DEVELOPEMENT HISTORY
The original set of symbols, as seen in Dispensation throughout
THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS, was created from memos sent by Dobbs to
Rev. Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond, thence circulated among the
talented artists Paul Mavrides, John Hagen-Brenner
(aka Hellswami Satellite Weavers), and Dr.Howll Robins.
Some of the symbols are extremely common, even prosaic occultic runes
and glyphs. Others are brazenly displayed versions of the most secret
Seals of Solomon. Yet others are but common mere-hume advertising materials
of a bygone age, somehow imparted with deeper meaning than their makers
could ever have comprehended in the furthest reaches of their wildest dreams
or most perverted late night phantasies.Yet others are mere "clip art".
In the year 1997 (12-1-0 b.x.), the SubGenius artists and scientists at
Atom Funway Plastico succeeeded in remaking these classic hypnotic designs
from their cave-painting originals into path/vector based virtual recordings,
or "fonts," from which the modern SubGenius may build a new "weltanschlang",
or "way of viewing the world." New symbols were developed by the Funway
laboratories and were inserted into the Hieroglyph Set at that time.
There may be future ALL-FUNWAY sets to come.
The SubGenius Hieroglyphs are © 1997 by
REV. IVAN STANG -- PAUL MAVRIDES -- HELLSWAMI SATELLITE WEAVERS --
HAL ROBINS -- ATOM FUNWAY - IR. REV. FRIDAY JONES - PAPA JOE MAMA
The image of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of The SubGenius Foundation, Inc
Use only with permission, all rights reserved. Thank you.
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AN EXCERPT FROM STANG-FUNWAY RESEARCH NOTES:
STANG: Anyway, I can't believe what hours you must have poured into this!
Is there a plug-in that converts line art to paths, vectors etc,
or have you been lining these vector paths up by hand? Either way I KNOW
it's gotta be MAJOR TWEAKIN' CITY!!
FUNWAY:There is automatic tracing of bitmaps but it looks like shit. It
comes out very sloppy. These are hand drawn one curve at a time. Yeah,
this took some time but I have LOTS of that. Vector drawning is slow but
very smooth and accurate. It is fun, but not near as fun as we'll be
havin' USING the fonts.
I was thinking tonight that this will be something that non-graphics-arty
types will be able to have FUN with. I think it could inspire a lot of
non-artists to do art things. Because the symbols are so great, no matter
what you do with it , it's gotta be cool. I mean, they'll be able to make
SubG greeting cards and posters and signs in a word processor!
STANG: Well, that's part of the POINT of this whole church -- any fucking
amateur IF IT HAS HALF A BRAIN AND SLACK AWARENESS (and a Membership Card!)
CAN DO A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER THAN TWENTY WELL FUNDED CONSPIRACY CORPORATE
COMMITTEES!
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