Alright! These will start officially shipping before the end of the month! I'll have them listed in our online store Monday.
This is the second issue of our #skyPirates storypaper magazine.
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@derek Very nice, thanks!
@ajroach42 is way into airships and sky pirates & even wrote this "Maifesto of the Sky Pirate".
From "Le vingtième siècle: la vie électrique" (1893) by Albert Robida.
@derek Very nice, thanks!
@ajroach42 is way into airships and sky pirates & even wrote this "Maifesto of the Sky Pirate".
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When I talk about #Skypirates I frequently mention the film The Pirates of 1920 (released in 1910, available now from New Ellijay Television.)
It's great!
It's also a sequel of sorts, to the 1909 film The Skyship Destroyer. I didn't have a good copy of that one until today! But now I do, so you can too: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/uNf5YWCLtWgeb42sejjoxZ
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There's a third #skypirate film in this proto- #steampunk trilogy called The Arial Anarchists, but it has been lost for around 100 years.
It's based on a book, though. The book is called Hartmann, the Anarchist; Or, The Doom of the Great City by E. Douglas Fawcett
That's on PG and Librevox. I haven't read it. I might not ever read it. Who knows?
But if you wanted to watch a 115 year old science fiction film about sky pirates... well, go watch The Pirates of 1920, it's a much better movie than The Airship Destroyer.
But if you wanted to watch a Second 115 year old film about #skypirates... Go watch The Aerial Submarine, it's a much better film than The Airship Destroyer.
But if you wanted to watch a THIRD 115 year old film about #airship pirates... well, The Airship Destroyer is now available.
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I'm working on some posters for our #skypirates for #assemblyRequired
Here are some posters, tell me what you think!
The first is inspired by futurist art, because it was the futurist anarchists that everyone assumed would take control of the air in the 1910s (They didn't, WWI happened and the futurists mostly became fascists, and they mostly sucked shit, but some of their art style was interesting and the Russian constructivists and Russian Futurists took up their style and made it in to something much cooler, and that's where I'm drawing this inspiration.)
The second is Fred the Baker as a sky pirate.
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Andrew (Television Executive)
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Alternatively, if you're more interested in #SkyPirates and #RevolutionaryJoy than you are in toys, you can watch some of the films that inspirated our pirates from @video
https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/p/nQmSoz1U7RUUVqSLQdeGn2?playlistPosition=1&resume=true
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🚨 FIRST LOOK: JACQUES THE SKY PIRATE! 🚨
Meet Jacques—the rogue French-Canadian sky pirate from our original pulp series The Mysterious Air Pirates!
Hand-painted in our Ellijay, GA workshop and molded in eco-friendly PAL + recycled HDPE, this daring 3 3/4" figure is ready to swing into your collection with his trusty grappling hook!
SEE HIM IN PERSON THIS WEEKEND!
We’re debuting the entire crew at the Designer Toy Art Festival (presented by Assembly Required) in Philadelphia, August 9-10! Come find us—we’ll be the ones talking pulp adventures, sustainable toys, and revolutionary joy.
Jacques was designed by @djsundog and produced by Sundog and @ajroach42
Alternatively, if you're more interested in #SkyPirates and #RevolutionaryJoy than you are in toys, you can watch some of the films that inspirated our pirates from @video
https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/p/nQmSoz1U7RUUVqSLQdeGn2?playlistPosition=1&resume=true
🚨 FIRST LOOK: JACQUES THE SKY PIRATE! 🚨
Meet Jacques—the rogue French-Canadian sky pirate from our original pulp series The Mysterious Air Pirates!
Hand-painted in our Ellijay, GA workshop and molded in eco-friendly PAL + recycled HDPE, this daring 3 3/4" figure is ready to swing into your collection with his trusty grappling hook!
SEE HIM IN PERSON THIS WEEKEND!
We’re debuting the entire crew at the Designer Toy Art Festival (presented by Assembly Required) in Philadelphia, August 9-10! Come find us—we’ll be the ones talking pulp adventures, sustainable toys, and revolutionary joy.
Jacques was designed by @djsundog and produced by Sundog and @ajroach42
I'm working on some posters for our #skypirates for #assemblyRequired
Here are some posters, tell me what you think!
The first is inspired by futurist art, because it was the futurist anarchists that everyone assumed would take control of the air in the 1910s (They didn't, WWI happened and the futurists mostly became fascists, and they mostly sucked shit, but some of their art style was interesting and the Russian constructivists and Russian Futurists took up their style and made it in to something much cooler, and that's where I'm drawing this inspiration.)
The second is Fred the Baker as a sky pirate.
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A lot of what we put out through our various channels is from the public domain. A lot of what we put out through these various channels is original stuff we made. Some of what we put out through these various channels is stuff that other folks have worked with us to make.
Any act of creation or consumption that doesn't happen under the control or at the behest of a billionaire is a radical act.
Existing here on the fediverse is a radical act.
But I do my best to take things further, and to bring revolutionary ideology in to my work.
Which brings us back to toys.
Most of the toys we're making right now are #skypirates
Why Sky pirates?
Because Sky Pirates are full of revolutionary joy!
In the 1910s and in to the 1920s, in the build up of to and the wake of the first world war, the air was full of revolutionary energy. Anarchists and socialists were tossing bombs and setting fires. Against that backdrop, man was heading for the skies.
From Zeppelins to The Wright Flyer, everyone was racing in to the skies.
And those two ideas got mixed up in people's heads. Suddenly literature and film were full of stories of anarchists bombing from zeppelins, of Great Men flying to Mars in their blimps.
There's a third #skypirate film in this proto- #steampunk trilogy called The Arial Anarchists, but it has been lost for around 100 years.
It's based on a book, though. The book is called Hartmann, the Anarchist; Or, The Doom of the Great City by E. Douglas Fawcett
That's on PG and Librevox. I haven't read it. I might not ever read it. Who knows?
But if you wanted to watch a 115 year old science fiction film about sky pirates... well, go watch The Pirates of 1920, it's a much better movie than The Airship Destroyer.
But if you wanted to watch a Second 115 year old film about #skypirates... Go watch The Aerial Submarine, it's a much better film than The Airship Destroyer.
But if you wanted to watch a THIRD 115 year old film about #airship pirates... well, The Airship Destroyer is now available.
When I talk about #Skypirates I frequently mention the film The Pirates of 1920 (released in 1910, available now from New Ellijay Television.)
It's great!
It's also a sequel of sorts, to the 1909 film The Skyship Destroyer. I didn't have a good copy of that one until today! But now I do, so you can too: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/uNf5YWCLtWgeb42sejjoxZ