HOKAY.

Things are still going well. I've been juggling work and school and my personal life, but I feel as though everything is still somewhat laid back and unstressful. I'm drawing a detailed picture of my house, thinking about Moon Soup a little bit, doing some other things, and doing some other other things. I'm doing very well and I feel great. Tonight I'm absconding to the tree fort hostel in Georgia, and then I'll get back into the thick of it. Hopefully I'll have something to show here soon, I feel like I've been talking everything up a lot without actually producing something. That'll change soon...

Remember: Sometimes it's better to just walk place, even if you could get there much faster by biking or riding in a car. If you speed through the world, the world will speed by you.

Things are going well in all creative facets. Moon Soup #2 is four pages away from being completed, I'm thinking it will be done sometime in the next month. Then it's time for production! I'm thinking about making 50 issues, keeping 15 or so to give to friends and giving the rest to Loose Screws to sell in their DIY rack. Everything is going well. Sorry this is starting to collect dust, I don't have internet at home and I'm spending more time doing than writing about doing. So it goes.

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I've been working on the zine, I've made some adjustments and am in the process of another page. I want to have one page of text, though I have no idea what I want to put there. I spent a couple hours working on it tonight, it's looking good. I'm excited.

In other news, I'm going to develop film from Ireland/NYC in a couple days, make prints and whatnot. I'm even more excited about that.

I have a lot of energy as of late. Part of me wants to say it's my unbridled passion for the arts though another wants to say it's the hydrocodine running through my system.

Everything is on hold right now. The past 15 and future 20 days consist souly of traveling, moving, and settling in. I wouldn't say that nothing is being accomplished, but certainly not enough to warrant an update. There will be something soon.

Three things that have happened since the last post:

1. Found an amazing oriental rug, practically new, in my neighbor's trash.
2. Got featured in a real blog.

3. Finished two pages of my zine (title page and introduction page).

I got a new Moleskine about four days ago and just got around to decorating the inside cover tonight. I think it looks pretty good, one of the better ones. I found the photos in an antique shop. The only one that's dated is the one with the girl in the bottom corner, its from the 4th of July 1940. I also think it's important to note the two sets of photos with the girls in them look remarkably similar, like mother in daughter. They also looks like they were taken maybe 20/30 years apart from one another. I think it's incredible, how people in the 1940's were holding and looking at the same physical photographs I have in my hands right now. And what's even crazier is that they looked exactly the same, since the picture itself only took a few minutes to develop. I mean, how did these end up in my possession 70 years later?

Inside cover!

I started on Moon Soup tonight. It's already looking like what I has envisioned it as looking, with the focus being less on what I have to say and more about what you're looking at. It's funny, sometimes you want something to turn out very certain way and have no idea how it's going to end up actually being that way. Yet, if you take your time and form your words carefully, you can hit the nail on the head every time. It's going to be good, guys.

Some details:

- Manilla construction paper cover
- Full color pages (c/o Flagler College)
- Typewriter text (It may be overused, but in all honesty, it's the easiest way to create uniform block text. Type/cut/paste.)
- 8 pages

I've decided I'm going to use this blog as a hub for all my creative endeavors. I tend to get side-tracked with things, especially self-motivated projects. Keeping this blog open will allow for moderately consistent posting, since I'll always be working on something. I'm going to work on the zine a lot, but probably won't publish anything until I get back to school (free printing, easier distribution).

This is what God looks like (obviously, God has "God's Eyes" for eyes)

Gears are in motion.

There Will Be Zines

So the past couple weeks I've been buying and examining zines, and I've come to find that most of them are just anecdotes; short stories with pictures and flashy designs. I started thinking to myself "you know, Hiller, just about any 3 page essay could easily translate to a 14 page zine with enough pictures and gaps between blocks of text". I had even started making backgrounds for a zine back in December, but they turned into a collective piece and are now hanging on a wall in a coffee shop. Sometime this summer I want to establish a zine that will run for several issues. Not too sure what they're going to be about, but definitely something engaging and worth reading. This is just a heads up.

The zine will still be titled "Moon Soup".