MCA Zine Fair / Mega Zine Workshop

Posted on May 10, 2012 by zinester

Next weekend (Sunday 20th May) is the massive annual MCA Zine Fair, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (not to be confused with the other MCA – RIP). Sticky will be representin’ there, as will zine people from across Australia and probably other bits of the world. Are you going to be there? Tell us so in the comments! We wanna meet yer!

The weekend before that, though – as in, this weekend – zine queen Vanessa Berry will be holding a Mega Zine Masterclass at the very same place, and you only have a day left to sign up! Get onto it! Rather than making a zine alone in your bedroom and then ‘borrowing’ some photocopier time from your school or office, using this workshop will give you access to bespoke printing materials that’ll make your zine (either already started or created on the day) look well nice. You can buy tickets here.

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Fahrenheit C3100 #2

Posted on May 7, 2012 by zinester

It’s been a long time – sorry – but here’s the second episode of Fahrenheit C3100, the podcast about zines and zine-making by us lot.

In this episode, Beck discusses her own zine ‘Macarons Are Not Macaroons’ and reviews Alex E Clark‘s zine ‘A True Story’, plus Luke discusses a new type of paper in this podcast’s edition of Luke’s Paper Juju.

You can download this episode by right-clicking / save-to downloading here.

You can stream this episode on our Mixcloud page here.

You can subscribe to this and all our other podcasts for $0 via iTunes right here.

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Zine review: Alone, Together In Conversation and Thought

Posted on May 3, 2012 by zinester

Alone, Together in Conversation and Thought, by Various, ed. Ed Gould & Alanna Lorenzon

Price: Free!

Contact: via alonetogetherinconversationandthought.com

Review by Fulsome Prism

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Alone, Together: In Conversation And Thought is a Platform exhibition in two parts, with the first part having occurred last year, and the second part running throughout May (the opening is happening this Friday). It is a kind of social experiment that, in Part One, invited people to sit in the vitrine of Degraves Subway and – without it becoming a therapy session – discuss loneliness with the artists. It also – hooray! – came with a complimentary zine.

While the sight of people talking behind glass, in a piece that crossed relational aesthetics with market research, invoked a number of issues – such as voyeurism, artificial social constructs and whether it would be possible to squeeze a café in there – the zine deals exclusively with the topic in hand: is the rise of online connectivity making us lonelier? Perhaps oddly for a zine wanting to explore the desperation of the isolated individual, it’s somehow more affecting when it’s discussed with a degree of academic objectivity. The pieces by Edward Gould (explaining studies suggesting Facebook makes everyone except you look contented), Alanna Lorenzon (on the lack of correlation between company and solitude) and Lucy Bergland (on the “particular sharpness or softness we feel at the edge of ourselves and the beginning of our surroundings”) are never dry or needlessly jargon-filled. As a way of approaching the subject, these slightly un-emotive attempts to analyse it work best at provoking thought. And while it’s great that the zine has varied content – from essays to photography to poetry to fiction – it’s largely the creative writing that unfortunately veers towards looking like an indulgent exercise in navel-gazing.

Don’t get me wrong, some of it is good – Kirsty Hulm’s short story about two friends is sweet, for instance – and I detest the instant cries of ‘emo’ from some readers of perzines, as if exposing any sort of negative downbeat emotion is a weakness that needs a stick to beat it with. But like anything there is good writing about isolation, depression and disconnection, and then there’s…not. For instance, if you look at ‘Adventures In Depression’ by Hyperbole & A Half, it is at turns funny, heartbreaking, desperate and redemptive. But this zine’s piece by Erin Kelly about being a teenager sat in your room listening to Coldplay and feeling sorry for yourself – while well written – seems a bit too obvious and self-pitying. It’s understandable wanting to express those emotions of course, but I couldn’t help but think: “yes, I know. I’ve been fifteen too.” Also, Katherine Riley’s piece on ghosts is an attempt to describe certain feelings of spiritual interference that comes out a bit too wishy-washy to take seriously.

Whether the outcome will sway more towards the analytical or the sentimental will transpire when the artwork’s results are displayed this month. Before then, my main conclusion is: more zines with your artwork please, Platformers.

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Disclaimer: “At the institute” we believe that all zines are awesome no matter what, AND we believe in healthy discussion and critical thinking in zine culture. We also believe that these are not mutually exclusive standpoints. Consider these reviews in the spirit in which they are written – one person’s point of view put out there as starting points for larger conversations and exchanges about zines.

