MERCH & IMAGE BREAKDOWNS
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Yeah, every page here is allllll human. It DOES take a lot of time! Good thing this is my job/work! Thanks for being here, and for your support, sincerely, it means a LOT. It means more than just this site shuts down-- beyond economics there's just the humanity factor, ya know? Like, people are honestly actually digging this, not out of sympathy, or just because you know me, but because of the things that are here. THE PROJECT. That means a lot. If all goes well, this site will be running and funding itself, long after I'm gone, so the things here (more than the "fiction" storyline) will be here for people to get to-- so they can get whatever help they can get from all of this. Thank you for supporting that. There's a lot a person could do with the time here, and a lot people end up doing for whatever reason, but not many actually go for-- and then MAKE IT-- at their WORK. Their job(s) get in the way of their [life's] work, and folks die angry, feeling cheated, full of things they wanted to give back. The support here helps me give back. This is one of the biggest things that everything in my living has built up to, and this allows me to take all of the time, mind, and resources (talents and skills, etc.) and use them all for something not only good, but something GREAT, and something i actually genuinely sincerely give a crap about, and care to do! It's a LOT of work.... so, yeah, thank you for your support.
So, Mr. FRANK V. DURDEN (PURGENT OF CHAOS)... Let's dive right on up in there, yeah? It's what you came here for. We'll go DESIGN first...
THE DESIGN is a mugshot image, kind of. Going from the top down starts and ends at the same place, So what you have is a mix of a lot of influential individuals. There's Tyler Durden (Fight Club) in the hair and body, and the background. That's why it looks so familiar. The head is Frankenstein's "Monster", and in a way, this whole thing is "Society's Monster." On the forehead is the GOD mask tattoo-- it was just written with a marker on a plastic GOD Mask in THE PURGE, but on the face here, it's a tat. If you know that character, then you know a pretty interesting one. If you ARE that character, then you're a pretty interesting one. The eyes, all sunk in under FRANK's big brow, have a little paint that goes with the paint on mouth, which leads us to that double layered smile. The actual smile is V (V FOR VENDETTA) while the paint on the smile, and eyes, are the Dark Knight/Heath Ledger JOKER. That's a lot? No, there was more but the image didn't allow it when I was putting it all together.
WHAT DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT was a few things, and I'm finding ways to work them in here and there, but... we'll just have to see. ANYWAYS, what didn't make the cut are William "Bill" Foster's cracked glasses (D-FENS/FALLING DOWN). I was going to add a D-FENS tattoo under one of the eyes. I did add D-FENS to the back of the basketball jerseys for the name. Having the word would be more recognizable than the cracked glasses. TUPAC was a tricky one. Above the GOD tat on the forehead, i was going to add the T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E. tattoo, so it says THUGLIFE GOD. Maybe I will later. Also, after adding the Joker eye paint it drowned out the ALEX DELARGE (Clockwork Orange) EYELASH on the right (your left) eye. There was already a dark shadow from the "Monster" brow/fore-five-six-seven-nine-ten head (way more than a 4 head), so I'll have to figure something out for that. Either really fade the eye makeup more so the lashes "pop" and are visible? I dunno. Trickier and even harder to place (harder to recognize), i was going to add to the t-shirt a picture (that i have) of STANSFIELD HOLDING THE GRENADE PINS (Léon, THE PROFESSIIONAL), but I have something planned for that. Around that on the shirt, also hard to recognize, i was going to add ELI's JACKET and BACKPACK (straps) from THE BOOK OF ELI. Adding his sunglasses would tint over everything going on with the eyes, while Bill Foster's glasses are still see-thru, so you could still see everything going on with the eyes. Another candidate for eyewear was John Nada, who's glasses looked too regular-- like regular Rayban style sunglasses, so folks might miss it completely. Because of that, I thought to add his shirt with the shotgun sling, but I wasn't sure if people would recognize that either. JOHN NADA? Roddy Piper in THEY LIVE. So, yeah, when you hear me say some designs are easy, but tricky-- that's what I mean. It's easy because i can see it in my head, all put together, and know all of the parts, but the tricky part is making them all fit together and work properly for the overall design. It's like music-- sometimes you start out making the song you want or hear in your head, but the one that gets made is between the song you want, and the song that the music wants to be.
