Joined Metalabel 11/20/2024
thesedaysmag
These Days Magazine
Chicago Artists to Watch 2025

Chicago Artists to Watch 2025

by These Days, Alexander Jibaja, and 5 more

Collector #16

These Days Magazine presents the final edition of our annual Chicago Artists to Watch feature. This year's class includes m.e.h., Menace4hire, Mike DFG, Mvte, Sparklmami, Teala Vera, The Era & Woes. Read the interviews & check out the photography in our first ever digital zine.

seah
Seah Studio
GEOTYPE

GEOTYPE

by Melisa Seah

Collector #4

GEOTYPE is a font with angular shapes, sharp contrasts, and a bold and experimental style. A playful display typeface that's eye catching on every surface. It's the very first font created by Seah Studio, in partnership with the Letterform Archive.

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Avi Solomon
Our Cosmic Situation

Our Cosmic Situation

by Avi Solomon

Collector #10

NASA Parker Solar Probe footage of Venus and Earth swimming in a sea of stars amidst the Milky Way

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Avi Solomon
Earthrise, Christmas 1968

Collector #12

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate! I have reprocessed the original 1968 Apollo 8 mission Earthrise Hasselblad Kodak analog film photograph taken by the late Astronaut Bill Anders from the new NASA master scans. Please feel free to download the image file and zoom in to see the astonishing level of detail...

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Avi Solomon
A Balancing Act On Mars

Collector #7

A remarkable image of a scene on Mars photographed by NASA's Perseverance Rover is emblematic of the alien yet familiar landscape of a barren planet humans might visit one day.

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Avi Solomon
Galileo Sunspot Animation

Collector #2

I have demonstrated that the Sunspots are neither Stars nor permanent materials, and that they are not located at a distance from the Sun but are produced and dissolved upon it in a manner not unlike that of clouds and vapors on the Earth -Galileo Galilei

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Avi Solomon
Earth swimming in a sea of stars amidst the Milky Way

Collector #2

We humans need to hold our cosmic situation in mind while dealing with matters on Earth. NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this grand prospect of Earth swimming in a sea of stars over the course of ten days in April 2019. I have processed the raw footage and remixed it with sounds of the Solar wind and a stellar track by Max Richter.

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Avi Solomon
This photo of Earth was taken by a Human

Collector #11

On the way home from the Moon in August 1971, Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin picked up a Hasselblad camera and captured this astonishing prospect of a crescent Earth gleaming in a ray of sunlight.

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Avi Solomon
Complete NASA Cassini footage of Saturn’s moon Enceladus

Collector #2

Compilation of all the spacecraft footage of Saturn's moon Enceladus targeted and captured during the course of NASA's Cassini mission.

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Creasidence
Creasidence Online Zine #01

Creasidence Online Zine #01

by Maxim Chumin, Sasha Pokhvalin, and 3 more

Collector #17

A Four-Panel Comics Zine by Creasidence, created in an online workshop by 5 artists. Using the kishotenketsu structure, we explore storytelling beyond conflict, embracing surprise, openness, and creative freedom in four panel limits.

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Creasidence
Creasidence Tokyo Zine #02

Creasidence Tokyo Zine #02

by Maxim Chumin, Rocío de los Angeles Cruz Toranzo, and 6 more

Collector #8

The digital zine that is a result of the March 2025 Creasidence Comics Workshop held in Tokyo. Over the course of 4 days, 20 artists from around the world came together to co-create a comic zine centered around the theme of cherry blossom. Each page's center is the frame by Workshop Lead Mentor, renowned mangaka Akira Fukaya.

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Creasidence
Creasidence Online Zine #02

Collector #2

A new Four-Panel Comics Zine by Creasidence, created in an online workshop by 4 artists. Using the kishotenketsu structure, we explore storytelling beyond conflict, embracing surprise, openness, and creative freedom in four panel limits.

