#2022 founders zine

[petitcanard]

Realized I hadn’t posted my sketches for the little book of Doodles and Drabbles, from the amazing Dreams of Peace zine by @founders-zine 💐 a whole year ago now! Wow!

#naruto #naruto founders #madara uchiha #senju hashirama #mito uzumaki #tobirama senju #naruto zine #illustration #2022 founders zine #my stuff yeah

[narutoevents]

2023 EVENTS!

Open Interest Checks

SasoDei Week 2024

Neji Week 2024

MadaObi Mondays

List of Character Birthdays

Monthly Events

Multifandom - Year of the OTP

November 2023

MadaTobi Big Bang - Artist signups - all Nov

Sakura Zine Preorders - Nov 10th - Dec 10th

Founders Week - Nov 20th - 26th

Rock Lee Week - Nov 21st - 27th

December 2023

NaruHina Month - All Dec

Naruto Vacation Week - Dec 26th - Jan 2nd

Akatsuki Gift Exchange - Gifts Posted ???

2024

January 2024

Naruto Vacation Week - Dec 26th - Jan 2nd

TobiIzu Week - Jan 1st - 7th

ButsuTaji Week - Jan 9th - 16th

ShikaNeji Week 2024 - Jan 15th - 21st

KakaSaku Dead Dove Week - Jan 22nd - 28th

Aburame Shino Week - Jan 22nd - 26th

February 2024

Izuna Week - Feb 4th - 10th

KakaIru Valentines - Feb 8th - 14th

SasoDei Week - Feb 22nd - 28th

March - May 2024

TBA

June 2024

SasuKarin Month - all June

Potential Events????

Gaara Week 2024

Aburame Week 2024

ABOUT | GUIDELINES | FAQS

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Akatsuki/Sakura

Ino Supremacy

SasoDei

HashiMada

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Past Events

January 2023

Gaara Week - Jan 12th - 19th

February 2023

Izuna Week - Feb 4th - 10th

SasoDei Week - Feb 22nd - 28th

March 2023

FemFounders Week - Mar 4th - 6th

LeeSaku Week - Mar 20th - 26th

Sakura Week (twt) - Mar 22nd - 28th

Kisame Birthday Bash - Mar 17th - 19th

April 2023

KakaIta Week - Apr 24th - 30th

ShikaSaku Week - Apr 28th - May 5th

May 2023

ShikaSaku Week - Apr 28th - May 5th

HashiMito Week - May 1st - 7th

June 2023

MultiFandom Pride Parade - June 3rd - 11th

SakuHina Week (twt) - June 5th - 11th

ShisuSaku Week - June 26th - July 2nd

KakaIru Themed Gift Exchange Signups - All June

Naruto Calendar Contributor Apps - All June

Naruro Rare Pair Month - All June

SasuKarin Month (twt) - All June

MultiSaku Month - All June

July 2023

SasuHina Month - All July

SasuSaku Month (twt) - All July

KakaGai Tanabata - July 7th

HashiMada Week - July 9th - 15th

MinaKushi Week - July 10th - 16th

Team Minato Week - July 24th - 30th

ShisuSaku Weekend - July 28th - 30th

KakaGai Smut Week  - July 30th - Aug 3rd

Naruto Rare Pair Week - July 30th - Aug 5th

August 2023

Hyuga Clan Week (tw) - July 31st - Aug 6th

Founders Tarot Zine - Preorders - all August

NejiTen Month - all August

Kisame Week - Aug 6th - 13th

Kakuzu Week - Aug 9th - 15th

KakaSaku Week - Aug 6th - 12th 

ItaSaku Week - Aug 21st - 27th

September 2023

Founders Tarot Zine - Preorders - close Sept 7th

Naruto Labor Day Mini Bang - Sept 1st - 4th

Kakashi Week - Sept 10th - 17th

Nagato Week Bingo - Sept 12th - 19th

Akatsuki Gift Exchange signup - Sept 12th - Oct 1st

HashiMada Gift Exchange signup - Sept 15th - Oct 15th

GaaSaku Fanfest - all Sept

MadaTobi Big Bang - Writer/Beta Signups - all Sept

MadaTobi Big Bang - Artist Signups - all Sept - Nov

October 2023

SasuNaruSasu Month - all Oct

MadaTobi Big Bang - Artist Signups - all Oct

Naruto Kinktober - all Oct

Akatsuki Gift Exchange signup - Sept 12th - Oct 1st

NejiTen Gift Exchange signup - Sept 29th - Oct 20th

Fest no Jutsu - Work Reveals - Oct 8th

HashiMada Gift Exchange - Sept 15th - Oct 15th

KakaYama Week - Oct 1st - 7th

Shisui Bingo - Oct 15th - 21st

Hashirama Week - Oct 16th - 23rd

ShiIta Weekend - Oct 20th - 22nd

AkaSaku Halloween - Oct 19th - 30th

TobiDei Week - Oct 21st - 29th

KakaGai Halloween - Oct 28th - 31st

Naruto Cookbook Preorders - Oct 15th - Nov 15th

KakuHida Week - Oct 30th - Nov 6th

November 2023

KakuHida Week - Oct 30th - Nov 6th

Tenzo Week - Nov 1st - 10th

MadaTobi Week - Nov 5th - 11th

Sasori Week - Nov 5th - 11th

Nohara Rin Week - Nov 12th - 18th

Founders Week - Nov 20th - 26th

Rock Lee Week - Nov 21st - 27th

2021 Archived

2022 TBA?

2024 >>

#narutoevents2023 #narutoevents #naruto shippuden #sasuke #naruto #sakura #hinata #yamanaka ino #gaara #itachi #akatsuki #anime #fandom events #fandom resource #sorry for the long hiatus all #we are tentatively thinking of restarting this blog #so please have patience with us #all support is appreciated :) #anyway hopefully this helps

[spiralhouseshop]

Another friend of the Spiral house is @antiquatedfuture and Joshua will be at the Spiral House Porch Sale on Sunday May 1, 2022.

Joshua is a Portland writer and founder of the Antiquated Future distro and label. He'll be bringing a box of zines, a box of local small-press books, and a big rack of choice vintage cassette tapes from 11am-1pm.

#portland #spiral house.

