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zines, vintage technology, & other anachronistic media
https://messagelost.cc/ (dev blog)
https://messagelost.bigcartel.com/ (shop)
Tablinng in Lambertville this Saturday! July 26 - 11am-5pm at the Acme Theater!
#zines #zinemaking #zinefest
July 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I made a thing!
A new tool at stikki.cc allows you to turn micro-zines into QR-codes where the entire text is stored in the code. Ephemeral digital media, where if the code is destroyed, the text is gone. 2000 words hidden in a sticker, bookmark, or t-shirt?

#zines #zine-making #QRCode
stikki
stikki.cc
June 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Added a new Zine to my shop:
messagelost.bigcartel.com

Spoiled: Follow That Man -- Season 5 Ep. 8 from 1952
Part of the “Spoiled” series, where I take random shots from a movie or program using a toy camera. Later I try to piece the story together from the images and bad memory.
May 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
After finishing up shipping 100 packages for the Kickstater, I can finally release BOXCARS: the Game in the shop!

BOXCARS: A tabletop role-playing game about life and death as a hobo, riding the rails in 1902.
messagelost.bigcartel.com/product/boxc...

#zine #rpg
April 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Twinkie the puppy says, "if zines were kibbles..."
March 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The #ttrpg #zine and #kickstarter community is amazing! BOXCARS: the Game has just hit it's first stretch goal with 4 days still left on the campaign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/156...
Thank you to everyone!!
BOXCARS: The Game
A tabletop role-playing game about life and death as a hobo, riding the rails in 1902.
www.kickstarter.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm using my Kickstarter Updates for Boxcar: The Game as a bit of a dev blog. I thought this group may be interested in seeing a before and after image comparison for the #ttrpg #zine .
The bottom image is a pd source from 1911. The top is my reworked draft for the game and zine.
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The #zine #ttrpg BOXCARS just hit it's funding goal on Kickstarter on its second evening!! Huge thanks to the ttrpg community! You're clearly weird -and I love it!

I'll be updating the campaign as I do final development and testing at www.kickstarter.com/projects/156...
BOXCARS: The Game
A tabletop role-playing game about life and death as a hobo, riding the rails in 1902.
www.kickstarter.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
My crowdfunding project BOXCARS: the Game is live!
A tabletop role-playing game about life and death as a hobo, riding the rails in 1902.
kickstarter.com/projects/156...

#zinefest #ttrpg
February 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm Getting excited! MY ZineQuest entry will go live on Tuesday!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/156...
BOXCARS is "GM-less" ttrpg about life and death as a hobo, riding the rails in 1902.
#zine #ttrpg #zinequest
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Found a 1994 Cthulu-centric #zine made by Eric York while in a comic shop in Central NJ today. Beautiful artwork! Not sure if he's on Bsky, but he's tillinghast23 on insta. Love the work!
January 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Just sent my 'BOXCARS" TTRPG for application to ZineQuest! I L*O*V*E that they are using images from Jason Price's ( @alwayscheckers.bsky.social )'Notorious'. ..a Fabulous game package!

#zine #zinequest
January 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Down the rabbit-hole.. There was some amazing stuff going on in the early 2ks when zinesters were trying to figure out what to do with the new-fangled Interwebs...

The Archive.org captures of etext.org from that era can eat up some hours. --This snip is from 'The Unit Circle' #3, 2001.
January 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The zine making supervisor has some critique!

#zine #zinemaking
January 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Found some old paper rips from my Fisher Price Photo Fun Cam! This is from the Philadelphia Waterworks shot around 2002. It prints on cash-register receipt paper, which aged well.

I have some ideas for a low-tech photo zine or two, so this camera is coming out of storage this week!
#zine #toycam
January 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM