ultrascrapbook – Page 2

Vividly thrilling

The sound of a skateboard deck on pavement is one of the most vividly thrilling turn-ons I know

Shame? Shame! There is no shame to be had for loving in the rumpus room. Or for loving Rumpus Room, really. (Rumpus Room was the name of my zine from the early ’90s, as well as the name of my first web domain, so this amuses me a whole lot.)

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Psycho Sixteen

In this flyer I made for my friend Lynn’s 16th birthday party, we can see that I was playing aorund with this punky, pre-digital, cut-n-paste aesthetic ages ago. This was 1988 when I was 17, just about to head off to college. Lynn and I both straddled the edge of Staten Island’s suburban-y punk scene, so this wasn’t entirely us being poseurs. You can definitely see the early seeds of the Punk Mince art direction.

Media: felt tip pen, Letraset, Letratone, Apple IIe printouts, cut-n-pasted catalogue photos, and the Xerox machine at my part-time receptionist job at a Catholic retreat house