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[solarbird]

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Okay so! This one includes the Timely Times little paper thing which is great because the Timely Times is an hourly fanzine. There were over 100 issues at the convention. The submissions forms are small blank sheets of paper with a few places for submitter name and such. They're assembled physically, as submitted, into photocopy masters which are duplicated and distributed by hand (many people handing out many copies) as soon as each master sheet is filled. I submitted three or four things, I forget how many.

The handwritten bit was my attempt to write down what a bunch of fans at a Japanese convention party were singing. (I think it was the Gatacon party, mostly because the stickers above it. ^_^ ) I think it was music from this anime. There was a lot of booze so they sang it over and over and over again, and it was fun.


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This one has two of the bacteria stickers! There were a lot of variations of these. One is the bacteria responsible for fermenting hopsmalt to make beer, the other is for rice for sake; there was a poster showing a lot more. (I have a photo of the poster somewhere, I should post it.) Note a true Timely Times sticker, from one of the staff. ^_^ Note also the DenmarkNorwegian flag, the continuing number of cat stickers, and the rare appearance of an American custom sticker made actively before the convention. Also, ♥ catboy. ^_^

[ETA: Oops. Sry flag! I remembered meeting Crazy Norwegians and Crazy Swedes and not anybody from Denmark but I didn't think the flag came from them. And maybe it didn't! Also, I thought you fermented hops, but I am told you ferment malt. Regardless, I know it's the beer one. ^_^]

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[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

1) The Timely Times sounds like the grot of newspapers: useless but hilarious. I wonder if they got people resubmitting the same article a lot.
2) You ferment malt, not hops. Malt is the sugar that gets roasted out of barley; hops are the inflorescences that make beer taste bitter.
3) That's a Norwegian flag, not a Dansih one. I used to live in Ballard.

[solarbird]

Okay! Fixed.

Timely Times was AWESOME. I want to do that here somewhere very much.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

It's awfully tempting, isn't it? We'd have to have the entire set-up including duplication equipment immediately at hand, and we couldn't be terribly concerned with little details like accuracy or clean production. Quick-n-dirty would have to be the watchword, I reckon.

(Thinks back to his days doing the newsletters at SiliCon, BayCon, and OryCon. Whoo, was that really fifteen years ago? Yikes!)

[solarbird]

On-site equipment obviously would be vital. The rest? The layout is trivial, it's do-and-go. It's even do as you go. I could lay out one of these in about five minutes using entirely paper methods. It could come out pretty clean, at least, against original.

You could even get clever and have someone constantly on scanner, another person constantly on photoshop, and a third person grabbing and laying out scans as fast as they come in. As soon as a sheet is filled, off it goes to the printer and then photocopier. A small staff (bigger than Norwescon) could produce these very quickly - as they did in Japan, of course.

With the right prep - and of course I would always have the right prep - I could have the Perfect Collection PDF updated as quickly as new issues come out. It could all be in the same file. Each new issue is a new page in the same file, with a constant template-based layout set up in advance. Print new issue, then export the entire thing to a new Perfect Collection PDF. Bang-zoom.

You could call it Right Now, or At This Very Moment, or Snapshot.

It would be epic.

[janne.livejournal.com]

*Definitely* a norwegian flag :)

[solarbird]

oops *^_^*;;;; ))

corrected! ^_^

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

....and the rare appearance of an American custom sticker made actively before the convention.

You got two more of them, from Lisa and me, although they're small ones because I didn't have the correct size sticker stock and had to improvise with smaller ones.