After having said all of that, THE NAME "PURGENT OF CHAOS: FRANK V. DURDEN might make a lot more sense now, if you didn't get it the first time. It's a combination of all of the parts that DID make the cut. I dig it. It's got most of the energy I wanted in it, and there's still room to play with a few things. ALL done in PHOTOSHOP. Not AI. Yeah, i could run it thru AI so it's "cleaner" and more solid as an image, but that sucks out that punk energy and spirit that's vital to the piece overall. Before AI we all had these things called "Skill" and "Talent" and we used them to "create things." Our prompt was the void in living life-- we were filling what was lacking, not generating already oversold market-flooded "CONTENT", but were making actual things that were NEW. Good luck with that in this day and age. PURGENT is a combo of Purge Agent. It's also a Pure Gent... in a sense. Agent of Chaos-- from The Joker, so that's the Purge Joker. Frank is the Monster, V is... well... V. And Durden is Tyler Durden. Pretty simple.
Yeah, adding all of the other parts from the cutting room floor would make the name into a book, but I've been weaving books into designs for a while now, so, that's regular for SAMURAI RUACH. This one i filed under WWR (WorldWideRoyalty) because it's got that WWR spunk. You'll find it in there. It's actually one of the DefTrap Ronin designs, because an individual like this would be a DefTrap Ronin. I just haven't added the words yet.
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SOFTWARE? Photoshop. I did that design in photoshop. I have Photoshop 6.0. Yeah, I know. Well, what are you doing with YOUR version of Photoshop? I'm using what I have... that will actually work. As mentioned above, I have a drawing tablet that works well, but THE HORSE is THE HORSE, and when it doesn't want to run things (which is usually when I need them most) then it WON'T. So, I have drawing tablet, but... not.
THE DESIGN? Old grizzled man but faded into a skull, like aged away, but the eyes and the fire in the eyes remains. It's like a "you can't kill wisdom, or ideas" thing. I started with a pic I AI'd of the Old Grizzled Man, and then the Skull picture. I had to make sure the eye sockets lined up. Then it was just stacking copies of the layers on top of each other, and erasing, like fading them away. The old man Is on the bottom I think, with multiple layers of skull on top, but those skull layers are erased, masked, and filtered so that they all fade more and more. The old man can be seen more on the left side, and is blue (MATTER), while the skull is mostly on the right side and is red (MIND). No, it's not directly related to the game. It should be, but... no, I wasn't thinking of that. Doing the eyes was the most fun part, and tedious. It pays to use AI to make your own stock photos that you can use. I did that with the fire, and I had some of eyes, so I basically cut the fella's eyes out, like a Batman mask, and then blacked all around the inside in a lower layer. So it's Skill on top, then man-face, then highlights on the eyes, then fire, then eyes, then masked fire underneath for extra glow but kind of muted to look more natural (under the skin of the eyes-- yes your eyes have skin. I had a metal splinter, and a splinter of fiberglass in my eyes before-- trust me, you eyes have skin), and then black to fill in the eye socket, and then more man face beneath that to seal it.
A quick bit about Artist and Art vs Content Prompters and AI... Yes, Content Prompters. You're not even content creators anymore, because you don't create anything. AI does it. You just make a prompt. And you can even get AI to do that. It's sad. And disturbing. Seems like a bit of work, but when this is one of the things you DO-- like know how to do, love doing (for your self, not so much for others), and are actually good at, then you don't mind experimenting and actually putting in work. It's a process, a journey-- it's fun. SADLY, there's folks who just want to make content for sales. There's no logic, no skill, no talent, no real effort, just a prompt, and if they had any know-how, it's which AI bots to use for marketing so the folks who actually DO THIS, but don't know all of those tricks (because we're too busy working) get lost in the huge pile of CONTENT STREAM CRAP. That's a sad thing about artists and art-- especially in this day and age. It gets lost. The soul people are looking for is out there being expressed, but it's drowned out by all the AI screaming for attention, because you're looking for the soul you drowned out with your content for likes and money-- because you've lost your soul ... to the computer world.
VARIATIONS... There are currently 3 different variations of this shirt. There's the 1 - WOMEN'S (All Over Print) and a 2 - MEN'S (All Over Print), both of which are in a set called the Splash Series, because of the splash of color strip on the bottom. The last one is 3 - The Unisex (Mens & Womens) Bella canvas tee. They're all pretty soft and comfortable, but the Bella Canvas one is more plain, with just the front image. It's printed a different way also. The ALL OVER prints are actually white shirts and the entire shirt is printed, so it's almost dyed black (printed black), while the Bella Canvas shirt is a black shirt with the image printed on it. I'm using PRINTFUL at the moment to do the print-on-
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VESTI LA GIUBBA (e la faccia infarina. La gente paga, e rider vuole qua.)... Honey of a quote, ain't it?! There's a video and a whole playlist just for this, which is below. This phrase is kind of where the RUGPULL design came from, why THE ZEPHANIAH CHESTERFIELD PROJECT, and why a lot of other things... for me. ay it for me, and when it lifts someone else up, and they thank me for it, then that will be the kickstart i needed to get back into the positive zone. T-shirts do that. It's one of the reasons I do t-shirts-- to say the things people can't, but want to, or need (to).
