DUM DUM Zine
The Bushwick Review has a West Coast soulmate and it’s DUM DUM Zine, captained by Taleen Kalenderian out in Los Angeles. DUM DUM Zine is a spankin’ new zine featuring hybrid forms of fiction, journalism, art, design, and any sort of transmedia story you can think of. It’s also a collective of people all over the country who collaborate on generating new forms of content. It exists in public only: as broadsides pasted on your city walls, at dumdumzine.com, and can also be purchased at Skylight Books in L.A. and Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago. DUM DUM accepts rolling submissions and publishes them on the web, and is printed quarterly according to themes emerging from the content received in response to calls and prompts.
Taleen Kalenderian contributed some beautiful large format photographs to The Bushwick Review #3 (more on TBR #3 later). She’s a creative force of nature, who, in addition to DUM DUM Zine, made a zine about being Armenian called Talzine, and is a freelance writer and photographer for The Onion A.V. Club, Filter Magazine, and SPIN, among other publications. Taleen’s also been known to write music, host creative dinner parties, and create other things that can’t or don’t need to be hyperlinked, because they aren’t means to an end, they are simply her understanding the need to make things everyday.
