The Xiu Xiu Tour Photo Books _

These books are a series of photography collections from each Xiu Xiu tour I have been on. They are usually made after each tour, and then sold on the next one. Some are limited edition and some are open editions. The printing of the open editions are halted once a new book is released. They are made in different ways: hand sewn ink-jet prints, hand made hard bound ink jet prints, stapled ink jet prints, tape bound laser jet prints, staple bound color photo copy laser jet prints, loose 4 x 6 prints, 4 x 6 prints in a cheap plastic consumer photo album, digital PDFs, lulu.com published, etc...

A book on the Xiu Xiu Polaroid Projects is being released Mark Batty Publisher in the Fall.

Tour Book 5 hand-made edition:

Spring 2007 - 40 pages, laser print, tape bound, 7.5" x 7.5"

To purchase visit store.

Tour Book 5 Lulu.com edition:

Spring 2007 - 24 pages, digital color printing, saddle-stiched, 8.5"x11"

This is an open edition available for $11.88 at lulu.com.

Tour Book 5 was first released as a free PDF file designed by Mylinh Trieu Nguyen. At normal viewing it is the actual size of a small billboard. You can navigate through it using your computer screen like a magnifying glass. Download it here.

Tour Book 4 version B:

Fall/ Winter 2006, 28 pages, ink-jet, hard bound, 6.25" x 8.5"

An edition of 40 signed and numbered. Book designed and made by Miya Osaki. This is also Azuki 01. The pages are french-folded, and there is a secret letter inside.

Tour Book 4 version A:

Fall/ Winter 2006, 28 pages, ink-jet, staple bound, 5.5" x 8.5"

This was an open edition that was sold until version B was released. I do not know how many were made. Probably around 50. Ooga Booga in Los Angeles still may have some.

Tour Book 3:

Winter 2005, 24 pages, ink-jet, thread bound, 4.25" x 5.5"

There also exists a cheaply produced (b/w and color photo copy, staple bound) version of Tour Book 3. I am ashamed that it exists based on its quality. I am proud that it exists based on the fact that it exists for the sake of existence.

Tour Book 2:

Summer/ Fall 2005, 28 pages (?), ink-jet, thread bound, 4.25" x 5.5"

I believe this was an edition of 30. I have a habit of not keeping things I make for myself. A video will be up if I can track down one of these books.

Note: On this tour we re-arranged a "United We Stand" marquee in Montana to make "United We Tan." We then ran across the street, and over peanut butter milk-shakes, we realized we could use the letters to form "Tits and Weed." There exists a cheaply color-photocopied book that was staple bound that contained documentation of this, as well as other political detournments. One image is of Xiu Xiu and The Dead Science dismantling an Iwo Jima float we found in Florida. Another is our re-arranged and re-apprpriated support our troops magnets (some torn up and placed back on cars, some used as earrings). I would like to remake this book in the future, and have it include our most recent turning of a Hooters marquee in Mobile, Alabama into "George W is HIV to America."

Tour Book 1:

Spring 2005

These were 4x6 prints from a one-hour photo-store. Some were loose and wrapped in paper, others were bound in a cheap consumer plastic photo-album. There exists around 50. No documentation exists.