Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

boing

boing

man, now i'm reminded of fucking boingboing. my day is ruined

... boing

warning: the images in this thread are 993MB. god knows (OUR GOD IS A MIGHT GOD!) what it would be if all the old tinypic and photobucket images still worked. so warning: do not load the complete thread. i should probably post this every 40 posts or so, right?

super cool km

hey, can i throw out another idea that involves asking people (non-ilxors too) to donate money to an org?

in this case it would be the National Lawyers Guild (https://www.nlg.org/donate/). they are amazing and have been helping not just protesters with their legal issues, but also the immigrant community, people of color, LGBTQ+, etc. we've been working with several of NLG's staff recently and they are all really inspiring people.

the problem that no one even knew existed: when i ragequit my tumblr and instagram because my dad's a racist, a few years ago, i lost a lot of "followers" that i used to have back in the day. i thought i'd eventually get them back, but i underestimated how much i lack the enthusiasm to "get myself out there" upon my stabilization from or inside of *tim rogers voiceover* DEPRESSION. why am i typing this?

the solution you thought i'd never get to: what if i bundled together all of my tumblr-era images (just downloaded them all in bulk) i could put the whole thing on a thumb drive and package it in some new cheap-ass container and send it to people in return for donating money to a NLG fundraiser page (either one that already exists, or one i set up)? i'm not sure what the price would be, but i would probably set it at name your price, minimum of my supply costs (5GB thumbdrives bought in bulk and a cheap diy case for it, cheap as possible) + shipping, so probably like $15 or $20 minimum? and probably a lot of people would pay more?

i don't think too many of the teen goths who used to follow me on tumblr are following me on twitter or instagram these days. but there might be enough to sell at least 20 or 30 of these packages, on the low end. and then on the other end, maybe some nice will respond to my PR exertions and give me a write-up, and a lot of other people will buy it too. am i just high again? what do you all think?

oh god, i just thought of copyright. i've never had a problem because "i am an artist" and i'm not making any money. the only people making money are the corporations that own the platforms and image hosting services, and no one is coming after them, lol.

but if i do sell these as a charitable fundraiser, they can't go after me either, right? although these days i usually make most of the source elements myself, during the tumblr days i frequently copied and pasted from aaaalll sorts of shit

actually, it wouldn't be a charitable donation. from nlg's website:

Gifts to the National Lawyers Guild are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes as charitable contributions. If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution to support the National Lawyers Guild, please donate to the National Lawyers Guild Foundation by clicking on this link.

shit, am i going to jail now? this thread has just gotten worse and worse

boing

Didn't BoingBoing once rip you off w/ a gif and steal it or something? (it's in this thread somewhere but I'm forewarned and will not load all 993mb of it)

Because - boing - this is what - boing - revenge should - boing - be like!

i have made a new boing post, and i hope you all go there and reply "boing"

Hi everyone. This is a GIF titled boingboing.gif. For every reply that says simply "boing", I will donate $1 to the amazing National Lawyers Guild, which works to defend #BLM protesters, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ+ persons ,and others. (Cap $1K, I'm not rich). Please RT pic.twitter.com/eH5Oma6SBM

— Z_S (@weinventyou) June 8, 2020

(this is the part of the fundraiser that covers the amount of money i can donate)

Didn't BoingBoing once rip you off w/ a gif and steal it or something?

they did it multiple times! and each time, all i asked for was that they'd put my name under it, and each time they profusely apologized **and then removed the image**

then a few months later, there it is again. it was one of the trump ones.

y'all please boing me here.

not to get into depressing stuff, but i don't know which way is up or down any more. i don't know what i'm doing. i've tried to succeed in art, i've fallen down the stairs, i have stumbled around in depression for years, i've gotten back up again, i have turned into a chumbawumba song, i've tried to give my stuff away for fre, now i'm asking people to make me donate $1 to one of the best organizations i've ever worked with by replying "boing" on a fucking tweet

xp THANKS for your boing LBI! <3

I thought I'd remembered that correctly. Those bastids.

You are a prince for doing the donating thing <3

Whoa you saw it before I tweeted it basically! :-D

xp

i guess the nice part is that even if this is yet another failed effort, i will just say "FUCKING TYPE BOING ONE TIME AND I'LL DONATE THE OTHER $990 FOR CRISSAKE"

sorry to lol at my own pun, but the golden girls part of it came to me at the very end and i think i'm going to add it to every reply now

+$1
($7 total)

thank YOU for boinging, my friend <3

— Z_S (@weinventyou) June 8, 2020

thank you all. it's taking off now i think. :)

thanks to a very generous donation from an ilxor, the matched donations beyond my own are up to $900+ now!

and thanks to another generous donation from ANOTHER ilxor, my own personal spending cap is now bumped up from $1000 to $1100. on the off chance that elon musk wants to match whatever i donate, this will be a big help, so if anyone wants to add to that, let me know!

I didn't contact National Lawyers Guild or anything, so they're probably a little freaked out about me if they see this on twitter or instagram. sorry, i mean well NLG (they read this, right)?

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hi KM, do you have any spare time these days for freelance design stuff ? either charitable efforts or for $ ? i've got a small, relatively simple idea that i don't exactly know how to execute and was wondering if you'd at least hear me out and see if it's feasible, or maybe point me in the right direction. think you have my email, otherwise ILX mail is cool, thanks and sorry if this is an intrusion

hey budo, no problem at all! i'll send you an email later tonight.

