Subject: Classic OcuSlack -- Explanation

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.slack
Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2002 2:20 PM

I'm working on both of the SubGenius catalogs and some new swag. But
everything was looking so New School. I felt the need for more Old
School. I got to scanning. Boy howdy did I do some scanning. A lot of
these images have appeared in web or print but at crappy resolution, in
black and white only, etc. Quite a few of these artworks and photos
date back to the early 80s and there's even some from 1979, like the
One True Grandpappy Original Dobbshead #1 (The Fucked-By-Everybody Twin
as opposed to the Twin Philo has, which has never Duplicated.) There's
a treasure trove of enlarged versions of Ur-Church work by the great
Hellswami Satellite Weavers aka Rev. John Hagen-Brenner.

I also unearthed a couple of CD-Rs from 1994 labeled "REVELATION X" in
Paul Mavrides' handwriting. Whereas none of the data on them made sense
to me in 1994, last week I sure had fun taking advantage of all the
scanning he already did of some of the great drawn art we used in
Revelation X. I wish I dared to post more of HIS art, but LIES is very
particular about what the Church is allowed to "give away," as he puts
it. I don't blame him because unlike the rest of us (probably) he
actually has to make his living drawing stuff.

On the Revelation X CDR was a folder marked "NENSLO," which contained
some fucking incredible pieces done by that worthy under the false name
"KDV" in the early 90s, using Superpaint or some such primitive
pixeel-by-pixel black and white drawing program.

Anyway, some all-time greats follow, to remind us of the First Twenty
Years of Sacred Art of The Church of the SubGenius and The Church of
the SubGenius Artists. Fuck with as necessary.

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Subject: Classic OcuSlack - 1stBOOKofSUBGENIUS.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Cover by Hellswami Satellite Weavers (the foreground Fleeing Pink is a
self-portrait!). Palmer Vreedeez is seen in the protected Easy Chair.
The city is Dallas or a sort of proto-Dallas. The general idea for this
cover image was mine, but I could only take it to the stick figure and
clip art stage.

When Simon & Schuster bought the book from McGraw-Hill, it was decided
that the cover was too "busy" and broke all the rules of book covering,
so the Ken Huey "Blue Dobbshead Cover" was commissioned.

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Subject: Early Stang Collage - Dr-TapesPic.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

From 1981. Perhaps this helped start the evolution of that Butthole
Surfers album cover by Paul Mavrides, who probably swiped the idea from
LIES.

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Subject: Numens Remissionis classic - Fist-Planets.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

This Numens Remissionis fellow was the first creator of SubGenius
COMPUTER graphics that I know of.

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Subject: Classic OcuSlack - LogoPageColor.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

The One True GrandPappy Dobbshead, in its natural environment, as it
looks today, as seen with the naked eye.

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Subject: Classic OcuSlack - LogoTriangle.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Drawn by Hagen-Brenner from a design by Drummond and Stang

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Subject: Classic OcuSlack - Salvation orDestruction.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

The Hellswami drew this from a stick figure design by me and Philo
Drummond. The biology textbook Hydra was his idea (we had a bipedal
octopus monster). The guys in DEVO liked the design so much they had it
redrawn for a DEVO poster, but in payment put our address on the
poster. That is how many a SubGenius in the early 80s first came unto
"Bob."

SubGenius graphics were also used by Pedro Bell for the album cover art
of George Clinton's "You Shouldn't Nuff Bit, Fish." Which is a FUCKING
great album.

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Subject: Classic OcuSlack - TrueDobbshead-ScanFrmOrig.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

This jpg is one generation removed from the One True original
grandpappy Dobbshead. ONLY ONE.

I put the True Head on my scanner and enlarged it hugely. This resulted
in a Photoshopish file (HELD IN RAM mind you) which I carefully tweaked
to get rid of the yellow and the print-through from behind. Which was
NOT EASY actually. I added the Registered mark at this stage, but on a
separate layer so as not to taint the Head. This jpeg is made DIRECTLY
from that RAM-stored Photoshoppish image BEFORE the photoshoppish one
was truly saved. So the "vibe" of this digital reconstruction is that
it is basically DIRECTLY TOUCHED by the "vibe" of the One True
Dobbshead.

I know, I know, it looks like any old Old School Original Halftone
Dobbshead, but if you're superstitious, this here jpeg packs as much
holiness as a graphic can after being transmitted as code over wires
through various servers to end up grinning off your monitor.

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Subject: OcuSlack - Equally Holy True head But Smaller - TrueDobbshead-ScanFromOrig!.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Also a DIRECT copy, so all possible mjo is preserved.

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Subject: Classic OcuSlack - HeiroLine-1-BoBCon72.jpg (0/1)
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

For The Book of the SubGenius we wanted to invent a whole new language
and a new alphabet to improve on English. We didn't have time for that,
but we did manage to line the chapter headings with a Hieroglyph set
that started with some doodles and occult clip art that I gave the
Hellswami, who drew up some of them and invented some of his own.
Mavrides created some that would also double as symbols on the Tree of
Knowledge, and Hal Robins just went apeshit drawing heiroglyphs of his
own invention.

Finally, Puzzling Evidence made a couple of extra sets by rearranging
the pieces of the existing ones made by everyone else.

Then I shrunk them and put them in these lines.

The heiroglyphs later evolved into the BobCo Font symbol set which Atom
Funway assembled.


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