while i'm living in my parents's house, i've been experimenting with where and when and how i can film videos. this chatty update was one of those experiments, sitting at the open patio door while it was raining, but the light was so good! youtube studio has all these analytics on the backend that mostly tell you how poorly your videos are performing, but one of the things they also tell you is the search terms people are using to find you.
youtube told me my videos appeal to viewers who want tough love motivation, and as a brand, i don't hate it. yes, i'm depressed, but the sun is shining now, and it hasn't rained today at least. i procrastinated until the deadline, but i still made a zine for the most recent sunday zine club, and my hockey team won yesterday's game to stay out of the basement, so we're doing ok, you and me. we're getting out of this hole.
your pdf bff
some good tumblr reblogs this month
- a gacha machine for wikipedia (this link includes some fun pulls from tumblr users)
- summer mix 1999 (i made the playlist on youtube)
- humans have been drawing the same animals forever and ever
- calvin and hobbes: remixed "sophmoric. intellectually sterile..."low art"
- this past week was the fifth anniversary of ever given. here's a roundup of memes and here's a zine i made last year
i browse itchio jams so you don't have to
- cave ttrpg jam, deadline april 14
- lean green zine jam, deadline april 20
- sunday zine club, the theme is VIEW 🌄 deadline april 26
- egg game jam, deadline may 1
- hybrid decker zine jam, deadline may 14
and a couple other cool zine things
- the american library association hosts a zine pavilion at their annual conference. if you'll be in chicago in june and you love to talk about zines, they want volunteers
- the seattle printer's guild is opening a zine bookstore, and they're looking for inventory to sell on consignment
if you ever find yourself thinking, oh, they don't mean me, yes, we always mean you. i mean you should volunteer. you should send your zines. you should make something for the jam and tell me about it. i wanna see the cool thing you made.