Yesterday evening I made a drawing and wrote some vague words about a project..
It seems people's ideas about what the project should be was much better than my own - the K-drill crypto-coin for example.
Dark Katharsisdrill
The project is much more simple: like opening up to other parts of my brain. I have always been at war with the NSFW-tag - and as I really want to try Hubzilla, a federated network that uses a newer protocol than Diaspora, the network where I (also) publish my art, I considered opening an account on a Hubzilla-node where I could post all my black, dirty, low-down things under a sub-pseudonym to spare the sensitive world - here on Steemit I will probably for a while still do it on this profile but always under the NSFW-tag. Then we will see if it needs its own profile later.
I will call it "Dark Katharsisdrill" and be blissfully careless forever after… maybe…
or probably not…
As for what I am going to make; well, could be anything, but for example straight up pornography… or violence or unpleasantness, whatever. I have been reading some of the old Robert Crumb (which are really far out), and also some of all the old Metal Hurlant artists lately, and the thought have crossed my mind that even though it has not been a concious policy I might have shied away from making things too explicit simply because I didn’t want to get involved in another #NSFDIU (Not Safe For Decent Internet Users) discussion and annoy my friendly admin on Datataffel.dk, the Diaspora profile where I post the high resolution versions of my art.
There are for example not much actual lovemaking in Phill from GCHQ (but nudity, yes). When I have become aware of it I have made a joke out of it, like here where the orgasm coach mention the lack of actual depictions of lovemaking on page 52. The last page I made had an explicit erection (and no one complained btw…) As soon as I had told my wife about the idea: that you had to masturbate your friendly house goblin, she was suddenly more enthusiastic about the story than she has ever been before. She found it absolutely hilarious and sent the image of the horny goblin to all her friends. So it got me thinking.
I wont make anything that is illegal and my weak ass social democratic mind probably won’t make any Nazi propaganda either. Maybe all I will make is some soft-porn and a comic about two fat guys that meet each other at a sausage festival in Liegé and get a religious revelation while testing the boudin noir which lead them to a Thai brothel in the suburbs... where a clan of space pigs has their secret HQ. Maybe also some art with swearing words!
The K-drill coin
To make a coin was actually proposed by @shortcut a long time ago and it is an interesting idea. I will have to get my head around it though. How can it be of practical value? How will it be attractive when everything I make is Creative Commons and free as free beer?
The Smart Media Tokens would be interesting to use... only thing is, I do not understand them and I am too distracted by the fact that Ned Scott constantly looks into the wrong camera to benefit from this:
Great news! We want 100% @katharsisdrill. As an artist, you shouldn't hold anything back, right?
I just coincidentally watched a documentary about Robert Mapplethorpe and wasn't aware, that his perfectly arranged beauty photography wouldn't had been possible without his dark (homo-) sexualized pictures of fisting and such.
However, I like the idea of doing a Dark Katharsisdrill token (although I see the point, that you would have to use Ethereum or Waves to realize it right now). It could be used as a reward system for commenting or sharing your regular posts and then in return, holder of the token would be able to get access to the explicit content. Or could get a postcard or whatever.
You could even tokenize every page of Phill (in an edition of 1-10) and maybe someone pays a lot of crypto to collect all tokenized pages of the comic as well. I know, this might be contrary to the creative-commons idea in a way, but it's rather like collecting some scarce digitally signed design studies. Although, the final product could be nothing special and broadly available, the sketches, the designer made, would still be something special.
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It is actually interesting how the social environment plays a part in what you are doing... I am not sure really, so sometimes I need to set up an experiment. The whole Katharsisdrill project grew from such an experiment. At that point it was making free art, giving away the copyright and be anonymous - quite a hurdle for me. Now it is about how this new internet public creates intolerable consensus - not a new phenomenon really, but instant and very direct.
I have been thinking of something like a way to buy shares in an artists ouvre, a bit like Patreon or kickstarter. Maybe gives you a discount on things that are sold like merchendize, little print series or a printed comic-book. Not really sure yet, but it could be fun to make a simple prototype.
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I didn't actually care too much about social environment and consensus in my art until now, but it's really an interesting sphere to bother about.
However, I will watch your projects closely and surely will find a lot of inspiration. I'd also be interested in owning one (or more) of your digital works (in a tokenized form). I'm sure, they would be a very good investment.
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I have been notoriously oblivious to social expectations, but no human being is completely unaffected and that was suddenly a concern or maybe more like an revelation for me. That things are pushed much more around on a social media than on printed media or if you exhibit at galleries.
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I was reading one of your more explicit comics again and the word 'hand-shandy'. While I do recognise the phrase it took me back at least 35 years.
Most young people would not know what it means, and seeing the term again moved some of my dormant grey matter around causing dust to shift around in my head. Where did you find that one?
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I heard it in a sketch and really liked the funkiness of it. So: the internet. And as Gwendolyn have been brought up like a feral child without any proper contact with the world of real, square people, her language consists of Welsh swearwords and things, both vulgar and posh, that she has picked up from her grandmother.
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The K-drill coin??, that is really interesting to think about. How are you @katharsisdrill?
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I am doing really good actually! I have more and more energy so new projects are again on the table :) Too long since I checked your blog, You really write well! I saw the one with the 3 deaths and the battery measured in squash :) Great stuff.
Here nothing will be growing again for many month. Not until the beginning of June :)
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I envision a character, inspired by William Shakespeare, named "Willy Rotten."
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Epic!
"My stars shine darkly over me." W.S.
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We could make an extreme comic book, meaning 2 extremes one side black the other white, your's being dirty and stanky and sexy and mine being so sugary innocent you'd have a tootheache by the end, but maybe there'd be a fold out section in the middle where the two worlds collide and my innocent ladies in gowns holding poodles would be jabbed by dildo's on sticks from behind screens painted with scenes from Hell a' la Bosch. :)
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That will have to be made!
I actually had an Idea for a collaborative story/illustration game that could be made here on Steemit. I'll make a post about it tomorrow.
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