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Astro Shite – Your Horoscope for May 2012

Posted on May 2, 2012 by zinester

Foreseen by Astrogirlzarro

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Aries (21 March to 20 April)

The Full Moon in Scorpio on 6 May has you probing the subconscious, where life is murky-yucky-scary. You are out of your depth in this house, preferring the security of cage fighting or nude skydiving. Mercury moves into your money sector mid-May. You bore the peeps with talk of get-rich-quick schemes. Fortunately, the winged messenger flies into your communication house on 25 May where he feels at home talking prattle. The New Moon eclipse after the MCA Zine Fair on 20 May brings you success in the zine world. Every New Moon represents the potential for the birth of something new; it’s about time you re-discovered the joy of DIY.
Aries thespian: John Gielgud


Taurus (21 April to 20 May)

Taurus, you’ll be glad to know that this month is about review rather than initiation. Venus turns retrograde from 14 May in your financial sector, forcing you to slow down and observe how skint and desperate you are. Looking back at major events in May/June 2004 gives clues to how you became a loser and a disgrace to the human race. Experience delays in Centrelink and zine distro payments. Just when you thought you could burrow into that groaning tub of Baskin Robbins, the Full Moon in your relationship sector on 6 May sends you an intense and confronting super-sexy peep who will force you to face your hidden motives and desires. Don’t you just hate that?
Taurus thespian: Al Pacino


Gemini (21 May to 20 June)

Venus retrogrades in your sign between 14 May and 26 June, retracing cosmic ground she covered in May/June 2004. What have you learned since then? Nothing. How have you grown? Flabby. This month, get introspective and prepare for the next eight-year love cycle by enduring a back, sack, and crack wax. The New Moon eclipse in your sign on 21 May triggers the birth of a DIY project with heart. The appearance of Mercury in Gemini on 25 May consolidates its success. Jupiter gets in on the act, allowing for the expansion of ideas and opportunities to go further than your tiny mind can handle.
Gemini thespian: Ian McKellen


Cancer (21 June to 20 July)

Venus moves backwards in your spirituality zone from 14 May, keeping you housebound in Lowes boxer shorts and a threadbare Black Sabbath t-shirt. Your physical energy is low, your speech is slurred, and your eyeliner is smeared. You are mistaken for Ozzy Osbourne on day release. Your focus shifts inwards as you revisit esoteric rituals from May/June 2004 that involved playing death metal records backwards. Spooky. Mercury’s influence at the end of the month has you craving knowledge about the ways in which you can express yourself spiritually without listening to crappy music. Mastering the mind is the key to developing your understanding of mysticism.
Cancer thespian: Meryl Streep


Leo (21 July to 21 August)

Adventure is the key to success this month, Leo. Your self-confidence soars after 14 May when the Sun and Jupiter join, helping you gain momentum in the professional arena. The peeps love your grandiloquent style as you expand beyond your comfort zone and make a total tool of yourself. God knows how you will handle the Venus retrograde transit through your party sector. This will be a quiet time socially, so put away your star-spangled g-string and reassess your friendships. Fortunately, the New Moon eclipse invigorates your social life from 21 May, so you’ll be twirling those titty tassels in no time.
Leo thespian: Helen Mirren


Virgo (22 August to 22 September)

Venus’ retrograde motion shows a link between work-life balance themes from May/June 2004 with mid-2012. Use this period to review career experiences from the previous eight years. Have you fulfilled your professional goals or has it been a decade of ‘same shit different day’? What changes can you implement to achieve world domination over the next eight years? You ponder these questions while waiting in the Centrelink queue, listening to One Direction on your iWank. The War Against The Poor continues when the New Moon eclipse on 21 May brings you a work-for-the-dole project that gets Nick Minchin sniggering and snorting like the smug Fascist pig that he is.
Virgo thespian: Jeremy Irons


Libra (23 September to 23 October)

Libra, this month is about being a well dressed traveller. There’s nothing accidental about this tourist, darling. The Venus retrograde slows down your trek through the Sistema Penibetico mountain range, so that your almond coloured Chinos remain fresh and crumple-free. The Universe is so thoughtful. You revisit favourite peeps and places and savour the experience without documenting it on Facebook or Flickr. The New Moon eclipse on 21 May coupled with Mercury’s entry into your travel sector brings you high adventure with the shepherd in the Sherpa jacket you see grazing beyond the camping grounds of the Pico de Aneto. StuffChino freshness.
Libra thespian: Catherine Deneuve


