I mean, HOT DAMN! LOOK AT THIS THING!
JESSE HERNANDEZ
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
DISCORDIA MERCHANDISING
Friday, April 30, 2021
Jesse Hernandez is F*cking Epic!
I mean, HOT DAMN! LOOK AT THIS THING!
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
SCP-5000 The Graphic Novel from Discordia Publishing
This badass Scifi/Horror/Mystery tale is lovingly illustrated by artist DrDobermann. Based on the 5000 Series Contest Winning file by writer Tanhony. It incorporates the full scope of the SCP Foundation by covering a vast swath of Foundation lore while presenting the entire gambit of Fandom Favorites!
If this is your very first introduction to the SCP Foundation Multiverse, you are in good hands.
PREORDER EVENT ONLINE HERE: LINK
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Summoning Devil 10 Inch x Spicy Donut
Summoning Devil - A 10" Vinyl Figure by Spicy Donut
A huge new vinyl creation from Spicy Donut! The devil is looking for a contest and he's bringing a shiny fiddle made of gold!
Sculpt by Aaron White from Promistyx
ONLINE HERE: LINK
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
The NFT Market is an Ecocidal Doom Machine
There is an Ecological Impact of NFTs. Apparently the trade in coded simulacra is burning up energy at alarming rates. I can't say I personally know a damn thing about how NFTs work nor how the Crypto currency system works either. I also don't know how cars work. But I don't need to know anything about combustion engines to know tail pipes spew hot steamy death.
Someone else however knows a lot about how all these things work and they did all the research and penned a very intimate look at this Digital Bubble of hot steaming death. And you can find all this highly detailed work hereon Medium: LINK
Hint: Most of the damage to the world is actually due to the Ethereum cypto currency that is required to participate in the NFT Market. Which all really sounds like some kind of scam being played on Artists by the people behind Ethereum to me.
I am however, betting this bubble will pop way before it collapses the biosphere because of one simple fact. Speculation.
Bubble Markets pop when more people are trying to cash in on something VS people who just love it and want to keep it. Profit VS Pleasure. Think Beanie Babies, or Funko Pops. Both of these landfill bound brick-a-brack items spurred many a baseball card collector into thinking they would be worth big money, we all know what happened to the Beanie Baby market. Even though some people still enjoy Beanie Babies to this day.
The NFT Market however, is 100% Profit Speculation. No one is getting into this market for the pleasure of it. It was doomed from the start. $5,000 gif files may be the bomb hustle for a few starving artists who get a jump on this devastating scam at the start, but all the buyers are going to left holding the bag when the value of these intangible artifacts drops like a rock.
Now here is what I really hate about the NFT thing altogether, they are a digital Funko Pop. Pops, rope in average consumers who would never buy Designer Toys, in spite of some people musing that they are a gateway drug toy, which they are NOT. Your average mall dweller doesn't actually give a damn about Pops, they just like their fandoms. Most Designer Toys are not backed by a cartoon and the inevitable Cereal Boxes. So mall dwellers will never give a damn about Designer Toys, Pops or no Pops.
My point here is that NFTs, and their inevitable demise and fallout, just like Funko Pops, won't motivate the average consumer to move on to collecting real art on canvases any more than the collapse of the speculative value of Funko Pops will move collectors surrounded by little white boxes filled with worthless bobbleheads to go to DCon and start paying for $100 vinyl toys.
If anything these Flipper Markets will, in the long term, leave Artists everywhere stranded with way less long term fan base, on desert islands of plastic bottles, riddled with cancer, cursing their digital wallets.
Now here is what I really hate about the NFT thing altogether, they are a digital Funko Pop. Pops, rope in average consumers who would never buy Designer Toys, in spite of some people musing that they are a gateway drug toy, which they are NOT. Your average mall dweller doesn't actually give a damn about Pops, they just like their fandoms. Most Designer Toys are not backed by a cartoon and the inevitable Cereal Boxes. So mall dwellers will never give a damn about Designer Toys, Pops or no Pops.
My point here is that NFTs, and their inevitable demise and fallout, just like Funko Pops, won't motivate the average consumer to move on to collecting real art on canvases any more than the collapse of the speculative value of Funko Pops will move collectors surrounded by little white boxes filled with worthless bobbleheads to go to DCon and start paying for $100 vinyl toys.
