Astromatograph Issue 000
April + May 2025
Designed like a literary box of candy tasty enough to be available at the concession stand and entertaining enough that it’s the reason you left the house, Issue 000 is a puzzle-box of ruminations on film and divinity with an emphasis on tropical astrological transits, particularly film’s ruling planet neptune departing from its 12+ year stay in dreamy pisces, beckoned onward into the martial terrain of aries in almost perfect unison alongside saturn. A once-in-a-lifetime occurrence worthy of archive, recordation, theorizing and speculation — we hope you enjoy the show!
Segments include:
Saturn Return Curtain Call, an interview with Ken Layne
A Rainstorm in Germania: the Not-There-There of Saturn in Aries by Martha Fearnley
The Existential Crisis of the Fictitious Agency, a tv slideshow-poem-quiz in print by Nadiya Helm
Let’s Play: Spring 2025 by Harmony Ellington
Neptune and the Screen of Dreams, Distortions, Delusions and Deliverance by E.T. Vazquez
Film program for April and May
tech specs:
ink on natural uncoated paper
color + b&w
saddle-stitched
44 pages, 5.25” x 8”
limited run
printed in-house; expect subtle variations
Art direction by Garrison Ambrose
For this issue, we are accepting payments through venmo only
(if you are outside the U.S. and can't send payments through venmo, please email me)
Prices:
Within the U.S. - $13/each (free shipping)
Outside the U.S. - $13/each + add $3 for shipping ($16 total)*
*if you are ordering 2 copies, double the price of shipping. For 3+ copies, please email me to arrange shipping
If you're a badass who lives somewhere like north korea, cuba, iran, syria, crimea or a zone experiencing “civil unrest” that is likely complicating postal service - please email me and I will do my best to accommodate
To order:
venmo @astromatograph and include the mailing address + name of addressee in the notes
Shipping via USPS first-class mail
Also available IRL at the following vendors:*
*call ahead to confirm stock
Los Angeles, CA:
Skylight Books Arts Annex
Stories Books & Cafe
WHAMMY! Analog Media
Secret Headquarters
Yucca Valley, CA:
Hi Desert Times
Chicago, IL:
Quimby's Bookstore
Chicago Comics
NYC, Brooklyn:
Desert Island
5% of the proceeds go to the production of Diego de Los Andes' short film and poetry book
