Small Press Alert: Uncompromising Voices Must Have 5,000 Followers
We have no prescribed style. We do have a spreadsheet.
FROM THE MASTHEAD
Sam Rook
Sam Rook collects scraps from the art world: unfunded exhibitions, bruised pamphlets, baffling videos, and publishing operations with a staple gun where the business plan should be.
He believes there is still art in the debris. He is less certain about the invoices.
FROM THIS DESK
Small Press Alert: Margin Notes Press
They publish only what fits in the white space around somebody else’s argument.
Video Desk: Man Builds a Boat in His Apartment
The boat gets larger. The doorway does not.
Video Desk: Seven Minutes of a Printer Refusing to Cooperate
No narration. No music. Just one machine refusing the terms of modern employment.
Comic Strip: The Fly Applies for a Mortgage
Four panels. One insect. Zero acceptable proof of income.
Drawn Wrong: The Meeting That Could Have Been a Doodle
A visual field report from the margins of a meeting nobody survived with dignity.
Small Press Alert: The Envelope With No Return Address
A tiny mail-only press asks writers to submit something worth making the postal service nervous about.
Small Press Alert: Staple Gun Quarterly
A new journal promises one issue per season and a binding method that voids several warranties.
Video Desk: A Machine Built to Press One Button
Owen Kade recommends an elaborate answer to a problem nobody had.
Photo Evidence: The City After Everyone Goes Home
One image, one minute, no moral.
Proof of Life
A visual note on damaged systems, bad photocopies, and the marks people leave to prove they were here.