If anything these Flipper Markets will, in the long term, leave Artists everywhere stranded with way less long term fan base, on desert islands of plastic bottles, riddled with cancer, cursing their digital wallets.
Maybe I'm wrong, but the bastards in charge never change. So good luck with that.
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
Saturday, March 06, 2021
1 ARTIST 1 PATCH - VOL 02 - Hosted By The Super Sucklord
All these items are a Limited Run restricted to this project, so when its over, that's it for these rare Patches and the Exclusive Sucklord items. So get your flip on while you can!
ONLINE HERE: LINK
Tuesday, February 09, 2021
THE PEEL COLLECTION
And we have added all new exclusive items, see below.
Friday, February 05, 2021
SCP FOUNDATION GLOW PATCHES PREORDER EVENT HAS BEGUN
ONLINE HERE: LINK
Friday, January 22, 2021
PEEL HAS A POSSE - Special Issue Signed Copies
Only 23 issues are available at this time while we fulfill app Kickstarter Pre-Orders, which we are coming close to completing. Once those pre-orders are all packed and shipped, fill retail of unsigned issues will follow.
ONLINE HERE: LINK
Thursday, November 26, 2020
BIDEN HAS A POSSE - VICTORY 2020 Vinyl Sticker Pack
Joe Biden is the rightful 46th President of the United States with a record shattering volume of Votes never seen before in American History.
Take that Haters!
To celebrate Discordia Merchandising is releasing a special drop of High-Quality Weather-Proof Silk-Screened Vinyl Stickers for the Streets. Ranging in Size from 6x6 Inches to 4x4 Inches to 3x3 Inches. Available in Various Bulk Assortments.
Saturday, October 03, 2020
SUCKADELIC Stoopid Stickers and More for Retail
Step right up and empty your wallets on some of this fine-ass paraphernalia. Super rare, elicit goods sure to increase in value for years to come. Step on up eBay flippers! You know the hustle.
ONLINE HERE: LINK
Friday, October 02, 2020
THE SJW STREET PACKS and BLM Sticker Print Unlocked
THE SJW STREET PACKS include 10 BLM Has A Posse and 10 RBG Has A Posse 3x3 inch Vinyl Stickers for 20 Stickers total. All at a special low price to strip away at any profits on our end. (They still cost us money to print, pack, & ship so nothing we can do about that.)
BLACK LIVES MATTER Has A Posse - by VOXX ROMANA. A Special Silk-Screened Vinyl Sticker print printed a huge 9x9 inches! Available in a Stand alone Reward and in various SJW Reward Bundles.
ONLINE HERE: LINK
Thursday, October 01, 2020
UNDERGROUND BLEND Volume 15 Now Live
Underground Blend - Volume 15
An ongoing collection of Vinyl Stickers from the Designer Sticker Artist global community. Curated by Discordia Merchandising.
Designer Stickers are made in small runs and are normally only available by direct trade between Sticker Artists. Discordia Merchandising made special arrangements with each Artist involved to bring these unique works to the public.
LIMITED EDITION of 25 - Numbered Packs
Sticker Artists in this Volume:
-THE SUPER SUCKLORD
-JOIN THE UNDERGROUND
-PSYCHOLOGICAL INDUSTRIES
-MOST
-ART INK
-DAVE TOO
-THE CHUCK
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LOOKING FOR ARTISTS
To apply for the next Volume send images of your sticker design to: discordiamerchandising@gmail.com or check out the Event for Underground Blend Volume 16 on Facebook.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
ADVERTISE IN THE NEW PEEL MAGAZINE
Advertising Space for Independently Owned Shops such as Graff Supply, Art Supply, Designer Toys, and all other Street Culture Related Goods and Art. Ads include Inside Covers, Back Cover, and Center Insert. See Rewards List for Options and Prices!
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
Thursday, September 17, 2020
1 Artist 1 Patch Volume 01
Discordia Merchandising Presents 1 ARTIST 1 PATCH Volume 01.
The ongoing Embroidered Patch Series. Each volume will be Hosted by a Different Artist who curates other Artists of their choosing for Limited Run of patches for PreOrder on Kickstarter and never to be seen again!