[brianramosart]

Douglas Stockdale

He was born in 1949, Pennsylvania who was founder of a Photobook Journal Magazine. Worked for (LACP) Los Angeles Center of Photography. Today he would currently be around 74 years old. He got his education in University of La Verne, California and got Masters, also has Associates in design from Michigan State University. In the beginning of his journey in photography used 35mm camera borrowed from his college with tiny dark room. He later on moved into digital and using the phone some times. On Len scratch I discovered tiny zine made by him called "The Flow of Light Brushes The Shadow". It looks into the mind of how people get anxious about flights and taking pictures of his surroundings. From my perspective all the photos generate a story organized from going into flight and arriving to Hospital that causes the subject to look in despair.

Sources 1 & 2 http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/douglas-stockdale-the-flow-of-light-brushes-the-shadow/ https://www.douglasstockdale.com/the-flow-of-light-brushes-the-shadow

[sherrysicle]

Leadership

Visual Arts and Writing Club (2021-2024)

Founder, President, Editor-In-Chief of Visuals

In my first year at Temasek Polytechnic, I founded the Visual Arts and Writing Club (VAWC) with my friends. We started the club in the hopes of spreading TP’s creativity through print, publishing zines of our members’ works.

As the Editor-In-Chief of Visuals since the club’s inception, I oversee the visual side of the club, curating, editing, and compiling spreads to be published. I have served as the Vice President, Treasurer, and President throughout my tenure at the club, and was invited to speak at the Temasek Polytechnic Leadership Forum 2022. I help with the day-to-day running of the club including organising events, giving feedback, planning sessions, admin work, and managing the members.

Blog / Instagram / School Website

Debates (2021-2024)

Head of Public Relations AY22/23

Through debating I developed public speaking, persuasion, and critical thinking skills. As Head of PR I created a brand identity, made promotional materials, and managed their Instagram page. As an EXCO member I helped organise competitions and mentor juniors. I represented the school in the Inter-Polytechnic Debate Championships and was awarded 3rd Best Speaker, and I also received the Temasek Student Excellence CCA Merit (Leadership) Award in recognition of my active involvement and achievements in Debates.

#info #clubs

[furioushooves]

Furhoof Faves of 2022

Another year has come to an end and though people have been sharing their yearend lists for weeks, even months already, we wanted to join in with our very own Furhoof Faves of 2022. So, we asked some Furhoof artists that released music this year, as well as some others, what some of their favorite (non-Furhoof) releases of the year were.

We hope you enjoy, and of course, if you like the recommendations you hear… support the artists directly by buying their album on bandcamp or in the physical form. Oh and of course consider checking out the Furhoof artists’ work as well.

All selections are listed in no particular order.

Daniel Lynch (of Sunglow & the Lipschitz)

Macula Dog - Orange 2

Coco & Clair Clair - Sexy

Pilotredsky - Doggone Systems EP

Chronophage- Chronophage

Stress Positions - Walang Hiya

Cabo Boing - Real Gems for Little Jewels

Furhoof released Sunglow - Like a Man Overboard Asking for a Drink of Water on cassette in 2022.

Gigi Meade (of Deva Grace, AKA Dæva)

Wicca Phase - Full Moon Mystery Garden

SZA - SOS

FKA Twigs - Caprisongs

Sidewalks & Skeletons - Exorcism

Yeule - Glitch Princess

Blood Orange - Four Songs EP

Furhoof released Deva Grace - Vocivos on cassette and reissued Dæva - Beta Persei (2016) on cassette in 2022.

Jack Foster (of BAL & House of Fools)

Cass McCombs - Heartmind

Gleemer - Here At All

S.G. Goodman - Teeth Mark's

Madison Cunningham - Revealer

Soul Blind - Feel It All Around

Furhoof released BAL - Seafoam on cassette in 2022.

Loretta Blue (of Loretta’s Museum)

Johanna Warren - Lessons for Mutants

Andrew Wasylyk - Hearing the Water Before Seeing the Falls

Briana Marela - You Are a Wave

Nils Frahm - Music for Animals

Mdou Moctar - Niger EP Vol. 2

Furhoof released Loretta’s Museum - Collected Streams: Singing Songs 2014-2021 on vinyl and reissued their complete 4-album discography (2017-2021) on cassette in 2022.

Tim Hawks (of ZDJ & Horse Culture)

American Aquarium - Chicamacomico

Unholy Altar - Demo

FKA Twigs - Caprisongs

MIKE - Beware of the Monkey

Taylor Swift - Midnights

Furhoof released Furhoof Halloween Split Series No.12 featuring ZDJ & Mellow Slam as a digital download in 2022, ZDJ - Sigil Meditation on cassette & pamphlet in 2020, and ZDJ - Heliopause on cassette in 2019.

Drew Fitchette (of Drew Fitchette & Rooftops)

Jake Xerxes Fussel - Good and Green Again

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs

Alex G - God Save the Animals

Chat Pile - God’s Country

Furhoof released Drew Fitchette - Witness Marks on cassette in 2022.

Blake Luley (of Rainwater)

Alex G - God Save the Animals

Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart

Alabaster DePlume - GOLD

Beyoncé - Renaissance 

Perfume Genius - Ugly Season

Furhoof released Rainwater - In-Between on vinyl & cassette in 2021.

Jordan Powers (of BAL, House of Fools, & Far-Less)

Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever 

Cave In - Heavy Pendulum 

The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

He is Legend - Endless Hallway

Victoria Victoria - To the Wayside 

Furhoof released BAL - Seafoam on cassette and companion story Jordan Powers - Zero Andy One on zine in 2022.

Tyler Duddy (of 1,000 Pieces)

Chat Pile - God’s Country

Delicate Steve - After Hours

Surprise Chef - Education & Recreation

Pink Siifu - Real Bad Flights

Jasmine Myra - Horizons

Furhoof released Furhoof Halloween Split Series Vol.01 featuring 1,000 Pieces on 2x cassette & zine in 2021, and 1,000 Pieces - Yellow & Black & Black on vinyl in 2013.

Jeff Haley (of Jeff Haley & Wild Nothing)

Alex G - God Save the Animals

Cate LeBon - Pompeii

Cass McCombs - Heartmind

Tim Heidecker - High School

John Walsh - New Meditator 

Furhoof released Jeff Haley - Forgotten Exposures on cassette in 2022.

