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Dry One Wet 2 is a collection of poems about my year in the Lagos Metropolitan Biome. It is my first chapbook, for sale as a lovely PDF from next Monday (11.8.25). Options for extras in the form of small, digital treats are available on my online shop. You can read more about the subject of the poems on my profile and at the link below.
subscriptions and ads for miniskirt volume two are now available. miniskirt is a print-only fashion zine run by natalia panzer and monica weltyk. subscribers will receive five issues of the zine, with one sent every few months. the first issue will be mailed in september/october. subscriptions cost $20USD. discerning advertisers will notice that for just $5 more they can get five advertisements PLUS ALL FIVE ISSUES. just add five ads to cart. <3 mini
HTML Day is an annual celebration of HTML Energy! This year (2025), it’s happening on Saturday, August 2, 2025 around the world! Last year (2024), 22 cities hosted their own HTML Day. It happened in: Sydney, New York City, Rotterdam, Seoul, Shanghai, Toronto, Honolulu, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, Stockholm, Hamburg, London, Saskatoon, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Austin, Portland (Maine), Atlanta, Lee/Lenox, and Seattle...
hey, this is elliott (creator of special fish). just putting a little note out to the special fish universe ~~ i'm looking for more work. i've been hopping from freelance project to freelance project and it's not feeling sustainable anymore. i need something recurring or part-time. i'd love to be part of a community minded project, something making the web a bit better. even a small monthly thing, like designing a newsletter. if you know someone hiring for something like that lmk :)
We are hosting a few exciting classes this summer in NYC. The first is "TWA: Total Work of Art" — shapeshifting a project into digital, physical, and temporal forms. More info in link below. Applications are due on May 30, 2025 at 11:59pm EST. Thanks!
An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.
are you aged 40 or older? i am looking for wisdom. i have 5 questions, please can i ask them to you? I am taking photographs of the end of the world and putting them in a zoomable, pannable canvas and calling it a magazine. I am trying to reconcile the poetic nonrational self and the sober and powerful scientific-industrial-capitalist methods of analysis, production and replication. i am really trying to understand i and all of us should do next. email me.
LIMITED ACCESS iOS BETA - STRANGER: AN ANONYMOUS AUDIO NETWORK CONNECTING TWO INDIVIDUALS THROUGH AN UNFILTERED REAL-TIME WINDOW INTO EACH OTHER'S LIVES.
I'm writing about community living! Posts about communication, conflict resolution, systems for food/chores/etc, living with kids, and whatever else is on my mind. I also write case studies on the details of how specific communities work.
Extra Practice is a space for working and learning in the North of Rotterdam, shared by six friends who are active in the field of art and design. Each month, a different member writes a newsletter on a topic of their interest, with contributions from the whole group. Browse our newsletter archive at the link below.
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