Each Artist will be gifted 20% of the patches sold through each event to do with as they please. Support your Favorite Artist now or never! And contact Discordia Merchandising about Curating a future Volume and elevate your peeps too.
Saturday, September 12, 2020
How the Designer Toy Scene Ignores the Street Sticker Scene at its Peril
My company Discordia Merchandising can get anyone an assortment of designs for pennies a piece and we do so for dozens of artists annually going back over a decade. But from our experience we see very little cross over between the Designer Sticker and Designer Toy world.
There are a few exceptions, MCA comes to mind, as his toy design was featured on the cover of the last issue of PEEL Magazine back in 2007. An issue that tellingly hinted at a cross over between these two art worlds as it also featured ads by Rotofugi, and an article on Graffiti legend SEEN featuring some Art Toys of his design, called Spray Monsters. There is also a feature on early Dreamland Toyworks productions which brought street artist Olive47 to toy from with the Miss Cupcake Platform.
"Well not everyone is OBEY!" someone will inevitably exclaim. And yes this is true, very few street artists will gain that caliber of exposure and get offers from toy companies to produce their wares. But, stickers are how Shepard Fairey got to where he is now, so imagine the kind of reach Toy peeps could obtain if they did apply themselves to Street Stickers instead of acting like they are too good for such trivial pursuits and focus solely on the Gallery Scene aspect of the Art world.
Take my own side project Psychological Industries. Which admittedly hasn't seen a toy production yet, mostly because I have personally invested more in development of DIY Toy Platforms for other artists to work on and project themselves into the Custom Toy Scene, instead of keeping my toy productions self-centered. (Ahem, Toy Companies, I'm still waiting...)
Psychological Industries, with just Street Stickers, has, at my best estimate, launched 60,000 vinyl stickers since 2005. Through Sticker Trades it has spread around the globe and can bee seen in major city streets world-wide, including a University Archive based on Street Stickers as a Social Justice Movement going back at least 100 years. This is aside from the 30 plus Gallery Shows Psychological Industries has been seen at. How many Toy Artists can say that about their work?
The allure of Designer Stickers can be witnessed at work in a Toy Artists career through the Suckadelic Stoopid Stickers project I ran for The Super Sucklord this year. But launching a Pre-Order Event on Kickstarter the 200 sticker packs I was willing to print up and package for the 'Bootleg Toy' Scene originator, became a high demand project and we ended up making 600 sticker packs instead! The fan base demanded much more than we could anticipate, and that is the beauty of Kickstarter. It is the PreOrder Platform that lets fans tell you what your reach SHOULD be, VS what you think it is.
Sucklord has been on the scene for quite a while and yet has not gotten the Street Sticker boost he should have and desires deeply. So I'm glad to help him put a dent in this dilemma by supplying the demand and putting a ton of street stickers in his greedy hands without applying any effort on his part.
I personally buy up all the Designer Stickers I can from toy artists, again, this is very few and the selection is also very thin in each artists online shop. So I strongly encourage Toy Artists to get their sticker game on and make the moves to get into the streets planet wide.
"How does one break into this scene?" you may ask. Well outside of locating and testing out silk-screened sticker printers, anyone can get in touch with Discordia Merchandising and get access to this niche art world in a snap. I print stickers, package stickers, sell sticker packs through Discordia Culture Shop, and even run a Sticker Drop.
This is a service whereby anyone can mail in, or have me print up, any volume of stickers. The Discordia Sticker Drop then sends back a small selection of stickers from all participants to anyone who sends in. But it doesn't stop there. The Discordia Sticker Drop also mails out assortments of stickers to various Sticker Art Shows globally, and throws free stickers into every order from Discordia Culture Shop, and our 'sister stores' Populous Ephemera and Planet Eris. Which amounts to dozens if not hundreds of orders each month for the last 12 years.
We also toss stickers into our Underground Blend Sticker Packs. If you send in more than 30 of any single design. Underground Blend Sticker Packs has just concluded collection for Volume 15 packs and Volume 16 is collecting now here: CALL TO ARTISTS UNDERGROUND BLEND Volume 16. This series has been going on since 2014 and just happens to be the longest running Street Sticker Pack series ever.
