I am posting this with cling wrap on my head.
No I’m not even kidding. I’m dyeing my hair with henna as we … speak, and I shall document the results soon! Just so you know, it’s really hard to scratch your head through a layer of plastic, then a layer of wet goopy hair.
In the mean time, here are some zine reviews! YAY! I ordered another grab pack from Bird in the Hand Zine shop again! And BOY did I snag a good hawl this time!
Here are some of my favourites!
This first one is by someone who identifies herself only as Mechelle B.
This little zine is just what you’d expect it to be.
Aren’t they just darling?
My favourite part however, is that it almost isn’t a book at all.
See how it all folds out? This is SO beautifully present, but still has that gorgeous hand made feel, I just can’t stop looking at them. I think Mechelle’s illustration style is really darling, and it seriously inspires me!
Next on the agenda!
This one is by Elke O’Connor, in this batch of zines I got around four of hers, and this is definitely my favourite! Beautiful black and white photography coupled by brief beautiful narrative poems.
This is my favourite in the book, and honestly it was hard to choose.
Doesn’t it just make you shiver? I wish I was so clever!
This next one is just as brief and just as delicious.
This is a little series of zines called Wheelhouse. I ordered the first four chapters, mainly because they are only 10c each. (BARGAIN!)
Each one contains a tiny chapter, each one more lovely than the last. 
Now this one is very enigmatic indeed, just a piece of recycled paper, with a letter from someone called Luke.
Don’t worry. It’s someone where I will read it a lot.
Next I also ordered some zine packs. I’ve never done this before, but it was really fun (and surprising!)
Crehatetivity was fun, it had inside all sorts of little tid bits.
It was a zine, and little pieces of art tied up with string! Does it get any better?
This one was done by the Reverse Cymbal Press, who make it their job to publish the work of emerging artists. I’m definitely going to get in contact with them.
Look at all the things that came inside this envelope!
A booklet made with an ultra sound of someone’s kidney.
This one I think may have been bound around the wrong way, because I can see what looks like poetry inside the pages, but I can’t bring myself to unbind it and read it.
I also got this little red envelope, and guess what was inside?
Yay! Six dollars! I’m going to buy a copy of the Big Issue with this.
Another sweet afirmation.
Also in the pack was the Reverse Cymbal Press Monthly zine, which I am definitely thinking of getting a subscription to. I’m also thinking of submitting some artworks. It features some great illustrations, and some really lovely (and thought provoking) writings. If you can snag a copy, they’re cheap cheap!
Lastly. My favourite item that came in the pack was this. I dont’ know who it was by, but it’s an altered book.
As you can see it’s The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell, but the artist, has painted the cover black so it looks like this.
And on each page, they’ve written a word. So it’s like a story within a story. It’s just DEVINE. It is literally now one of my prized possessions. Here are the first few pages.
No indeed, it is not.
Whoever these Reverse Cymbal Pressians art, I am a big fan.
(Almost) all images have been linked back to where you can purchase them at the Bird in the Hand Zine Shop. Check them out, they’re all marvelous reads.
Speaking of zines, my lovely friend Ryan and I have finally gotten our act together and are starting a zine collaboratively. His words my art. Fun no?! We’ll talk more about it soon.
Now, it’s perfect timing for me to go take this gunk out of my hair and admire my new glossy locks!
More updates soon chickens!
