

MUSEUMS TWO: BIGGEST FAN

25 individual fanzines from LAURA SKILBECK, AMY HANCOCK MARTIN, CRAIG BARR, MATHEW WALKERDINE, RLPERRY, MATTHIAS CONNOR, LIBERTY DENT, ANDREW BESWICK, NO WOMB, KATY FLYNN, LAETITIA GLENTON, LUCY JONES, DAVID BAILEY, ALEX HUMPHREYS/JOHN BUTCHER, JESS HIGGINS, MIRIAM AVERY, EDWIN STEVENS, JAMES WALKERDINE, LOWRI EVANS, JULIA SCOTT, JOE LOGAN, SOPHIE LEA PERRY, KATE ARMITAGE, BETHANY HERMITT & KEVIN DOYLE.

There are four one-sheets, one concertina style fold out, nine A5 booklets of varying lengths and eleven A4 staple bound documents. Each of the contributions were photocopied 50 times, with the exception of LUCY JONES' contribution, which was a stitched booklet of screen prints using images from the MUSEUMS ONE release, on leftover paper from other past projects, it truly is a beautiful addition amongst the black & white, 40 copies of this zine were screenprinted, ten of the boxes include photocopied versions of "1/40". Also in the box you'll find a copy of the now out of print FLESH WORLD a Twin Peaks fanzine; KNICK KNACK Andrew Beswick's new group poetry zine, currently available from Good Grief, with colour covers!; Matthias Connor's new story I USED TO DO DRUGS, I STILL DO; a G-mail chat between RL PERRY & D BAILEY; a documentation of LOWRI EVANS' recent perfomances based at Salford Central Station: THE SO LONG SERIES and way way more!

EDITION OF 50, MAY 2010, £10

http://museumszines.bigcartel.com

http://goodgriefshop.blogspot.com

STOMACH PUMP

2010-05-09T16:54:00.000-07:00

THE SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY LAUNCH AND STOMACH PUMP EXHIBITION IS OPEN NOW! AND UNTIL WEDNESDAY 12TH MAY.

The STOMACH PUMP ARCHIVE fills all the walls and tables, there are 788 zines, several mixtapes and it truly is a sight. I urge you to go to Islington Mill sometime this week to spend some real, quality time with every single issue.

The SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY collection is also on display in a beautiful glass cabinet, another table and more wall space. The library grows bigger and more excellent by the day, it is the best thing to happen since Good Grief and is an essential part of every day life.

The MUSEUMS ONE wall celebrates the recent release, and includes not before seen originals from Jack Teagle and Ken Cole. Seeing it brought feelings of pride, elation, joy, love and success.

Also, the first fifteen copies of MUSEUMS TWO: BIGGEST FAN (completed Friday 7th May) were available for free pick up on the opening night. The release itself will be "official" later this week.

Thanks to Matt, Craig, Kate, Perry, Laetitia, Miriam, Dave, Lucy, Ken, Jack and absolutely of course Steve Higgins for making it very special.

STOMACH PUMP EXHIBITION AND ZINE LIBRARY LAUNCH

2010-04-19T07:48:00.001-07:00

ONCE AND FOR ALL! ALL AND FOR ONCE! The Stomach Pump archive is going to be exhibited. With help from the SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY and C.O.A.T, between the 7th May-12th May at Islington Mill, Salford, all 788 fanzines will be displayed for your perusal. The collection, which was breifly previewed on the walls of a flat in Glasgow last September, dates back from the 70's and spans right into the early 90's, each zine has been photocopied or mimeographed and they come from all around the world. There will be hand drawn covers, typewriting, letraset, letters, short stories, comics strips, jokes and general fandom. You are INNNNVITED, as ever, to come along and look and touch and photocopy your favourite bits.

Alongside Stomach Pump will be the official launch of the Salford Zine Library's collection, which has been growing for the past few months, tasters of which can be seen on their blog. It is a very important thing they are doing and so worthy of celebration!

Also for your viewing pleasure will be a small selection of original work from Museums One! Hot tamale!

Come party from 7pm on the 7th May 2010!

We'd love it!

Also, fairly importantly, this event directly succeeds THIS.....

Which is too exciting for words.. and a long time coming! Go to that too!

LAUNCH NIGHT

2010-03-28T13:12:00.000-07:00

This is a photograph of Matthias Connor reading for us at the launch night of MUSEUMS ONE last week. It is also a picture of Dave Bailey's Good Grief distribution stall, a table of seven different types of sweet treats and we managed to raise £26 for street children in Africa. Thanks to Perry, Laetitia, Dave, Julia, Miriam and everyone who came, we had a sweet time!

