May 2024 - Museum of Photocopies

PINS – Rule Thirty-six: Backing up

You need people to back you up, whether living or dead. They help you rally round and also help you light the fire, but take note; don’t put the fire ash in the normal bin! Read here for more information about backing up.

A photograph of a photocopy of a page from a booklet called Flint Implements, published by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1956, price, four bob and a tanner. Arma antiqua manus, ungues, dentesque fuerent / Et lapides, et item silvarum fragmina rami. Learn this dedication (Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, V. 1282) by rote and note the caption under the illustration. This is good info for BACKING UP. Note! that stick is no good for kindling.

PINS – Rule Thirty-five: Rallying Round

However glum you get, you have to rally round. You can find a whole set of ideas here, on how to pull yourself together. And don’t listen to them numbnuts they are like animals they are, ignorant and crude. Just check these images instead, and maybe photocopy them.

A photograph of a photocopy of a frontispiece to a book. If tha’s feeling blue, or glum, or fed up to th’back teeth, do the flowers. It’ll help you rally round.

A photograph of a letter sent to congratulate a new mother. Note the depreciating northern humour, oh well, another mouth to feed…Write letters like this to your nearest and dearest, it’ll help them rally round.

A photograph of a photocopy of a drawing of an English Gentleman, from a costume book, photocopied in its entirety at some point during the 1970s. Dress like this, and keep your back straight, it’ll help you rally round.

PINS – Rule Thirty-four: Danger Zone, Steady Up!

Oh heck, things are getting tricky, the Danger Zone can be an uncertain place full of experienced people who don’t give a damn and maybe you’re not the sort of character who should be there. But this is PINS and PINs is a life we’ve all been through. More Danger Zones are described here. For now, draw your qwayout of trouble, it’s the only way. Don’t be soft!