Entries Tagged ‘Paper Blog series’

What Did We Learn?

Friday, August 20th, 2010
if somebody wants to use the green background to CGI me onto a like a mountaintop or super nutty outer space landscape or something that would be totally cool with me.

if somebody wants to use the green background to CGI me onto a like a mountaintop or super nutty outer space landscape or something that would be totally cool with me.

Printers’ Ball has come and gone once more! The launch of our super futuristic Mobile Paper Blog saw many posts from many people, and this one seemed to capture the intent of the event and the spirit of Chicago’s independent publishers…..

pb-mobile_587x480And the most beautiful part of all?? If you think it, write it, spellcheck it, send it, and they still don’t print it–the Chicago Underground Library wants it anyway!!! YOU are already part of Chicago’s literary-historical conversation, and we’re going to make sure posterity knows it gosh darnit. Not only do we want your independently published work, but we need it–without it, our map of the connections between Chicago cultural and literary phenomena will remain criss-crossed by dark regions of terra incognita. Donations can be dropped off during open hours on Tuesdays from 6-9pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5pm.

-Meredith

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Today <3 Printers’ Ball!!

Friday, July 30th, 2010

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This print -> digital announcement comes to us via Paper Blog post from our recent Science of Obscurity event! Please join us at the Printers’ Ball tonight, 6-10 at the Ludington Building, 1104 S. Wabash. There will be thousands of mags, books, zines, broadsheets, chapbooks, and media there probably isn’t a name for, all free of charge; workshops, readings, music, performance, demonstrations, MAGIC! The CUL is also proudly launching (alas, without the help of a trebuchet… that would probably really hurt) the Mobile 2.0 beta test version of Paper Blog at the Ball, so look for us and share your thoughts!

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RE: Nerds (Our ongoing Paper Blog discussion thread)

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

In addition to the Paper Thoughts and Paper Spam that was posted on our Paper Blog at the recent Science of Obscurity event, we had a Paper Discussion Thread raging as well! The subject is a real hot-button issue in the lit world: nerds.

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We think so too. <3

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Paper Blog Discussion Thread!

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Our Paper Blog at our recent Science of Obscurity event attracted some thoughtful posts, some paper spam, and a few discussion threads, including this one on nerd-dom and the event itself.

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More Paper Blog from Science of Obscurity

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

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Believing in tomorrow carries a unique sense of nostalgia, too.

<3 Meredith

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1st Paper Blog Snail Mail Submission!

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Check it out, our first snail mail Paper Blog submission! It survived the US postal service and reached us intact with all the cut-out letters, brain and some glitter to spare! The Chicago Underground Library blog editors <3 Marlene R. Scott!

Click here for the rest and Paper Blog Submission details!

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Paper Blog - Now With Charts & Graphs!

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

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This next one also made its way onto the Paper Blog at our Son of Science of Obscurity event and we think it’s a pretty good tool for most varieties of decision-making. It’s not signed, but we did figure out where it came from!

Click here for the chart!

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Paper Blog Begets Paper Spam

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

img029New Age viral ad propagation hits Old School information dissemination method! So many layers of meta-irony I don’t even know what decade it is anymore! Stay tuned for more Paper Blog posts and Paper Spam hits… or bring some real Spam to Printers’ Ball and throw it at the Mobile Paper Blog we’ll be beta testing. (OK, please don’t throw Spam at me. But do look out for the MPB & share your thoughts with us!)

Click here for more submission details!

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Paper Blog at Science of Obscurity

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

img030Chicago Underground Library brought our Paper Blog to the Science of Obscurity fair this past weekend, and paper bloggers spoke! We’ll be digitally posting all your paper posts here as we count down to Printers’ Ball… look for the Paper Blog Mobile Version at the Ball itself, too!

Click here for more submission details!

– <3 the Editors

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Print <3 Digital Paper Blog!

Friday, July 9th, 2010

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Does anyone even REMEMBER the early 90s anymore?? Something about “groove is in the heart” and the hip kids were blogging before blogging was cool: by actually writing it down on a piece of paper! The irony of using the blog format to showcase items, events, and issues related to a print-exclusive archive does not escape us here at the Chicago Underground Library, so we’re turning the tables and asking Chicago to blog on paper for us. The Paper Blog will be up and running full force at Saturday’s Science of Obscurity event, so come out, speed date a neurosurgeon, and compose/draw/otherwise scribble your thoughts for us! We’ll scan and post them here as we count down to Printers’ Ball 2010.

Click here for more submission details!

– <3 the Editors

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