these little books were everywhere.

This is the inside of my artist book. and a little bit of the top of my finger.



this is a group digital photograph of all five of my artist books together.



this is my artist book all by itself.

it was a difficult task to complete in such a little time but i was delighted to make them. i still feel that there is something missing. that they aren't complete. but i think they will be someday and that's fine with me.

the inside text is an obituary for darling honest abe and, if i do have to say so myself, it is quite difficult to read. but difficulties are everywhere and we must face them so if you have any interest or inquiries about them, believe me, i am always here. i haven't decided where they belong yet or how they shall be distributed so if you have any suggestions, again, i am always here to find them.

lu la lu

and now i've sent my book to lulu.com so it can be published and i can become a real person!

I've named my book "And the Circle Center Wavered."

it's 38 pages and paper back and if you are interested in learning more, just call my name. i'll be there.
it will be available on lulu.com depending on its presentation when printed. i'll be sure to post a link to it on here if you are interested in owning a copy.

hey! i have a pdf file too. wanna know why? so you can read it!

here it is, just for you.

"And the Circle Center Wavered"

i dearly hope it works. also, if the little digital photograph of the cover of my book is touched, you will also be taken to a link which will allow you to download my pdf. and though o proof read it two times, there are probably still mistakes so please feel entirely free to let me know what those mistakes are.

hello. 

i would like to document the distribution of my zine now. 

i have taken it to quimby's!

that digital photograph up there right above us is one of all five of the books i had brought to quimby's for sale. they are on my bed. 

now that is a digital photo of me going towards quimby's to sell my zine. 

i declined from taking photos inside the store. i would say because it can be considered rude but mostly i felt a little too sheepish to be someone named frank. 

http://ocw.usu.edu/University_Extension/sheep-and-lambing-management/sheep.jpg

so instead of pictures inside i've documented what the view was like for me as i left the store. 

so. there you have it. my zine is on sale at quimby's for three pictures of dead presidents. or, dollars. they will be on the shelf in a week i think. if you're interested i mean. 

here is a review of my zine. it was done by a lady named samantha. i would like to extend my thanks to her for doing that, too. you may view the review here:

http://sgschroeder.blogspot.com/

a little review

"ancient egypt in the year 4 billion"
(i very much like this title. and i think titles are my favorite parts of things so i think i like this zine already)
i'm talking about the selected readings by mister ian mcduffie, of course.
in fact, all of the titles of all of the stories in this selection were lovely. and, even more, the placement of the words in the selections in the zine where lovely and made me think of pretty things. mister ian mcduffies writing style is incredibly interesting and, i found as i was reading, that it was able to take me all the way through the end of the book. and by that i mean the selected writing all seemed to flow together. there seemed to be no ending to them or, they complimented eachother very well. this could be because the pieces are seperated by titles in little case that don't take over the whole rest of the writing, and pretty little pictures of pyramids so you can't really get distracted by the ends and/or beginings of the three different selections.
Furthermore, the fonts chosen for the title pages worked very well as did the overall format of the little zine. oh! and the prism on the back cover was nice too.
i hope you pick it up and look at it and i hope there are more like this later on, when he feels like making them.

thank you, please.

and here are two pictures!

and now this afternoon, i checked out a camera from the 'tute media center and this one up here is this inside. and that one down there is the cover! there may or may not be more later. of course i will tell you how i will distribute them soon.

while i was going to document all my nearly little zines, i realized that i could not take lovely pictures because i do not have access to a camera currently for reasons i would rather not discuss.  

so. i'm going to tell you that it is 16 pages with things like words and 2 blank pages with nothing at all on them. the content found itself being about different tonics, bitters, sarsaparillas, cures, remedies and poisons and the different kind of bottles and vials they found themselves in during the 1800s and maybe a bit before and after. 

the front of this zine says "record" because that is its title. everything is in black and white. there are a few typos or, mistakes. my bad. but other then those mistakes i would like to think that it has turned out very well. 

i went to kinkos to copy it. in a store and on a machine like this: or that picture up there. i found that picture on the internet. 

i apologize for not being able to have pictures and i'm trying to document it the best to my ability.

hey! look. i'll give you an excerpt. 

"“Bitters” and “tonics”, as they were called in the 1800s, found themselves in bottles much like the intracate bottle blown from glass placed above. “Bitters” found their name from the bitter herbs that were encouraged inside liquors, usually gin, and are known today to only have been made to shy away from the steep taxes on alchol. Some herbs used included in the liquors were wormwood and orange peel and quassia, to be breif. The mr. Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said of bitters, “Where weakness proceeds from excess of irritability, there bitters act beneficially; because all bitters are poisons, and operate by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability.” This is from Mr. Coleridge’s Specimens of Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tonics, on another hand quite near, are in present day refering to liquid drugs used to treat things, as they were in the 1800s. However similar they may be in the 1800s they were placed in pretty bottles and much like bitters, as they are in the same category, were mostly made of a base of alcohol and some herbs. The late Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of tonics similarly as he did of bitters, though and as there was a difference. “But where weakness proceeds from the opposite cause of relaxation, there tonics are good; because they brace up and tighten the loosened string. Bracing is a correct metaphor.”

fashionable bitters and tonics found in the pursueing little bottles that are pretty will be listed now."

well, as soon as i have pictures i will be sure to post them. and until then, feel free to contact me about purchasing one. you can chose the price. i guess.

kellynjune@gmail.com

loves.

bello.

I am going to make a zine. 

But first I have to make a mock up!

i'm trying to find the best shop to buy medical tape, too so if there are any known places: drug stores first aid kits, hospitals, please let me know.

I'm planning on making a record book. You wanna know what about?

the bottles that held our tonics and pills and poisons and chemicals in the era right around the civil war. I'm thinking about continuing with this zine even after this class is over! and keeping a record, through various issues, maybe in chronological order, maybe not. I would show you a little snip of what the cover might look like but i think i like to make you wait. 

but i've been having a lot of dreams lately so we will see what happens if i don't get a dream catcher.

when my zine is finished i might try to sell it to you so don't be discouraged. 

and remember: "it's only castles burning."

peacefully,

kellyn.