Supermax sitcom

Introduction

Fade-in

Black to fade to cheery title sequence into a supermax sitcom world where nothing changes. Such is the life of the evergreen show, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Friends etc etc etc. But where all of NBC's horses and men cant keep Mat LeBlanc lookin' young, the same can't be said for Maggie Simpson (36).

Fifty-thousand years

‎26/‎02/‎2023

Actor is sitting on a stool on a plain, empty stage. Modern aluminum crochet hook in one hand, ball of wool of an arbitrary colour in the other.

Our tools. This is what we had. Pre-history.

A hook,

Actor holds the hook up.

Carved from wood in the gap between two roots, sheltered from the wind not rain. Carved from bone, chipped and snapped from a leg not far enough through its fifty-thousand rotations. Cast from steel only re-heated in the heart of a furnace

Just as it has been moved and twisted by my hands, mux my fifty-thousand year brothers and sisters, my hands mould to it in twin grooves.

Our tools.

DARWIN

My body is a river

My name is Darwin and my body is a river is a zine that I wrote about departure boards.

Download

During its creation, I wanted to accurately show the LED readout of a departure board. I thought the easiest way of doing this would be to create by own font, which turned out easier than I though I would be.

For some reason I seemed to have subconsciously known this was going to happen and had been taking photos of every departure board I saw for the last couple months.

Armed with this substantial set of reference images I created: DARWIN regular.

You can download the font here.

Or see the specs.

Invest in Wheat

 A test run.

A map of the streetlights in Salford. Highlighted are those used in the route.

A series of sickers, placed around the salford, on lampposts or other stickable surfaces. Each sticker has a more outlandish message: starting with small scale, local, messages and ending with esoteric outbursts.

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This is a random act designed only to make someone see a sticker out of the corner of their eye and just think "What the fuck did that sticker mean... oh is that another one?" If no-one where to see this it wouldn't matter to me. Importantly, i will not be able to see the effects of this project, and this is not the larger goal. Sometimes something weird has to happen to someone and my god-given goal is to make that thing happen, to give someone an experience that they'll tell to someone and that person wont believe them.

Excerpt from my notes (26/01/2023)

Invest in Wheat was me terrorising Jack again.