Another way anyone can jump into the Street Sticker Scene is by taking part in the Bootleg Posse Project. Pick up the Template from the PEEL Magazine site and email it in to get into the running to be included in the PEEL Has A Posse Special Issue already Unlocked in the Kickstarter PreOrder Event!
ONLINE HERE: BOOTLEG POSSE PROJECT
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
THE BOOTLEG POSSE PROJECT IS LIVE
The purpose of this project is to create and sell a black & white vinyl sticker pack by various artists to pay tribute to the Original Andre the Giant has a Posse sticker created by artist Shepard Fairey in 1989.
While remaining an underground project not affiliated with OBEY Giant, Bootleg Posse Project has been acknowledged by Shepard Fairey and is being done with his permission.
ONLINE HERE: LINK
Sunday, September 06, 2020
Make us Launch this SCP Foundation Tabletop Game
Finished Product Launches at 1000 Followers on Facebook and Reddit.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SCPFoundationSite23
https://www.reddit.com/r/SCPSITE23/
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
Friday, September 04, 2020
TIRAN23: A Time Traveling Vinyl Designer Figure
TIRAN23 is an interstellar being that is awoken from his comatose state unaware of who or where he is. With the ability to jump through multiple dimensions, he travels to the past, present, and future in search for his creator and others like him. The suit he wears scans his surrounding environments and allows him to camouflage, leaving him undetectable. While seeking to understand his higher calling, TIRAN23 vows to protect humanity while also collecting relics along his way. Eager to begin his journey, TIRAN23 ventures out to the great unknown.
Follow on Instagram @TIRANJOURNEYTOYS!
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
Saturday, August 15, 2020
BOOTLEG POSSE Tribute Stickers - CALL TO ARTISTS
CALL TO ARTISTS: Design your Posse Sticker and submit to be added to the BOOTLEG POSSE Sticker Pack.
A Tribute to the Original Andre the Giant Has a Posse street sticker created by Shepard Fairey AKA OBEY / GIANT.
GO to PEELmagazine.com
to download the 3x3 inch 300dpi+ Template in your preferred format and
email it to peelmagazine@gmail.com to enter your submission!
A Joint Project from PEEL MAGAZINE & Discordia Merchandising.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
BARBARIAN RAGE - THE COMIC BOOK MADE WITH DESIGNER TOYS
Barbarian Rage is a comic book made entirely in toys with physical sets and that is amazing! Who would dare do such a thing? Scott Cherry that's who! Recognize!
ONLINE HERE: LINK
ONLINE HERE: LINK
Friday, August 07, 2020
Friday, July 24, 2020
IM ALREADY DEAD
Blood Splatter edition dropping this Friday 7/24 at 12pm EST(New York)/9am PST (Los Angeles) price per Blood Splatter will be $65 and gets FREE Shipping within the US! Edition of only 100 so don’t sleep.
Along with “I’m already Dead” we will be featuring an entire capsule from @junkyardla with lots of cool merch and art.
Junkyard collection dropping at the source IamRetro.com
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
Saturday, July 04, 2020
SUCKADELIC STICKERS - Decepticon Purple UNLOCKED!
Through their Pledge power we are going to have to produce a double run of Suckadelic Stoopid Stickers in Pink AND Purple! Both colorways will be available in very limited volumes to a select pool of PreOrder Clients. Along with all the additional items they opened in stretch goals such as Tshirts, Coffee Mugs, and other Event Exclusive items never to be seen again!
Again, we at Discordia Merchandising want to emphasis that Kickstarter is a boon to creators for providing the opportunity to truly gauge the public's response to their work and raise the scale of their output to levels they didn't know could be possible.
Check out all our projects to see great examples of how Kickstarter can be utilized to great advantage for even the smallest of productions. From Vinyl Stickers to DIY Toy launches Discordia Merchandising has proven that even a small company with little resources can pull of some amazing things at a scale we could never have managed in the same time frame on our own.
Study our process, and take a look at our How To Guide on Kickstarter Here: LINK
Then get cracking on your own projects and see how far they can really go!
Posted By: Cultural Ambassador Gavriel Discordia
PS: Don't be shy about asking for assistance with your project. We would love to help.
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