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Postponing March 16th Event Until a Undeclared later date: Isabelle Rizo Reads Tarot
*Until COVID-19 status has been changed, we are post-poning this event until an undeclared later date. Stay tuned to quimbys.com for info about the rescheduling.*
Last month’s tarot readings went so well with Isabelle Rizo that we’ve invited her back for another night!In this evening of exploring Tarot with Transylvanian Mystic, Hypnotist, and Artist Isabelle Rizo learn what the tarot cards will tell you. Having used tarot since 2014 as a way to ground herself on her travels she found the collective unconscious easily mirrored through her own experience.You can bring a simple question and we have a conversation with the cards, or bring something that you need specific guidance on. Isabelle’s readings are inspired by her Romanian upbringing, using Eastern European folk stories, symbolism, and ethnographic influences to give nuanced readings and performances.“Isabelle witnesses and holds safe space wherever she goes.” –Emily Stroia, Author of Into the LightIsabelle has been featured in such places as: Atlas Obscura, Prague College, The Whoroscope Witch Podcast, and was hired by GOOP as a resident tarot reader. Way Cool Magazine. She is the resident tarot teacher at Inner Sense Healing Arts where she teaches every Wednesday night in Chicago. Her work and workshops have also been featured at Occult of the Bazaar, She Spoke International Art Exhibition, and Sideshow Gallery. She runs her hypnosis practice with a group of amazing diverse and queer therapists at Art of Balance in Chicago as well Head Facilitator of The Coven which is an online and offline group of artists, healers, and liminal space dwellers with international and local members.Readings $5 – $25For more info visit isabellerizo.comMonday, March 16th, 6-9pm -
Postponed: Nic Collins: Handmade Electronic Music, 3rd Edition Release Event
Nic Collins returns to Quimby’s for the release of the third edition of his book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge) on Saturday, June 20th!
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making – as well as creatively cannibalizing – electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. You will also learn how to make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators, distortion boxes, mixers, and unusual signal processors cheaply and quickly. At a time when computers dominate music production, this book offers a rare glimpse into the core technology of early live electronic music, as well as more recent developments at the hands of emerging artists.
This revised and expanded third edition has been updated throughout to reflect recent developments in technology and DIY approaches. New to this edition are chapters contributed by a diverse group of practitioners, addressing the latest developments in technology and creative trends, as well as an extensive companion website that provides media examples, tutorials, and further reading. This edition features:
*Over 50 new hands-on projects.
*New chapters and features on topics including soft circuitry, video hacking, neural networks, radio transmitters, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, data hacking, printing your own circuit boards, and the international DIY community
*A new companion website at www.HandmadeElectronicMusic.com, containing video tutorials, video clips, audio tracks, resource files, and additional chapters with deeper dives into technical concepts and hardware hacking scenes around the worldWith a hands-on, experimental spirit, Nicolas Collins demystifies the process of crafting your own instruments and enables musicians, composers, artists, and anyone interested in music technology to draw on the creative potential of hardware hacking.
ABOUT NICOLAS COLLINS
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins spent most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. He has been a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1999, and a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Ghent) since 2016. From 1997 – 2017 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of homemade electronic circuitry and conventional acoustic instruments. His book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. nicolascollins.com -
New Stuff This Week
Original Art: Daniel Clowes (The Fantagraphics Studio Edition) $175 – This collection draws from Clowes’s nearly 30 years of comics art featuring 150+ pages of art from 1989–present, each reproduced as an exact facsimile of the original to best showcase every detail of the artist’s cartooning process. Plus new covers, endpapers, and other surprises from Clowes, including five unpublished pages of an abandoned graphic novel and an illustrated glossary of obsolete production techniques used for their original publication. The book also includes several pages of clear acetate and vellum to perfectly approximate some of these production processes, making this a one-of-a-kind art object.
