Cine-VHS

This zine is an international guide to no-budget collage filmmaking via your humble repurposed VHS machine. The wordless, cartoon-style instructional diagrams show you how to hook up your machines, make multiple stories out of a handful of images, and create your own found-footage masterpiece! Perfect for use by grassroots community video groups; aspiring, frustrated or bored artists; kids with limited resources; and anyone with two VCRs gathering dust in the closet.

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if your drained all the time.
I definately am, that is why i am genial i chanced upon
It was great certainly having someone to help me out and it takes only 46 sec of ur time.
I apologize I have been so unpunctual with it. Talk to you later

girl, clad only in a sensitive thin bit of
man policeman waiter
lip wag of his expedition.

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Stupid Journey 6:
220 Days of Movies With an Enormous Ball

Jonathan is back home from his travels out West. Only this time he brought a friend with him. And this friend lived in his pants. Patiently awaiting surgery to remove said friend, he sat in his mom's basement, became very stoned, and watched a great number of movies. Those movies - from "Terror Hospital" and "The Astro-Zombies" to "Who is Bozo Texino?" and "La Vie Heureuse de Leopold Z" - are dissected as mercilessly as JC's genitals in this unique critical narrative.

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Stupid Journey 5
Use Me: Copyright-Free Media

"The idea for this zine all began when the Niagara Indie Film Festival accepted, then rejected, a collage-based film crafted by Jonathan Culp. According to the film fest, copyright was the issue behind the rejection of the film...Culp then issues a request on friends and fellow filmmakers to start a pressure campaign on him to keep making these films, and prove that "media-sampling and commentary" are worth it. Use Me is the culmination of that pressure campaign." (Broken Pencil)

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Stupid Journey 4
SARdineStock: White Guys Playing Black Music

This is the shortest yet in some ways most grueling Stupid Journey yet, taking Culp across town to Downsview Park for the SARS relief concert of July 2003. With the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, the Guess Who, and other new and old farts littering the stage, and a million overpriced water bottles, Alberta cow ribs and heat-exhausted rockers littering the grounds, this zine offers a matter-of-fact report on this sometimes thrilling, usually ridiculous attempt at spectacle, Canada-style.

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Stupid Journey 3
Pedal Power

Simpler, shorter, and saner: diary excerpts and photographs from a post-protest bicycle journey in June 2002. It takes Culp from Ottawa to Toronto along a winding path through the Ottawa Valley. No deep insights or soul-searching, just a nice, laid-back travelogue.

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Stupid Journey 2
Misbehavin': Us vs. Them in Washington DC

"Jonathan Culp is a Toronto-based video activist who decided to swap his camcorder for a pen during the anti-IMF and World Bank protests in Washington, DC this April...His diary-style entries manage to frame events as if his cornea were still stuck to a zoom lens. He crashes in a squat, but jokes about his 'bourgeois' air mattress. He conveys the personal sacrifices of his fellow protesters without turning them into martyrs. And he describes facing down a bus that was trying to break a blockade without sounding like a hero...Required reading." (This Magazine)

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Stupid Journey 1
Thumbing the Canadian Wasteland

"Wow, what is it with Canada? There is always something interesting coming out of there. This is exactly the kind of zine I am a sucker for. The entire zine is about the author's trip to one end of Canada and back again. It also comes with a 60 min. audio tape which was entirely recorded on the road... a nice touch...enjoy the ride." (Maximumrocknroll)

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Listen to "Sounds of Stupid Journey" Part Two (mp3, 29:13, 3.3 MB)

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The Day I Came Home as a Punk

A collaboration between Jonathan Culp and Siue Moffat, this large-format zine compiles the wackiest and most inspired pre-pubescent creative writing you've ever seen. Highlights include the title story, matching tales of thanksgiving turkeys in revolt, a rocking performance by The Wolfens, and Culp's long, long head-scratcher masterpiece, "The Eternal Energy and Its Orange Juice". Bountifully illustrated and less prone to falling apart than the print version!

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Zine Wrecker

"What's this shit? This is supposed to a punk zine isn't it? But it's so readable" (Broken Pencil) This is the companion zine to Loogan Bin's 1996 CD, "Scene Wrecker," featuring the art and writing of all three band members - Cameron Clow, Jonathan Culp and Laura Lee Petty. Find out how to join the Loogan Bin Fan Club, thrill to their friends' kissoffs of club bookers and 'alternative' radio, and read Laura Lee's truly nightmarish account of a puke-infested high school acid party in one of those weird Scarborough houses with plastic covers on all the furniture.

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Anar-Comics

First published in 1998, this collage zine follows the ideological threads, panel-by-panel, through selected newspaper comic strips from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Newly-revealed areas of concern include the tyranny of work, genocide, gender, media manipulation, and of course the inevitable Revolution!

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Butcher Block Baby

This short play tells the story of Baby, a paranoid housewife in the unknown suburbs of Quebec, who is convinced that the secret Canadian SS is slowly killing her with laser beams. With her neighbors, her husband and even a poor innocent dog apparently seduced into the insidious plot to destroy her, will innocence prevail? Butcher Block Baby was first presented during the Rhubarb! Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto in February 1995.

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