VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

INsights: This is what I think of as an “invention” strip.
I’m constantly jotting down notes on any paper I can find. Often referencing different long term projects (a line for some movie. a character for a video game. some turn of phrase i think is cool.) Maybe 50% of the time, it’s just some random thought which I realize i’ll never ever use for anything. Usually in the form of a business or social experiment I won’t have the balls to pursue. Like the masturbating yard gnome lawn sprinkler.

In this case, i really did ponder writing a note in magic marker on a DVD I was about to return to Netflix, just to see if my friends would receive the same disc. On some level i like the idea of doing this all the time - to try and get a sense of how many copies of various movies are floating around in their magic system. On another level i know i’d be lightly put off if i received a DVD from the service with any sort of bullshit on it. “Ew, filthy people had this,” I would think. “Ew, i didn’t need to be reminded that others have touched my rental.”

God forbid it caught on as a socail phenomenon. Imagine your deadly disc covered in retarded people’s scrawled bullshit grafitti. Taking for granted that it’s the movie you ordered, due to the mass of shit all over it. hmm. I can’t decide if i love or loathe it. But you know it’s coming. someday. nyah nyah.

Anywho. In this comic’s case,

I thought it reassuringly pompous to suggest that this random stupid idea in some way corresponded to the social problems which surrounds the simple act of movie watching. That filmic “shared experience” which probably couldn’t help but have been better - had you just shared an experience directly with the people around you. (I think movies are better suited to the solo viewing. In the same way that food is better suited to the hungry). Blah blah. in the end it feels sorta pretentious. I guess. but so be it.

Art wise, not much new. Just loving the ease with which things can be resized. eye brows and face lines can be tweaked. yay! Now i just need to figure out how to instantly offer any strip up for purchase or t-shirtification (ideas?). I’m thinking i should check with Kinkos to see how much it would cost to print out a vitreous humor strip on their largest paper/canvas. And then i should just add 10% and offer this service in my store. hmmm. (the idea is lightly dulled by the though that no sane person would want to buy one. … but i also like to think that if it’s cheap enough, a handful of people might buy one just to leave it somewhere in public).