Zines
The Courtroom Artist Residency Report: Residencies #13-16 by Marc Fischer with Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Lucas Reif, Salome Chasnoff and Tom Burtonwood (Public Collectors) $7
Riso Trip #6 by Laguna Collective and Plants and Chairs $7
Proof I Exist #30 by Billy McCall $1
Greater Than Less by Turner Hilliker $5
Please Discuss #1 Horrible Drawings and Worse Musings by Scott M. Endres $7
If You Have Ghosts by Douglas Payne (Amphetamine Sulphate) $10
Yikes #1 Curated by Misha Ardichvili $5
Comics & Minis
Kids With Guns #2 by Alex Nall $8
So Buttons #10 $5
Grixley Comix Presents Wolfarini by Nate McDonogh & friends $8
Graphic Novels
The Cabinet of Dr. Deekay by Camille Rose Garcia (Sympathetic Press) $39.99
Cryptoid by Eric Haven (Fantagraphics) $19.99
The Comics Journal #305 (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Politics & Revolution Books
Living Flame: The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Le Blanc (Haymarket) $20
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross $27.95
Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 by Danny Evans (Ak Press) $20
Art Books
The Fabulous Contraptions of Jasper J. Pumpkinhead by Brian Kesinger (Baby Tattoo) $25
Film Books
FEAR: The Autobiography of Dario Argento by Dario Argento (FAB Press) $30
Outer Limits & Mayhem
The Lives and Extraordinary Adventures of Fifteen Tramp Writers from the Golden Age of Vagabondage by Ian Cutler (Feral House) $19.95
Sheela-na-gig: Sacred Celtic Images of Feminine Divinity by Jack Roberts (Process) $19.95
The Garbage People: The Trip to Helter Skelter and Beyond with Charlie Manson and The Family by John Gilmore with Ron Kenner (Amok Publishing) $19.95
Cults Uncovered: True Stories of Mind Control and Murder by Emily Thompson $14.99
Essays
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg $26
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (Terra Ignota) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author), illustrated by Lee Bul (Ignota Press) $6.99
Fiction
Only Americans Burn in Hell by Jarett Kobek (We Heard You Like Books) 16.95
The Last Crusade by Jean Louis Costes (Amphetamine Sulphate) $18
Magazines
Mojo #315 $11.99
Fortean Times #388 $12.40
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramPROTEST IS KEY(chain) . . @chunkletindustries sent us some important free thingies. Spread the word!
Zines
Razorblades and Aspirin #8 Win 20 Hardcore Punk Fanzine $8
East Village Inky #61 by Ayun Halliday $3
Meadow Heights Tarot Zine #1 $5
Flashland vol 1 #6 $8
Xerography Debt #47 $4.95
Clearance by Joseph Josué Mora $12
When You Feel It You’ll Understand by Tyler Esque $5
Comics & Minis
Cartoon Dialectics #1 by Tom Kaczynski (Uncivilized Comics) $5.00
Ginseng Roots #3 by Craig Thompson (Uncivilized) $6
Become #2 & #3 by Daimon Hampton $3 each
Night Things by Alaina Ewins $3
Black Belt #1 by Matt Bellisle $3
Terrible Things Happen Here by Tor War $12
Heavy Blue by Taylor Chiu $10
Feral Comics #1 A Comic Zine Anthology Filled With Underground Comics From Around The World $3
Please Take Me Seriously by Sam Hoffman $4
Forgettable Garbage: A Zine Anthology $5
Graphic Novels
J&K by John Pham (Fantagraphics) $39.99
How Do You Smoke a Weed? by Owlin (Iron Circus) $10
The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (10th Anniversary Edition) by Nicholas Gurewitch (Dark Horse) $24.99
Music & Film Books
Soulside: Washington, DC, 1986–1989 by Alexis Fleisig (Akashic) $30 – By the drummer of the Dischord Records band Soulside.
The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence $14.99
Help
Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy by Ariel Gore (Microcosm) $16.95
Self-Care Down There: From Menstrual Cups and Moisturizers to Body Positivity and Brazilian Wax, a Guide to Your Vagina’s Well-Being by Taq Kaur Bhandal (aka @imwithperiods) $15.99
The Autism Handbook: Understand Its Many Intricacies by Joe Biel and Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $4
Fiction
Comma Optional by Edward J. Herdrich $7
Age of Unreason: The X Gang by Warren Kinsella $14.99
For the Kiddies
Missing Daddy by Mariame Kaba, illustrated by bria royal (Haymarket) $16.95
Michelle Tea’s Astro Pals series, illustrated by Mike Perry: Libra: Decisions, Decisions & Scorpio Berry Intense $18.95 each
Tabitha and Magoo Dress Up Too (Drag Queen Story Hour Books) by Michelle Tea, illustrated by Ellis van der Does (Feminist Press) $17.95
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Third Coast Review Lit Editor Looking For Stuff to Review
Quimby’s friend Dan Kelly (@mrdankelly) is the lit editor for the Third Coast Review and is looking for your books, zines, and lit-related announcements for consideration/review.
