Day 8. #zine #art #writing #comic

Spent all day troubleshooting. Thanks @Colin for the assist! #plebchain

gm ☕️ 2023. burnt out. career crushed me. 60-80 days. toxic corpo execs. making streaming shows. hollywood types. 25 years in. all that work. couldn't show it. have nothing _to_ show. even my originals, belonged to the studios. walked away. took time to heal. traveled. journaled. rebuilding. it's been a journey. re-establishing a connection with my craft. 2024, started writing again. started sketching and drawing. creating. learning to love the process again. did things digitally. it helped. but missing something. wife's been painting. making things by hand. she inspired me. been making zines. one a day. something simple. raw. back to basics. pen and paper. sometimes digitally too. friends and family asked for some. started printing. then, just to see if i could, opened a shop on plebian market. sold 5 sets within hours. turned an idea real. here's what i'm digging... you got an idea. you make it. you post it. using bitcoin and nostr, it's out to market in an hour. permissionless. powerful. encouraging. showed a friend. a fellow creative. renewed sense emerged. he signed up to nostr. got himself a wallet. glad it helped. so yeah. making zines. selling zines. self-published works. handmade. if you want 'em, come get 'em. limited run. started with a 50 print. trimming to 21. i'm having fun with these.

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for some reason, plebian market doesn't notify me of an order. so let me know. i'm shipping to North America. Euro, Asia, LatAm; it's expensive. would wait. bigger stuff coming. #nostr #bitcoin #p2p #v4v #grownostr #art #design #writing #zine

Day 7. Tried my hand at a photo zine. A look back at Warsaw. There for @Bitcoin FilmFest. #zine #art #photography #bitcoin #nostr #grownostr #plebchain

#sketching

Someone bought 5. Sent me the image, but said that @Plebeian Market didn't pick up the payment. They sent me the img but doesn't have the hash. Any ideas? #asknostr View quoted note →

The industrial age was about massive output. People as product units. Anything that simplifies life for the worker so they can get back to the factories and churn. To this day, people still focus on making studies and products for factory life. But thats done with. 2020 was the nail. Time to go back to a time before this. View quoted note →

Fragments: A Zine Collection drops today. 8 zines, 50 copies total. Urban sketches, bitcoin musings, personal manifestos—pure unfiltered experience. 16.8K sats. Limited run. Get it before it's gone.

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#zine #art #design #writing #nostr #bitcoin #v4v

What I like about zines; its permissionless publishing. Have an idea. Write it. Draw it. Edit it. Print it. Done. No hoops. Just ideas made manifest. Make a batch. Hand them out. Sell it. Leave it behind. Its a rewarding experience.

Printing. Cutting. Packaging. Shipping. Have a small publication run. This was fun 💯 #zine #art #writing

Day 6. Journal zine.

What makes YouTube successful is that it (was) the second biggest search engine after google. People didn’t just vlog or make mr beast content. People also make/made content on basic aspects of life too. Video content on nostr is still niche. Very early days. Maybe over time, people will search for knowledge on nostr as they do on YouTube. Or just use Ai as their knowledge base. gm ☕️

How it started. How its going. #artstr #youcanjustdostuff

Day 5. Made a #zine for @thefictionfactory. Turned out nice. Off to the printers. #zine #art #design #writing #createstuff #grownostr

gm ☕️ made a one page #zine. i wrote this manifesto for myself. a recovering burnt out artist. feel free to print. make your own.

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Day 4. #art #design #writing #zine #grownostr #plebchain

I've come to appreciate the #art of #zine making.

Wrote for myself. Feel free to steal. # With Intension #### A manifesto. Art. It's not a race. Not a career. It's a way of being. Being present. Being aware. Being human. Great works demand time. Requires effort. The machine breeds mediocrity. Industrial waste. Art creates authenticity. Nature nurtures. Life's taught me lessons. Essential ones. In powerlifting, the bar reveals. The weight shows me my limits. My strength. Good food fuels. Rest is essential to perform at my best. Time helps recovery. Travel opened my eyes. Life beyond the studio. Experience refills the well. Life itself is a source of inspiration. Osaka taught me how to live again. To take a chance. To make mistakes. That it's OK not to be perfect. In stillness, I found clarity. St Augustine showed me how to slow down. To take in moments. Time to simply be. Creativity thrives when I'm present. When I'm patient. Creativity struggles in survival mode. Financial literacy and action buy back your time. I bought back mine. It gave me room to breathe. To think. To create. Save in sound money. It saves you. Take care of yourself. Art needs time. I'll give it. Art needs nurturing. I'll provide it. Art needs freedom. I will liberate it. The industrial age ends. I begin. I forge my own path. #art #writing #creativity