Scorpio (24 October to 22 November)

A solar eclipse in your eighth house on 21 May heralds the start of a new financial cycle. This will make many Scorpions happy as money is up there with sex, vengeance, and perspiration. Mercury stimulates your curiosity about fiscal information that even humdrum tax accountants look sexually enticing without your beer goggles. This transit connects you with the right peeps to help overhaul your dire debt position. The intense Full Moon in your sign on 6 May encourages you to probe the surface of life and wade through the sewer that is your subconscious. You just wouldn’t be Scorpio without regular confrontations of absolute truths.
Scorpio thespian: Katherine Hepburn


Sagittarius (23 November to 22 December)

Sagittarius, sometimes love means having to say you’re sorry. Venus’ extended visit in your relationship sector coincides with one of her rare retrograde cycles between 14 May and 26 June. Expect misunderstandings with your partner to occur. They finally realise that you’re a useless fat turkey who needs stuffing. A New Moon eclipse on 21 May heralds a new cycle where love themes from May/June 2004 resurface. Now is the time to make peace with your past and move forward with your romantic future by destroying those Polaroids of a nude you covered in fairy floss and ostrich feathers. The barriers that have been blocking your amorous progress will lift.
Sagittarius thespian: Judi Dench


Capricorn (23 December to 20 January)

Capricorn, you won’t be feeling the love at work this month when Venus retrogrades in your house of routine between 14 May and 26 June. Before flinging your Filofax Organiser out the window, the New Moon eclipse on 21 May brings a long awaited professional breakthrough. The alignment with Jupiter shows you career possibilities beyond the bored room. Mercury accelerates your chances for stimulating work at the end of the month when you are blessed with the gift of the gab and swindle your way into the corporate world with jargon such as ‘open the kimono’, ‘sweat the assets’, and ‘bottom out’. Sounds kinda saucy, doesn’t it?
Capricorn thespian: Anthony Hopkins


Aquarius (21 January to 17 February)

You will be adopting a playful, child-like approach to life this month, Aquarius. This meshes well with your puerile personality and intolerable behaviour. The New Moon on 21 May triggers the start of a new cycle in self-expression where you reconnect with forgotten creative passions. Mercury trines your Sun from 25 May and you will be zine-ing from the right side of the brain with ease. Expect primitive crayon drawings with gold stars and coloured pipe cleaners to emerge from this fertile period.
Aquarius thespian: Vanessa Redgrave


Pisces (18 February to 20 March)

The Full Moon in Scorpio on 6 May has you probing the deep questions of life whereby you seek the advice of sages with names like Deepak, Tupak, and Multipak. Mercury gives you plenty of ideas of how to spend your dosh in the first week of May, but is rebuked by lesson master Saturn who constantly reminds you of commitments to debt, taxes, HECS, Newstart, and other boring left brain stuff. Venus retrogrades through your domestic sector from 14 May, politely asking you to change the bed sheets and air the bedroom; chores that you haven’t tackled since the May/June 2004 planetary cycle. Yuk!
Pisces thespian: Michael Caine

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Latest from our NZ Correspondent

Posted on April 19, 2012 by zinester

Report by Bryce Galloway.

Hello Australasia, I was doing so well with the one-month deadline, as soon as Sticky removed it I got all distracted.

So here’s a bit of activity from the last 3-months. A perversely Wellington-centric roundup this time I’m afraid. Where I live, love and shit.

Received a cold-call from a Wellington artist Pam Brabants, wanting critique. Her show The Amazing Brapants took place at Toi Poneke Gallery from February 24 – March 17.  I was able to recognise her from the cartoon self-portrait on the back of the zine that accompanied the exhibition. We dropped the mutual appreciation for 30-minutes of schooly crit. Brabants does economical pencil drawings that appear to be from observation or experience. She uses text. The smallest are A4, the largest are, well, very large. There’s the real thing available for some bucks, there’s the zine available for less bucks, and there are badges of a pair of stilettoed feet and ankle-panties available for free. I wear the badge for some days, people find it risqué.

