Tag Archives: mail art

Futel’s campaign to bring back the public telephone, and the possibility that an Ypsilanti phone may be coming soon

By Mark | June 14, 2017

Not too long ago, my friend Dug, knowing that I’d just purchased a former Michigan Bell Telephone building in Ypsilanti, put me in touch with a friend of his in Portland by the name of Karl Anderson. Karl, he told me, was looking for places to install “free payphones.” Well, late this last winter, Karl […]

Posted in 209 Pearl, Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AT&T, C.H.V.N.K. 666, communications, cyberpunk, diplomacy, Dug Song, Duo Security, Futel, gamer zines, homeless encampments, Karl Anderson, Landline Creative Labs, Michigan Bell Telephone, mutant bicycles, Party Line, payphone, phreaking, play-by-mail, Portland, pubic art, samizdat, social service, telecommunications, telephony, Ypsilanti Transit Station, zines | 24 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Julee Peezlee on McJob

By Mark | January 21, 2014

In an attempt to better document the little sliver of the American underground press that worked its way into my heart in the early ’90s, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is with […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Crimewave USA, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1990, anger, anonymity, art school, Boulder, Colorado, creative control, Douglas Coupland, Dyslexic, exorcising demons, Factsheet Five, Farm Pulp, fluxus, fuck you, Generation X, Greg Hischak, Jeff Kelly, Julee Peezlee, Kinko's, Mark Brooks, McJob, Mongo Boy, moving back in with your parents, No Poetry, photocopying, publishing, self-publishing, shitty jobs, Temp Slave, The Untold History of Zines, underground press, venting, zine friends, zine pioneers, zines | 6 Comments

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