I bought this yesterday from Ooga Booga. First edition yeah. I hope it’s good. Brian Rotter did the artwork for the Losing Feeling EP which bodes well for this little paper wonder. I’ll upload some scans when it arrives from LA. Which may be a while…

A cool guy called Lewis told me about this website called Zine Swap, where you can trade your zine for someone elses. Awesome, you should check it out. There’s never been a better reason to cut and paste.

This is going to be sooooooo good.

Some cool tears from a recent interview the Tempster did with Bliss Magazine.

So I found out on Christmas Eve that I’ve been invited to attend The DO Lectures 2010. Awesome!

The DO Lectures are a series of ‘talks’ in Cardigan, West Wales, by inspirational speakers from around the world on things like human and animal welfare, the environment, art, music, writing, filmmaking, exploration and tons of other cool stuff.

While you are staying at the fforest campsite, which is like a mini Eden Project, you also get to attend specialist workshops run by the speakers on skills like screenprinting and photography and go surfing, walking and cycling.

There are still some super limited places left so get applying!

Once you’ve been invited you have to pay £1000 for your ticket. Hubba. So if anyone’s got any good fundraising ideas, let me know!

I am so excited.

Check out these photos of the 2009 lectures by Howies photographer James Bowden.

The new issue of HUCK magazine is out and I have some stuff in it so check it out! You can buy it directly from the HUCK shop.

Here’s a teaser.

Check out these cool mini-documentaries Don’t Move Here by WK Entertainment about the music scene in Portland.

If I lived in Portland I would totally go to this Publication Fair by Publication Studio on Sunday December 20.

Shawn Records new book ‘Owner of This World’ a collection of stills from filming Where The Wild Things Are which features his son, Max Records, is published by them as well as loads of other rad books including a new one by Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson.

Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park was set in Portland too. I like that film. The bad bit in it though, you’ll know what I mean if you’ve seen it, is like the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Grim.

Come to this on Sunday it’s going to be rad!

Hamburger Eyes have got a cool little musing on their blog about the future of photobooks.

Photo: R. Potes from ‘Hamburger Eyes: Inside Burgerworld’

Says Hamburger: “I think photo books will always be around and get better and better, and in 10 years they will look even better than we can imagine. It’s brewing now. The perfect storm. All these self published titles will make the bigger companies step it up and take risks to survive. Also it will force content and quality up a notch, and bring ridiculous prices down. I don’t think everything has been done yet. I’m looking forward to it.”

I couldn’t agree more.

I blogged about this earlier on the HUCK website but I thought I’d pop it here as well because I’m really into it.

Head honcho of Toy Machine, artist and skater Ed Templeton has launched a blog If It’s Vegan, We’ll Eat It that reviews food on his travels.

Following a recent trip to London, Ed and wife Deanna included Eat and Two Veg, Manna and Saf as cool places to eat sans meat.

It’s funny too with comments like, “the soup was piping hot, and my tongue was burnt for the rest of the day. From our seat, you get a nice view of the sex shops across the street…”

Fingers crossed a book comes next!

Ed makes veganism look easy peasy and I’m gonna make the jump one day. Meat sucks. Animals rule.