I’m spoilt for choice because fan-artist, zinester and sometimes collaborator Tammy Rose Stretton is on at Thistle Hall gallery. Tammy shows with her pal Joni Perfect under the exhibition title Portrait Of A Monster. The famous-folk that usually stare from Stretton’s pics have been replaced by the infamous and the fleeting. Faces ripped from the media, but less recognisable than usual. The works are for sale through silent auction. Just write down your name, a figure over $40, and the title of the work you want and slip it into the ballot box. I want Myrtle for $55.10, but it’s not the winning bid. Or maybe Stretton’s drunk friend was right when she beamed, “She’ll give that one to me cause she loves me more… heh heh.”

Comics Generation follows later in the month at the same venue. Zinester, Comics creator, artist, and Wellington Zinefest co-organiser Claire Harris turns her penchant for kids zines/comics into a full-blown exhibition; inviting the child creators of her favourite titles to supply new and old work for exhibition and sale.

Now this post is not without bias because my own daughters are the youngest zinesters to be invited to contribute. I gave you all the preamble last roundup, and I’m pleased to announce that the aforementioned witch comics (The Nightmare, The Honey Poison) were completed in time, as was the recipe zine Fancy Food Fanzine. Other kids showing – ages 10 to 17 – were Zora Patrick, Michael Sanders, Joel Spencer, and Theo MacDonald. Poster works and original drawings decorated the walls, with zines and comics doing a roaring trade at the door. A zine workshop for kids aged 6 – 10 was run by myself and comics artist Robyn E Kenealy. Paul Sanders and prolific comic book artist Brent Willis ran a workshop for older kids on constructing comic book narratives. The most awesome thing about these workshops was that the attendees got to take away the printed collaborative results as a finished zine/comic by the end of the workshop.

I’ve been getting spammed by inde-magazine White Fungus of late, but with good reason (er… maybe it ain’t spam then). White Fungus started in Wellington in 2004 but has also been based in Taiwan with its editor Ron Hanson. White Fungus mixes contemporary art and capital ‘P’ politics into the one curious volume (that’s why it’s ziney). Return from Taiwan saw the first NZ launch in some time, celebrating the arrival of issue 12 at Wellington artist run gallery Russian Frost Farmers. I wasn’t there. Everybody without kids was. The launch featured performances by Campbell Kneale, Antony Milton, Samin Son, CHAAT-GI and Heavy Maiden. White Fungus also seems to be getting acknowledgement by other publications. Recent articles have appeared in online journal Hyperallergic and godlike avant musical entity Wire. Also popping up at a variety of interesting international venues such as the recent inclusion in Japan’s Zine’s Mates Shop; who refresh their entire stock every few months around a new theme!

Not sure if my Sticky roundup predecessor Tessa Stubbing reported this but Auckland Library have a collection of 600 zines on public display for your perusal. Tessa and her buddies at the now defunct Cross Street studios gifted the collection to the library. The library are yet to decide whether they will add to the collection and/or make it available for loan.

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Zine event: Living Room #4 launch

Posted on April 15, 2012 by zinester

The launch of Living Room #4 is happening at Sticky on Friday 4th May from 6pm to 7pm.  There will be free vegan muffins for all who come along as well as an underground hip hop performance by Sons of Danger.

Facebook event page is here.

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Zine callout: Dotdotdash Magazine

Posted on April 12, 2012 by zinester

dotdotdash, the literary art journal from Perth, are doing a zine collaboration project called ‘Fingerprint’ and want you to get involved. Here’s the details from them:

Basically for this edition of dotdotdash, instead of a magazine, subscribers will receive a package of 20 or so zines. Each package will have a different combination of zines, and will be unique, like a fingerprint. But for this we need thousands of zines and that’s where we need you! Feel free to start on a zine project for us straight away (but let us know if you are, so we can include you in the count and not freak out about how few submissions we have!). Submissions are due May the 7th but let us know if you have one coming and we might give you a bit of leeway.

If you have any leftover copies of your old zines that you’d like to send along, we’d love to have those too, just don’t forget to mark them with a fingerprint in some way so that they can be a part of the project.

Why not visit here if you want to know more about the project.

