‘The Shantyquarian’ is the newspaper of the 2012 Art Shanty projects on Medicine Lake. As this video from Vimeo user strange puppy shows, ‘The Shantyquarian’ is printed on a carbon-less copy paper (ice shanty air temperatures don’t allow for the use of ink) using a letterpress.

You can make a contribution to the paper by tweeting with the hashtag #shantyQ, and if you want to see the typesetting and printing in action you can head over to the shanty on Medicine Lake. Hurry though — the Art Shanty projects will only be around this weekend and the next.

Letterpress Shanty – Art Shanty Projects 2012 from strange puppy on Vimeo.