Issue No. 7: QUAR + TIME Now available online!
Our first digital issue is designed to print-at-home so that you may display the zine in tiles, unbound, on your stay-at-home wall.
ABOUT THE SPANKIN’ NEW DESIGN
September 22, 2011
You may have noticed a bit of an identity shift on our website. We didn't get a haircut or anything, rather the wonderful Hannah K. Lee came through with an illustration just in time for DUM DUM's launch party to celebrate the death of summer (photos + videos totally forthcoming,...
DEAD SUMMER: DUM DUM launch party presented by Summer Fun Time Society
September 17, 2011
Dear Dummies,
After an entire summer of planning, writing and creating, it's finally come time to celebrate our hard work by kicking summer in the ass. Come to THE CASTLE in Highland Park today for DUM DUM's official launch party, DEAD SUMMER, presented by L.A.'s amazing Summer Fun Time Society....
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. –Johnny Clarke 45, Wombleton Records Christina Gubala
"Waxing Philosophical, L.A." is DUM DUM's Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.'s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Our city has a continuing history thick with vinyl love, now more than ever with record shops opening their...
Festival Week photo highlights DUM DUM Team
September 9, 2011
As we near the end of festival week (and summer, respectively), we wanted to offer up some photographic highlights. This photo of music nymph Lykke Li was taken at Lollapalooza, after hassling a security guard to let the photographer stay past the 3 song rule.
Disposable Camera Project at FUCK YEAH FEST DUM DUM Team
Welcome to the second installment of festival week on DUM DUM! Even as summer’s coming to a close, we discovered over the long weekend that L.A. kids enjoy their 90+ degree festivals as much as tiny, overpriced curry burritos from local food trucks. A few of us from DUM DUM took a break from our...
LOLLAPOSERS: Ferreting into the Guise of a Festival’s Contradictions Nicki Yowell
Music festivals are for the young and tenacious. Soiled clothing, swarms of post-adolescent beer cretins, sweaty fried food, the stench of human mass. It’s all in a day’s work if you’re Taleen Kalenderian, one of my prime ladyfriends. She’s worked festivals before, not just for the pay and quick deadline turnarounds but, more or less,...
Welcome to DUM DUM!
September 1, 2011
Welcome to the official online launch of DUM DUM, a spankin' new zine based out of Los Angeles, CA. We feature hybrid forms of fiction, journalism, art, design, and any sort of transmedia story you can think of.
You may have picked up our print issue, a gorgeous 17x22 broadside on newsprint,...
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, our matter, our atoms, a...
HEIMAT + THE GREY FOX Diana Arterian
Heimat There is a German word – Heimat for the phenomenon of coming upon a place that was previously unknown to you but is, undoubtedly, home You are this – unexpected, sterling, true The Grey Fox I saw her, but only in silhouette – twice while crossing the road. Rumors of a dead...
Text Message Interview with CAGED ANIMALS (#2) Bryxan Amsterdam
Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing feature where DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For ou second installment, Bryxan speaks to Brooklyn based outer-electro artist Vincent Cacchione of CAGED ANIMALS. The conversation originally appeared as part of Funkadelic Forever, a zine Bryxan created for Olympia’s 24 Hour Zine Thing. Text...
TRANSMEDIA CRITICISM CYCLE: in which we respond to art with art Pedro Juarez + Taleen Kalenderian + The Horrors
Welcome to a preview of our first crit cycle, a collaborative project which treads the line between art(s) and critique; a line we’re super interested in blurring. At which point does a critique of an object become a work of artistic merit in its own right? Here at DUM DUM, it’s what we bank on...
Are you there Me? It’s Me, Vivian Vivian Martinez
3/14 7pm [flying to NYC to see my sister from São Paulo, hours after “God” “found” me] Holy Shit journal. My world has been shattered. I actually might have had an experience with God. or maybe I should write G-d. It all started w/my conversation with Eduardo about God jesus etc. He said that...