{"id":1807,"date":"2011-02-25T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2011-02-25T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T08:00:56","slug":"review-zines-by-sarah-mcneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/02\/25\/review-zines-by-sarah-mcneil\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Zines by Sarah McNeil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahmcneil.blogspot.com\">Sarah McNeil&#8217;s<\/a> zines a couple of days ago and I love them. I liked them both so much that I wondered why it took me so long to finally get them, but am glad that I finally did.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5058\/5476301834_3d134de2f3.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Sarah McNeil zines\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5178\/5476301846_bfcde39280.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Sarah McNeil zines\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Statistical Things That Happen But Don&#8217;t Matter<\/strong> and <strong>Updated Report of Observations Which Somehow Seem to Reflect Abstractly on Life<\/strong> is a two-part zine based on Sarah&#8217;s observations and musings about her life and the things that she is experiencing. Divided into various graphs, Venn diagrams and pie charts, the zines give much insight (in so very few words) about things like communication, money, work, emotions and family.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5258\/5476301840_6c7ab912e8.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Sarah McNeil zines\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I find it comforting that we have a few things in common, and I can easily relate to what she&#8217;s laid out. What I love is the humor that shines through \u2013 an almost dead-pan style (as much as pie charts can muster) about seemingly trivial things like liquids that she&#8217;s downed, or the future family tree of a random cat.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5013\/5476301838_6be9a2df05.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Sarah McNeil zines\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah just opened my eyes to a whole new way of communicating data in a <em>personal<\/em> way. And now I&#8217;m obsessed about tracking (very loosely) the random data in my life! You can get the zines in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmcneil.etsy.com\/\">Etsy shop<\/a> when she returns from her vacation!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Have a fun weekend and I&#8217;ll catch up with you again on Monday! <\/p>\n<p>And also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/05\/06\/the-pikaland-boot-camp\">Pikaland Artist Bootcamp #1: Making Your Mark<\/a> will start next week and I&#8217;m really excited to be teaching with Jamie again as we work together with our participants to help them explore and discover their own style!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Review: Zines by Sarah McNeil\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/02\/25\/review-zines-by-sarah-mcneil\/\" aria-label=\"More on Review: Zines by Sarah McNeil\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}