THE MESSAGE is a quote from PAGLIACCI the opera, which says:
"(Vesti la giubba)......... Put on your costume
(e la faccia infarina)... and apply make up to your face.
(La gente paga,)......... The people pay,
(e rider vuole qua.)..... and they want to laugh.".
What all of that means to me, if you didn't see the explainer video about the lineup, is how you have to put on your face (makeup your mind) and also build your self physically and tangibly (body & soul) to play this game. By "play this game" i mean come to this world as a human being (makeup and costume), where people pay (trade currency & current-see) by way of soul and spirit energy transactions, thinking of thoughts (currency) to manipulate reality (current-see), because they WANT to laugh, or have a good time, make memories, and gain on their investment in conscious being, because we're all staring down the barrel of eternity which is a loooooong time to not have anything fun or good or light to look back on. SO, get yourself right, and be your honest self, live and be that, so you can enjoy the show (this war-- in and of the mind). C'est la vie (that's life and living it), la guerre (the war/ the mind), et le jeu (and the play/ the game).
THE DESIGN was done in Photoshop 6 like all of the others. I didn't record it because i wasn't thinking to, for one, and also because I was having so many issues with it, and memory-- it not wanting to save, and me going through that whole process of deleting things, clearing cache, etc.... that i was just happy to get it done. Get what done? OH, right... SO... (and this is in the video) what i had to do was, make a half black/half white paisley card to use as the background, and then an opposite one white/black for the reverse side, so that the image front and back would have one solid left side color, and one solid right side color. That's how one side of the shirt is black and the other side is white/silver. I used the same cards for the sleeves. Having both colors on one card saves layers-- as opposed to having one black layer and a white layer, they're both on the same layer as one solid image. THEN i redesigned the "3 SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS" chart image, and fused it with the "Creation of BEING(?)" image, so, again, there's two images made into one image to save layers. I took one of the masks from THE BOOK OF THE CLOWN (cover) from that book that i think is on Patreon, but nowhere else. It might still need to be worked on. Living took a turn when i was working on updating it, so, what's there is there.
I know there are a few videos in the playlist for this design. As of today (2.26.26) i probably still have videos of this design that need to get edited. Yay life. I still got time.
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NOTE: The items above go from TRYANGLES (Clown) to TRY ANGLES (Mask).
AGNINADI is one of the fire dragons in the story. ABOVE are just a few of the items in the AGNINADI collection. He does not like humanity. Even more, he does not like the dragons created by humanity, and he does not like the role AI has played in their creation, manipulating mankind's hubris to create things that could destroy humanity. These "unnatural" abominations, global warming, the war, and a few other events are the things that triggered the Fire Dragons to come out of their caves. With The War raging, they took their lands (The Land of Dragons) which is just the one territory they claimed, and were driven into, seen on the map. Looking at the war torn world (or what was left of the world that Agninadi considers to belong to their race as they were there first), Agninadi rose to be the leader of the Fire Dragons, and vows to rid the earth of humanity, their digital and synthetic replacements, and any and all others who stand in his way of "purging the earth" to purify it for their race.
Because he's such a powerful and fiery character in the series, the clothes that i ended up designing that reflected that type of individual (possibly) i just put into one collection/group. That really started the individual collections. Above you can see some of the items with the Agninadi vibe to them. You can check out the whole AGNINADI COLLECTION here if it resonates.
THE NAME? AGNINADI basically translates into "River Of Fire" in Sanskrit. I did a lot of research on the names of a lot of the characters to make sure their names were accurate to the regions, and their nature (personalities/character). IF YOU WERE TO GOOGLE IT, you'd get something like:
Based on Sanskrit dictionaries and related terminology"Agninadi" is not a standard, commonly recognized phrase, but it appears to be a compound of Agni (fire) and potentially a suffix meaning path or sound, or a slight variation of other terms.
Here are the most likely interpretations based on the components:
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Agni (अग्नि): Means fire, the deity of fire, or the digestive fire (jaṭharāgni) in Ayurveda.
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Nadi (नदी / नाडी):
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If interpreted as Nadi (नदी), it means a river. ThereforeAgninadi could translate to "River of Fire".
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If interpreted as Nādi (नाडी), it refers to a channel, nerve, or pulse in yogic philosophy. Agninādi could refer to a "Channel of Fire" (an energy path).
