{"id":2778,"date":"2015-12-03T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/i_have_a_face_f\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T09:22:22","slug":"i_have_a_face_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/i_have_a_face_f\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a face for radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clocktower.org\/show\/live-mince\" target=\"_bank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paper Cuts\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/node-image_0.jpg\" width=\"480\" alt=\"Paper Cuts\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like this site,<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkmince.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Pink Mince<\/i><\/a> is another side project that&#8217;s been going for so long that its own history is part of why I can&#8217;t bring myself to call it quits. I may publish sporadically, but I&#8217;m really proud of the eleven issues (not to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkmince.com\/pink-mini\/\">Minis<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/merchandise.html\">merch<\/a>, and the far-more-active <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkmince.tumblr.com\">Tumblr moodboard<\/a>) I&#8217;ve produced across the last 6 years or so.<\/p>\n<p><P>Despite the body of work, it&#8217;s rare for a zine get much of a reach, so I don&#8217;t often get to talk much about what the overall project has been about over the years. Happily, book artist <a href=\"http:\/\/clocktower.org\/person\/christopher-kardambikis\">Christopher Kardambikis<\/a> invited me for <a href=\"http:\/\/clocktower.org\/show\/live-mince\">an interview on Paper Cuts<\/a>, an online radio show he hosts, where he talks to zine makers and other DIY publishers about the things they do. It was great to ramble on for a bit, and finally explain what I mean when I say that <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkmince.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Pink Mince<\/i><\/a> isn&#8217;t just a gay zine, but is also a showcase for contemporary typeface design and vintage lettering that features pictures of dudes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sparky in Vienna\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/Sparky_in_Vienna.jpg\" width=\"480\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s me sneaking a discussion of <i>Pink Mince<\/i> into a talk on Letraset I was giving in Vienna.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like this site, Pink Mince is another side project that&#8217;s been going for so long that its own history is part of why I can&#8217;t bring myself to call it quits. I may publish sporadically, but I&#8217;m really proud of the eleven issues (not to mention the Minis, the merch, and the far-more-active Tumblr moodboard) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/i_have_a_face_f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I have a face for radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultramedia","category-ultraphotographic","category-ultrapink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}