漫画 Pressed Right up Against the 4th Wall

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Mermaid Pals

On Art and Language

For me, it's more like Friedrich Nietzsche said about his writing, "It's the only way I've found of getting rid of my thoughts". My writing and drawing seem to provide that for me. I've only been able to "lose myself" in pottery (usually on the wheel). One of my teachers described one of my submissions as "OCD Pottery" since I made over a hundred pieces (many more than required, and I didn't display all of them), all of them exploring just a few themes (coffee cups and teapots, some with sculpture attached, various glaze styles -- glazes for me have been like Nietzsche, again, described "deep subjects", like a cold bath, quick in, quick out), repetitively, like a kind of therapy. Some people must think I love learning languages, but I think I really hate it, but it's an escape, and a much-needed one, apparently. I have several other personalities in each language I speak (and accent/dialect), and I can really BE that other person with a different vocabulary for thinking and speaking and relating to the world. Of course I get gaslighted and given a hard time about a number of other (organic) things -- probably a separate issue. But for me, art seems to be more about the distraction of being in the process and the "getting it over with" than the contemplation. I usually have the feeling of "Oh, did I make that?" when looking back on my art -- I honestly don't remember the content, certainly not the details, or even that I made it at all. I tend to find contemplative "truly passive existential experiences" (Slavoj Zizek et al?) to be deeply tragic for a number of reasons, some of which I probably can't express.

漫画 r, a, and d

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漫画 Help Horse

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Comic Doodles (LDAP)

LDAP mascot

Angels

 

A Trip to the Native American Full-Service Bank vignette

 

漫画 Horse in Hole

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Again, Lisa Cleet, the squirrel, will be supplanted by Meganeko, the superhero cat, as the "wave" radical in all cases, the x-wave, the n-wave, etc.

Comic Doodles (Angry Birds)

This will be in a coming soon comic (addition to "Step Fourth").  It's kind of a parody of "Angry Birds" called "Pearls before Swine" and is played rather like bowling. Of course one is nude except for a doormat strapped across the front of one's body as one bowls giant pearls at the set of pigs at the end of the alley.

The creatures who hand out the ecoutrements (and snacks?) are of course, birds, and of course they're angry (or at least, surly).

漫画 50-Foot Lakota Woman (color)

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漫画 50-Foot Woman Pipeline

русская шутка (Russian Joke)

человек баллотировался на автобусе
он едва поймал его
он сел и сказал: "слава богу"

женщина на автобусе сказал ему:
   нет, нет, вы не должны сказать "слава богу"
Вы должны сказать "спасибо товарищу Сталину"

Мужчина спросил ее, но что, если товарищ Сталин умрет?

Женщина ответила, О, тогда мы могли бы сказать, "слава богу"

Carrion, my wayward son...

漫画 Lenny, The Hook

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Classic Mermaids

Comic Doodles

Live Mermaids

Live Mermaids

漫画 Lisa Cleet, n-Wave

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I think I will deprecate this character (from the coloring book) since she's really the same as Meganeko's curve, so no need for both. What do you think?

模倣子 Memetic Toolbox for Rapid Branding

Memetic Index

 

I just noticed this stuff on the margins of a search I was doing and followed a bit.  I don't know what these are, but some interesting (memetic) questions arise.

On-line "Girl Games"....?

"Mermaid New Baby"...?

The mermaid one was under the "mom" category in the top line of first link....actually, no, I can't seem to find where it was.  Perhaps things shift a lot. There are popularity ratings on everything, which is probably a treasure trove of data.

Anyway, let's chat about this later. This could be an interesting example of some simple "ideas" cobbled together which appeal to a large, broad base of people. I expect that these are very Lego-like and that there is a not an enormous amount of "finesse" involved in putting these images together, e.g,, "Barbie", "Elsa", "mermaid", "pregnant", "be a mommy", "look pretty", "make-up", "princess", etc., and perhaps they may be jammed together any which way and still work.

This could shed some light on how to build memetic nexuses quickly and easily which are guaranteed to have a pre-determined impact based on the MIAOs they contain and the populations (cohorts) which are beholden to those MIAOs (one could probably say "inured of" in the sense I have been using hitherto).

This could lead to a cookbook approach to the Holy Grail of Marketing, as I have been terming it, and to self-promotion, and could also explain the issues I face and have faced in marketing So-Soo-Yoo, i.e., there are no pre-existing MIAOs to appeal to (at least not in this country -- Japan may be another story, since very young children flocking to play the game with the at-least-tacit support of parents seems to be commonplace there).

Build a toolbox of MIAOs, either from whole cloth (expensive!) or from the environment, either as-is or with modifications (preferably minor), and then simply attach them willy-nilly to one's own product or idea, and this automatically pulls in the concomitant cohorts, supply the "message" (new memes attached to the combination of memes) within the context of the new "game" (in this example) or "fuzzy fun toy" product, or other appealing and iconic presentation. The cohorts are drawn to the presentation because of the familiar MIAOs, and one's own message is thereby attached and begins bouncing around in the course of the cohorts' normal use of said MIAOs.  Once in the flow of the memetic system (memeplex), i.e., in the memetic fabric of the minds of members of the cohort, it begins to "snowball" and connect to other memeplexes, possibly attach to new MIAOs.