MZ-001 MUSEUMS ONE

2010-03-23T15:54:00.000-07:00

M U S E U M S O N E - drawing, painting & collage

A book, three posters, a comic and a compilation tape housed in a 12" squared pizza box, and wrapped in a strip of seven layer (1 Sonja, 1 Jess & 5 Lucy) screen-printed grey board.

Edition of 40

August 2009 - March 2010

PARTS 1, 2 & 3; MANTRAS

by Tim Lahan

Screenprinted in black or red

A2 sized

Newsprint (very wall worthy)

Thanks to Lucy Jones for screen-printing skills

PART FOUR; MARKS AND SPENCERS SPONSORS MARK RONSON

All new comic by David Bailey of Flesh & Bone fame

32 pages long

A5 scale

Black & White

sewn right down the fold, sometimes in red thread

PART FIVE; COMPILATION TAPE CURATED BY COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE

including exclusive songs by Assassins 88, Beachniks, Dunes, Former Bullies, Girls Names, Golden Grrrls, Irma Vep, La La Vasquez, Mazes, Nissennenmondai, Picastro, Piece War, Reading Rainbow, Rollin Hunt, Sad Horse, Sic Alps, Silk Flowers, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Veronica Falls, Waiters, YellowFever

(very excellent)

22 songs long

Just over an hour long

housed in toilet roll tubes & very literal cover sheets

BRIEF INTERLUDE; EPHEMERA/CONTENTS

6 sides, thank yous (thumbprints/criminal evidence), full contents (stamped) and contact details (typewritten), liner notes (handwritten)

PART SIX: MUSEUMS 001

includes work by Ken Cole, Erin Gilkes, Jess Higgins, Lucy Jones, Sonja Leuschen, Alex Pierce, Mr.Red, Jack Teagle and Chelsea Wong

approx. 50 pages

about 11.75" square

full colour prints

soft-cover comes in a variety of colours, from orange to blue to green to brown to cream to pink. hand stamped title (also of varying tone)

A special national-geographic-style treat comes in the form of a fold out centre spread of Lucy Jones's 'Heroes of Niagara Falls' drawings.

Thanks to Miriam Avery for help with the stitching.

Go HERE to buy it online (£19, post, packaging & paypal charges included)

or go to GOOD GRIEF to purchase it in real life. (£17)

LAUNCH NIGHT

2010-03-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

THIS IS A POSTER INVITING YOU TO JOIN US WATCH MUSEUMS ONE SET SAIL. Come to TROF, FALLOWFIELD on MONDAY 22nd MARCH 2010 for the first of three celebratory events launching the long-time-coming debut museums release. The ground floor of TROF (Fallowfield) will be occupied by a GOOD GRIEF distribution stall; a BAKESALE in honour and support of Zimbabwean street children (you are invited and encouraged to bring cakes to add to the table, all proceeds will be sent with love to people who need it more than we do); a pile of the first edition of MUSEUMS, hot off the press and available for the first time to all; & BEAT UNHAPPENING DJs spreading the good vibrations, which is a regular thing on a Monday night. If you were to go upstairs at 8 o'clock, you will be able to watch Beautiful Losers, this will be the first (to our knowledge) public screening of the documentary film by Aaron Rose in Manchester, it is absolutely necessary viewing and we are excited to be sharing it with you.

MZ-002

2010-01-31T13:31:00.000-08:00

"His scar was approximately one and one half inches in each direction. Roughly round. The lifeless white all history is awash with. Depending upon one's theory of scar dating-From cut (or conception) or from when the sticky scab dries and dies and reveals what remains (birth, you might say)- the scar was either twelve years old (to the day) or else two weeks shy of its silk anniversary."

"Scars of the Nineteen-Nineties or There Is No Us But There Is A Very Definite Them" by R.L Perry will be the second official MUSEUMS release. It was originally published as part of We Are Young and We Are Trying last March and will, in the coming months, be re-issued. It will be A5 sized, approximately 13 pages long and LETTERPRESSED, it will be a run of 100 and will have a screenprinted cover. RLP is one half of COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE and will also be contributing to MUSEUMS TWO, which will be the third official Museums release, an anthology of short fiction and non-fiction, more news on that forthcoming.

MO CHANGES MO CHANGES

2009-09-28T14:39:00.000-07:00

The Manchester screening of BEAUTIFUL LOSERS has been shifted to sometime late November, see if you can try & make it.

The Glasgow show was A SELLOUT! People were turned away, some snuck in and sat on the floor, EVERYONE LOVED IT. Serious! Feelings of elation, joy and togetherness were widespread. Thanks to everyone who came, JULIA L S who sorted it out, the friendly projectionist at the CCA and the man with the clicker

Pictures from the festival soon, YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE.

