Paper Kills Trees is a zine I made in Berlin. You can see pictures of it on this blog, if you page back to the first few posts. It costs $8, and can be ordered by emailing me at kleighmueller@gmail.com. The rest of the blog is pretty random. I might write about the show Brianna hosted in her living room or post a picture of the collage I found mounted in a cardboard box and left lying on the street in a box labeled “free.” I’ll occasionally post pictures of my new writing/collage projects, and hopefully a few days of not being dropped onto concrete will allow my camera to recover and I can add a few pictures of my new home, a city called Portland.Tumblr (3.0; @pkt)http://pkt.tumblr.com/<p>I’ve been posting blogs almost every day at this address:</p> <p>PAPERKILLSTREEES.BLOGSPOT.COM</p> <p>So go there, please.</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/69897029http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/69897029Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:08:57 -0700<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5f6ngz2kS5PzlNl6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>behold the holyneon<a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=241600834">sexyspiders</a>(water)</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/55046623http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/55046623Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:39:14 -0600<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5e5ln7mv49Ccv7O8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Since I’m on an envelope-making kick, I figured I would try to sell a few. They come in packets wrapped in yarn that I found in a hat box in an attic, and also include a typed note from me. If you’re interested, send an email to kleighmueller@gmail.com. I’m happy to trade envelopes for a zine or a small cash donation or rubber insects or something else you have lying around that I can glue to my blue and yellow walls.</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/51134110http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/51134110Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:20:38 -0600<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5e489u2ypqodVOb5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yesterday I joined <a href="http://www.sendsomething.net/">SendSomething.net</a>, an address-generating website for those who like to send and recieve mail. You can find users randomly or by typing words into a search engine.</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/51020019http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/51020019Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:18:32 -0600<p>Utne Reader intern Kari Volkmann-Carlsen reviewed my zine last week on the magazine’s website. You can read it <a href="http://www.utne.com/2008-09-15/Arts/From-the-Stacks-Paper-Kills-Trees.aspx?blogid=32">here</a>.</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/50999988http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/50999988Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:33:19 -0600<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5duo10xiF7Yvur7uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>It’s been a month since I’ve had a room to call my own, a place where I can stack all of the odds and ends I collect off of street corners and at bookstores, not to mention the two backpacks worth of clothes and cut apart magazines I hauled from Milwaukee to Portland just three weeks ago.</p> <p>To celebrate, I covered the paint-stained floor in the aforementioned scraps of paper and art supplies and books. It felt good. Really good. For about a week. And then it just got annoying, I kept losing my feet in the mess, so I tidied up. My maps are stacked in a pile of maps. My Portland Zine Symposium zine stash fills a box and is pressing flat the gig posters pulled off of local poles that I’m saving to make notebooks with. I have a pile of found clothing to trade at a second-hand shop for fall clothes, and a corner devoted to my zine pages in progress. And all of this is just to say that near the end of my cleaning binge I found a small business card for Parapluie Press and took a break (okay, stalled) to check out <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5779861">her Etsy page</a>. And now I’m salivating over new objects to fill my new room, especially the Ziegfeld Lady (above) and Wright Brothers notebooks and the zines “Things That Float,” “Hidden Jewels,” and, “Petit Discours.”</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/50059918http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/50059918Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:41:54 -0600<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5do7psoyl1OOwa6l_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.powells.com/s?kw=Paper+Kills+Trees&x=0&y=0">Powell’s Books</a>, the largest independent bookstore selling new and used books in the US (plus a great selection of <a href="http://www.powells.com/psection/SmallPress.html">small press</a>, <a href="http://www.powells.com/psection/GraphicNovels.html">graphic novels</a>, and zines!) now stocks Paper Kills Trees. It’s right there, on the third shelf from the top.</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/49418613http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/49418613Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:18:39 -0600<p>I’m now a member of <a href="http://wemakezines.ning.com/"><b>We Make Zines</b></a>, “an online community for zine makers and readers,” where “You can create a profile, list your zineography, post images of zines, partake in the forums, find other zine writers, read about new releases, read reviews from your favorite zine writers and leave comments about the zine you just read on the actual zinesters profile.” Find me under the name “k-leigh-m.” <b><br/></b></p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/49417324http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/49417324Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:08:06 -0600<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5do728sorOnMo8kz_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Top:</p> <p>“A rope led down into the dark abyss. It was the way to some kind of peace and personal balance.”</p> <p>Bottom:</p> <p>“A fairy harp hangs in the wood/Played by every breeze,/Vanished to-day are the fairy-folk/Who hung it high in the trees.”