I contributed a documentary illustration to accompany Ryan O’Connell’s 26 Things You Should Know About Being A Gay Man Before You Decide To Be One, for the debut issue of Hello Mr. magazine. Over a conversation and a cup of coffee, we picked apart the nuances of his humorous article, dissected the true feelings and joked about shared experiences growing up on the internet.

“hello mr. is a magazine about men who date men. it’s the overdue response to the unending clichés that surround current gay lifestyle publications. rather than pushing agendas or perfecting appearances, it’s about relevant material for a misrepresented generation with an evolved range of interests. a chronicle of everyday life, and the narratives which define it.”

Only one copy of Dodo Magazine was produced, and it was hidden away. After an online scavenger hunt, the issue has been found and the entire issue has been made available online.

Two varieties of giveaway pencils, usually distributed at random so I never know if it’s self-promotion or not.

The Brooklyn Zine Fest is this Sunday, April 21st, 2013 from 11am-6pm at Public Assembly in Williamsburg! I’ll be sharing Table #8 with my good friend Tommy Pico (Birdsong Micropress) and we hope you’ll come visit! We’ll both have new and old work for sale and browsing, so come say hello.

In anticipation of the event, OAK NYC invited me to come hang out, try on clothes from their SS13 line, and talk a bit about my work and what I’m looking forward to this weekend.

Check out the full photoshoot and interview on their blog.

See you there!

I shot 10 rolls of film in 2012 and then waited all year to develop them. Here are 6 photos.

SOMEDAY MY PRINTS WILL COME is nicely underway, the first two packages and all welcome content has been distributed to the members. There’s some overflow pieces too and some things are free, check the club page for details!

The club is all about making and doing, and I’m equally responsible for the doing part. Watch me distribute “Missed Connections” postcards for free on the NYC subways here or send your own!

As the weather warms up, so do I. I’ll have some new collaborative projects to talk about and share soon. In the meantime, I’m talking about a whole lot of nothing at all in a new weekly video blog series I’m calling IT’S FUCKING MONDAY.

I passed out Missed Connections postcards on some afternoon trains around my Marcy Ave home stop, asking strangers to film me. I was met with mixed results but ended up giving away or selling all of the cards and “mailing kits” (three cards, 2 stamps, and a pencil) before heading home.

“Letters from our objects: Adam J. Kurtz

We first met Adam at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair last September. We had a major design crush on him from his cheeky, sentimental art objects on the Internet, and watched as he launched a mega successful Kickstarter campaign for 2013 planners. When Issue 3 was coming together, we knew we wanted him as a contributor. We’re absolutely in love with his matchbox sets, “Three strikes (you’re out),” made especially for our box.”

Read more about these matchbooks and the third issue of DUM DUM Zine.