No.Zines likes to support all stuff around self-publishing, do it yourself and freeware license culture. The projects of Mexican Graphic Designer Daniel Castrejón are a good example of this philosophy. Below Daniel Castrejón talks about his latest project CONTRAMOTOR -a printed magazine about photography, literature, art...- and other projects while printed version of CONTRAMOTOR magazine was generating.
"CONTRAMOTOR began in the year 2004 covering a variety of contents regarding from visual arts through literature. From its beginning up tomid-2005, it published fifteen online editorials. But it all came to an end when developing an exact periodic publication became boring, such as the thorough labour of finding interesting contents without falling into collective tendencies/associations. Nowadays, CONTRAMOTOR shows itself with a new meaning, a newer version reinventing itself from when it used to be an online publication, when it used to be thought to respond to obvious reasons such as a widespread market through mass media channels, e g., the Internet. In the time being, we don’t give a fuck about the approach any artistic expression might have since it’s available to anyone throughout the world wide web just one click away. That’s the main reason why CONTRAMOTOR has a stubborn and contradictory spirit that decides to give a step back from becoming a print document, with reduced circulating volume, unpredictable periodicity, through obsolete distribution. CONTRAMOTOR’s comeback doesn’t have a meaningful reason or a real justification. It’s just the perennial enthusiasm towards print publications and its media, our loyal appreciation to the Do It Yourself culture, hence our search for impossibility rather than realism or possibilities that might exist. During CONTRAMOTOR's unproductive period, we found an alternate way to enjoy ourselves by keeping ourselves active, so we created the Umor Rex records, trademark that originated two new distinctive labels: Scribble Kite and Dog Ear Records both of them of freeware nature. So we emphatically invite all of you visitors to take a free tour through our label websites while we endure and build our newest version of CONTRAMOTOR. If you are involved in the art world, if you are a photographer, painter, illustrator, writer, etc., and don’t intend to become famous overnight, if you don’t consider yourself a misunderstood talent, if you aren’t tormented by absurdly unknowable questions and you aren’t a trend setter, then we invite you to collaborate with us by sending us your proposals and comments to info@contramotor.com"
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