Snail mail: Dan Kelly – Third Coast Review, P.O. Box 744, Highland Park, IL 60035
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
They Died As They Lived by Zine Club Chicago $3
Betraying Authority: Fragments on Queer Art by Noah LeBien (Gender Fail Press) $12
The Wonder of It All #2 Downwards Mobility $3
Homespun Holler Jan 20 by Grant $2
La Jeunesse Est Une Arme $3
CrewD Up by Bryanna Bennett $12
An Ignorant Past vol 1 by Wilder & Alexander Mouton $5
Homocats Hardcore XXX $12
Nature Based Self Care – How to Use Herbal Medicine by Kuwa Jasiri Indomela $3.33
Overdue vol 1 by Tiffany Day $3
Roasting Coffee at Home an Intro $2
Uppercase Lowercase by Be Oakley $12
Comics & Minis
Bubbles #5 $6
Pest by Finn Walker $3
Denim Rider by Jason Lips $9
Endless Filth Anthology #1 by Clint Williams $7
Rimeski Comics #2 $3
Starseed and Her Psychic Warriors by Sophia Pierre $15.50
Infinite Wheat Paste #9 + #10 by Pidge $5 each
Forever and Everything #5 by Kyle Bravo $5
Blood in the Water AKA Misguided Attempts at Fishkeeping by Axel Moon $8
Graphic Novels
Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna (D+Q) $29.95
The Nib Magazine #5 Animals by Matt Bors $14.95
Haunted by Hannah Lund & Illustrated by Adelaide Grosse $15
Comics Ad Men by Steven Brower (Fantagraphics Underground) $25
Politics & Revolution Books
Four-Year Depression: (even Though They Voted for You-Know-who) by Billy McCall $10
Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism by Silvia Federici (PM Press) $15.95
Building Free Life: Dialogues with Öcalan edited by International Initiative Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan?Peace in Kurdistan (PM Press) $20
Race Man: Selected Works of Julian Bond, 1960-2015 edited by Michael G. Long (City Lights) $22.95
Art Books
Hung, Drawn and Executed: The Horror Art of Graham Humphreys (Korero) $45
Essay Books
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit $17
Selling Dead People’s Things: Inexplicably True Tales, Vintage Fails & Objects of Objectionable Estates by Duane Scott Cerny $14.95
The Contact Paradox: Challenging our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Keith Cooper $28
Fiction
Me and Mr. Cigar by Gibby Haynes $18.99
The Inhabited Island by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky $19.99
Vacuum In the Dark by Jen Beagin $16
Hark by Sam Lipsyte $17
Help
Surviving Climate Change And Other Disasters: Practical Tips, Skills, Careers, Illustrations, And Activist Resources by Sage Liskey $22
Be Awake Create by Rebekah Younger $19.95
Weedopedia: An A to Z Guide to All Things Marijuana $14.99
Outer Limits
Allow Me to Introduce: An Insider’s Guide to the Occult by Lon Milo DuQuette $19.95
The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans by Denise Alvarado $16.95
Magazines
Shots #146 winter $10
Lit Journals & Chap Books
The First Line vol 21 #4 winter $8
Split in Blue by Mary Parker Wolffe $4
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Transylvanian Mystic Isabelle Rizo Reads Tarot at Quimby’s, Feb 11th
In this evening of exploring Tarot with Transylvanian Mystic, Hypnotist, and Artist Isabelle Rizo learn what the tarot cards will tell you. Having used tarot since 2014 as a way to ground herself on her travels she found the collective unconscious easily mirrored through her own experience.You can bring a simple question and we have a conversation with the cards, or bring something that you need specific guidance on. Isabelle’s readings are inspired by her Romanian upbringing, using Eastern European folk stories, symbolism, and ethnographic influences to give nuanced readings and performances.
“Isabelle witnesses and holds safe space wherever she goes.” –Emily Stroia, Author of Into the Light
Isabelle has been featured in such places as: Atlas Obscura, Prague College, The Whoroscope Witch Podcast, and was hired by GOOP as a resident tarot reader. Way Cool Magazine. She is the resident tarot teacher at Inner Sense Healing Arts where she teaches every Wednesday night in Chicago. Her work and workshops have also been featured at Occult of the Bazaar, She Spoke International Art Exhibition, and Sideshow Gallery. She runs her hypnosis practice with a group of amazing diverse and queer therapists at Art of Balance in Chicago as well Head Facilitator of The Coven which is an online and offline group of artists, healers, and liminal space dwellers with international and local members.
Readings $5 – $25
For more info visit isabellerizo.com
Tuesday, February 11th, 6pm
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Zine Club Chicago: Fascination Edition, Feb 27th
Zine Club Chicago: Fascination Edition, at Quimby’s!
7 p.m. Thursday, February 27
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park
Free!
What are you obsessed with right now? Chances are, someone has published a zine (or you’ve created your own) about your deepest passions, no matter how offbeat or obscure. This month at Zine Club Chicago: Fascination Edition, we’ll be discussing the most captivating titles about topics that make our hearts beat faster. Bring your faves and join us for a fun conversation and snacks!
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/866359927134323/
Thanks to Anna Jo Beck for making the flyers, who says this about this month’s AMAZEBALLZ flyer and gif: “The gifs I included are: ASL for the word fascinated, Spock from Star Trek TOS, and a snippet from the movie The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – all topics for very niche zines!”
