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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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9:39a - let's hear it for the boy(s) - part 3/3 - put inside snowballs&fistfights messages zine package..
Each week, a decorated matchbox with a tiny present hidden inside is left by a girl (and sometimes willing friends) somewhere in her travels. It's a random act of semi-artistic kindness aimed at disrupting someone's day in a tiny but positive way. That's if they dare to pick it up...
It was a Google game of cat and mouse and I know this (not because Tyler knows this) because I've done it before, especially when something takes my interest.
Hanging out in Shell's studio one day, I was treated to an impromptu show & tell that featured her zine drawer and other strange and wonderful objects. My favourite was this knitted creature, which was like a sock puppet and teacosy at the same time - which was apparently designed to keep hardboiled eggs warm as you wait for your toast to pop. Cute.
And then there was this mini movie zine of the Goodies, with concetina folds opening up to reveal miniscule key frames from the film. She had received it with the egg tea cosy at Christmas time and thought that it might have been made by one of the guyswho runs China Heights gallery in Surry Hills.
And so I Googled and I clicked, and I emailed and a few weeks later this envelope arrives in my letterbox. Too easy! Turns out that Mark Drew is from China Heights and made the mini movie zines a good few years ago (apparently there was a Donnie Darko one made for Pnau!) and luckily he had a few lying around.
And like all neat things, I kept one and am passing the other onto.. well the universe, with the hope that someone will find and appreciate it.
Cheers Mark!
x
p.s I stumbed across these in the library today - an exhibition of sorts of privately published books. Naturally I went for the small ones. If only they weren't housed behind glass.
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