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Jeff Wood
ARCHIO

ARCHIO

by Jeff Wood

Collector #7

A science-fiction liturgy and pilgrimage to the Agion Oros—Mt. Athos, Greece. Video, text and field recordings by Jeff Wood.

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Underground Art And Design
Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making

Collector #103

Worlds Unfolding is a guide and inspiration hub for virtual world-making, offering curated prompts, community-contributed projects, and ideas that blend storytelling, design, and imagination. It explores how virtual spaces can foster connection, creativity, and care while critically examining their ties to the dominant paradigm.

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Creasidence
Creasidence Tokyo Zine #01

Creasidence Tokyo Zine #01

by Maxim Chumin, ES, and 12 more

Collector #23

Created in just 4 days by 20 artists, this zine is the result of the first Creasidence Comics Workshop in Tokyo — an international program uniting visual storytellers to create a playful journey through Harajuku, page by page in collaboration with mentors. Exhibited and released as a limited edition physical comic book at SOMSOC Gallery.

squad
Metalabel Press
Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Anonymous Creative Futures Report

by Rayna, IY, and 4 more

Collector #669

Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.

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NOW
How to Self Publish a Free Book on Amazon (2025 Update)

Collector #12

"Perma free" Amazon books? Discover a unique, easy and clever way to expand your existing audience - attract new readers to your Substack/newsletter, website, digital storefront, IRL business, or any other content, cause or client community you want to grow - through this little known Amazon self publishing strategy for authors and entrepreneurs.

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A Thousand Forests
Legal Structures for Creative Practices

Legal Structures for Creative Practices

by A Thousand Forests, Enrique H, and 2 more

Collector #99

"Legal Structures for Creative Practices" is an illustrated zine designed for creative entrepreneurs that unpacks the pros, cons, and nuances of various legal structures to help choose the one that will best suit their unique practice. View the digital zine at: AThousandForests.com

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The Dark Forest Collective
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

by Nadia Asparouhova, and Leïth Benkhedda

Collector #206

Why do some ideas spread like wildfire, while others resist being seen — despite their importance? A new book by Nadia Asparouhova explores the emerging phenomenon of antimemetics. Published by the Dark Forest Collective. Digital version available now. Softcover ships early June 2025.

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New Weird Australia
An Index Of The Modern Era 2009-2024

Collector #9

To celebrate fifteen years of operations, label friends and family select their favourites from the New Weird Australia catalogue. The 29-track selections run the gamut from the first compilation released in 2009 to the most recent collection from the 'transient ambient' group Worlds Only.

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Network Archives
How to Navigate : A Directory of Inspiration

Collector #51

This is a free edition that focuses on how to navigate your 'Network Archives 001: A Directory of Inspiration'. It is a curated guide highlighting key themes, insights, and actionable ideas from a selection of the projects to help you explore the directory more deeply. This drop follows the inaugural release from the Network Archives label.

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Elysian Collective
CITY-STATE

CITY-STATE

by Elle Griffin, Bryce Tolpen, and 6 more

Collector #9

Seven writers explore the future of autonomous governance.

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Hard Art
Hard Imagination

Hard Imagination

by Sophie Cowen, David Johnston, and 1 more

Collector #35

Hard Imagination invites Venture Capitalists to see a world beyond an extractive mindset, to create pathways for capital allocation that are not self-terminating Limited run of 23 bound copies or download the PDF for free

ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
Bentoism

Bentoism

by Yancey Strickler, and Laurel Schwulst

Collector #10

A wider view of our self-interest. Now Me, Future Me. Now Us, Future Us. A model for a deeper form of living. BEyond Near Term Orientation: Bentoism.

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The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
Meet the Ideaspace

Meet the Ideaspace

by Yancey Strickler

Collector #4

Since 2017, the Ideaspace has been my outlet for exploring creative forms and sharing ideas. This release shares audio of four of my favorite interviews — with artist Hank Willis Thomas, economist Marianna Mazucato, and authors John Higgs and Eric Wargo — in a free .zip download.

