T.APHELION

  The Rolling Stones’ song has become more than a mantra for me. Really, and the longer it plays on repeat, the more nuanced and desperately intense its relevance to what I hope ALL these efforts become. If someone asks me what my app is about or what it does, I usually directed them to the song, because it's ALL there. I challenge you, more than an hour, on repeat.  s h a t t e r e d.

 I have have been actively involved gay social media for almost 30 years. • • 2017 was the first time I personally observed a rapid influx of illegitimate users, fraud and other nefarious usages proliferating on gay social media sites. I  I understand there has and always will be hackers and scammers, but this was something different. And this aberence continues until the summer of 2020 when I am personally threatened, scammed and very pissed-off. I would estimate, from my personal experience, for some apps especially those that allow unverified users as much as 70% of their traffic (if NOT more) are scams, bots, proud boys, ponzi schemes or worse.  • • Summer 2020 I begin communicating these issues to webmasters, members of the community, essentially anyone who would listen. Web-masters were the worse––mono-focused on a very narrow user type and had no interest in my arguments. Most users (if NOT every single one) openly acknowledging a general yet deep dissatisfaction w...

~:HACK:~ THE INVERSE OF REASON: STUDIES FOR A NEW PERIODIC TABLE OF ART small chart (Francium) 1793 "The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David large chart (Francium) 1907 "Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon" Pablo Picasso   HACK––STUDIES FOR A NEW PERIODIC TABLE OF ART (2004––2007) Once there were three trades or professions that had long been on my shitlist––fields of study or interests that for one reason or another I strongly held the opinion I would never be caught, in this lifetime anyways, engaging––those being chemistry, economics and fashion. If one is open to the idea, shedding prejudices & stereotypes is a beautiful thing. As of date I have engaged with varying degrees of passion and intensity ALL of the above. • • Painter's block for a painter occurs just as often as writers experience their own, so circa 2004 after completing a particularly satisfying series of canvases and still searching for my next inspiration I recall the idea I had four years p...

     If the Internet is our mirror reflecting NOT just our own, but that of a world-soul , then it's true––even if you're NOT an ardent Led Zeppelin fan, the song does, very much indeed––remain the same.      AND...      Thus the question too we must ask––do we like what we see? Whether  one believes the World Wide Web is a product of a technology handed us from aliens or something that Al Gore created, call it what you will––be sure of this it's here to stay.      Why?      Birds gotta swim, fish gotta fly, right?  Or we hope.       The vision of the Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse is somewhat more than alarming––A Dickesless "Grand Theft-Auto" style Reaganomics in Cyberspace––be afraid.       Very. Fucking. Afraid.        But NOT the kind of fear 'they' want you to feel (seeing that when anyone refers to the ominous they, other than a select p...