VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

INsights: I really just wanted to give Viddy a spotlight, to balance out all the recent Disky-centric strips.
I’d written this script a few weeks back. Originally the last line was “I could probably settle my stand on Prostitution to the tune of 20 bucks.” Tonight, while snooping through the various (super weird!) strip script scraps, I liked this one for being a monologue, but didn’t get that last line. Somehow it seemed too political. Though pissing on the notion of “voting with your dollars” is probably worse. smarmy-ier. hmm.

I dunno. for several minutes i sat and stared, and smoked, and couldn’t wrap my head around the simple logic presented here. Like my brain just broke when it tried to back up and think it through. did it make any kind of sense? and a little voice kept saying “fuck it! who cares! it’s perfect if it has this effect! It is art!” I don’t trust this little voice much, as it is often just code for “you are tired, and should probably sleep on it.”

If it isn’t painfully obvious: This strip is about the idea of voting on something with your dollars, applied to the issue of whether or not i’m a whore for majority-rules voting systems. Something about this seems like circular logic magic. at 3am. I’m terrified that it’s really quite simple and quaint and stupid, and i’ll wake up in a few hours mortified to have exposed my endless idiocy yet again. But right now, at 3am, it seems super profound.

Anywho. Art wise, i traced the old head-on Viddy shot. While this doesn’t seem to be a notable improvement, I never thought the old head-on made any sense! I mean, his head is supposed to be a VCR tape. why did it have horns? FUCK! … i wonder if we’ll ever know. you and i. sexy pants, you. Did you do something with your hair? you’re lookin’ fine. damnnnnn. … Anywho. Artwise, it is still excessively thrilling to be able to so easily twist and turn and shape the various heads and bodies and features. weee! WEEE!

Title, wise, i like how “votey” sounds like “viddy”. wee. just thought i’d point that out.

i definitely should be sleeping.

…

plus: I recently purchased extra components for my godaddy web hosting poop, so i could start selling things on the site. This must have inspired this strip, somehow, as I am plagued by thoughts surrounding the whole notion of asking people to give me money for my art. I find pricing impossible. To me, no art has any inherent monetary value, so it becomes this weird experiment in donation/begging and customer psychology games.

For example, I plan to offer to sell any of the vitreous humor strips. anyone. for 10% more than the cost of going to kinko’s and having it printed out on their largest scale vinyl banner. Basically, a 3 foot tall by 12 foot long (or so) tradeshow banner, for around 200 bucks. no one will buy this. BUT IMAGINE!  …. and part of me can’t help thinking how great it would be if i could start a movement among rich people to buy the abstractinest vithumor strips and just put them up in public to combat social thinking. HAHAHAHAHA.

I want the store itself to be a form of entertainment and art. check back later this week.