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Contextual Variations:
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Agnyādi (अग्न्यादि): A common phrase meaning "fire and so forth" or "beginning with fire".
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Agnidāyin (अग्निदायिन्): An incendiary or one who sets something on fire.
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Agninayana (अग्निनयन): The act of bringing out the sacrificial fire.
If you encountered this in a specific text, it likely refers to a "fire-channel" or "fire-river" in a metaphoric or ritualistic context.
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AllLies (Red Flag) is one of those "political" statement designs. Politics is a bit of a crap thing to have an opinion about, mainly because (i believe) politics is just a part of the economic governance of humanity-- the business of regulating the flow of human currency (current-see). Politics eventually gets down to a bit of Stockholm Syndrome, building your own prison, and lovingly so-- or as much as people are led to believe they freely thought on their own. Living gets interesting like that. A lot of what's "reality" is someone else's plan. THE NAME? After a while, the allies are All Lies, and everything is a red flag. Still, since "they" feed on fear, you have to move accordingly.
THE DESIGN is actually one I'd been sitting on. This is one version of it. There were some slogans at the bottom of other ones, where there was a barcode in the bottom right corner, showing that some patriotism and beliefs are a product sold. It also said "All lives matter. This is business." Meaning that everyone counts, and since people (time, mind, and resources) are the currency, everyone is every one (like $1). There's a bunch of them in a collection I did years ago, but never got around to because I didn't have what I needed to do it how I wanted it done. I found PRINTFUL and CUSTOMCAT (print on demand companies), but had issues linking CUSTOMCAT to the websites, so i went with PRINTFUL, which was pretty close to what i wanted. The prices are a little higher, but everything can be reasoned when you're paying for it. Either way, I did this one as a test to see if it would come out good, which it did, so I guess I'll do more of the ones I was sitting on.
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THE ARTWORK'S OUTSIDE THE BOX was one of those production driven things. I'd gotten it into my head that if this whole project is to fund itself, then [one of] the most (even? fair? balanced?) ways of giving back would be to dive into t-shirts and print-on-demand stuff. So, i started working on some inspirational, uplifting, snazzy types of designs, like this one. It's artsy and quirky, yet simple enough, says me. Creating it was not so bad-- once the computer was all warmed up and decided to work, then I just went into it. There's a video of the making of this whole thing, which is a part of that whole "Production" mode of thought-- creating useful videos to show whoever else might be on a similar path (POD, designing, looking to do a store, etc.) how I did everything here on this site, so I made some of the actual creation of store items, from thin air, to finished product "on the shelf."
THE NAME? That's one of those quirky things. Even the spelling of the name, as in the design and positioning of the letters-- all of that is a part of the name/design. I know, that sounds redundant. Watch the video, you'll see what I mean. Basically, though, it means that YOU are THE ART, and you work best when BEING (not just thinking) outside of the box.
THE DESIGN was work, in a sense that as much as it was fun to do, the logical designer side of me overpowered the more freely creative and emotional artistic side of me. This design is a simple note to the reader, inside of a decorative picture frame (a cellphone), reminding them to spend some time in the art of living life, and the art of being your honest, pure, sabbath self. The part that was tricky (as you can see in the video) is the text-- more specifically, the phrasing (wording), especially from a design aspect. There's "The Artworks" meaning plural works of art... "The ArtWorks" which is a play on words, meaning Artowrk (expression) and action of the Artwork Working (ArtworkWORKS=ArtWorks)... and some other thing I get into in the video. Also, the flipping of the letters, and making it digital in aesthetic (shape/style/font) has a meaning, showing that everything else looks natural in a digital world when you've been programmed to be digital. You won't notice until the natural part of you sees that digital part, or notices itself in a digital world (inside of the phone). It's a bit of a "triple take" thing: You notice the digital twist... and then you notice the natural letters... then you notice how the natural stuff is existing inside the digital box. To add a fourth layer, there's the whole "you in 'reality' looking at all of this on a shirt... in the matrix perhaps?"
Sometimes you can just feel a design, from start to finish, and it just flows. Other times, you hit logical technical bumps, and have to work through them. It's nothing too big, and usually it's all in your mind. Then you remember, "It's Print On Demand!" You can make a million designs, upload them all, and nothing will get printed until someone orders one! There's no overhead! That free's you up a little, but then there's the whole "TWO, NOT THREE" thing, where people presented with 2 options can choose more easily than when presented with 3. If you give MORE THAN THREE then people might shut down, overwhelmed, wanting everything and burning out when trying to decide. I still plan to go back and do it over, with just a clean simple cell phone image, but i made the phone a really decorative frame to show how it's a bit of a "Findhorn/PineCone/We'reBored Conversation" thing (My Dinner With Andre'), where the phone is a digital prison people have constructed so lovingly and well, invested so much in this work of art, they can't see (or refuse to acknowledge) how it's a box locking them in... sometimes. Some people break free. I'll add that clip below so you know what I'm talking about.
