#vabf

[yeehawpim]

couldn't make it to VABF today but i e-transfered you a fiver, hope your table goes well!

Omg it was you I thought I was seeing ghosts akfjsjfdj

Thank you so much!! First day went great though I realized halfway through we end at 9 and not 6 😂🫠 came home dead and now I'm ready to go back today HAHAHA

Everyone's been so nice!!

[rollei35snap]

Singapore (photozine)

シンガポールの街中で撮影した写真をまとめています。 This is a collection of photos taken in the streets of Singapore. ・120mm×120mm ・16p

[rollei35snap]

https://ssws-r35s.stores.jp/items/5f941734ef80851c06c53710

NY (photozine)

コロナ直前のニューヨークへ訪れた際に撮影した写真をまとめています。 Here are some photos I took when I visited New York just before Corona. ・120mm×120mm ・24p

[rollei35snap]

https://ssws-r35s.stores.jp/items/5f941c59ef808555e8c57ee9

ORANJESTAD (photozine)

アルバ島の首都オラニエスタッドの風景スナップの写真集です。 A collection of landscape snapshots of Oranjestad, the capital of Aruba. ・120mm×120mm ・12p

[rollei35snap]

https://ssws-r35s.stores.jp/items/5f941dbeef80852953c535ce

MOTEGI (photozine)

茂木ツインリングで撮影した写真をまとめています。 This is a collection of photos taken at Motegi Twin Ring. ・120mm×120mm ・12p

[joannaliangart]

I was at Vancouver Art Book Fair the last 3 days!! tabling with three other ppl i knew from a bookmaking class at ECU (yaay we love saving money on table fees LOL)

sooo nice to be at an event Specifically for bookmakers and book artists :'''] (i love u raincity comicon n other fanart/illustration type artist alleys but ouhhh it's tasty tasty stuff being a book artist at VABF!!)

I actually only rlly met n talked with my tablemates AT this event lol; esp cause the class we met in I was auditing (sort of Ah essentially I wasn't there all the time lol). Was lovely to meet them n get to know them But it was v funny when ppl came up being like 'ooh is "East Van Student Books" like a collective wht do u do' n we're like oh um no we're just uhh all from ECU and we got a table together to save money n we all were in the same class once LOL

my tablemates didn't bring as many items as me + had varying availability due to life things so we had more tablemates in the 2nd/3rd days! they also all sold out of almost all their stuff!! so on the last day last few hours of the fair I had the whole table to myself haha v nice

That meant we had a lotta reorganizing of our table throughout the fair; kinda fun we had a v dynamic table it twas changing forms throughout the day ~

to talk ~businessy~ for a sec: For a 3 day event, I didn't earn that much more than I did at Raincity comic con which is Very interesting insight to me.. My two main theories are that 1. my books stood out much more as different/unique at the majority illustration/prints being sold at raincity, and 2. (which was the opinion of our table neighbour who has been doing this for longer) that multi-day events don't sell as well per day as 1-day events do as there's less feeling of urgency? they said that lotta ppl were like 'i'll come back tmr!' n then most don't haha fair enough

o man the last like 2-3 hours of the fair idk if it was cause i had the whole table so my stuff was able to be more visible/spread out more or if it was just ppl were starting to get like "aaa its almost closing i gotta hurry n look at everything!!" But it got BUSY. it was 5pm before i knew it goddamn!! last hours of fair i've noticed from my time helping my mentor do this last year is i guess the time where fellow book artists start Talkin to each other and connecting; i got suuch helpful advice and got pulled into much longer conversations in that last bit of time haha AH!! i have like 5 things/ppl i need to follow up on now orz a blessing and a curse... it feels like getting homework after class LMAO i wanna nappp

[baby-bocchi]

blind poems making workshop

Hello everyone,

Bocchi will be doing two online workshops for the Tokyo Art Book Fair in the coming weekends, feel free to join if you are interested/have time!

  10:00 – 11:00 JST [OCT 24] and [OCT 30] ( 6-7pm PST [Oct 23&29] / 10-11pm EST [Oct 23&29] )

「Make your own blind poems with Bocchi」 Artist：Hei Lam Ng This workshop will demonstrate how the poems in the book blind poems are made. Participants will have the chance to create their own during the workshop. http://meet.google.com/xpu-xmbc-jst

Hope to see you in one of the sessions :)

Check out TABF here: https://online.tokyoartbookfair.com/ Check out VABF here: https://vancouverartbookfair.com/

[baby-bocchi]

VABF is coming as well! More updates to come later but save the date(s) for now :)