Calling Artists who want to make pins.
Thinking of doing a collaborative "dead fandom"(rare fandom) Enamel Pin Kickstarter. It's hard to get a ton of support for rarer fandom pins, but I really do think if a bunch of us banded together and got the word out that it could be successful.
This would be a huge project that would probably take me months to plan out but I want to know if there are artists out there who would want to make art for it. Pins are risky, and making some for fandoms that aren't as popular (or ended years ago) is even riskier. BUT there IS an audience. I made a Black Sails pin that is doing well just the other month. Here is a photo of it!
It's huge AND it's doing far better than I expected given how the show ended years ago. (Also it's available now on etsy if any black sails fans are out there) (Also I'd want to make another BS pin if this Kickstarter got off the ground)
So I guess this is an interest check for artists out there. (If you participated with me you would get the entire backstock of the pins ordered with your design(s) and an even split of any extra profits to be made, if there are any. We would make plans, discuss a schedule, even write up a contract so that everyone feels safe. We'd also have to discuss a lot about the Kickstarter, and how it will work, as I want everyone involved. We can talk about stretch goals, freebies, and much more! Also I'm by no means an expert, only having 4 barely successful projects myself, but they were funded so I definitely believe in this!)
If 5 artists message me with interest on here I'll create a discord and maybe a sign up sheet for other artists who find this idea at a later date.
We're passionatte artists here and SOOOOO creative. I think making something for things we love even if they're not extrememly popular is worth it, and i think this could be an incredible success.
Also if you're not an artist BUT you are a huge fan of a fandom long gone or that never got the attention it deserved, leave a tag here and I'll write ALL of them down and see if any of the artists who hopefully sign up want to make something for it!!!!
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What r some books that r close to uu
Ohhhh this is so difficult. There are so many. So I’m gonna go with whatever pops into my head.
Books I first read a long time ago that are close to me: On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block, the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block, Sassafras Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange, The Early Diaries of Anaïs Nin, Angel Maker by Sara Maitland, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing by Jamie Schweser & Abram Shalom Himmelstein, Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates, Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, Fatal Interview by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution, Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima, Written On the Body by Jeanette Winterson, Pussy King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker, A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon, The Night Country by Stewart O’Nan, Why Things Burn by Daphne Gottlieb, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, etc. etc., etc.
Books I’ve read more recently that already feel close to me: The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire, The Wendys by Allison Benis White, frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, Saint 1001 by Daphne Gottlieb, The Collected Poems of Lynda Hull, Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall, Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury, First Love by Lilly Dancyger, Romantic Comedy by James Allen Hall, Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott. Etc.
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The Stuff I Read in June/July 2023
Stuff I Extra Liked is Bold
I forgot to do it last month so you get a double feature
Books
Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
Heteropessimism (Essay Cluster)
The Biological Mind, Justin Garson (2015) Ch. 5-7
Sacred and Terrible Air, Robert Kurvitz
Wage Labour and Capital, Karl Marx
Short Fiction
Beware the Bite of the Were-Lesbian (zine), H. C. Guinevere
Childhood Homes (and why we hate them) by qrowscant (itch.io)
piele by slugzuki (itch.io)
بچهای که شکل گربه میکشید، لافکادیو هرن
بچه های که یخ نزدند، ماکسیم گورکی
پسرکی در تعقیب تبهکار، ویلیام آیریش
Küçük Kara Balık, Samed Behrengi
Phil Mind
The Hornswoggle Problem, Patricia Churchland, Journal of Consciousness Studies 3.5-6 (1996): 402-408
What is it Like to be a Bat? Thomas Nagel, (https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674594623.c15)
Epiphenomenal Qualia, Frank Jackson, Consciousness and emotion in cognitive science. Routledge, 1998. 197-206
Why You Can’t Make a Computer that Feels Pain, Daniel Dennett, Synthese, vol. 38, no. 3, 1978, pp. 415–56
Where Am I? Daniel Dennett
Can Machines Think? Daniel Dennett
Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons, Derek Parfit (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118922590.ch8)
The Extended Mind, Andy Clark & David Chalmers, Analysis 58, no. 1 (1998): 7–19
Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis, David Chalmers (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118736302.ch6)
If You Upload, Will You Survive? Joseph Corabi & Susan Schneider (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118736302.ch8)
If You Can’t Make One, You Don’t Know How It Works, Fred Dretske (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4975.1994.tb00299.x)
Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing
Minds, Brains, and Programs, John Searle (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00005756)
What is it Like to Have a Gender Identity? Florence Ashley (https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzac071)
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data, Emily M. Bender & Alexander Koller (10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.463)
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Emily M. Bender et al. (https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922)
The Great White Robot God, David Golumbia
Superintelligence: The Idea that Eats Smart People, Maciej Ceglowski
Misc. Articles
Ebb and Flow of Azeri and Persian in Iran: A Longitudinal Study in the City of Zanjan, Hamed Zandi (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694277-007)
WTF is Happening? An Overview – Watching the World Go Bye, Eliot Jacobson
Using loophole, Seward County seizes millions from motorists without convicting them of crimes, Natalia Alamdari
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens, Cathy J. Cohen, Feminist Theory Reader. Routledge, 2020. 311-323
Is the Rectum a Grave? Leo Bersani (https://doi.org/10.2307/3397574)
Why Petroleum Did Not Save the Whales, Richard York (https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023117739217)
‘Spider-Verse’ Animation: Four Artists on Making the Sequel, Chris Lee
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution, David T. Ho (https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00953-x)
Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect, Keri Blakinger
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek, Gabriel Rockhill
The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo Freeman
Domenico Losurdo interviewed about Friedrich Nietzsche
Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security, Kris De Decker
Gays, Crossdressers, and Emos: Nonormative Masculinities in Militarized Iraq, Achim Rohde
On the Concept of History, Walter Benjamin
Our Technology, Zeyad el Nabolsy
Towards a Historiography of Gundam’s One Year War, Ian Gregory
Imperialism and the Transformation of Values into Prices, Torkil Lauesen & Zak Cope
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This day in history
I'm coming to DEFCON! On Aug 9, I'm emceeing the EFF POKER TOURNAMENT (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the BRICKED AND ABANDONED panel (5PM, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I'm giving a keynote called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification" (noon, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01).
#20yrsago Penguin Putnam’s domain-name intimidation scam https://web.archive.org/web/20040726041959/http://www.katie.com/
#20yrsago Music blogs under the BPI gun https://web.archive.org/web/20040802232645/http://www.snappishproductions.com/blog/archive/000852.html
#20yrsago Film piracy zine from 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20040810095634/http://www.sizemore.co.uk/2004/07/private-screenings-i-just-stumbled.html
#20yrsago Tethered to your hardware: don’t get leashed by your vendor! https://web.archive.org/web/20040812080926/http://features.engadget.com/entry/6314322665586411/
#15yrsago Karl Schroeder on “rewilding” — openness, government, and autonomous nature as an economic actor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7pkohj6wE
#15yrsago Associated Press DRM diagram demystified (with cuss-words) https://imgur.com/more-accurate-version-of-ap-point-protect-pay-chart-img-r-programming-1469-july-26-2009-DzZdf
#15yrsago Primer on “high frequency trading” — AKA stockbots https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/07/it-sounds-like-something/
#15yrsago Movie/record industry rep says that you shouldn’t expect to be able to play your media for as long as you own it https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/29/movie-record-industry-rep-says-that-you-shouldnt-expect-to-be-able-to-play-your-media-for-as-long-as-you-own-it/
#5yrsago Literary tattoos of the New York Public Library staff https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/07/17/literary-tattoos-of-nypl-staff
Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!
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