Fellow TheBlowUp alumnus Kate Sennert is a founding member of this [currently] web project. I hope they update frequently.

THIS LONG CENTURY is an evolving index of passing thoughts, recommendations and personal observations. Represented are individuals working across highly imaginative fields: art, design, literature, science, theory, etc. This project seeks to expand the notion of creative discipline and provoke verbal and aesthetic exchange.

Illicit Haul: Colombian soldiers guard a semi-submersible captured last month with 1.6 tons of cocaine

by Chris Kraul

Reporting from Tumaco, Colombia — Squat, bull-necked and sullen-looking, Enrique Portocarrero hardly seems a dashing character out of a Jules Verne science fiction novel.

But law enforcement officers here have dubbed him “Captain Nemo,” after the dark genius of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” They say the 45-year-old has designed and built as many as 20 fiberglass submarines, strange vessels with the look of sea creatures, for drug traffickers to haul cocaine from this area of southern Colombia to Central America and Mexico.

Capping a three-year investigation that involved U.S. and British counter-narcotics agents, Colombia’s FBI equivalent, the Department of Administrative Security, arrested Portocarrero last month in the violent port city of Buenaventura, where he allegedly led a double life as a shrimp fisherman. (continued)

Thank Michael Jonathan · 12/14/08

Zürcher Zine Sezession
One-day Independent Publishers Fair

Nieves and Rollo Press are proud to announce that over 40 independent publishers from around the world are participating in the first Zürich Zine Sezession.

Perla-Mode
Langstrasse 84 / Brauerstrasse 37
8004 Zurich, Switzerland
+41 44 240 04 80
free admission

This Blog is out of control.

Freddie, Fannie and friends

Tank Books, “Try one and you’ll be hooked”.

I mean this in the most constructive way possible: this is case-and-point about re-examining the book as a medium, and how far design and consumption methods in that arena have fallen.

I recently worked with my friends Farewell Books in Sweden to design the cover of their newest publication, As Far As I Could Get by John Divola.

Small Press is the Best Press!

AAPA

Gift t-shirt is in the new issue of Fantastic Man.