WHAT IS ALSO HAPPENING

2009-09-12T07:54:00.001-07:00

ALSO on the 23rd of September, ALSO as (i think) part of the DIY festival is an exhibition of photocopies. These photocopies are from a temporary (and yet unhoused) library of FANZINES that my own papa created & collected between (approximado) '79 - '94. Come look! they are all hand typed letrasetted beauties. There will be a few originals up there for perusing pleasure too, but there are 400+ in the entire collection so mostly it's just photocopies. There will also be mixtapes playing in the background, a couple that pa made but mostly ones he got from NME (when it was cool, right?) about the time the zines were made, collected, about. There will also be some wee pamphlets that you can take away. It'll be nice!

The address is on that there flyer, who knows what time it's open, come along sometime mid afternoon, that's always safest!
Another mistake on the web address. Life's short.

BEAUTIFUL LOSERS SCREENING IN GLASGOW!

2009-09-12T07:41:00.000-07:00

What's pretty cool is that next week (21st-27th) and for the WHOLE WEEK, Glasgow DIY festival is-a-happening, there will be exhibitions, workshops, bands, screenings etceteblah etceteblah. It's going to be rad! I'm taking the whole week off work to go up & run a newsroom with Julia Scott. What's also happening (and this may/may not be part of the festival but it happens at the same time) is that with the help of JULULIA we are doing another screening of BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (see post below) at the CCA. Last time I went to Glasgow I narrowly missed a screening of Miranda July shorts there, but turned up in time for free whiskey & lemonade.
COME ALONG! I'm not sure how much it costs yet, but it's at EIGHT PM on WEDNESDAY 23RD.

PS. i made an ALLYOOP on the poster, the link says glasgowdiy but it is infact diyglasgow. nevermind! sorry!

003

2009-08-21T19:11:00.001-07:00

ON OCTOBER THE SECOND 2009, MUSEUMS & COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE ARE BURSTING WITH EXCITEMENT TO BRING TO YOU

Which is only about the most exciting film we've never had the chance to see. It is a documentary about some of our favourite artists and personal heroes, read HERE and HERE for more information.
It showed at the ICA last week to promote the release of the DVD on Monday 24th August, but we don't live in London so we haven't had chance to see it since it's release back in '08.
But now we do! And so do you! (if you live in Manchester too)
Thanks to the kind help of Paul at Revolver films we will be doing a one off screening of the film at ISLINGTON MILL, SALFORD.

This event will also be the opening night of THESE GUYS'S annual love-in HEAR HERE. This year the programme has eeeevolved and is bigger and better (if that's possible) than before. There will be a week long exhibition, maybe some workshops, some music, some animation,
More news soon. Bring it!

EDIT; for any readers in hindsight... this didn't happen as planned but probably will... sometime. These things happen (or don't happen, depending on what side of the situation you approach it from

MUSEUMS 001

2009-08-17T20:14:00.001-07:00

THE FIRST OFFICIAL MUSEUMS RELEASE; MUSEUMS 001
(following a series of unofficial bits.)
IS A PARTY, the first in an ongoing series of group zines, to kick off we've got eleven people from all over the show (well, UK & USA) drawing for a better tomorrow.

the line up; jack teagle, david bailey, lucy jones, sonja leuschen, erin gilkes, tim lahan, alex pierce, chelsea wong, mr. red, kenneth cole, jess higgins(maybs)

format; a hand constructed 12" x 12" screenprinted gatefold sleeve will house (to the right) a mammoth drawing edition inkjet printed on white sugar paper (approximado 40 pages), and (to the left) a series of supplements including Tim Lahans "mantras" a set of three screenprinted posters, a new comic by david bailey and a SWEET compilation compiled by bros & siss' COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE (more about that soon)

BROTHERS AND SISTERS

2009-08-17T20:05:00.000-07:00

THIS IS MUSEUMS. d.o.b SUMMER OF 2009.

It is ZINES, periodical GROUP EFFORTS of ART, WORDS, PHOTOGRAPHIC FORMS, it is also a series of ONE MAN SHOWS by people who are RAD.
It is HAPPENING(s) (get it?), sometimes EXHIBITIONS or sometimes SCREENINGS or sometimes TALKS or sometimes WORKSHOPS.
It is occasionally OTHER THINGS (full on books, records, t-shirts, posters, who freakin' knows?)

It is WORKING CLOSELY with other people & believing in the strength of the individual & the community. Putting things IN PRINT, celebrating what is and is not done and coming together for the big YYYYEEEEAAAAAHHHH. Using your HANDS AND MINDS. Fo' REAL.
It is MAKING THINGS THE BEST THEY COULD POSSIBLY BE.
HOLLA.
xxx