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The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
The Post-Individual (Open Edition)

The Post-Individual (Open Edition)

by Yancey Strickler, and IY

Collector #139

An exploration of individuality after the internet. The Post-Individual includes: — The Post Individual essay — An audio recording by the author — A video introduction — Research notes, early drafts, and slides

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Shantell Martin
Shantell Sans

Shantell Sans

by Shantell Martin

Collector #107

Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation. This is the story behind its inspiration and creation.

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Baukunst
Notes from the Baukunst Creative Technologist Conference - Fall 2022

Collector #9

On October 25th and 26th, 2022, Baukunst gathered at Warehouse XI, just outside of Boston in Somerville, MA, to share projects, processes, and new areas of inquiry. This is a zine we published to capture notes from the gathering.

squad
Metalabel Press
After the Creator Economy

After the Creator Economy

by IY, Severin Matusek, and 3 more

Collector #179

Will we still be asking people to like and subscribe in 10 years? "After The Creator Economy" explores constructive alternatives for the ways we produce, distribute, and monetize creative work online. Co-edited by Austin Robey (Metalabel) and Severin Matusek (co—matter), this release preserves and digitally reissues the zine.

ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Collector #53

A trilogy of essays published from 2019 through 2021 that explores why I and others feel less comfortable showing our true selves online. Reissued here with the original piece, two follow-up essays, and a podcast conversation with The Stoa exploring the concept.

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The Creative Independent
On Making a Living as an Artist (Digital Edition)

Collector #309

In 2018, The Creative Independent published our first zine, featuring the emotional and practical wisdom of Philip Glass, Yumna Al-Arashi, Taja Cheek, and others on how to make a living as an artist. This is a digital edition of that work.

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Glass Mirror: a speculative research journal
Glass Mirror 001: What If?

Collector #45

"What If?" is a working journal: a reader-reviewed, iterative publication written to evolve alongside conversation. Each chapter is curated around a "what if" prompt—what if WFH took place in Vision Pros? Curators of the working edition (this release) can vote on journal submissions, curate chapter content, and read with the Glass Mirror community.

squad
Metalabel Press
Introducing Metalabel

Introducing Metalabel

by Yancey Strickler, Erin, and 7 more

Collector #58

The original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022 Preserved and collectible as a new media archive.

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Ambient Soul Music Club
Four Track Originals Vol. 1

Four Track Originals Vol. 1

by Ambient Soul Music Club

Collector #20

Four Track Originals Vol. 1 is the first release from Ambient Soul Music Club founder, Graeme Worsfold. A four-track digital-only EP of stunning instrumental ambient soul music and video acting as a gateway drug to this unusual, innovative new genre and community of music creativity.

hardart
Hard Art
THIS IS NOT A BLUEPRINT #1 : By process of invitation

Collector #86

In late 2022, a handful of artists, scientists, movement builders, musicians, and democratic innovators came together to explore making a future based on care and freedom. The process we've called Hard Art began. This series shows how it all started, the frameworks we're using to collaborate, and how it's going.

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Toby Kaufmann-Buhler
Sawing Sound (video study grid)

Sawing Sound (video study grid)

by Toby Kaufmann-Buhler

Collector #15

A grid to play in, on and through -- an occasionally updated set of studies in visual and sonic play (with a singing saw and video synthesizer), arranged in a grid to be played in any number of combinations. When new studies are added, the grid arrangement will be re-oriented and a new edition released.

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Brian Eno and Bette A.
"What Art Does" Limited Edition PDF of the book

"What Art Does" Limited Edition PDF of the book

by BRIAN ENO, Bette A., and 1 more

Collector #571

A limited edition black and white PDF of the book "What Art Does" by Brian Eno and Bette A for just $1. Limited edition available for one week exclusively at Metalabel and EnoShop. Hardcover and ebook release in January (UK) and March (US).