This week we’re deep in the printing and design process, and making lots of books — onto the notes!
Adam is deep in the layout of Lichens of the Pacific Crest, riso-printed photos accompanied by a narrative of dual obsessions: lichen and the stories of travelers.
I collated 350 bundles of the Long Calendar, and used the booklet maker (with the stapling turned off) to fold them in half. I used the booklet maker some more to make about 275 copies of the RISO Pacific Northwest zine (right, above). Since it’s just two sheets of paper I just “collated” as I put the sheets in. All that took about two and a half hours, the perfect length of time to watch a movie in the background. Those will be new for Short Run, Nov 4th!
Last week I turned the corner with the PCT Flower Journal. It doesn’t look like much, but in the visual shorthand below all the big questions I had for myself are answered: it’s a matter of putting in the hours to get the rest of the images and writing on the page and discovering the final form.
In a more typical year, at this point I’d probably be making the call to get done by Short Run or whatever event or self-imposed deadline was coming up, shift into a few deep sessions of work, then print and assemble. But in morning pages today I realized that I want more rest; life has an unusual number of moving pieces at the moment, and this would be too much. So I’ll let this publication develop at its own pace. Maybe it will go somewhere completely different. After all, the format and ink colors and paper are all linked to the moment.
From this infrastructure agenda for eco-socialism, I’ll take the municipal goat herds, the town sauna, municipal plant nursery, natural building corps. Adam found an Outside magazine story about some PCT hikers we met! This jig for woodworking. Neon pink glue for making note pads
I just finished The Primates of Park Avenue (motherhood memoir), Birnam Wood (eco-thriller set in NZ with anarchist-gardeners and a billionaire), and Lying for Money (a history of frauds and scams) and recommend them all.
If you have any recs for us this week, or just want to say hey, feel free to reply.
— Amelia