Reply from Berin Golonu

July 19, 2007

Hi Amanda;

Thanks for the packet. I finally carved out enough time in my schedule
to sit down and read your students' zines. They were delightful. Such a
range of ideas and creativity! I loved them.

Berin Golonu
Associate Visual Arts Curator
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Reply from V. Vale

friday june 29 2007

Amanda & Her Super Class:

thanks to all of you for all your work, and especially for actually sending me a copy of your zines. that never happens in this life. i started reading through them and will post-it tape my favorite pages.

thanks again for actually DOING something - hopefully it was fun, too -

all best,
v. vale
founder of RE/Search & Search & Destroy in 1977, san francisco

Reply From Franklin Furnace

June 18, 2007

Alas our collection of artists publications was transferred to MOMA about a decade ago - you might want to put your zines in their hands - check their dadabase for the franklin furnace artists books collection for more info. Of course if you wanna send zines we'd be happy to read em but we don't archive such materials anymore. Good luck Ms. Field.

Harley Spiller
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
80 Arts - The James E. Davis Arts Building
80 Hanson Place, #301
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1506 USA
T 718 398 7255
F 718 398 7256
http://www.franklinfurnace.org

Reply from the SF Little Maga/Zine Collection

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Just in case you need to know . . .

the distance to your mother's house in giraffe's necks-- you're in luck, you've got the Weird Converter.



I weigh about the same as nine spider monkeys or 2589 quarters (like the kind you put in the parking meter).

Timelapse Serra Installation

are any of y'all zinesters still out there?

Predictions for the future (now)

The "Ladies Home Journal" published an article in December of 1900 entitled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years.”

Many of them (not unsurprisingly) deal with the future place of the automobile, but there are also predictions about food, healthcare, the future of surviellance technology, and displays of the last gasp of "Manifest Destiny."

Some samples:

Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Even to-day photographs are being telegraphed over short distances. Photographs will reproduce all of Nature’s colors.

Store Purchases by Tube. Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles. These tubes will collect, deliver and transport mail over certain distances, perhaps for hundreds of miles. They will at first connect with the private houses of the wealthy; then with all homes. Great business establishments will extend them to stations, similar to our branch post-offices of today, whence fast automobile vehicles will distribute purchases from house to house.

Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great great grandchildren for their Christmas dinners a hundred years hence. Raspberries and blackberries will be as large. One will suffice for the fruit course of each person. Strawberries and cranberries will be grown upon tall bushes. Cranberries, gooseberries and currants will be as large as oranges. One cantaloupe will supply an entire family. Melons, cherries, grapes, plums, apples, pears, peaches and all berries will be seedless. Figs will be cultivated over the entire United States.