TJ Hatcher (Furhoof co-founder)

The Sawtooth Grin - Good

The Wind In The Trees - Architects of Light

Black Matter Device - Autonomous Weapons

Gillian Carter - Salvation Through Misery

Kublai Khan TX - Lowest Form of Animal EP

The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever

Ryan McCardle (Furhoof co-founder)

Erin Rae - Lighten Up

battle ave. - I Saw the Egg

Sadurn - Radiator

Wet Leg - Wet Leg

Chat Pile - God’s Country

Widowspeak - The Jacket

#Interviews #Reviews #2022 #Daniel B. Lynch #Sunglow #The Lipschitz #Deva Grace #Daeva #BAL #Loretta's Museum #Timothy Hawks #ZDJ #Horse Culture #Drew Fitchette #Rooftops #Blake Luley #Rainwater #far-less #1000 Pieces #Jeff Haley #Wild Nothing #Furious Hooves #Furhoof Faves #Mixtapes

[anotherworldnowblog]

8

ON OUR HISTORY

Eclipse and Re-emergence of Class Struggle Inside La Colombe

(the following text was originally published in Winter 2022 as Service Notes #1, a zine written and edited by Chicago baristas and published for Chicago baristas)

Introduction

To our friends: we have taken it upon ourselves to write this so that we may share a common history; a history of struggle at this company, and most especially at this West Loop café. 

Below, we will attempt to bring you a full account of the waves of rebellion and counter-rebellion, de-structuring and restructuring, that have occurred over the preceding years so that you can know, above all else, three things with certainty: 

1. What has been uncovered in the process of struggle; what we have learned in fighting, 

2. What has changed over the course of this fierce battle within the structure of the company, specifically how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated certain tendencies and transitions within La Colombe, 

3. That you are not alone, that many have come before you to deliver us to this moment, and that many will come after you, to benefit from our experience and our triumphs, and to finish the work which we now begin and carry forwards in our own way. 

A partial summary of the key ideas of this essay in the form of numbered theses appears at the end of this document for those in a rush or who struggle with reading longer pieces.

The Beginning

Our story begins long before any of us worked at this café, in a period admittedly semi-shrouded in the mist of our own prehistory, with a seemingly innocuous incident involving a pair of West Loop baristas and the mysterious origin of an email received by CEO and founder Todd Carmichael. The story goes that, one of these two baristas sent an email directly to our famously narcissistic founder in which the author details a whole host of crimes against the waged, ultimately boiling down to a scathing accusation of soulless exploitation and unlivable levels of compensation. 

For some reason lost to time, it was wrongly understood by Carmichael that the second barista was the sender of the email, and the first allowed the misunderstanding to continue unchallenged, throwing his coworker into the storm he had caused. Moving past this unsettling detail, the letter nonetheless so rattled the Chief Executive, so shook his sense of self-righteousness, that he personally flew incredible numbers of baristas from several markets to Philadelphia for a town-hall style discussion in which he fully expected to reaffirm his own goodness and fairness.

As I’m sure you can imagine, this is not how that meeting went. Baristas from across the country told him the same thing: we are not paid enough. The meetings were abruptly wrapped up and the baristas returned to their home markets empty handed and dejected. This story was later told to a very young, then barista, named ******, who has since relayed it to us. But it did not end there. Shortly after the town hall fiasco, an anonymous group of Philadelphia-based La Colombe baristas made national news when they created a spreadsheet that compared the abysmal wages of workers across the industry.[1] This practice exploded with memetic frenzy, sweeping across the nation’s coffeeshops,  setting into motion an astounding surge of labor activity that now dominates the airwaves and jostles the stock prices of the, once assumed untouchable, multinational retail corporations.  

COVID-19 and The 2020 Uprising 

We will now briefly attempt to describe the interregnum between the events above and the eruption of naked class warfare inside our café that occurred in the latter half of 2020. It feels important to note that at this point, a few times a year, the market would get together for a cookout hosted by the general manager. Many baristas at our café made frequent visits to the other shops, solely out of a genuine interest in friendship and connection. There was a definite sense of familiarity amongst and between the various cafes, although a firm tribe-like atmosphere between cafes persisted that would be obvious to anyone in attendance at the various gatherings. Nonetheless, it is true that almost everyone at the West Loop had at least one friend working at another café in the same market.

At the end of 2019 and through the coldest bits of 2020, our café was closed for a renovation that would bring its aesthetic and functional design in line with the overarching brand and its then-secret goal of acquisition. So that we could keep our jobs, we were given cleaning and organizational tasks within the renovation process itself and instructed to staff a coffee cart, which would distribute unlimited free drip coffees, outside of the café for the duration of the construction (more often than not, doing so in sub-freezing temperatures). We will return to this moment later to examine its significance in greater detail, but it should suffice for now to say that this, far from exhausting and deflating the café workers as one might expect, had a profound effect on the development of our own individual political horizons and our growth together as friends and comrades. Even more so, we could not shake the feeling that we were literally putting the café back together ourselves, deciding as a group on the organization of storage space, and even giving serious input into the design of the new floor-plan, much of which was translated into the structure we all now spend far too much of our lives within. The glistening new West Loop café reopened as news of a strange new virus causing chaos in China’s Hubei Province became impossible to ignore.[2]

Within only weeks, and after image after image of bio-horror was spectacularly broadcasted live from places like Italy and Spain, it became clear that the novel coronavirus was already beginning to spread within the borders of the United States and it would only be a matter of time before it touched us personally. There is no PPE made available for workers and the only protective policy instituted is a more rigorous and regular process of spot cleaning surfaces. By the end of March, and only 21 days after reopening our own café, workers across the market began spontaneously calling out sick to avoid exposure. By March 29th, all cafés were formally shut down and we were instructed to sit tight, later to be furloughed so that we could receive the surprisingly substantial unemployment payments on offer from the State and Federal Governments.[3]

It is at this point that informal mutual aid networks begin to develop within and beyond the café. PPE is biked or driven to the various baristas across the city, our former manager makes sure no one goes hungry with regular soup deliveries (as well as non-stop assistance in navigating the complicated and overloaded unemployment registration process), another barista keeps everyone supplied with fresh focaccia, the first study group is established over Zoom,[4] carpools to the grocery store are organized, and everyone waits with bated breath for what comes next. It feels important to note that these mutual aid networks developed spontaneously out of the pre-existing connections we all had with each other, arising out of an immediate need for survival and the apparent collapse of normal systems and relations of reproduction.

