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I still really like the guitar/sticker pics taken a few months back 🌱

These Gloomy sticker sheets are also available on shop-Jammo.com! They’ll be up for sale at AnimeNYC as well, plus a couple other sticker packs I haven’t photographed yet 🤖🥁

(Of course the other ones are not by be and I do not take credit for them at all. They are just on my guitar. If I photographed my other guitar and used it for advertisement, it would be very… illegal because of how much that’s on it lol)

#drawing#art#illustration#manga#ink#comics#guitar#ギター#スタンプ#stickers#stickersheet https://www.instagram.com/p/BqDAl82gRV0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4fsvxg25rr6i

it's interesting to me that torture just works to us, as a literary device. It's everywhere in movies and stories and whatnot, from big-budget dramas to little grindhouse short stories. It fits neatly into the requirements of plot: character doesn't want to offer information, Gets Tortured, has to offer information.

the issue with this is that it isn't how it works.

torture is a display of power. It fouls interrogation, this is known; a person being tortured will tell you whatever you want to hear to make it stop, which is more often than not a lie, made up on the spot, or if the truth an incomplete and useless version of it. It isn't generally done for information's sake anyway, but as a form of what the ancient Greeks called hybris, the violent exhibition of your power over another person.

This is, every once in a great while, done right in fiction, but it's a challenge to write vs. the idea that it's a shortcut to one character revealing plot-critical information to another. Pretty much every form of torture works this way, even the ones that are legally permissible. Psychological torment or physical discomfort also produce an animalistic desire to escape harm and foul interrogation. The forms of torture the cops can do? The cops do it not to gain information (or if they think it will, they're lying to themselves) but because it makes them feel powerful.

There's probably a master's thesis in it for somebody studying the rise of torture as a plot device since the beginning of the war on terror and the contemporaneous development of the Broken Windows theory of policing. I'm not really aware of any similar level of disconnect between what Works in fiction and what happens in real life!

late 2016

...I feel like we could all have a more mature conversation about the nature of art if we realized that a lot of people view the answer to the question of "Is this art?" is based on "Do I perceive this as interfering with the production of art I make/want to see exist?"

Like, legit, that's the barrier for most people from what I can tell, and a lot of paradoxical behavior starts to make sense when you look at it like that.

空は永遠に平和だと思う https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl_pIaileau/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dhvbita2752p

Me offspring Happy Spring

I just updated all of my Patreon tiers (￣∇￣)👌 A few people said they want to support me and would totally choose Patreon if I was active on it,,, So I revisited it and chose to create many tiers ranging from $1 to $23!

Here’s an example:

This is the illustration for this month!

- Join the $1 tier to download a high res JPG of this illustration - Join the $3 tier to download a high res. JPG of this illustration + 2 of my precious illustrations of your choice - Join the $6 tier to download a high res. PSD/CLIP of this illustration + previous rewards - Join the $10 tier to receive a signed, Patreon exclusive signed / #’d print of this illustration + previous rewards

- Join the $23 tier to receive a t-shirt featuring this illustration, a Patreon exclusive signed / #’d print + previous rewards

Depicted is Meiko Inoue and her boyfriend Taneda’s Fender Mustang guitar Solanin is a manga created by Inio Asano #artistsofig #patreon #manga #comics https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsjqd5Ig8f3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y55baol34ch5

What Do You Think You’re Doing? by Kaiser Caimo

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An aggressively ugly digital zine about making art. Available in full as a pdf for free/pay what you want here: https://gum.co/lUpii

I like being able to make what I want. I like this ugly dying website. I like that the  largest and most accessible archive of my work as an artist is a page of the internet so obscure it might as well be the palm of my hand.

...as a copyright minimalist, it really pisses me off that so few people in my corner bother to try and come up with very good solutions to "How do artists make a living."

Like… so many of them just fucking default to "use donation models supported by true fans uwu" and while that can work, even most of the top fucking eschelon of creators on Patreon are basically making poverty wages, and most people who make a living have to treat it as one of many income streams, because again, it's not fucking enough.

Not at the scale artists need, and the way some people in "my" corner ignore that to moralize while failing to come up with better solutions infuriates me.

Like, you'd be surprised that I could be called relatively conservative on my current demands wrt copyright reduction, specifically for reduction back to 56 years in the US (Life + 50 in the countries where applicable) and massive expansion of fair use.

This is because these are things that are doable now without fucking over artists.

I want more, but I am painfully aware that'd be a much bigger project because you'd need to overhaul so much about how we economically handle art as a society, and it pisses me off how nobody's looking for those solutions beyond platitudes!

I've seen a few decent ideas. A "Mario Kart" version of copyright, where the larger in scale a works' rightsholder is the less protection it gets, was suggested by one person, I'd say mutually-supporting collectives based around Creative Commons works (Think akin to the SCP Foundation) would be a good start, as would long-term income-y government art grants that require the stuff produced under them to go into the Public Domain.

Even beyond that, the Peer Production License is also a great way to open up your ideas as well without making them vulnerable to corporate exploitation, that's worth looking into.

But like, we need more of those, and it does piss me off that people supposedly in "my" corner call artists entitled babies for pointing out the problem here!

It's the big obstacle to actually getting shit done, stop calling artists fascist for wanting moral rights Patricia and come up with something that actually works!