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Astro Shite – Your Horoscope for April 2012

Posted on April 4, 2012 by zinester

Foreseen by Astrogirlzarro

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Aries (21 March to 20 April)

Neptune leaves your spirituality sector after 16 April. You emerge from the Underground like the proverbial Lazarus renewed, revitalised, rejuvenated, and other words beginning with ‘r’ that mean more or less the same thing. A new wave of Jupiter energy brings a positive outlook on financial matters that will last until early June. This is an ideal period for starting new initiatives to generate income, so launch that zine distro mecca that currently exists only in your mind and live the dream, baby.

Aries ruling planet: Mars

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Taurus (21 April to 20 May)

This month begins a phase of self-understanding that will end in early June. You will need the time to work out who the hell you are and what the hell you’re doing with your life. Expect to find answers to these perplexing questions after 14 April, when Mars moves forward in your house of self-expression. The perpetual phase of debauchery that you have been enjoying since the beginning of the year will intensify after the New Moon on 21 April. Reconnect with your physical needs and with the natural world, preferably somewhere within the vicinity of award winning vineyards and upmarket gourmet cafes.

Taurus ruling planet: Venus

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Gemini (21 May to 20 June)

Mercury’s second visit to your social sector from 17 April creates opportunities to untangle a friendship quandary by untangling their tangled tufts with a tangle-free comb. Cleo magazine recommends using the three hundred and sixty degree rotating toothcomb. Venus enters your sign on 3 April, compelling you to experience double the self-lovin’, which sounds like a cheeseburger Elvis may have eaten. Delays with home renovations continue until 14 April when Mars finally decides to move forward in your domestic zone. Even Kevin McCloud is powerless to help you sandblast the kitchen wall before then.

Gemini ruling planet: Mercury

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Cancer (21 June to 20 July)

Venus enters your spirituality zone on 3 April. You plunge into Neptunian territory of energy and intuition, giving your right brain a vigorous work out. You fall in love with a herbalist who hasn’t had a bath, let alone a job, since the Salem witch trials. At least your blood and liver are purified, thanks to that magic weed you’re now smoking. Mercury revisits your career sector from 17 April. Networking, brainstorming, and bullshitting stimulate professional growth. You will get a second chance to dig your claws into work opportunities you missed because of your addiction to that magic weed. Uranus and Mercury join on 23 April. Put on your dry-clean-only Prada business pants and get sucked into the unethical abyss while yelling ‘Margin Call’. What a month!

Cancer ruling planet: Moon

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Leo (21 July to 21 August)

Your curiosity about a destination invented by Leprechauns has you exploring Timbuktu when Mercury visits your travel zone from 16 April. You discover the hard way that it’s nowhere near Ireland. Venus transits your social sector from 3 April until early August. This is one of your most popular periods this year. You will be living the celebrity dream of red carpet premiers while stunt dressing and comparing Frankenstein plastic surgery horror stories with other birdbrains. Mars moves forward in your house of finance after 14 April. This is an ideal time to implement new fiscal strategies by planting money seeds in your garden.

Leo ruling planet: Sun

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Virgo (22 August to 22 September)

Venus triggers your career sector from 3 April. You swoon over the hot office peep helping you replace the toner in the C3100 copier. You get all giddy when you find love letters printed on baby pink 80gsm Reflex paper amongst your photocopied documents. The relationship progresses from the printing department to the staff cafeteria after 14 April, when Mars finishes his retrograde cycle in your sign. Avoid Chiko Rolls and battered savs if you want to remain the nine to five spunk magnet.

Virgo ruling planet: Mercury

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Libra (23 September to 23 October)

Your energy levels increase after 14 April when Mars moves forward in your spirituality sector. Your psychic powers may improve, but you’re still a superficial git. Venus takes an extended holiday in your travel zone from 3 April, and is apprehensive to come home. Fortunately, Mercury visits your relationship house from 17 April. You get romantically involved with twins who enjoy playing mind games to John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’, and the occasional bout of Boggle, Scrabble, and other nerdy board games requiring a sophisticated vocabulary and an insufferable attitude.

Libra ruling planet: Venus

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Scorpio (24 October to 22 November)

Establish new social routines from 14 April when Mars finishes his retrograde motion in your friendship sector. You accomplish your dream of running with the cool kids in the second half of the month when the Universe permits you to focus on your most inspiring and stylish friends. Rest assured that there wouldn’t be a dag within a twenty-kilometre radius of you and your chic clique.