</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/49416372http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/49416372Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:00:19 -0600<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5dcmpa0fT9Tck7H0_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>At yesterday’s “Art in the Pearl,” a downtown Portland festival where locals sold art, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/katheworsley/1303758859/in/photostream/">demonstrated metal forging</a>, and doused an entire car in brightly-hued paint, I sat at the IPRC’s table and helped kids Gocco-print the “Knitting for Ponies” logo onto handmade notebooks, while the table next to me, sponsored by the <a href="http://pnca.edu/ponies/">Pacific Northwest College of Art</a>, provided plastic ponies and yards of yarn to knit into miniature leg warmers, saddles, or blankets. The ponies were then sent off into Portland, where they’re asked to be tied to the metal rings that line sidewalk streets, a throwback to when Oregonians rode horses instead of cars, and needed a way to tie them up.</p> <p>Although I’ve yet to see a live horse in town, their tiny plastic counterparts can be spied here and there thanks to the PNCA program and Scott Wayne Indiana, who began “<a href="http://www.39forks.com/39pages/projects/Horse/HorseMAIN.htm">The Horse Project</a>” as a collaborative art happening in 2006.</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/48266301http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/48266301Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:44:55 -0600<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d7g8f0658zC9hrM_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Thought Cloud Shrines,” some resembling a multiplex of cuckoo clocks, a tower of tiny chairs stacked on each others’ laps, or a Mardi Gras mask on steroids, reach moon-ward from the tops of human heads or from the backs of men dressed for space travel in <a href="http://www.artcapacity.com/home.html">Theo Ellsworth</a>’s booklet of meticulously-drawn fantasies, and the simple composition of black ink on tan paper can occupy the careful viewer for hours.</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47825933http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47825933Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:45:00 -0600<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d48xj68OAlLcD0T_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47480191http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47480191Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:57:15 -0600<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d48i6czXwaUFTJO_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478617http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478617Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:45:19 -0600<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d48gne1SjZDyGFu_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478431http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478431Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:44:08 -0600<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d48f1tka0AE5Wm5_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478294http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478294Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:42:53 -0600<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d48e7046zC5OMaI_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478228http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478228Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:42:13 -0600<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d48d51qCEGTlH5c_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478153http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478153Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:41:22 -0600<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d48ck26tHCNBPv4_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478099http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47478099Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:40:57 -0600<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d48ad8bDl4oplNd_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Crafters and zinesters from Seattle to San Francisco and beyond flooded Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Ballroom to table at the 8th annual <a href="http://www.pdxzines.com/">Zine Symposium</a>.</p> <p>Among the dozens of cut-and-paste/cut-and-knit/copy-and-ink-obsessed folks on hand to trade wares were  Seattle’s <a href="http://www.bosslevelcollective.com/">Boss Level Collective</a> and the (rumor has it temporarily(?) defunct) <a href="http://www.hugohouse.org/house/zapp/">Zine Archive Publishing Project</a>; Portland’s <a href="http://www.bigtimeillustration.com/">BT Livermore</a> and his <a href="http://www.robopocalypse.com/">Robopocalypse</a> crew; the <a href="http://www.iprc.org/">Independent Publishing Resource Center</a> and a few of the teens who attended their recent zine-making camp; Alex Wrekk of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=33977">Brainscan</a>, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, and <a href="http://smallworldbuttons.bigcartel.com/">Small World Buttons</a>; the musicians/screenprinters/artists of <a href="http://www.tenderlovingempire.com/">Tender Loving Empire</a>; <a href="http://www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com/">Sparkplug Comic Books</a>; <a href="http://www.ericaschreiner.com/">Erica Schreiner</a>; plus Murfreesburo, TN’s review mag <a href="http://www.undergroundpress.org/">Zine World</a>; indie publishers <a href="http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/">Microcosm</a>; and the UK’s <a href="http://www.marchingstars.co.uk/">Marching Stars Distro</a>; to name just a few.</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47477911http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47477911Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:39:15 -0600<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/EaLhAm4g5d3992umIUG67GjH_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I Made a Zine and Moved to Portland</p>http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47378666http://pkt.tumblr.com/post/47378666Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:18:29 -0600