Things and Stuff

Lo-fi tweet archive, photocopied & hand-bound in NYC 		Format Zine
Discipline Art Direction, Curation, Design
By LUKEABC Date 2016

Contents

Things and Stuff — zine cover with high-contrast mouth close-up, hand-drawn title, pink thread binding

Overview

A lo-fi zine archiving Kanye West's tweets from January to March 2016 — right around the Life of Pablo rollout. Photocopied, hand-bound with pink thread, and produced in a single run.

Made at 8 Ball Community, an artist collective operating out of a basement in Soho, NYC. Part zine library, part radio station, part public access studio — a space where anyone could walk in, use the tools, and publish something. I was living in New York at the time and started making zines to learn the form and contribute to the collective's output.

This was pre-controversy Kanye. The tweets read as stream-of-consciousness dispatches — album title changes, Madison Square Garden sellouts, "I hope you have a nice weekend." Collected and printed, they become an accidental time capsule of a specific moment in internet culture.

Format Detail
Medium Photocopied zine, pink thread binding
Content Tweets from @kanyewest, Jan–Mar 2016
Made at 8 Ball Community, 1 E Broadway, NYC

Inside

Tweet screenshots cut and scattered over photocopied imagery — Yeezus-era press shots, album artwork, family photos. The collage treatment matches the tone of the tweets themselves: raw, unfiltered, jumping between subjects with no transition.

Inside spread — introduction page with 8 Ball logo and first tweet collage
Opening spread. Credits and the first batch of tweets.
Inside spread — tweets about WAVES, Madison Square Garden, and winter coats
Inside spread — I'm not a rapper, I wanted the world to know my struggle
Inside spread — The Devil can't stop us, All positive energy
Credits
Role Name
Art Direction, Curation, Design Lukeabc
Produced at 8 Ball Community, NYC
Year 2016

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