Museum from Home
Our friends are taking over SF MoMA one week at a time! Check out this awesome project
First up, Recipes for Collective Care from CTRL + SHFT!
Sounds About
We are excited to announce sounds about riso .online, a virtual showcase of risograph works by artists and publishers from North America. Through sharing the diverse set of risograph works, we hope that everyone can take a moment to explore the site and if able, shop the prints, zines, and books to show your support for the individual artists, printmakers, & the risograph community!
By directly linking the artists’ and publishers' own method of purchase, 100% of the proceeds go towards the individuals and small press while also allowing us to all operate this at a safe distance. We’re hoping that this gives artists a chance to sell some artwork during what would have been the usual festival season and bring the riso community a place to congregate online.
In addition, we asked each participant to share their process of preparing work to be printed on a risograph, both technically and creatively. We’ve been going through each one and they are honestly so rewarding to read.
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Url: http://www.soundsaboutriso.online/
Launch date: Saturday, May 23rd 11AM EST
Live stream events will be held throughout Saturday 5/23 to Sunday 5/24.
Visual Identity, Illustration, Animation by James Bascara @james.bascara
Website built by Ritu Ghiya
Website designed by chuck kuan + ritu ghiya
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The website will be accessible to the public starting from Saturday, May 23rd at 11am EST, and we plan to keep it up for as long as we can. Follow along @zinehug and @luckyrisograph for more announcements throughout the week!
Riso Colors Update
Hi friends! If you’ve been with us long enough you’ll remember this little post from 2018 on our available ink colors for our risographs. Well, we thought now would be a good time to update you!
Not included on this list but also available is orchid, and white! From our friends over at Unity Press.
We are currently on the lookout for teal (a favorite) and brown (we are running very low!)
Digital Library
Feeling a little bored and stir-crazy? Well the fantastic people over at East Bay Alternative Zine Fest have a brand new ZINE LIBRARY! It is filled to the brim with soo much incredible and inspiring work!
Check it out HERE.
More soon, and stay safe
xox ip
Agony 2
Such a truly inspiring zine. 5.5x8.5 44pg perfect bound matte coated zine, edition of 50.
IP x CM Crew Neck!
NEW GEAR IS HERE!
CHECK THE WEBSTORE FOR DEETS AND BIG UPS TO THE DESIGNER, CHOICE MEAT!
Mephistopheles
Thank you Emeric for trusting us with your incredible work! Check out more of their illustrations:
On Instagram
Online
Risograph printed on cream stock, book tape bound, edition of 50.
This Week in Quarantine
Our amazing friends have been keepin this (and us) going!
How to make fire cider with Lizz!
Lizz showed us how to make fire cider on our Instagram live earlier today! Below are the recipes for those who couldn’t make it during the live stream earlier.
Fire cider is an herbal folk remedy that supports the immune system. This recipe was conceived of and popularized by Rosemary Gladstar, a renowned Western herbalist. Herb infusions in apple cider vinegar are a long-held tradition in herbalism.
Fire cider can be personalized based on your personal tastes! Don’t like horseradish or jalapeños? Leave them out! Want it sweet? Use extra honey! This is a folk recipe, so there is no “right” way to make it. The basic recipe below can be used as a guideline!
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Basic fire cider recipe, adapted from Rosemary Gladstar:
Supplies:
Quart-sized mason jar and lid
Parchment paper (if metal lid)
Cheesecloth (to strain after infusion)
Ingredients:
1 medium onion
10 cloves garlic
2 jalapeños
Half cup fresh ginger root
Half cup fresh horseradish root
Zest and juice from one lemon
Apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup honey (for after infusion)
Optional:
1 tablespoon turmeric powder
Cayenne powder
Black pepper
Other herbs/spices, like rosemary or thyme
Instructions:
Chop onion, garlic, and jalapeños. Grate ginger root and horseradish root (or carefully use a mandoline slicer). Zest and juice one lemon. Add herbs or spices as desired. Cover all with apple cider vinegar.
Let infuse for 3-4 weeks, shaking daily.
