I really want to make some pogs with punk things on them like black flag bars and misfits skulls, and probably also bart simpson.
This project will only be funded if at least $10,000 is pledged by .
Through my years of experience playing in punk bands and running a punk record label I've noticed that the further away punk stuff is from actual music and and the less integrity that punk stuff has that the more it seems to excite punks and make them want to spend money.
This has inspired me to come up with this dream of making pogs with punk stuff on them.
I've really been thinking about it for a while and if punk stuff and bart simpsons can work on enamel pins and t-shirts and figurines I really think it might work on pogs too.
A lot of times this will involve finding a popular meme and then applying a photoshop filter to it. So it will be like Danzig shopping for cat litter or Dan from Roseanne wearing a punk shirt, or Ryan Gosling wearing a punk shirt, or Hank Hill wearing a punk shirt, or Bart Simpsons wearing a punk shirt, or like Calvin wearing a punk shirt and maybe with a tattoo or something too, maybe Bernie sanders wearing a punk shirt, etc. But then all of these things on Pogs. Likely with photoshop filters applied so they can become original work for mine that I don't feel ashamed to sell for money. I might be able to take a grateful dead bear and then put a punk logo on it too or have it skanking, and then put that on a pog. I might be able to take the scene from the simpsons where Milhouse discusses Alf coming back in pog form, and then put that on a pog. Oh or something like "This Is Not A Fugazi Pog" or OJ Simpson behind bars but its black flag bars, and maybe its like OJ Simpsons and he has bart hair, stuff like that. I really think punk is ready for this and I think I am the perfect person to do it as I have always dreamed of making an important contribution to the punk scene.
This will not be easy. There is a lot of punk stuff out there to steal for my pog designs and its not as easy to be completely uncreative as you may think it is. And so, most of the money I am raising will be for me, so that I can afford the time it will take to sit around thinking of punk stuff to put on these pogs.
Like I said, this will involve finding a popular meme and then applying a photoshop filter to it, and so this will require a computer with photoshop and meme-researching time. It will take a lot of research to figure out what non-punk thing is most important to punk on any given week, but I will put in the time. Whether it is a pushead skeleton, or a grateful dead skeleton, or a social d skeleton, or like jack skelington, or a skateboarding skeleton eating pizza, whatever it is i will be there to figure it out and put it on a pog for people.
I may also likely need to work with some of todays top designers and most known punk artists in order to make the artwork good for these. Though I may also be able to use their work for free by not telling them I am using it or by applying a photoshop filter to it thus rendering it my own original creation.
If I can raise more money than I need for punk stuff to put on pogs this will give me the time to also think of stuff related to pizza to put on pogs. I can also think of other things besides Bart Simpsons like maybe Lisa Simpson or King Of The Hill. I will put in the time needed to research exactly what kind of uncreative stuff can be put on pogs that will most excite punk people. I don't want to make any promises I can't keep, but if I reach beyond my goals I may even find the time it takes to think of ideas using Grateful Dead skulls and other jam-band related things or maybe even Calvin pissing on stuff stuff that I can then just slap a punk stuff on and then excite people once its printed on a pog.
There are a lot of risks here. Especially when it comes to the slammers. Please only donate to this Kickstarter understanding that it may be a lot harder to come up with punk stuff to put on pogs than I am estimating. I have never had the luxury of having the time required to sit around thinking of ideas for punk stuff to put on pogs and so it may be a lot more involved than I imagine.
I can promise that every last cent donated will go toward me sitting around and thinking of punk stuff to put on pogs and then putting it on pogs. Essentially, in the immortal words of Bart Simpson (if anyone even realizes he was a real person at one point and not just a pop culture thing to merge with punk stuff): I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try.
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