On May 25th, George Floyd, a father and grandfather, worker, and Black man residing in the Minneapolis area is brutally murdered by four police in sickening slow motion, broadcasted live; the entire country bears witness. On the 26th, violent clashes with the police begin in Minneapolis. On the 27th, looting becomes more widespread and shops begin to burn. On the night of May 28th, the world watches the Livestream in ecstasy and terror as the police, at last completely out of munitions and tear gas, flee the 3rd Precinct. It is immediately breached by an unfathomably large crowd, at once euphoric and devastatingly grief-stricken, and the building is promptly set alight beneath the twinkle of endless fireworks. On May 30th, Chicago at last explodes into open rebellion.[5] For two nights, this city belonged to the proletariat. Riots fanned out across the downtown area, completely exceeding the control of police and National Guard, and workers from our café, across the market, and even at multiple levels of management bravely leapt into the flames. From May through July, the shuttered café becomes a staging ground for direct action against the police and private property, a refuge, and an abandoned storehouse to be pilfered whenever necessary.

In late July, we are at long last told we must return to work or we will not be guaranteed our jobs. The company successfully lures us back out of the safety of our homes with the promise of a ten percent, automatic gratuity placed on all transactions. Between the prospect of being out of work whenever the stimulus checks might run out and the very real money that was waiting to be made, most baristas who had not left the city for families out of state returned to work that month. Upon our return we found the cafés somewhat transformed: plexiglass encased the bar, a concierge stand was erected outside where orders were electronically placed and paid for and then retrieved indoors, to-go only, and hours were limited from eight to three in the afternoon. 

With a slimmed down staff, the hours only helped concentrate business and the accompanying steady flow of tip money into the pockets of us baristas, now wearing the mandatory gloves, goggles, and masks. These gestures towards workplace safety, as much for the customers’ peace of mind as our own, were designed to ease the psychic transition from pandemic shut-down to business as usual. Both parties could take some solace in the fact that maximum precautions were in place, despite the inherent and obvious danger of face to face business transactions. As we have since seen, once the general population, worker and consumer alike, had accepted a return to regular life, these protocols were removed, one by one, despite the persistence of emergent viral variants and extremely high local hospitalization numbers. It is also worth reflecting upon that in practice, the plexiglass and to-go service gave us a new level of privacy and autonomy in the workplace, one which would be hard to let go of once attained. Conversations freely developed without interruption, countless books were read on company time, and music selections ranged from the unspeakably lit to the mind-expandingly experimental, and were played loud. 

Our connections to and trust of one another, especially in a period of more rigid isolation, deepened beyond measure. And all the while, sometimes in the streets just outside our shop, the protest movement in defense of black life and against the police pressed resolutely onwards.

The Boss Strikes First; The Class Strikes Back

Little did we know, forces preparing the undoing of all that we had found within these four walls were readying their assault. By the end of summer, the illusion of partnership between management and workers would be forever shattered. In late September, managers are notified about the removal of the 10% auto-gratuity, to be enacted on October 6th. It eventually comes out that we had always just been pawns, easily sacrificed, in a much larger game: the company had been secretly in negotiations with Chobani for the acquisition of a controlling stake of the corporation; to seal the deal Chobani wanted confirmation that our customers could weather a price hike. The price hike would take effect the same day that the 10% auto-gratuity was removed. The company was laundering their pursuit of profit through a public posture of pandemic morality (a worker-positive policy that was entirely paid for by the consumer); we paid for the price increase, ultimately sealing a deal involving unfathomably large sums of money, with our misery and sudden plunge back into utter precarity (keep in mind, hours had not been expanded and the 10% gratuity was the only thing keeping many of us solvent).

On the night of study group, an all-cafe meeting is quickly called for; every West Loop barista is in attendance, via Zoom. The above information is relayed to us through tears, and immediately the question on everybody’s lips is that same question asked only by those about to act on the stage of history: “what is to be done?” The group unanimously decides to spring into action, through a vote that, at this point, feels almost unnecessary.

By the end of the same week, the emails of every barista in the market are procured. A zine is then quickly drafted and designed, detailing mathematically, utilizing the company’s own data, exactly how much each barista at each specific café stands to lose with the loss of the 10% automatic gratuity. Baristas at each café known to be trustworthy are then contacted anonymously and sent the zine along with instructions for its rapid but careful dissemination. Also included is a draft of a letter to management, stating the importance of the gratuity, with the intention of rallying willing signatories. The pamphlet spreads like wildfire. By September 26th, the cafés are buzzing with positive reaction and the inbox of the dummy email account set up to handle anonymous communications is full of messages from eager baristas.

 It is significant however, that not all the reactions were positive and the anonymous nature of the communiques seemed to spark as much suspicion as it did interest. The anonymous authorship of this aggressive call to action could not be avoided, due to a need and a promise to protect our sources in management who had leaked emails and sensitive financial information when we urgently needed them. We now had just over one week to protect our only lifeline; strategy quickly devolved into improvisation. Anonymity may have been unavoidable, but it was also an obvious barrier in our struggle we were forced to desperately overcome. Baristas in each café are instructed to nominate representatives for a zoom call scheduled for September 29th where we would make the final revisions to our letter to corporate. On September 30th, the final communication from the anonymous email is issued, dissolving the shadowy entity, and promising to “see you on Zoom.” The identity behind this anonymous account would remain an unfortunate distraction for the duration of this period of worker self-activity.

After a day of fierce debate, the final language of the letter implicitly threatens a strike on the company, but not explicitly. Nearly every barista signs their name and it is then promptly emailed, once again from the dummy email account, to much of the corporate staff, including owner Todd Carmichael. After a few days, a lengthy response is relayed to the entire market, through the managers of each café: the ten percent will stay, for now; we apologize for our poor communication; we appreciate the work that you do, etc. Many weeks later we are told that the same policy will begin in January, and that now having been properly communicated, there should be no issue. Those added months with the gratuity in place amounted to thousands of dollars in the pockets of every Chicago barista. A battle had been won. But it was not enough. The policy was not extended in other markets – a failure of this spontaneous resistance movement to reach beyond the region.

Eclipse and Re-Emergence

As fall turned to winter, the slow grind of counterrevolution continued apace. With vaccinations[6] came indoor seating, eventually the removal of the plexiglass, and the first infections of La Colombe baristas with COVID-19. Meanwhile, the movement in the streets was finally captured and dispatched, barely even coalescing into a march in Chicago by the time the winter wind had stripped the trees bare. Certain leaders in our workplace struggle were promoted, others left, and still more threw themselves into the myopia of social and artistic pursuits as bars, clubs, and galleries began to open once more without restriction.[7] Solidarity and even basic communication between the cafés was not tended to, and promptly disintegrated. The final removal of the 10% in January occurred without pushback. The limits of our spontaneous resistance had been abruptly slammed into, and without the solid foundation that might have been achieved with the development of a longer term, strategic organization, capable of not only sustained resistance but even of a righteous offensive push, there was little to be done but bitterly watch coworker after coworker depart for higher paying work, often in warehousing and education.

