Al Burian Goes To Hell
by Al Burian
A loose comic interpretation of Dante’s Inferno; Al Burian places himself as protagonist, journeying through a hell based around his own personal torments at the time: work, art school, the meaning of life, grazing in the bulk bins at Safeway, the endless pontificating on literary criticism, and the concept of making a college thesis about making a college thesis. The big question being “is marking up pieces of paper expressing something that ‘was’ in the artist or just marking up pieces of paper?”
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"$100 and a T-shirt is a wonderful documentary chronicling the Portland Oregon zine scene circa 2004. There are tons of interesting interview snippets with zinesters that exemplify the diversity of motivation for and approaches to do-it-yourself publishing, and a little zine history and lore going back as far as Martin Luther. My one observation which might not be obvious to the uninitiated is that the world of zines, mail art, and DYI is even more vast and diverse than represented here. The Portland zine community tends to lean punk, grunge, anarchist, riot grrrl, slacker, etc. While that's delightful, it would be just plain wrong to think or suggest said package of values, though common enough, are in any way inherent to self publishing. I don't know why anyone wouldn't want a copy of this DVD. they should be playing this on PBS. "