A Rrose is a Rrose:
A Lit Event in Echo Park this afternoon!
Stop on by The Hedgehog this afternoon for a reading put together by Dan Collins, L.A. RECORD New Music Editor. Your loving DUM DUM Editor, Taleen Kalenderian, will be reading some first draft fiction amongst some awesomely talented locals. It all kicks off around 3pm!
FWS #3: DUM DUM SKILLSHARE 2012 at The Pop-Hop in Highland Park
For our second to last session, we're hitting up to the spankin' new and incredibly generous bookstore The Pop-Hop for an installment of DUM DUM's Tour of L.A. workshop series. It's gonna be free. There's gonna be writing. There's gonna be, well, shopping. But most of all, a SKILLSHARE.
FWS #2: DUM DUM takes the L.A. River with “Grow Your Words”
Thursday, June 14, 2012 For the second installment of DUM DUM Zine's "Tour of L.A." free literary workshopping, Grow Your Words was the most free-form of them all. We met by the L.A. River on a sunny Saturday afternoon and began to smear patches of moss in the shape of sentences--a veritable performance of plant graffiti....
FREE/WRITE/SHOP
at Home Room 101
Want to take a writing workshop, but can't dish out the 500 clams? Into experimental writing? Need a prompt to get started? Just plain tired of lonely writing nights? Join us this Wednesday at Home Room 101.
A Big Day for Small Press
–Saturday, March 24 at USC
Hot off the heels of L.A. Zine Fest, USC's Roski School presents a second installment of Shelf-Life 2: A Big Day for Small Press. RSVP to the free event here.
Opening this weekend–DUM DUM at EDICOLA newsstand kiosk in SF
–DUM DUM at EDICOLA newsstand kiosk in SF
Starting this weekend, the talented folks over at Colpa Press will be selling books, posters, tapes, and all things printed matter at a newsstand kiosk on the corner of Market and 6th St in San Francisco. DUM DUM Issue No. 1 is going for $5, and No. 2 for $10 (a hella deal)! ...
L.A. ZINE FEST @The Last Bookstore this Sunday! Taleen Kalenderian
Here at DUM DUM, we've been busy folding and stapling all week to gear up for the first time L.A.'s independent publishing community has gotten together in 10 years. That's right--10 years! It's all coming together this Sunday, February 19th from 11am-5pm at L.A. ZINE FEST.
Colpa Press Pop-Up Shop in San Francisco All Weekend!
Our wonderful friends Colpa Press invited us to participate in their San Francisco Pop-Up Shop this weekend, and we couldn't have been more seriously excited about sending them copies of our zines. Check out their blog post about DUM DUM!
Introducing a transmedia print experiment: Lightness & Darkness
Welcome, Dummies, to Lightness & Darkness! You may have gotten a taste for our new project at its recent Skylight debut, where we released some of the sonic-literary material in the form of an album. But heads up: we're fleshing it out into a full book which stands on its own.
DUM DUM Does Skylight
November 29, 2011
Thanks to all the DUMMIES who came to Skylight Books on November 19 to celebrate the launch of our second issue, Lightness & Darkness.
The theme of the evening was the intersection between music and literature, and we had quite a nice time immersing ourselves in both--as well as caseloads of PBR--throughout the night....
SHHH #5…Rocktober Comix Zach Plague
October 31, 2011
Welcome back to Rocktober Comix, DUM DUM's foray into creepiness featuring "SHHH," a comic series illustrated by Zach Plague of Featherproof Books.
Each week of October leading up to Halloween, we'll be posting a spankin' new strip from his skeletal series, which you might recognize from Plague's contribution to DUM DUM's inaugural issue. Enjoy the final...
SHHH #4…Rocktober Comix Zach Plague
October 21, 2011
Welcome back to Rocktober Comix, DUM DUM's foray into creepiness featuring "SHHH," a comic series illustrated by Zach Plague of Featherproof Books.
Each week of October leading up to Halloween, we'll be posting a spankin' new strip from his skeletal series, which you might recognize from Plague's contribution to DUM DUM's inaugural issue. Up next is...