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[[Image:Adita001.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Adita #0 or (1), the cover of the first issue, "powerline/steeple."]]
 
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'''A Day In The Air''' (also known as '''adita''') is a sporadically published personal [[zine]]. The publication was started in April, 1998, in Iowa City, Iowa. It is published in a quarter-sized format. Issues 10, 13, and 15 include a compact disk. The issues are technically numbered with a sequence of zeros (0, 00, 000), however [[Arabic numbers]] were later substituted for simplicity. The zero numbering system is reflected on the pages which presented philosophical ramblings about "nothing." Adita #7, "automatic", was named "Zine of the Month" in the February, 2000, issue of [[Maximum RocknRoll]]. The first CD compilation was included with issue #10. The most recent issue is "dance, punk." Adita has been collected at numerous zine archives including; Salt Lake City Public Library, Denver Zine Archive, the [[Chicago Underground Library]], and the Special Collections Departments at DePaul University and University of Iowa.
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'''A Day In The Air''' (also known as '''adita''') is a sporadically published personal [[zine]]. The publication was started in April, 1998, in Iowa City, Iowa. It is published in a quarter-sized format. Issues 10, 13, and 15 include a compact disk. The issues are technically numbered with a sequence of zeros (0, 00, 000), however [[Arabic numbers]] were later substituted for simplicity. The zero numbering system is reflected on the pages which presented philosophical ramblings about "nothing." Adita #7, "automatic", was named "Zine of the Month" in the February, 2000, issue of [[Maximum Rock 'N' Roll|Maximum RocknRoll]]. The first CD compilation was included with issue #10. The most recent issue is "dance, punk." Adita has been collected at numerous zine archives including; Salt Lake City Public Library, Denver Zine Archive, the [[Chicago Underground Library]], and the Special Collections Departments at DePaul University and University of Iowa.
  
 
==Features==
 
==Features==

Revision as of 19:18, 16 February 2007

Adita #0 or (1), the cover of the first issue, "powerline/steeple."

A Day In The Air (also known as adita) is a sporadically published personal zine. The publication was started in April, 1998, in Iowa City, Iowa. It is published in a quarter-sized format. Issues 10, 13, and 15 include a compact disk. The issues are technically numbered with a sequence of zeros (0, 00, 000), however Arabic numbers were later substituted for simplicity. The zero numbering system is reflected on the pages which presented philosophical ramblings about "nothing." Adita #7, "automatic", was named "Zine of the Month" in the February, 2000, issue of Maximum RocknRoll. The first CD compilation was included with issue #10. The most recent issue is "dance, punk." Adita has been collected at numerous zine archives including; Salt Lake City Public Library, Denver Zine Archive, the Chicago Underground Library, and the Special Collections Departments at DePaul University and University of Iowa.

Features

Adita has a number of semi-regular features. A comic called "Captain Proscrastination" appeared a number of times. Poetry and writing accompanies photographic, drawn, or appropriated art. Interviews are fairly common. Adita has featured a number of musicians, artists, performers, and personalities including: Mia Park (host of the CAN-TV public access dance-rock show,Chic-a-go-go), The Faint, Rodney Mullen, Seven Days of Samsara, Fall Out Boy, William Elliott Whitmore, Ten Grand, Jenny Choi, and Thax Douglas.

Issues

  • 1 - 1998, April - "powerline/steeple"
  • 2 - 1998, May - "radio tower"
  • 3 - 1998, June - "glenview"
  • 4 - 1999, March - "mohawk skater"
  • 5 - 1999, summer - "juggling"
  • 6 - 1999, June - "chameleon"
  • 7 - 1999, September - "automatic"
  • 8 - 2000, summer - "no assumptions"
  • 9 - 2000, winter - "is dead / photozine"
  • 10 - 2000, summer - "CD Compilation"
  • 11 - 2001, May - "winter tour / potata zine"
  • 12 - 2001, May - "soda can"
  • 13 - 2001, summer - "Mix CD"
  • 14 - 2002, March - "green cover"
  • 15 - 2003, summer - "Iowahardcore.com(pilation)"
  • 16 - 2007, January - "dance, punk."
  • 20 - 2007, summer - "Unrest in the Midwest"
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Adita #15, CD03 - "Iowahardcore.com(pilation)"

Compilations

This list is an overlapping of the Issues list only mentioning the specific zines which were accompanied by compact disks. Notable artists include, Jenny Choi, Fifteen, Hewhocorrupts, Modern Life Is War, Ten Grand, and William Elliott Whitmore

  • CD01 - (#10) 2000, summer - "cd compilation"
  • CD02 - (#13) 2001, summer - "Mix CD"
  • CD03 - (#15) 2003, summer - "Iowahardcore.com(pilation)"

Sources