Scorpio ruling planet: Pluto

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Sagittarius (23 November to 22 December)

The good news for Sagittarians is that Venus will occupy your love sector from 3 April until early August. Expect to enjoy a variety of romantic experiences involving cultivated and intellectual foreigners. Mercury triggers Uranus in your fifth house of creativity for the third time this year on 23 April. Give yourself permission to be spontaneous and experimental with your DIY output. Like the plot to a David Lynch film starring Crispin Glover on No-Doz, there is no logic to your creative methodologies, but that doesn’t stop your zine becoming a hit with the disciples who worship at The Sticky Institute.

Sagittarius ruling planet: Jupiter

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Capricorn (23 December to 20 January)

Mercury aligns with Uranus on 23 April in your domestic sector. You become addicted to that long-running family soap sham The Storm Rages Twice. Mars moves forward in your house of higher learning after 14 April. You crave understanding as to why life is unfolding the way it is. Your belief in t-shirt slogans such as ‘bean counters do it better’ and ‘a farce to be reckoned with’ no longer work for you. Expect an overhaul of your personal philosophy this month, so choose to follow beliefs that come from the heart or the gut rather than from some crass marketing company trying to sell you an iPhone application.

Capricorn ruling planet: Saturn

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Aquarius (21 January to 17 February)

This month you unleash your inner-alien when Mercury aligns with Uranus on 23 April in your communication zone. Your unconventional thought processes excel under this transit, scaring a few Earthlings away. Assertive Mars moves forward in your cash sector on 15 April after a setback earlier in the month. Venus helps you open your heart and transfer it onto zine format from 3 April. You fall in love with the various printing options available to you: offset-lithographic proofing press with style, stencil printing with emotion, screen-printing with attitude, nine spot colour printing with gusto …

Aquarius ruling planet: Uranus

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Pisces (18 February to 20 March)

Mars moves forward in your relationship sector from 15 April, bringing firecrackers, throw-downs, and other illegal explosives into your love life. Wow! Mercury and Uranus align in your financial zone on 23 April, so expect the green to appear miraculously. Off the planet ideas that emerged while Mercury danced in and out of your sign will take concrete form in the form of concrete after 16 April. By end of the month you’ll have produced a prolific body of work of what inspires you. Fortunately for the zine world, that excludes naive drawings of birds, cats, teapots, and cupcakes.

Pisces ruling planet: Neptune

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Easter opening hours

Posted on March 30, 2012 by zinester

Degraves Subway will be locked up over Chocolate Jesus Weekend, so therefore Sticky will be closed all day on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th of April. Sorry about that. We will then go back to our usual opening hours from Wednesday 11th.

If you still want a zine fix that weekend, why not go to the IPF Photo Book & Zine Fair instead.

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False Diary: A Zine Column by Luke You

Posted on March 27, 2012 by zinester

Column #46:  Thomas the Human Photocopier

In 1997 I went to The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra for the first time and saw Blue Poles.  In 1999 I went to The Louvre in Paris for the first time and saw The Mona Lisa.  In 2012 I went to The Festival of The Photocopier at Sticky and saw Thomas the Human Photocopier.

It is hard for me to describe how moved I was by this work.  Describing what took place does not seem to give the project the respect it deserves.  My words do not seem enough. The work transcends words and exists for me as a beautiful memory, a true work of art in every sense of the words.

I keep thinking about it.  I can’t stop thinking about it.  Right now I am sitting at a table at work.  It is parent/teacher day at my school and I am waiting for the next set of kids and their folks to arrive.  But what I am really thinking about is Thomas the Human Photocopier.  I was thinking about him/it in the bath last night then as I rode my bike in to work this morning I ran an orange light and as I crossed the intersection I found my mind drifting to think about what it might be like to find myself inside the machine.

The artist behind Thomas the Human Photocopier describes the machine, in the photocopier manual which comes with it, as “a new piece of equipment at the forefront of biological image reproduction”.  I like that.  I loved seeing the machine in action.  I loved seeing people’s faces when they first set eyes on the machine and when they first realised that they too could make a copy using Thomas, that all they had to do was put a coin in the slot, put their image down on the glass and, just like a non-human photocopier, the machine would make a copy.

After seeing Blue Poles I caught the bus back to Melbourne, thought about the painting every now and then and just got on with my life.  After seeing The Mona Lisa I caught a plane back to Melbourne and mainly thought about the crowd of people gathered in front of the painting and just got on with my life.  After seeing Thomas the Human Photocopier I don’t think I will ever be the same again.

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