Once infusion is complete, strain out the herbs and vegetables using cheesecloth. Squeeze out liquid from the pulp.
Add honey to taste!
Rebottle and refrigerate.
Take a shot or tablespoon daily as an immune tonic!
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Lizz’s spring fire cider recipe (from today’s IG live):
Quart-sized mason jar & lid
Parchment paper
Half of a very large onion, chopped
12 cloves garlic, crushed & chopped
1 big piece of ginger root (about 5 inches long), thinly sliced
1 jalapeño, sliced
1 habanero, sliced
1 serrano pepper, sliced
Juice and peels from 1 large lemon
Apple cider vinegar
1 heaping tablespoon Diaspora Co. turmeric powder
1 tablespoon dried lemon balm leaves
A few dashes of cayenne
A few dashes of ground black pepper
Honey to taste (for after infusion)
Instructions:
Throw everything except the honey into a quart-sized mason jar.
Cover all with apple cider vinegar, at least 1 inch above the ingredients.
Place parchment paper on top of mason jar, screw metal lid over.
Put in a dark cupboard or pantry and shake daily.
Let infuse for 3-4 weeks.
Strain roughage, pour fire cider into clean mason jar. Add honey to taste.
Refrigerate. Take a shot daily for immune maintenance. To our health!
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Notes:
Take a shot or tablespoon daily as an immune tonic! If you feel something coming on, take a few tablespoons daily.
Fire cider can keep for several months (up to 6) if left unrefrigerated in a cool cupboard or pantry. To keep for longer, refrigerate it.
Try making a vinaigrette salad dressing with your fire cider!
Leftover infusion pulp can be used for a stir-fry, or blended/food-processed to make a chutney.
Bookmaking with Sarah!
For those who would like to follow along once you have your supplies, here is the supply list and the video from the live how-to!
Suggested supplies:
Stiff board (like from the back of a notepad)
Decorative paper
Long strip of paper or two strips of paper
Glue
Brush
X-Acto knife or scissors
Thank you so much Sarah!!
Instagram LIVE
We’ve been having a lot of fun doing a little programming over on our Instagram (@irrelevantpress).
Our friends have so many talents to share and we want everyone to know about it!
Follow our posts and dance to a DJ set, or learn a new skill!
Also if this sounds like something you’d like to do join us as a participant! We’d love for you to do a 1-hr takeover!!
Stay safe ya’ll
xo ip
Quaranzine
We recommend NOT social distancing, but physical distancing, during this time. Stay in touch, stay in contact, do not isolate, and remember you are not alone! Mollie of IP and our dear friend José of DCBL teamed up to hang out virtually and made a little digital zine about it!
Wow!
Check out this crazy-cool 8.5x11 comic we just finished for Kyle Trujillo. 108 hand drawn then scanned pages!
WIP
S/O to Emeric Kennard for entrusting us with their work and this beautiful project!
Fall Print Projects
We’ve been really really busy printing in the Bay this season! Here’s a photo dump of some of the projects we have been workin’ on.
Oat Me Out: The Wet Issue
From Oatmeal Magazine! Including contributions from two IP members!
Digital guts, riso covers.
Macroaggressions, Dear CPS, Easy Curses for Shit Neighbors & Inktober
Four new zines by Deborah Lee!
Digitally printed.
Prints
by Roxanne Hoffman
Two-color risograph prints.
Choice Meats Prints
Risograph printed.
Dysfunctional
Finally met the awesome Malinda Walker!! New zine DYSFUNCTIONAL out now, edition of 10.
Wow
What a wonderful weekend at NYABF 2019. Couldn’t ask for a better community :,)
Scroll through some photos below
Special thanks to Raw Meat/Kyle (panel mod), Endless Editions crew, Candystore (and queens!), Homie House, Secret Riso, the Wolfman/Other Pub gang (subway buddies), Unity, Marianne Aerni (tabled for us!!), Andrew Win and all the tireless volunteers for making it extra magical.
NYC! See You Soon
We’ll be in the zine tent here:
and paneling here:
Sticker 2
Don’t forget!
