Oct 14, 2016

Pirates Magazine Prototype #14: Step1.




K.
So when I make a Pirates Magazine, here's what I do:

-first print the cover:


It looks like my ink was running out when i did this one. Meh.

then I write all over the cover with extra *featured* specific things that will be unique
to the particular edition I'm sending out. I have been slowly organizing folders of themes,
but the ones I've made so far have been just random experimental test versions.
I usually add crayons and scissors and instruct people to "improve it"

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Next I smoosh a bunch of randomness together:
If I have an empty space, I try to fill it with advertising for someone whose work I
have stolen the shit out of
especially if it has added tons of value to my family:

Fun Fact: there are no paid advertisements in Pirates Magazine, Only those I have "chosen".

Next I start just filling it with whatever. Paper cranes to build, random song sheets, i cant read music yet but they are so pretty to look at or maybe do arts and crafts with, you could make a decorative snowflake I guess.
Oh check out that insane crossword!! looks so whack.
also I eat avocados while I make 'em so you know I'm really in the zone.



And then I just start filling it with whatever I'm thinking about at the time.
Oh check it. here's Cycles of Change. it's one of my favorites.
YES!!!! cycles of change. that's the stuff right there.



and then i fill it with essays & stories that I think are awesome-y and more randomness that one could do arts and crafts with, or write thier own stories, sometimes half finished interviews I intend to complete but life is sending me to Gatineau or Timbucktu


It really came about because I thought. there must be a way to find the good smart people faster.
when I moved to Thornbury in 2012 I searched high and low for crunchy granola mama's.
by the time I found sticks and stones wilderness school it had disbanded from lack of interest.
It took me 8 months to find Kimbercote and i was LOOKING for something like that!!!
literally, searching.
& i thought. this makes no sense. we have spread ourselves way too thin. something MUST be done.
but every time I ever started to get anything going, some person who had made plans with me was bailing out, so I had to keep starting from scratch. over and over.
 little did I know, this would become my
*Greatest Asset*


Rainbows!
I love rainbows.



Some stuff it is imperative to be able to comprehend black and white though.