Dance Tenet
The game has officially started. A quick update on The Canis, comics, cards, and why Tenet dancing is somehow the least strange thing happening around here.
There is a small chance that I have lost touch with reality. That’s not a bad thing; I am building another one.
The Canis is an original world expressed through streetwear, comics and playable artifacts.
It’s On
Raptor 1 and Raptor Wakes as dusty recovered artifacts.
There is much to be revealed, but the game has officially started.
Hours of web building, alt text, and thousands of moments in between figuring out language and images, and I can’t stop thinking about the cards and the points system behind them.
I cannot wait to get started on the comics and the cards. I’m a systems person. This really is my bag. I have wanted to make my own comic for as long as I can remember.
The Cards
The first part of The Canis streetwear game is live; the cards are an additional layer. They will be playable. More on that when my brain produces it. Signal Lost.
The Comics
Trying to take this on by myself might be the most insane thing I have done yet. Most comics are made by several people. I still have a business to run, designs to create, story to write and characters to develop.
Thankfully, half The Canis writes itself, the hard part is getting it out of my head.
Please send help. We accept magical caterpillars, beans and dolls.
The world is evolving.
I think moon eaters are coming. I know Logic is growing something else. Tenet will most likely hijack my brain at some point.
And Ultraviolet is somewhere in another universe, getting more annoyed by the minute.
Can a Streetwear ARG Change Clothing Recycling?
Can storytelling change clothing recycling? This article explores why I'm building The Canis, a streetwear ARG designed to make sustainable fashion more engaging.
We all know fashion has a waste problem.
Some of you might not know how big it is.
Less than 15% of clothing is recycled globally each year; yet we produce 92 million tons of textile waste in the same period.
Most of that ends up burned or in landfill.
Can storytelling change behaviour?
People are not going to stop producing fashion. It’s a part of who we are. How we make it, what we make it out of, and what we do with it after, is all going to change.
Historically, we’ve never had to worry about what happened to it after we were done. Can how we feel about what we’ve bought change that?
A photo representing the circular fashion process, organic cotton fibres clean enough to break down and reuse.
Why organic cotton isn’t enough.
If it was only that easy. Changing how people behave is hard.
Cotton is one of the most toxic fabrics on the planet, synthetics and micro plastics are another big topic. We’ve seen incredible and ridiculous innovations in textiles, but these are more often clickbait than sustainable.
GOTS certified organic cotton is grown free from harmful chemicals making it easier to recycle.
But organic cotton alone is not the main reason why most people buy.
Building a streetwear ARG.
The world I am building has game play elements. Comics, games and a series are in the pipeline, but the overarching question is how can we change behaviour?
A small incentive is a start. But is it enough to make you go through the steps of returning a t-shirt?
We all have clothing we value; we tend to keep those items. Often regardless of condition. What we do with the stuff we don’t want, or is damaged, is barely a thought.
The Canis is the experiment.
Do we not recycle because that’s the way it’s always been and ‘all it will take’ is a few regulations?
How long will these regulations take to become globally enforceable?
Or can we do something about it in the meantime?
I’m not saying I have the solution. But maybe, when you’re done with your tee or it’s looking a little haggard, you’ll hear Tenet’s voice saying, “The Canis takes it back” and scan the QR code.
Sun Eaters
A doodle. A grin. A giant cosmic worm.
Sun Eater began as a sketch over before evolving into one of the first true species of The Canis. This is how a bedtime doodle became mythology, original art, and sustainable streetwear.
I honestly have no idea why I put that doodle on a tee.
It must be his stupid grinning face.
He makes me laugh.
No one knew that this 11pm doodle, would become a species, a force of nature.
“I ate the sun, but I’m sorry!”
Star Maggots
Attracted to dying or unstable light.
They only know one way to solve a problem.
No world, no problem.
I almost deleted it
When I started the shop with my 20 year old teenage art, I knew they were characters, I knew there was a world.
The world just hadn't revealed itself yet.
While every other brand is doing back prints, sleeve prints and full-garment graphics,
I'm drawing star maggots.
Sun Eater is no longer a drawing
He’s a giant cosmic worm.
He cleans up.
He might eat our sun.
But he’ll definitely apologise after.
Let the design breathe
Inhale, hum, bark. (if you know, you know)
That's the transition from illustration to mythology.
I’m having so much fun. There aren’t enough hours in the day.
Though this heatwave is making me, question things. Maybe he should eat it…