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is another one that's more of a style than a design, like the AGNINADI or COAL DIAMOND styled items. I guess you could call it something in the realm of a textile or swatch? A pattern? It's made of different shades of chainmail, with paisley to counter it, and plaid detail/edging. Pretty simple in a way, but you have to balance it correctly or it won't match. Too much of one, and it overpowers quickly, and can even look boring, or make the counter pattern look misplaced or unbalanced (naturally). Chainmail was always a cool thing to me. It was always like a person wanted scales, like they wanted the same protection as the dragons they were about to go to battle with. No, this isn't actual linked chainmail-- that might get heavy, but it looks cool, especially with the other patterns accenting it.
THE NAME? It just seemed fitting, since it's like a medieval jersey (pattern). Ironically, there's no Black Knight character in the series... yet. I know, DRAGONS, but no black knight. Meh.
THE DESIGN was honestly all about chainmail. Not chain letters. Chainmail, like suits of armor. I still have a project to do concerning this, which is building a jersey that's a samurai suit of armor. I just have to design the pieces separately, but this was a bit of a test run to see how the chain would come out, and i like it. I added the paisley to give it a little more edge, and then some plaid as a finer detail. It all worked really well... says me. The tricky part, or A tricky part, is keeping the aesthetic of it. Adding color would throw off the whole vibe. Some you can get away with, but the metal look has to be just right: the right amount of shading, highlight, "shine"... so that the gold looks gold and not yellow, or that any detail in a black mesh would even show up. I still have to work with this one more. There's only a few designs that I used it with. I guess it's a limited edition kind of thing.
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M E N U
EXPLAINER VIDEOS (Merch, & Images)
EXPLAINER VIDEOS (Merch, & Images)
CRAZY TALKS #49: NO OTHER GODS BEFORE WHO? (02.05.26)
Crazy Talks #52: I HOPE THIS HELPS TOUR (hacked for social media - 02.05.26)
Crazy Talks #30'Something: "HONEST Real Talk" (01.24.26)
ALL DESIGNS: Agnanadi; AllLies; The ArtWork's Outside The Box; BEING Symbol (Classics); BEING Symbol (Skull version); BEING BE-ing Being (Str8 Outta); BLACKLIGHT; Blacklight Quotes (Be Honest); Blacklight Quotes (No One Or Thing...); Blacklight Quotes (One Fire To Another); Blacklight Quotes (Peace & Blessings); Blacklight Quotes (The Only Thing Illegal...); Blacklight Quotes (You Still Have Time); Black Knight; Boney Phace; Charlie Beats; Coal Diamond; DefTrap Ronin; DefTrap Ronin (B.EL.YEWS); DefTrap Ronin (kNo Choice); DefTrap Ronin (The ONE); Don't Jesus The Christ Out of Yeshua, Your Self, or me (Artist & Park); THE DOORS ARE NOT EXITS; Fire Warning; Frank V. Durden; For Shore; Future's So Bright; Garuda VI; Get Crossed At Your Own Risk; Green Hero Man Guy or Girl Woman Person Thing; HappAi Face; Head In The Clouds; I Love Um...; I'm Doing My Best; Just Let AI Do It; Kemuri Ashain; Meditate On The Word Night & Day; Mind Over Matter (Game); NOT OK; OM-A-ZING; Rugpull (The Seein' Clown); Samurai Ruach (brand); Shmokey Phace; Sky's The Limit; Take A Sabbath; TryAngles; Trying To Have A Nice Day; Turn Your Frown something something...; Vesti La Giubba; Warm Jesters; WorldWide Royalty (WWR SERIES); You Fell Asleep On Purpose;
COLLECTIONS/ CATEGORIES: Agninadi (Fire dragon); Bags; BEING Symbols; Blacklight Vibe; Books, Games, & Music; Coal Diamond; Computer Love; EVERYTHING ELSE; Garuda VI; Hats & Headwear; Jackets, Jerseys, Long-Sleeves; Ladies Only; Mainly Text; Rugpull's Big Top; Samurai Ruach (Brand); Spiritual Fire; Tees (Raglan baseball tees); Tees (short-sleeve & tanks); Trying To Have A Nice Day; Vibrant Vibes; WorldWide Royalty (WWR); .