One I did:

pic.twitter.com/hZmsaZsfQB

— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) July 11, 2020

https://carver.aanandprasad.com/

https://imgur.com/a/KkI87yu

hey does this work?
http://i.imgur.com/XMP1E8O.mp4

nope.

heres's another one!

https://i.imgur.com/VYzR4j8.gif

imgur provides share links as soon as you upload (hover over and go to the three dots, then "Get Share Links", then grab the BBCode link), but if you don't copy the link then, it becomes even more difficult to find afterward

fun for the whole family!

https://i.imgur.com/J5OYzWa.gif

neat

itt karl malone morphs into mark e smith and back again

it's true, i have been drinking waaaaaay too much recently

https://i.imgur.com/oLQpyuK.gif

privyet

ayo Karl Malone can I get a gif of trump reversing back up the escalator and into the mouth of hell?

hey rob! i was having a crazy one last saturday when you wrote that (working on a website which i'll talk too much about it in a few days, apologies in advance). i think i have an old one that will do the trick

i got really into virtual running videos earlier today and got carried away

I'm proud to announce the release of the latest video in my award winning ~Experience~ series: Virtual Trail Run HD! Consider upgrading to 5K for the full Experience, if you haven't already, smash that follow button, and let's have some fun out there!! pic.twitter.com/ml50jqgimN

— Z_tbd (@weinventyou) November 19, 2020

honestly, i think that running monster video above is the best thing i've ever made.

but the second or fourth best thing i've ever made is being featured today as part of the Exhibitionisms.club Virtual Opening today:

http://thegameoflife.website/

it was also supposed to be at the Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Space & Time galleries here in Chicago, but COVID-19 just squashed that idea. no big deal, because websites irl places are always kind of a strange experience in first place. it's home is the browser, so as long as it's safe there we're good to go.

for once i'm going to shut my trapper about this one and not try to pre-emptively overexplain it, but i hope that you'll give it a few minutes. it is the first large-scale "project" i've completed in nearly 4 years. it has been a really hard time, but i have crawled my way back and am doing better now than i have in a long time. this website is more personal than most things i share and making it has meant a lot to me. if you like it or just want to support things i'm doing, please share it with your weirdo pals

I'm so excited to finally share The Game of Life! It's being featured today as part of the https://t.co/ptUP45eU5S Virtual Opening "B", running today from 4-7pm, as well as at Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Space & Time in Chicago, and its permanent home is https://t.co/8JXa7js46x

— Z_tbd (@weinventyou) November 21, 2020

I just saw this on twitter but might as well say here, too - I only dipped in for a bit over a day but I really like the vibe. I don't know if I'm meant to be reading it as generating a poem but I definitely did.

thank you emil.y! i think i said that on twitter to you last week, too, but just in case i didn't, <3, thank you for taking the time to check it out. i keep meaning to improve the "performance" of it, but it's been a really wild irl week, stressful and really good too. i am just tangential to something that involves that really helping people. but it feels like the opposite magnetic/zoroastrian force to 2020, and the crappy loading times of my dumb website just don't matter much right now.

at the same time, i just did a new painting that was a ripoff of egon schiele's last painting, and it came out pretty well. a friend of mine bought it for $100! it was 18x24" so i spent the whole night painting it. i got really cocky and tried a 5x5" the next day and made the worst fucking thing with colors that has ever existed! good times! the world is extremely depressing but it's heartening to know that there are always new things to work on

https://i.imgur.com/PWuh6JT.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/2a8SSqi.jpg

that's fun stuff!

https://isohedral.ca/swirled-series-the-result/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXr-DFr5vgI

please help me

My letter to my reps @DickDurbin, @SenDuckworth, @RepMikeQuigley, and the nearby @Marie4Congress, regarding @tedcruz's mocking of COVID victims and masks. Please read, retweet, and help me get their attention. pic.twitter.com/hxpxoV28lA

— Z_tbd (@weinventyou) February 28, 2021

sorry about that last update. i've been doing well since then. most of my images no longer move! my partner did a quick fundraiser with my friends while i was mourning my racist dad's death from covid, which he always said only affected "unclean" people. i have a studio now! it's called Studio TBD. this is the first thing i made completely within that space, and I have a lot more coming because i quit my job and i hope i never work for someone else ever again.

https://i.imgur.com/KFgn5d0.jpg

i also have a selling/living model that i'm trying out where i just try to meet my bare, minimal, skeletal/boney needs, just fucking barely, and then donate everything else to mutual aid and things and people that aren't fucking assholes. that's nice, but it's like "transparency" in a corporation or government: it doesn't mean shit until it actually comes to the test. but i'm trying to make like $2500 a month, total, and then everything above that is for others.

my website is also skeletal and boney and it's butt hurts because it's too boney, but it's at zachtbd.xyz, which rhymes!

Doesn't rhyme for me!

Some great stuff here, I particularly love the figures one in yr last post.

thank you emily! i enjoyed making it, and it's my largest so far (about 60"x30"), although i just rolled out a really long thin one (14"x100") that will beat it in the length category at least. it's so nice having as much space as i need

Doesn't rhyme for me!

fuuuuuck! i always forget that! i love "zed" though, i support it. :)

That’s amazing!