In early 2021, a longtime member of our team, a black woman, and a trusted friend to all of us, is accused of discrimination by a cop who alleges she refused to take his order. The company sides with the officer, giving our coworker an ultimatum: serve the police like anyone else, or leave. She quits. The only other black worker on our staff quits days later. That we failed to act in this moment, that we failed to fight for a workplace environment where anyone could feel safe and at the very least, be treated equally to their white counterparts, was the ultimate failure of solidarity. It cannot happen again. This company had cynically used slogans of the Black Lives Matter movement and Black art, at one point plagiarizing a black artist for a coffee mug, all summer long to sell its frivolous luxury products during a period of unprecedented social unrest. When winter finally came, the mask of social progressivism donned by the entire capitalist class had fallen off. Our company was no exception.

The rest of 2021 was a blur. The last remaining sympathetic managers were promoted or transferred to lateral positions, no longer involving direct contact with waged staff. The West Loop cafe is somewhat isolated and even ostracized, and to this day, very few coworkers, if any, have current friendships with workers in other shops. Our movement had flickered out as fast as it had ignited. In September 2021, after a possible exposure, a sick-out is orchestrated at the West Loop, resulting in the COVID tests we can still find on the first aid shelf at our café. Baristas avoid direct repercussions through unwavering solidarity; everyone refuses to work. Rumors swirl that another café had autonomously shifted their opening start time back a full hour without bosses finding out for several weeks. Punishment is rumored to be swift. The spark of a better world is kept alive only in casual conversation behind the bar at the Morgan Street café. One by one, the team that now inhabits our bright coffee distro in the terrifyingly homogenous corporate food court known as the West Loop is assembled. At some point, the deal with Chobani is finalized and a slow trickle of changes to company policies and structure is set into motion. Tiers are established to divide the baristas and halt further wage increases across the company. Managers are no longer hired from the ranks of wage workers, effectively obliterating the “coffee career” path many baristas had been working towards.

On December 9th, 2021, the first union is formed at an American Starbucks, in Buffalo, New York. On April 1st, 2022, the first union is formed at an Amazon warehouse, on Staten Island, in New York. Across the country, retail, warehousing, and food service unions begin to spring into being with exponential frequency. The depressingly total collapse of the protest movement against the police is all of a sudden mirrored nationally by an unfathomable explosion of labor unrest and organization. One might be tempted to speculate that one event conditioned or flowed into the other, but that would have to be the subject of an entirely new study that would likely be impossible to complete until this period of our lives has officially entered the realm of “history.”

By August of 2022, there are more than 230 unionized Starbucks locations and the workers of the La Colombe café at the corner of Randolph and Morgan have successfully courted the local organizers of Worker’s United, the very same union that is having such miraculous success inside Starbucks cafes in every region of this nation. Contact with sympathetic baristas in each café in the market has been re-established, and now, with historically tested strategy, the resources of an established union, and most importantly, time to move forward methodically, with care and patience, we are rapidly approaching a hitherto unrealized threshold: the organization of a legally recognized union at La Colombe Coffee Roasters [8]. 

Without a doubt, the campaign for a successful vote and subsequent fight for a worthwhile contract will be fierce, draining, and a test of our solidarity. But if our past efforts are any indication, it will also undoubtedly be one of the most rewarding, revealing, spirit-giving, and life-affirming moments of our lives. Fascism continues to rear its ugly head, right here at home and across the globe, and the only force in this world with any chance to defeat it comes in the form of an organized working class. There is no more urgent political task before us than the writing of this next chapter of our collective history.

Summary

Now, we will briefly attempt to sum up some of the key lessons, insights, and observations we have made throughout the duration of our time working for and fighting with this company:

There is no true substitute for the power, trust, and solidarity of friendship. Making friends at another cafe is the single most useful thing one can do as we begin the work of winning a union.

The uncertainty of the pandemic and protest movement in early 2020 softened certain boundaries between worker and manager, opening a space of negotiation and feedback. With the return to normal business practices and the failure of the movement in the streets, those boundaries have been recalcified and even further fortified. Today, our place has never been clearer: we are the exploited and the expendable, their property and their pawns. We can only rely on each other now.

PPE, testing, other precautions were only taken to avoid liability and to get ahead of any possible concerns from below regarding worker safety; they were a reaction to uncertainty and not an act of care. With all levels of government now ushering us back to business as usual unanimously, the company will never again raise the issue of pandemic protocols without us organizing for our own safety first. Their silence on the spread of Monkeypox is further evidence of this.

Struggles over workplace autonomy, even granular forms of control such as music selection, are at times legitimate and even revolutionary; and at other times must be subordinated to the long term, collective project of building something that lasts. The defense of small areas of autonomy can serve as a spark but can also be a treacherous whirlpool along the river of progress, a side quest that derails the larger mission.

Our company, in the wake of its successful acquisition, has goals of dramatic and imminent expansion. In pursuit of this goal, cafe’s must be homogenized, the cafe workers must be further disciplined and domesticated, and all traces of worker input or collaboration must be eradicated. Tiers, dress codes, new training metrics, and the enforcement of previously unheard-of policies are all part of this. Our owners have accepted and internalized their roles as our exploiters. It is time we understood the true nature of our relationship to them as well, and acted accordingly.

It sadly doesn’t matter how “good” or moral our managers and corporate superiors might or might not be; they have a job to do (making the most money possible for the company) and at the end of the day they will do it or they will be replaced by someone else who will. They may fire us through tears, pay lip service to our concerns while shutting them down, or attempt to make us pity them for the tough spot we have put them in. It’s bullshit and we must be firm and resolute in our righteous assault on the gilded coffers of this company.

A union is the only way to ensure our collective gains become irrevocable. Until it is in writing and in a contract, all can be undone, as illustrated in the above. They can say one thing and do another, and they will, until we force them to the bargaining table. A petition, a letter, a march on the boss, a strike; these are all tactics that we may utilize in our pursuit of a union. But without this as our horizon, we are simply opening up time and space for a counterattack, for our comrades to be fired or bought off, and for the company to successfully dupe our coworkers into thinking that they’re listening when history tells us otherwise. As the saying goes: fool us twice, shame on us.

