The mediageek zine #1 is still available in limited supplies. The mediageek zine is 38 pages full of rants, how-tos and reviews.
The contents are:
mediageekery - welcome from the editor a radical media call to arms d.i.: do it! a guide to zine making tools so you wanna shoot some video? no-nonsense tips for getting yourself a camcorder chicago rocks, st. louis rolls shoot some video for a change; a review of the guerrilla video primer end-zine: the sense of place
Order it now for the low, low price of just $2 post-paid in the US, add $1 for Canada and elsewhere. Well-concealed cash or money-order only. Send to:
Paul Riismandel
P.O. Box 2102
Champaign, IL 61825-2102
If you're in Chicago, copies are also available at Quimby's Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.
Not convinced to buy the zine when you can get the website for free (c'mon it's only 2 bucks!)? Here's a little bit of why the mediageek zine came to be, excerpted from the zine's intro:
At this point I also feel like I should explain why, with a website and radio show, and at the ripe age of 31, I decided to make a ‘zine. My first reason is that I’ve wanted to make a zine for more than ten years, and I finally got an excuse to get off my ass and do it.
More seriously, the bigger reason is that I think communication does and should happen in many forms and many forums. I know I’m not the first person to recognize this, but it’s hard to drag a computer with you on the bus, or into the bathroom to do some reading. Sure, I guess with a new ultra-light, super-Palm-handheld-pocket-cellphone-laptop-PDA it might be a little easier to read the mediageek website in those places. Yet, how many people actually can, and want to?
I hope the mediageek ‘zine might reach people who don’t or can’t read the website or hear the radio show.
