Issue No. 3: PUNKS & Scholars

Issue No. 3: PUNKS & Scholars

If you missed our big DUM release party or don't live in Los Angeles, you can still read, feel, touch, hear and taste the contents of Issue No. 3: PUNKS & Scholars. Just head over to our spankin' new DUM STORE. Or if you're local, we'll be selling copies...
DUM DUM Zine Issue No. 3 Release Party: PUNKS & Scholars

DUM DUM Zine Issue No. 3 Release Party: PUNKS & Scholars

It's here, Dummies. The release party you've been waiting for. Issue 3 Exhibit. Bands. Beer. Readings. Community. GET DUM; check out our Facebook invite .
Issue No. 1: CITIES & STATES

Issue No. 1: CITIES & STATES

Issue No. 1 was released in Los Angeles in the Fall of 2011, printed on a 17x22 broadside on newsprint (back and front). DUM DUM's very first issue features postcard interviews, new media literature, hybrid fiction, and more!
Issue No. 2: LIGHTNESS & DARKNESS

Issue No. 2: LIGHTNESS & DARKNESS

Issue No. 2 is a literature and music album release called Lightness & Darkness, released in audio form on CD. The result is a sonic-literary experiment fusing both written and musical art forms, reshaping the way both mediums are experienced.
SEX FACE Kenton deAngeli

SEX FACE

Kenton deAngeli

(please read aloud) I don’t know if God created the Earth 6,000 years ago or if it has been 14 billion since the entire universe tore itself into existence from a roiling confusion of hyper-energized space-time and screamed outwards into the galaxy, creating all known matter and energy giving us,...
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I Saw The Real Daft Punk by Kristen Felicetti

I Saw The Real Daft Punk by Kristen Felicetti

One day I came home to find Daft Punk standing in front of my door. The two of them stood side-by-side, wearing matching metallic jumpsuits, and helmets that obscured their identity. They were nodding their heads, and bopping their knees, and blocking me from going inside.
A Farewell to PUNKS & Scholars

A Farewell to PUNKS & Scholars

We stopped by The Pop-Hop a few weekends ago for the final celebration of our 3rd issue, PUNKS & Scholars.
The very place our DUM box was screen printed, it was only appropriate to cycle back and bid the issue farewell with all our pals. Thank you so much to everybody who was present in...
PANPHOBIA by Liska Jacobs

PANPHOBIA by Liska Jacobs

A limited edition zine made for FEMME SOUP, an all female mixed media art and music festival taking place this Saturday, April 6 at Nomad Studios in Los Angeles.
The "Panphobia" zine will be available for sale at DUM DUM Zine's table at the event, and will be displayed in the gallery alongside art from...
Keynote, A Punk Chain by Fred Sasaki

Keynote, A Punk Chain by Fred Sasaki

DUM DUM Zine is back after our Issue No. 3 release with a little April Fool's Day nightcap, featuring a punk chain by the inimitable Fred Sasaki.
PUNKS & Scholars: Official Party Photos

PUNKS & Scholars: Official Party Photos

Oh what a DUM night. Photos by AlextheBrown! For even more photos, check out L.A. Record's LIVE REVIEW, and Summer Fun Time Society Photo Booth Pix (by Christina "Yo Teach" Nersesian).
Tonight's the night to Get DUM!

Tonight’s the night to Get DUM!

GET DUM with us tonight; check out our Facebook invite. It all kicks off at 7pm with a DJ, readings at 7:30, and the first band at 8:15. See you on the flipside, Dummy.
Brute Forcing Damien Hirst by Absis Minas

Brute Forcing Damien Hirst by Absis Minas

This contract comes to you from Issue 3 contributor Absis Minas, whose piece "Conversation about Pies, War & Suicide" appears in PUNKS & Scholars. The punks in us had to post this after having spent 4 days straight tabling oh so scholarly at MoCA last week.
Issue 3 Flyer Contest Winners!

Issue 3 Flyer Contest Winners!

Friday, February 8, 2013 Each day since our debut at LA Art Book Fair, we've been posting "Letters from our Objects," wherein we ask the creators of our Issue 3 objects to comment on their contribution to the zine. With only a day left until our festival-sized release party at Echo Country Outpost, we now give you...
Letters from our Objects: Talking Hues

Letters from our Objects: Talking Hues

Rebekah Weikel is a publisher and project curator. She operates Penny-Ante Editions out of Los Angeles, and her contribution to DUM DUM Issue No. 3 is this lovely cassette recording.
Letters from our Objects: Palm Readings

Letters from our Objects: Palm Readings

An Angelino artist with an eye for architecture and design, Pedro has been part of the DUM DUM initiative since inception. Plus we’ve been in love with his photo collection + caption series entitled Palm Readings, so we asked him to design an object from his year-long journey of documenting palm trees using only a handful of...
Dum Dum Pops: Hannah K. Lee's Wrapper Collection

Dum Dum Pops: Hannah K. Lee’s Wrapper Collection

Each copy of DUM DUM Issue No. 3 comes with a Dum Dum Pop inside. The raddest coincidence ever, since we recently discovered that our official logo illustrator, Hannah K. Lee, collects wrappers! Here's a slideshow of her scans.
Letters from our Objects: Talking About Art While Pooping

Letters from our Objects: Talking About Art While Pooping

Poop and Art?! Our friend and artist Suzanne Oshinsky's been asking people to talk about their bathroom art for her contribution to Issue 3, Talking About Art While Pooping. An interview series that asks people to discuss the way in which they curate their bathroom is exactly the kind of low and high brow...