What happens in the streets, in government, or in the world is not separate from what happens at our café. The particularities of the world around us and the movements that arise out of those particularities condition what is and is not possible at a given moment. This was seen above when the outbreak of nationwide rebellion coincided with the shutdown of inessential businesses, opening up space for radical acts of class betrayal, courageous criminality, and intensive collective study. In the current context, none of these things are possible or maybe even rational. But when a door closes, a window opens, and new possibilities for a different type of struggle have since unfolded before our eyes. We now have the time, the resources, the collective knowledge, and the regrettable certainty that our workplace will still be standing in the morning with which to move forward calmly and strategically, and not to mention, legally. In a time of riots, riot. In a time of strikes, strike. The spirit of rebellion in this country has not vanished, but rather, following changes to our material situation, moved from the streets to the shop floor.

Solidarity is not a given; it must be tended to. The isolation of the pandemic threw us together in a way previously unthinkable. That there still exists such obvious and genuine affection for one another at our café is nothing short of miraculous. It must be defended! And, as our lives again grow more and more complex and extend further and further beyond the confines of this café (as they should), we must make time to be together, to deliberately maintain our relationship of trust and love for one another. After all, it is our greatest weapon.

We Have Seen The New

Finally, we want to shed some light on the origins of a beautiful, quiet tradition still carried forward by the workers of this café, perhaps somewhat unknowingly, since the months before the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. As stated above, during the period of renovation at the end of 2019 and the bitter cold beginning of 2020, we all stood outside our café under a kerosene heat lamp to distribute free drip coffee to anyone who wanted it. What happened under the orange glow of the futuristic, stainless steel heater that winter was so utterly profound, I doubt there was anyone left unchanged by it. 

The first days were marred by interactions with regulars and nearby homeowners, astounding in their negativity, where the rich West Loop customers reacted with suspicion and even disgust at the coffee cart. People with the means to pay, firmly embedded in the world of work and wealth, not only did not trust something that really did come free with no-strings-attached; they reacted with naked hostility, as if dimly aware of the challenge it posed to their entire way of life. We were shouted at, scoffed at, and lost touch with countless previously pleasant regulars, oftentimes those customers who normally ordered and paid for the very same drip coffee we were now offering free of charge.

But simultaneously, something else was occurring. Addicts attempting recovery or perhaps simply mandated to participate in programming at the Haymarket Center, food service workers across the neighborhood, and most especially, what felt like the entirety of the West Loop’s houseless population began to catch wind of the warmth and calories freely available outside the old brick building at Randolph and Morgan. A previously fragmented and hidden community of the oppressed was uncovered and constituted, in the shadow of one of the densest concentrations of capital in our city, by the simple act of abolishing the price signal; by giving people what they needed or wanted for free. If it wasn’t clear to some of us prior to the renovation, no one could deny what was plainly obvious within days of outdoor operation: that our customer base is almost uniformly on the side of the owning class; that our newfound friends forced to live on the frigid streets have so much more in common with any of us café workers than do our millionaire clientele; and that any meaning that might be wrung from our jobs has nothing to do with money and everything to do with our desire to care for another, to make something that fills someone’s belly or brightens someone’s day. 

This moment was a rare glimpse of what has been called in the past, “The New Society,” nestled in plain sight, unbeknownst to us, right there within the mundane brutality of the Old. And it is what we have been protecting and will continue to protect – right up until that day when the New bursts irreversibly forth, abolishing the Old once and for all – when we feed those who ask or ignore the price of a drink for another worker on our block.  

So many friends have left us, but not without courageously fighting to keep this struggle alive. And countless baristas will soon join us, to benefit from the victories which we will soon achieve together, and to finish the work which we push forward today; and more broadly, to complete the historical task of our class: organizing for the complete overthrow of this rotten society. One day we will only be able to faintly remember, like a nightmare, the time of organized barbarism, formalized exploitation, and legalized ecocide known as capitalism. But that work can only begin from where we find ourselves today, behind the marble countertop and in front of the espresso machine. It can only begin when we have drawn a line in the sand and said, together, enough. We will not bear idle witness to our own annihilation. We are going to fight. And we are going to win.

 NOTES

[1] This practice of wage transparency went viral sometime in early October of 2019 https://talkpoverty.org/2020/02/11/coffee-pay-transparency-spreadsheet/

[2] Cases are believed to have first been documented in Wuhan in December of 2019 https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2021-03-18-novel-coronavirus-circulated-undetected-months-before-first-covid-19-cases-in-wuhan-china.aspx

[3] The amounts of money we received were often far more than we earned normally by working, thanks to our ability to report tips as part of our lost income and the additional padding of temporary pandemic unemployment insurance. This insurance policy has since been rescinded by the federal government in an attempt to push people back to work.

[4] The group studied a wide variety of left tendencies and thinkers, including Sylvia Federici, The Invisible Committee, Mao, and Lenin.

[5] For a more detailed account of this night, see https://protesttimeline.southsideweekly.com/ or the introduction of Towards an Ecology of Love, 2020 https://anotherworldnowblog.tumblr.com/post/626122686417010688/3

[6] Vaccinations began with nurses and the immuno-compromised on Dec. 14th, 2020; being classified as manufacturing workers enabled us to get access to vaccination in the second round of distribution, well ahead of most in the service industry

[7] This process began in mid-June, but in Chicago especially, took some time to fully take old, many establishments having invested serious money into accommodating to-go service

[8] After the publication of this zine, the union struggle took many twists and turns, culminating in our eventual filing with UFCW Local 881. We are now 7 cafes strong across three separate markets and time zones (as of March 2023).

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The Devil In The Details: SKiN GRAFT Records at 150 – a multi-artist interview on “Sounds To Make You Shudder!”

SKiN GRAFT Records just turned 150 catalog numbers old and have marked the occasion with “Sounds To Make You Shudder!”, a collection of fifteen songs (by seventeen artists) that the label describes as a “Halloween Long Player that plays fast and loose any time of the year”.

The album brings together longtime associates such as The Flying Luttenbachers, Jim O’Rourke and Strangulated Beatoffs, current acts like Terms, Lovely Little Girls and Tijuana Hercules, new signees Cuntroaches and Pili Coit – and some totally unexpected collaborations.

“Sounds To Make You Shudder!” sees The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow morph into a horror host frontman for the dark, chaotic math rock of , while Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer performs sci-fi, micro-surgery on Psychic Graveyard.

