Mixzine

This is pretty much the first time I've made a zine on my own and

it was an enjoyable challenge to complete it in just two days. What

I also set out to do (which I' am sure has been done before), is

combine a zine with a mixtape, so that the zine can compliment

the music featured on the mixtape. I also chose a theme I could

quietly mock (being self-help and relationship advice).

I love the d.i.y aesthetic of a zine and the punk roots that link to

mine (although the mixtape itself only includes one vaguely

punk cover song by Thea Gilmore). All the cutout text is

representative of the "mixtape" and remix age we live in,

where we constantly draw on the past to push trends forward,

so for that the inclusion of a mixtape felt logical. All the text

used was taken from design magazines to purposefully show

how quite uniform fonts can be removed from that context

and made fun again.

The theme I "stole" was as I mentioned, life and relationship

advice. At first I stole soundbites from Youtube

of an American "lifestyle advisor", discussing ways to be

romantic, pursuasive and date. Much like the text from the

design magazine, I took her narration out of it's context

to provide intervals in my tongue-in-cheek mix of past

 and present songs. The mixtape lasts just over an hour.

The zine came second, as a way of housing and

distributing my mixtape as if a real album. I intend now

to share a few of these "mixzines" amongst my peers in

Viscom and drop them at various locations around the

college site.