I stumbled across my very own ✝he $in 'Zin€ by chance the other day
[Zine is short for magazine]
The focus is on each of the seven deadly sins, sin zine, The Sin Zine
✝he $in 'Zin€
[Clever]
It was a collaborative piece that reads as an homage to zines
I guess I wanted to make something referencing work that influenced me
I mentioned that I had found this project and now I'm asked questions about it
It's an inexplicable project even for me and that's a weird thing to say
The stylized script, "✝he $in 'Zin€," renders it unsearchable
[Of course]
It does not appear on this blog and relevant searches turn up little
I first searched "sin zine" and got nothing at all
I also got nothing for "zine" or "✝he $in 'Zin€" and far too much for "sin"
But this product would have paired "sin" and "zine"
The stylized script, "✝he $in 'Zin€," renders it unsearchable
This was a dead end
So I went to the email archives
I actually thought I would find something
I got nothing for "the sin zine" or "✝he $in 'Zin€" and far too much for "sin"
But I found a little breadcrumb treat when I searched "zine"
"Zine" returned five results: two ads, two others, and a emailing from me to me
[Of course]
So I opened the mail from me to me and found t ahis grenade:
🚨Future Gift alert🚨 🚨Future Gift alert🚨 🚨Future Gift alert🚨
I sent myself a comic
[Of course]
Achewood of course and this comic of course:
This one: [clicky]
This one:
We thought 2007 was strange but we knew absolutely nothing
That is pretty funny
[Reagan and both Bushes wore tan suits]
Nothing is really that funny anymore
Funny, strange? Sure
Funny, funny? Not really
See?
A classic diversion by a classic diversionist
But we were trying to find out about ✝he $in 'Zin€
[TGA]
There was a reason I was searching archives for ✝he $in 'Zin€
Because I remember very little about why or how ✝he $in 'Zin€ happened
I see it was quite intentional
[Of course]
And it was self-limiting which is pretty smart regardless of why
Pdfs so they can be downloaded and printed
[Download and print it is how it works]
It was wildly collaborative almost impressively so
I guess I talked to people
I guess I convinced people
So how did that happen?
I don't remember
Why did it happen?
"I don't recall"
Clearly by hosting it on Tumblr I was segregating it or burying it
Or stashing it for safe keeping
This is like a treat in a paper bag: a Food Enrichment Exercise
I found no reference to this zine other than a tiny link on the blog
[Exhibit at right -------------------------------------------------- >]
In a stylized script--"✝he $in 'Zin€--that renders it unsearchable
I found nothing in the email archives that go back that far
But that's the whole thing
Aside from the deliberate rabbit holing future gift special
Getting the art away from context
Stripping it away from context
Removing art from context
Maybe only when I cannot remember how or why something was made
Does it become a finished piece
"I'm a real boy!"
-Pinocchio
This piece is a 10 years old
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