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Starting to make some signs again. More on @iraratart on IG.

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Available now on irarat.com these are the first two of a small series of zines that I've been working on that are intended to blur the line between design, digital art & illustration, collage, word art, and AI generated elements. Both of these are 20ish page, full color, full bleed, glossy paper, all hand assembled, staple, folded and cut by me or a friend.

All sales of these items (like everything else I sale) go towards making other people's projects.

Warning: I am not a Crowley Stan. Growing up he's one of those people who always appeared under the surface of every one of my other interests. From the Beatles to Bowie & Robert Anton Wilson to Kennth Anger, et al. Personally, I find other people's interest in him more fascinating than him or his work (I read and liked Book of the Law, everything else I've found a little too over-written). Also, I find his face interesting. Anyway. Please don't quiz me on the Beast.

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CINDY SHERMAN, Untitled (MP #113), 1982, Colour photograph on paper

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Jim Dine - Study for The Car Crash Band Aid, Possible Mask for Girl as a Man

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Several times a day I get notifications that someone new is following me. Always spam accounts. Sometimes, I start to wonder if I’m also a spam account. I’ve read too much PKD to answer for certain that I’m not.

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Along with the 80s horror movie music I've been producing, I've also been working on a couple of EPs inspired by neo-classical, ambient, and tape music. I'll probably be self-releasing them in the not-too-distant future. The first one will be called Insignificant, and the second Wrist. All the decisions for these EPs were made using a series of dice, tarot cards (I don't know how to actually read), automated generators, etc.

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This is a demo of some ideas that I’ve been having musically. Might delete it soon, so sorry if the link is broken by the time you find this.

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I'm not saying that this is my favorite book to come out last year, but I'm also not not saying that. You've got to be diplomatic when you're a publisher. www.filthyloot.com

My book came out this year, be cool if you read it.

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Quick design "sketches" for a new anthology. Only spent 20 minutes on the layout for all of them. So, far from perfect. The anthology is going to be a horror anthology focusing on themes of hauntology, postpunk, splatterpunk, brutalist aesthetics, J.G. Ballard worlds. etc. etc. etc. So, Any of these catches anybody's eye?

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…I don’t have any. The Ira Rat Story.

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I'm amassing a large body of work that combines digital collage, digital illustration, graphic design, AI-generated images, and all the other things that "aren't what artists do." Working on a zine called "Inspiration is Theft" that should be out shortly... maybe.

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Quick post.

So I started this account back in February, and this is my second post, but seeing as Twitter's on fire, I figured that I would try to make a go of it here too, for the time being. That is all.