Toys: Cupco Tigermask Plushes

A new round of plushes have been unleashed by the force of nature known as Cupco. His latest plushes are a run of 6 and they are of famous Japanese Anime/Wrasslin star Tigermask. They’re 8” and only $55 + shipping, get em while they’re hot!
Features: – Golden Championship Belt! – Tiger print cape! – Ruby [...]

Book: How to Make Books

Esther K. Smith and Purgatory Pie Press (Support your local small press!) have just put out How to Make Books. It’s a DIY book on book making. I haven’t got a copy yet so I can’t say how it is but the site overall looks like it could be a good resource for artists looking [...]

Zines: Cranky Yellow wants YOU!

I got this via my Flickr mail today, now I’m passing the info on to you.

:: WE NEED YOUR ZINES!

We’re an organization called Cranky Yellow!
Look: http://www.crankyyellow.com

We recently opened a store and gallery in St. Louis! We’ve
only been open a few months! We are just now beginning to
stock Zines and are working towards having the biggest
selection [...]

How-to: Blockprinting

Here’s a quick link to a tutorial on doing your own wood cut block prints.
Stolen from Fecal Face

Peat Wollinger’s guide to customizing shoes

Peat Wollinger stencilist extrordinaire has posted a tutorial on customizing shoes… it a good un’!

Mount Virus Zine: By SkyGrandPager

A new zine hot off the presses courtesy of SkyGrandPager. 14 pages- 2 dollars, Color cover black n’ white innards. Email him here to get a handfull of zine-y goodness.

Benefit: Miss Rockaway Armada

The Miss Rockaway Armada

The Armada project was conceived by street artist Swoon, and is now being built and organized by a collective of 25 artists, performers and activists from New York, San Francisco and Seattle. The Armada enjoys support from the Holasek-Weir Projects, the Wooster Collective and the Barnstormers art collective, who will donate a [...]

Resources: No Media Kings

I was browsing lifehacker yesterday when I came across a posting about silkscreening from No Media Kings. I was planning to post that article but then I started checking out other posts and its a veritable cornucopia (I love using that phrase) of information on DIY publishing & printing as well. So by all [...]

Coke Image Bank

One of the cool things about gigantic companies is they usually have a site somewhere off the beaten track that has images of all their brands and hi res pormotional photos.
Here’s Coke’s

Now remember this is strictly for the press, and news people and the images cannot be altered in any way, got it?

Have fun…

How To: Flash

Gotoandlearn is a site that has tutorials on doing stuff in newer verisons of Flash that could aid and a bet your site/animation/video making projects.
Link from Lifehacker

DIY: Start your own Non Profit

So you’ve got a cause that needs to raise awareness… such as exposing corrupt politicians or an arts organization that reaches out to convicts or something. How to start a Non Profit is a good rundown of all the stuff you need to do to get it up and running.
Link via Life Hacker

DIY Site: The Instructables

Weird high end DIY site. The Instructables. How to’s on laser etching your powerbook and whatnot. Maybe a bit bougie but very cool ideas too.
Link via Visual Resistance

DIY: Stickman Guide To Printing

A lone comment about minicomics got me on this train of thought about publishing. Thanks SHOHUNT for the kick in the pants. I was hunting and pecking looking for more resources when I found this page. Stickman Graphic’s Self-Publishing Resource Guide
While definitely looking like a reaaaaaly old site, it provides a wealth of info on [...]

DIY: Bodega Distribution

Minicomic Distributor Bodega Distribution is now accepting submissions for Minicomics.

Video: Cheap Steady-Cam

The 14 Dollar Steady Cam for video peoples who want that “steady-camera” effect.

Open Call: A Stencil Template Zine #2

Josh MacPhee has an open call for submissions for his Stencil Template Zine #2

DIY: Screenprinting for cheap.

DIY guide to screenprinting t-shirts for cheap.

Zines: Fecal Face Presents the One Shot Zine

Fecal Face drops another cool tutorial on the throngs.
Fecal Pal, Mimi shows us all how to make a One Shot Zine with just a regular piece of paper and an exacto knife (we’ll you’ll probably need something to put in the mag too).
Very clever!

Printing: Silk Screen Tutorials

Here’s a pretty in depth tutorial on silkscreening from scratch at Barry’s Farm And here’s a forum where we can ask all our n00b questions Craftster Forums

Video: More Video Tips

Video Shooting Tips from the good people at U.C Berkeley’s Journalism School. It’s got lots on really basic information on video techniques such as Sit Down Interviews and more.

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