On the eve of the album’s release, we caught up with many of the participants for a virtual round table on how “Sounds To Make You Shudder!” came to be.

What can you tell us about your contribution to this project? How did you get involved? Are there any details or insight that you can share?

MARK FISCHER (Owner, Founder of SKiN GRAFT Records): SKiN GRAFT evolved out of a hardcore punk comic-zine that I did back in the 80’s, and in the comic book world, anniversary issues were always very important and something to celebrate: issue 100, issue 250 and on and on… I knew that we were coming up on SKiN GRAFT Record number 150 – and I’d had something in mind – but it was becoming more and more clear that it was not going to be possible to have that particular project ready in time.

Meanwhile, a bunch of the bands I work with – Terms, Psychic Graveyard, Child Abuse and USA Nails – had all been invited to play at the No Coast noise rock festival happening in Texas at the end of October. On top of that, Cuntroaches had nearly finished this wild Halloween-themed video for a song they had been working on, but with the maddeningly-long turnaround times we’re seeing at the vinyl pressing plants currently, there was no way to get even a 7” single out in time for the holiday. It’s pretty cruel, bands finally have an opportunity to go out and play live again, but now there’s no guarantee their album will be out by the time they get in the van.

So late in the summer, with all of this swirling around in my head, I hit upon the idea of a Halloween album and started contacting some bands to see if it would be possible to put something together – – – – and it was!

To make it out by Halloween 2022, vinyl was obviously out of the question, so we went with CD / Tape / Digital so it could be turned around fast. Most of the songs were recorded within the last few months. I got lucky. There were a lot of really happy circumstances. Dazzling Killmen were the very first band SKiN GRAFT worked with and while the band is long gone now, all of the members have continued to make music. It just so happened that Nick, the singer and guitarist, had started a new band called Upright Forms and Dazzling Killmen’s drummer Blake had also just started performing with his new band Shatter On Impact. Both bands are making their debut here.

As all of the songs started to come in and I worked on the sequence, it broke down into three “acts” (in this case, five songs apiece) – a lot like “Camp SKiN GRAFT”, the compilation I’d put together as the label’s 50th release twenty years earlier. I hadn’t anticipated it, but I suppose this turned out to be a kind of spiritual successor to that.

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by Various Artists (David Yow & Yowie, USA Nails, Psychic Graveyard & John Dwyer, etc)

I’m so humbled, proud and blown away by the work everyone put into this thing. This album came together in record time; it was a thrill hearing these songs come in, and I’m even more excited to see them go out.

YOWIE “The Spider’s Greeting” collaboration with David Yow

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by David Yow and Yowie

Shawn O’Connor aka The Defenestrator: Mark from SKiN GRAFT came to me with this idea and asked if Yowie was interested. For the younglings, some exposition may be required: The notion was that “Sounds That Make You Shudder!” would basically be an homage to those 1970s records made for kids’ Halloween parties, and Mark wanted to include some kind of Dracula-type narrator at the beginning, the kind of thing that is usually accompanied by lots of creaking doors and rattling chains and screaming. David Yow was on board to do an opening track wherein he would play a role not unlike the Cryptkeeeper (or that wonderful narrator from “Tales from the Darkside”) and Yowie was asked to do the incidental music.

My initial response was, “I don’t think we are the right band.” And that was very difficult to say, because I grew up on Scratch Acid and The Jesus Lizard and Pigface, so the idea of doing a track with David felt astoundingly good. And Halloween is the only holiday I actually enjoy, and consensually participate in, and so it seemed fun. But there was one problem – I don’t think Yowie is really much of an incidental music band. We tend to pull the listener’s full attention. And when I heard David’s track alone, I couldn’t help but think that the perfect sounds to accompany it would be something like creaking doors and distant creepy moans, rather than intricately arranged polyrhythmic rock music.

YOWIE

I should also point out that Yowie has consistently had a particular process in composition, wherein we allow parts to sort of independently develop and evolve over time… so the notion that we would be restricted to the parameters of interacting with a recorded vocal track, of all things, seemed pretty un-Yowie. Nonetheless it felt intriguing and very different, and so I talked a bit with people who were in or around Yowie, and it was decided that we would give it a go and see if we could do something that worked without becoming un-Yowie-like. I will leave it to the listeners to decide; I think we did a poor job of being “incidental” but instead made a composition that generally fits with a spooky theme, and is somewhat meticulously composed to David’s vocal lines. Does it work? Does it make sense? Is it a Yowie track? Is it something else entirely? You be the judge.

CUNTROACHES “Borborygmus”

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by Cuntroaches

Martina / Claire / David hivemind: We wrote Borborygmus – a seven-minute long noise / metal / punk / post-punk mash-up – to score a music video idea we’d been toying with for some time. It’s named after the ominous sounds produced by gas and fluids in the intestines. The music video is about a hungry witch-slash-wizard abomination with an empty fridge who fails to summon food with her toilet brush wand. The only edible option for the witch is to eat her own dog (spoiler alert: it doesn’t go so well).

Cuntroaches

The aesthetic is inspired by the 80’s television series Tales From The Crypt and other B-movie horror classics, so the original plan was to release Borborygmus with two additional tracks on a special edition 7” with the Borborygmus music video on Halloween in 2021.

It was SKiN GRAFT who suggested expanding the 7” material into a full-length Cuntroaches album and we’re happy with this decision! The album is in the final stages of mixing, so the music video will launch independently on Halloween of this year to kick off SKiN GRAFT’s Sounds That Make You Shudder! compilation. We provided a shortened track of Borborygmus for the it, so conceptually this aligns with our initial idea of a combined speciality release.

TERMS “Mouthful of Moss”

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by Terms

Christopher Trull: Mark from SKiN GRAFT asked us to contribute to a Halloween themed release, and Danny & I both immediately thought of this particular unfinished (at the time) track. Work on ‘Mouthful of Moss’ began about a year and a half ago while we were putting together tracks for our next album, and it ended up not getting completed at that time. It didn’t quite fit the vibe of the rest of the record we were making, but it definitely has an ominous, creepy quality that seemed perfect for a Halloween album!

