Zines
This zine could change your life
An appreciation for a time-tested format
Release strategies
Sell out without selling out
A '90s and '20s counterculture clash
Release strategies
How to use New Media to revive existing work
Embed the past in the present and the present in the past
Creative practices
Small is more meaningful than big
Imagine it’s your birthday party. It’s the start of the night. You and your closest friends are there. It’s great, but you’re hoping more people will come. Your mind races with the list of all the people who haven’t shown up yet. As the minutes
Creative practices
How to talk about your creative work at a party
Plus a charming new artist book from Japan
Creative practices
Promotional principles for creative people
Plus the Creative Independent reissues “On making a living as an artist”
About Metalabel
In groups we become stronger
Wires are crossing. Scenes are building. Can you feel it?
About Metalabel
Legitimize yourself
Plus Autonomous Worlds N1
About Metalabel
Psychic infrastructure
A few years ago we were speaking with our friend Clare Farrell, cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and Hard Art, about the big idea behind Metalabel: that all creative people could start “labels” to put out work by themselves and others that reflected their shared worldviews. Clare, always brilliant, called the
Release strategies
Context is queen
If content is king, then context is queen. We can all enjoy creative work as a pure sensory experience. YES. But it’s when we get context for that work — who made it, how it was made, what ideas, scenes, and history surround it — that joy turns into a deeper
New Creative Era
The arc of change
Most creator lore encourages creative people to start your channel, get subscribers, be the star. These instructions have zero relationship to making great creative work, pursuing creative fulfillment, or making something that becomes bigger than you. They just want to make you feel like you need to post more to
About Metalabel
A new model for creative work
Introducing Metalabel