Lollercaust?

[Cramulus]

I would actually go pay to have a newspaper printed, because I love print. BUT... I think it might be best to have it in a format where regular people can print it out and distribute it without going to a print shop. We have to remove as many hoops as possible between the text and people reading the text.

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if it's InDesign, it would be cool if you could throw the .indd file somewhere, preferably in a ZIP file together with the fonts you used.

Sure. What version of InDesign do you have?

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I would actually go pay to have a newspaper printed, because I love print. BUT... I think it might be best to have it in a format where regular people can print it out and distribute it without going to a print shop. We have to remove as many hoops as possible between the text and people reading the text.

That was my primary concern too. This should be super accessible so anybody can publish it.

But the problem there is that Lollercaust probably will be pretty long, so if it's done on a bunch of smaller pages they'll need to be bound together, rather than just folded a few times. So people probably would need to deal with a print shop anyway, to get it bound.

[Cramulus]

Brainstorm Idea: What if we publish Lollercaust as a series of issues? Almost like a zine. But not a zine we intend on publishing regularly - just, you know, as people finish it. In the end, issues could be three-hole-punched and stuffed in a binder to make a book.


In que with the original proposed theme, I also want to start brainstorming topics in modern society which make one both laugh and scream. Here's a great example:

Elliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, was known and noted as a heroic politician willing to take corrupt politicians and corporations to the mat. Before he was the governor, he was a lawyer who specialized in cases which would improve the public good. Predictably, Spitzer himself was corrupt and resigned from office after he was outed as a regular client of a prostitution ring. The kicker is that he never would have been caught if not for the patriot act.

Thank St. Zarathud that the LAW finally caught that criminal!

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

We could go several directions at once with this thing too. A zine style, a newspaper style, shit, maybe even a small number of carefully bound books.


Moar Brainstorming (even the most hair brained scheme ought to be mentioned):

Who is this publication for? What kind of people would dig this stuff? Who ISN'T this publication for?

Imagine yourself distributing this in the future. Where would you be?

What specific impression do we want to leave people with when they glance at the cover?

[Triple Zero]

Indesign: version 2.0 (it's old, but does the trick)

about a zine: easiest thing i found to use is a double-sided A4 paper, folded in half. gives you 4 A5 pages to layout, so you can make a lot of different issues.

we need to make two formats, one for A4 and one for the american size (Letter, right?)

one time when i organized the introduction weeks for my students club (the theme was "nonsense", we had capes .. it was awesome) we released two of these A4-fold-in-half "newspapers" a week.

[Cramulus]

We could go several directions at once with this thing too. A zine style, a newspaper style, shit, maybe even a small number of carefully bound books.


Moar Brainstorming (even the most hair brained scheme ought to be mentioned):

Who is this publication for? What kind of people would dig this stuff? Who ISN'T this publication for?

Imagine yourself distributing this in the future. Where would you be?

What specific impression do we want to leave people with when they glance at the cover?

I'd leave it on the train for others to find. When the weather's nice, I make a habit of hitting bus and train stops to unload propaganda. I'd like it to be written for the general public, but not necessarily in the TONE of stuff written for the general public. But also not blatantly rude, offensive, or holier-than-thou, as those are killers for any tract.

I want people to read it and think, "Man, this is a crazy fucked up world we're living in. I thought stuff was bad. Then it got worse. Now it's HILARIOUS."

A lot of the text we've assembled is funny or Discordian or whatever, and that's fine, but IMO we need a little bit more text that makes you laugh and scream at the same time.



If we're going for a modular publication (ie, we release one book or chapter or pamphlet or issue at a time), each unit should contain at least:

-5 images
-5 meme bombs / marginalia
-some wisdom
-some humor
-something to get you fired up
-something to make you laugh at the situation

[P3nT4gR4m]

I want people to read it and think, "Man, this is a crazy fucked up world we're living in. I thought stuff was bad. Then it got worse. Now it's HILARIOUS."

the lollercaust is all about the coming of apocalips

[Payne]

 

[Cramulus]

X-POST FROM the spag thread




one of these, perhaps?






They wouldn't let me bring my medication on the plane!
      /













College tuition is rising while the quality of education is falling
               /

              \
         LETS GET DRUNK







the goatse man is wearing a wedding ring!
                   /









At least I don't have cancer
                /

               \
               yet!

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Folded Cover


Cover - Front & Back


Layout example


A cover and layout concept. More of a sketch that I'm looking for feedback on. Do you think the inside is too sparse? I'm open to suggestions, criticisms, pisstaking, etc.

Download link in case you want to proof it on your printer (since I can't connect to the CWYOHBA ftp it's MIHD for you).

I need to reinstall Photoshop because I gave my computer a near fatal stroke (it was very close), and now it's fading my pictures. Luckily it has made nearly a full recovery. That blue should be pure intense cyan.

Also, if you're wondering who the fuck Steven Silverwood is, he's the buttmunch who made the pixel images. Here are his conditions for using his art, word for word:

PIXEL FREAKS 18PX

Hello you dirty little snowballers.
This 18px font was created by Steven Silverwood.
This is freeware, so feel free to ware it.
If you wish to use this as part of a graphics project
then you must include the words -
'FONT BY STEVEN SILVERWOOD' in massive letters.
More of my fonts will get posted as soon I as I can be arsed.

Choke on 'em!

19.2.04

And, I know this is a lot, but it comes with the territory. The photograph is by Hans Starck, so we'd need to get his permission and probably the model's in order to use it. It's just a stand in.

[Golden Applesauce]

Put "By Steve Silverwood" in really massive letters and the "font" bit in normal/smallish letters.

[P3nT4gR4m]

lol-swastika is fkin awesome! 

[Reginald Ret]

yeah! can someone make a rotating version?

Regret,
too lazy to develop programming skills

[P3nT4gR4m]