New Zine: labcabinalabama

2012 Talks

What Happened to the Big Idea in Music Technology? (with Dave Allen, David Ewald, Rick Moody, Jesse von Doom, and Anthony Batt)
2pm, March 14th, Room 17A
Austin Convention Center
SXSW
Austin, TX

My Books

I was Assistant Editor on Paul D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky's Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, which is available from The MIT Press and fine bookstores all over.

My first book, Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, is an anthology of interviews with all kinds of minds. Disinformation named it "among the most important books published in 2007," and Erik Davis called it "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so."

I have a little piece in Disinformation's first book, You Are Being Lied To, a compendium of dissent, which also includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Bloom, Douglas Rushkoff, Howard Zinn, Richard Metzger, Alex Burns, and Mark Pesce, among many others.

Shutter to Think

August 12th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Category: Announcements

With all of this digital stuff, sometimes it feels good to go back to the analog world. I find making a real, honest-to-paper-pulp zine every once in a while keeps things in perspective. As many of you know, I spent the summer of 2008 in my old haunts in southeast Alabama. Well, I made a zine to commemorate the last few months of skateboarding, correspondence, and heat.

“Labcabinalabama” is the name I’ve given my parents’ house in Chancellor, Alabama, and subsequently this zine. Jessy (on the cover above), my sister Cindy, and I spent the summer making notebooks, screen printing, drawing, corresponding with friends in other parts of the country, etc. In addition, I did a lot of skateboarding and they took a lot of pictures. “Labcabinalabama” documents the latter.

Here’s a taste:

Introductory spread with a bail photo by Eric Black.

The opening pages of the Sir One interview.

The Club Old Man miniramp spread.

Smileys!

One of the Five Pictures from the Archives of Rodger Bridges.

Naked Raygun interview.

So, that’s a quick look at “labcabinalabama,” soon to be arriving in the mailboxes of the fortunate.

If you want one, hit me up, and I’ll get one out as soon as I can (I’m in the middle of moving again).

Further Posting:

5 Comments »

Jessy Helms said:

Ohh, goodness I can’t wait to see how this turned out! Watching you put it together was so fun. You’re a fascinating man.

# August 13th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

William said:

Received mine in the mail just yesterday. Great stuff — it made me all weepy and nostalgic. Thanks for thinking of me.

# August 16th, 2008 at 11:53 am

Mr. Black said:

Sick.

# August 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am

audra said:

ditto, what jessy said. the fascinating part. :)

# August 26th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

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# January 21st, 2011 at 11:24 am

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I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan.

I am currently an Assistant Instructor corrupting the youth at The University of Texas at Austin, where I am also pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication Studies. My main interests are figurative language use and the social impacts of technology. My main goal as a writer is to entertain and as a scientist is to find novelty. I’m more of the former than the latter and more of a fan than a critic. This site is where all of these things play out. It’s where I think aloud about all of the above.

I’m an aging BMX/skateboard 'zine kid. That’s where I learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. The pages and staples have long since given way to links and scrollbars, but the rest is basically the same. I still ride bikes, and I still skateboard. I do still commit quite a bit to actual pages, too. Read on »