Anyway, that's the theory. I'll have to have a closer squiz at these games to see if they actually look like this. Hopefully I not get a computer virus in the process (or a memetic one, either (^>^) ).

模倣子 Memetic Index

Updated Index

Memetic Materials
Category	Items
Web Comics	Dr. Quack: circumcision Schrodinger's Catachresis:  memetic invasion, MIAOs, etc. Mop and Broom Con: MIAO, memetic systems, memeplex inconsistency Porcadis University: general overview, meme types 2nd Coming: memetic system engineering, memetic inurment Zeppelin: Battle over Ferrisburgh: inconsistency of immunomemes, disinurment At the office (SCARE): memetic engineering, MIAOs
Essays	I got as far back as April 2014 -- need to keep going (later) 2015 Memetic Index Memetic Glossary Immunomemes How do immunomemes function? Do they have a basic structure?  What happens when an immunomeme is deployed? "People Aren't 'Mean'" - immunomemes and socially-sanctioned bullying What does "being mean" mean? Knee-jerk immunomemes Mindless Kibbitzing as an Omniphageous Immunomeme Immunomemes and Stability Dormant Immunomemes and Social Change General Theory Memetic Rewards and Memetic Closure (loops) Residual Memetic Rewards and Cohort Membership, Apathy, etc. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, greater granularity provided by Memetics Rabbidinal/Priestly Class and Packing of the Memespace Emergent Properties of Second Languages Memetic Analysis of Texts  Sex and the City Analysis Words as Memes The durability of word MIAOs Labels as MIAOs Memetic Debt (and Libidinal Bribes), Design Choice of Libidinal Bribes Memetic Invasion (Incursion) and Memetic States  Memetic Nexus Memetic Nexus and the Rock Star Power and Nexuses Constructing Memetic Nexuses Sex Chick Legitimization Effect Mating Strategies and Phase Transitions Sex, Power Laws, and Networks  Group Behavior The Memetics of Genocide and Intergenerational Abuse, and Psychology and Notation  Musings on Crypto-Fetishism and Polyarchy while sitting in a Japanese Lolita Maid Café Recycling and other fads, and Memetics Contact Memes and the Corporation Memetic Pathways and "Apathy" Representation of and Identity of "a group", "imaginary memetic cohorts" Imaginary enemies, ("frustrated") claims of intent being reality, etc. Bullying of those nasty (but imaginary) "cheese-dicks" Making Memetic Money as a Liberal Artist Stating Rules and Values actually Weakens Them Circumcision Advantages of Circumcision Circumcision and the Burden of Empire Mandela/Khrushchev-esque Circumcision Backlash The confused pseudo-logic around circumcision   Feminism and Circumcision Giving up circumcision Sloppy logic around circumcision Question-begging immunomemes around circumcision How circumcision memetically targets disadvantaged populations, and a research project Memetic Engineering The nature of brand logos and names A toolbox for rapid branding Childbirth and Memetic Engineering Choosing NOT to engineer memeplexes means they will form on their own Social Cheating and the Tragedy of the Koffee Klatch The (imaginary) Intent behind Bullying as an Immunomeme (need to be added to) The Role of Bullying in Immunomemetics Implied memes as tools of control Social Conformity and Anthropomorphicization of Abstractions Racist Iconography and Liberation of Minimal Elements (Tigerlily) Internal Branding (Emptor Gratia Artis) Talk is Expensive - saying and not doing worse than nothing Iconography MIAOs, Iconography, and memetics in Inside Out Memetic Iconography in Norwegian Black Death Metal Star Trek Iconography - why does it work? People who pretend to be Indians ("Pretendians") Sexism Hidden Gender Stereotypes Accidental Grammatical Female Exceptionalism The Economics of Men's vs. Women's consumer goods Women get chiseled? Semiotics and Internalized Oppression The Importance of Women's Liberation Cost-Benefit of Female Power Undercutting Female Power Differing Perspectives of the Genders Male vs. Female Science Immunomemes that slip under the feminist radar when you pee standing up The most sexist sign (icon/MIAO) in America (and again) Trying to construct reproductive health iconography, with text , and text not on the photo The advantages and disadvantages of forced separateness Sexual Iconography and taking dying during sex seriously The implications of "consent" Concrete and abstract fallout from bad crypto-pseudo-feminist iconography Oppression that can and cannot be changed Is Gender Equality even possible? How far can the system bend before it breaks? The imaginary intentions of others as a MIAO Reënforcing and paying homage to "The Patriarchy" Why lie when you could just say nothing (about what will hurt you anyway...)?
YouTube	TED Talks by Daniel Dennett on consciousness, by Sarah Blackmore, et al  The Illusion of Consciousness, Daniel Dennett Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett (and other videos) Evolution - Part 1 of 7, Darwin's Dangerous Idea documentary
Books	The Meme Machine book examined  Virus of the Mind, Richard Brodie Consiousness Explained, Daniel Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett Need to get a lot of stuff by Daniel Dennett on cosciousness, etc. A bunch of article on Susan Blackmore's Plymouth University website

War on Drugs Epic Fail Video

New York Times 4-minute video.

Jay Z
Molly Crabapple
History of drug war
Nixon
Rockerfeller laws
racism
US Imprisonment Rates
"Epic Fail"

漫画 Bloody Streak

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