TIJUANA HERCULES “Dark Slide”

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by Tijuana Hercules

John Vernon Forbes: Joe Patt (Tijuana Hercules’ drummer) and I started fooling around with the riff. I hadn’t thought about what to do with it until Mark came up with the idea of a Halloween album. I thought the riff had a William Castle horror movie feel to it and I could envision Joan Crawford swinging an axe while the tune played. As the recording progressed, Doug Abram joined in with a baritone sax. For the percussion, Mike Young played a bowling pin and maracas. Since the song was intended to be played around Halloween, we asked our friend, Brian Buckman to join in. Brian is someone with a deep knowledge of the supernatural and occult practices. He gave us a recording of interstellar outer space that he ran through his synthesizers. It added a George Van Tassel feel.

Tijuana Hercules, by Jeff Noise

THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by The Flying Luttenbachers

Weasel Walter: I composed this piece for the New York lineup of the band some years ago, and we never got around to playing it, so I did it all myself (something I resort to from time to time). It’s an interesting milemarker for my transition out of New York and back to Chicago after 20 years absence. The current Flying Luttenbachers full lineup is currently playing sporadic shows and writing a new album.

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS “Procreation (Of The Wicked)”

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by Lovely Little Girls

Gregory Jacobsen: Celtic Frost, specifically the Morbid Tales album, has always been a favorite. Of all the metal I listened to when I young, that album was just so weird. I had no reference point for what it was. There was no pose and the sound was dreary, malevolent, and aggressive in a way that all that other thrash shit I listened to didn’t even touch. And that guitar tone! I always wanted to do a cover of Procreation – there’s a certain idiosyncratic swing to it, and the structure is simple and wide open to do a lot of fun stuff with it, like a blank canvas. The challenge was convincing the rest of the band who are more prog-orientated. Too much repetition!

Lovely Little Girls in Austin – photo by Paul Millerlo

USA NAILS “Horror Show”

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by USA Nails

Gareth Thomas: After SKiN GRAFT released our split with Psychic Graveyard, Mark mentioned he wanted to put together a halloween comp and asked if would we be interested in contributing a track, so obviously we bit his hand off. We are all long time fans of SKiN GRAFT so are dead excited to be working with them again. As for writing a halloween related tune, I had no idea how to approach that so was glad that Steven took the vocals on for this number…

Steven Hodson: Being asked to be on a horror themed compilation initially made me quite anxious as I had no idea what to write about. I mean, I haven’t really watched any horror films for years. We’re more of a Paul Rudd household these days, though I guess some would class his work pretty horrific (wink wink, nudge nudge, snare, kick and crash) Am I right? I thought I’d talk about real life horror stuff instead.

SHATTER ON IMPACT “Amar’s Volta”

SKiN GRAFT Records Presents… Sounds To Make You Shudder! by Shatter On Impact

Blake Fleming: Mark Fischer from SKiN GRAFT kindly asked if my new band, Shatter On Impact, would like to contribute a song to a Halloween themed album. We weren’t quite in recording mode yet. We were doing lots of rehearsing and writing and starting to play shows, and so we had to get something down quick. The result is a completely live in the studio version of a song we jokingly called “Amar’s Volta”. I co-founded the Mars Volta and SOI’s guitarist is named Amar. To clarify, it has no relation to The Mars Volta, it’s just practice space humor. We thought it was funny, so we kept it.

BOBBY CONN “Don’t Be Afraid”

Please give us a quick word or two about yourself or your band. Feel free to share information about other current releases you have and your plans for the coming months.

Please share your picks for the best records of 2022 so far or any under the radar releases that you feel warrants extra attention.

This content was originally published here.

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BAYC Partners With Rolling Stone to Launch Limited Edition NFTs

The popular NFT collection – Bored Ape Yacht Club – teamed up with the American magazine – Rolling Stone – to release special edition digital collectibles. This is their second collaboration between the two parties in the span of a year.

The Latest NFT Endeavor

In November 2021, the monthly magazine that focuses on politics, music, and culture hopped on the NFT bandwagon by joining forces with BAYC and auctioning two digital magazine covers. Besides that, Rolling Stone released 2,500 limited-edition paper zines in a physical form featuring Bored Ape images on its main page.

In a recent tweet, BAYC disclosed its second partnership with the magazine to launch one Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token and a Mutant Ape Yacht Club one.

Gm apes – we’re stoked for the first night of ApeFest. To kick things off, we’re excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with @RollingStone again for two 1/1 NFTs (one BAYC and one MAYC). pic.twitter.com/MYlEGt954h

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) June 20, 2022

The sale of the collectibles is scheduled for June 22 at 9 am ET. It will go hand in hand with the sale of other digital artwork. The art prints can be bought for ApeCoin (APE) worth $100.

The Craze Around BAYC NFTs

The popular collection has emerged as arguably the most influential project in the non-fungible token sector. It depicts different caricatures of monkeys which turned out to be an intriguing niche for numerous investors and celebrities.

At the beginning of 2022, the Founder of Reddit – Alexis Ohanian – gifted his wife – Serena Williams – a Bored Ape NFT. Without disclosing how much he spent on it, he ironically said this will be the only present he will give to his spouse from now on.

A few days later, the Canadian singer Justin Bieber also joined the club by spending 500 ETH to purchase an ape, depicted on a blue background, with tears in its eyes. At the moment of the transaction, the purchase was worth about $1.3 million. A week later, the musician bought another NFT from the collection, this time for $470,000 worth of ETH.

In March, “the queen of pop music” – Madonna – purchased Bored Ape #4988 for 180 ETH (approximately $564,000 by that time). The move created huge controversy among her fans as some praised her decision to jump on the NFT universe, while others were left quite disappointed.

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Full picture of my cover design for Dreams of Peace @founders-zine

#can u believe it took me ages drawing those darn tiny houses #they’re not even super detailed and yet #HOURS #round of applause for that bumblebees thicc ass #in my brain this picture is directly linked to the pixel one i made #my stuff yeah #illustration #2022 founders zine #naruto #hashirama senju #madara uchiha

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And here's my sneak peek for Pin-up calendar, part of the @founders-zine

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preview of my piece for the @founders-zine ♡ preorders are open until the end of September!

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Very excited to share this sneak peek of my zine piece made for Dreams of Peace: A Naruto Founders Zine (@founders-zine)!! I've been blown away by the talent and skill I've seen from the artists and authors for this zine.

Preorders are open September 1st through 30th

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Sneak peek of my spread for @founders-zine <3 <3 <3

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Who could tobes be chasing? 😳

I went for something new in my piece for the @founders-zine! and you guys... there's nothing but Top Tier Michelin Three Stars Lip Smackin Finger Lickin Founders Content up in there 💥💥💥

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