This is posted here for my benefit. Utilizing it as a research tool and it is easier to read this than filter through Facebook.
Source of Idea: driving ten hours from Nashville to Hampton, VA, mostly at night and a lot through rain. Tired, out of my mind and listening to various sources of music. Trying like hell to think of things to write about and getting tantalizing fucking bits and pieces that won't form together.
Catalyst: Rain, perfect balance of heat/cold in the car and opened windows/heating system, Nine Inch Nails.... See More
Idea: A comic book like something you'd see in Vertigo, Avatar, and other good real sources of vivid reading. Comic book idea based on a mix of darkness, Lovecraftian-like Old Gods/powers, written utilizing various Trent Reznor musics/lyrics. Character named Agent Deep, possibly insane or examining those who are mystically insane. A comatose man who can control things with your mind. Bubbling pockets of dreams/other universes/your powerful mind stretching over into the "real" world.
Kristen Bradley-Shurtz
one of the amazing things about Lovecraft is the reliance on traditional and "traditional" elements...the combination of actual traditional elements (genealogy, descriptions of landscapes, architecture, in the style of travel literature - which, I believe, was the man's first love) with faux traditions of his own imaginative invention (mating with ... See Morefrog-alien-people creatures; stories of cannibalism from the peasant folk; etc.), bounding the horror within the everyday::::so maybe you have a setting like that as well, an everyday sort of place based in reality bounding the horror/Old Gods/powers as if they've always been a part of the place/our world. (name your own allegory.lol)
on another note, I don't know exactly what...BUT the "your powerful mind stretching over into the 'real' world" idea has amazing potential for use within the construct of "framing" the illustrations. I don't know if you do illustrations or not, but Will Eisner's analysis of framing within graphic novels/comics is pretty amazing and would be great to consider because of its potential use for this idea.
I'm going to mix and match ideas here. These are a few random things I have been reading. Let's mix this all up and see what weird gumbo is created.
ReplyDeleteJohn Robb - Fighting and Automated Bureaucracy
When the Taliban arrive in a village, it takes roughly 96 hours for an army commander to obtain necessary approvals to act. Over 11 approvals are required.
Risk mitigation trumps initiative every time. Careers are more important than victory (results). Risk evaluation moves upward in the hierarchy. Evaluation takes time.
US Military is very top heavy. Internal competition for 'inclusion' in combat ops is fierce (for promotion 'validation of value' purposes). Leads to extreme specialization of bureaucratic function - lots of different types of oversight.
New communication tech isn't being used for its designed purpose (said purpose being enabling decentralized ops due to better informed people on the ground). Instead, it is being used to enable more complicated and hierarchical approval processes - more sign offs/approvals, more required processes, and higher level of oversight. Example: General and his staff directly commanding a small strike team remotely.
Insurgents Tactics Utilized to Exploit This:
1) Shorten exposure during OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) process to maximize effect.
2) Knowledge of oversight requirements. Cause oversights to occur to bog down the system.
3) Introduce new factors (stagger over time) that force new series of approvals. New data sent up the chain, discussed, received makes more time be wasted.
Genetic Screening Techniques:
ReplyDeletePre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) requires in vitro fertilization and allows testing to be done so that only the eggs lacking in genetic disease are implanted.
This process allows those with severe (or any) genetic disorders/diseases to carefully insure that their children are not burdened with their diseases.
Sounds good? Some consider it playing God. Fuck those people. God is something we made up anyway, but I digress. In any case, some consider it wrong and when you add the following factor it fuels the fires of their arguments:
This process also allows parents to choose the gender of the eggs implanted. This part of the process is banned in most countries, but not in America. In the United States the process costs roughly $18,000.
Who is John Galt?
ReplyDelete"Eat Your Horny Flesh"
ReplyDeleteArmin Miewes - 8 year sentence for manslaughter.
Usenet post - "eat your horny flesh"
He invited a man to his home and agreeably hacked off his penis (meaning the man was ok with it...yeah, what the fuck!).
The two ate the penis, together.
The man obligingly laid in a tub of warm water in order to allow himself to slowly bleed to death. Miewes sat in the kitchen reading a Star Trek novel while this occurred. After a while, Miewes grew bored (most of those novels suck ass), decided his victim was not dying fast enough, grabbed up a knife and stabbed him in the neck so he would bleed faster.
After the man had finally bled out, Miewes ate his flesh.
Miewes was charged with manslaughter due to the first man's willingness to allow this process to occur and was sentenced to 8 years in jail.
We live in a fucked up world and there are terrifying people in it. That being said, if you are willing to respond to an internet request for this process AND have the balls (but not the penis, ha ha!) to show up for it you deserve to die in a horrible way.
Ex Libris
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The Center of Percussion:
ReplyDeleteThe point on an object where force causes most effect when applied.