🍊maga(ZINE): January🎉

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“It’s a new year and a new me.” Let’s start 2025 off right with a Mikan🍊maga(ZINE) that brings out the best in all of us! For the new year we wanted to give all of our focus to one special Mikan. This month we sat down with Dimitri to discuss resolutions, traditions, and all the ways this year in Japan looks to be better than the last without being “perfect”. Let’s delve right into Dimitris’ beautiful maga(ZINE) and what he has created for us and dive a bit deeper into what makes this artist a special Mikan.

Note: Embrace the weird and trippy in Dimitri’s work by inverting the colors on your device! You’ll be in for a pretty cool surprise~

Dial Up

“weird vibes, weird people, weird things”

“don’t let perfection be the enemy of good”

About the Mikan

Dimitri (he/him)

Mikan Status: 1st year JET, JHS/ES ALT in Ozu

ZINE Themes: daily oddities, imperfect, dark & light, photography

Dimitri Time: reading (favorite book: 1984), woodblock printing, martial arts (sword ⚔️ & spirit🧘), more creating than consuming

New Year’s Traditions

Mom ver. : traditional, stay up ’till midnight 

Greek ver. : a (mid) cake + a coin in aluminum foil = whoever gets the coin gets a gift & has a lot of luck in the new year  

Goals & Resolutions…

☑️ steer away from mindless consumption

🙆 pursue a craft & master it

✅ watch 52 movies

✔️ work on perfectionism

🙅 avoid doom scrolling

New Year, New Me Mantra

be cool with taking up space・ be yourself・be more active in day-to-day life ・do what you want to do・don’t be a people pleaser ➡️ speak your mind & don’t be afraid of putting a foot down 👟

Dial Up: Flipbook Edit.

Mediums: Photographs + scans.
Disclaimer: the artwork featured here are photographs of pieces by various artists from Dimitri’s lens. The photographs are his original work while the subjects of his photos are not.

3, 2, 1…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
2024 was a special year for us – it was the year the Mikan 🍊 maga(ZINE) was born, after all!
That said, we’re STOKED for 2025 and all the new creative mikans we’ll get to know and showcase through the 🍊ZINE.
Thank you for sticking with us and we hope you enjoy future editions to come 🧡. 

-The PowerZINE 💗 Mikans

We’ll have a new 🍊 maga(ZINE) post for you on the first of each month, so keep an eye out!

Interested in having your own ZINE? Reach out to us at themikanblog@gmail.com!

Gizelle AJ, Editor
Justin Dobbs, Collaborator
Dillon Flores, Creator

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