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LowBrowsing Rebuilt Summer 2018...
I rebuilt LowBrowsing and it took over two weeks. Dead links have been replaced and content is now organized more intuitively. More content will be added to the site shortly.
Just FYI, What was formerly the Lobotomous section is now Fons Bormer but focuses on personal creative and critical works. There is a new Lobotomous section exclusively for gaming related works - creative and critical. The Massifesto and Roman Charity sections are now properly situated in the r/K Universe section. r/K used to be named W.A.R.. Finally, a lot of media review, top lists (i.e. Touchstoner) and so on, are in the XHT Media section.
I think that these four categories make more sense. It will be easier to navigate my site and find what you want. It will also be easier for me to add new content. I didn't like that I was building new pages specifically for 2018. That was making my site more like a blog and LowBrowsing is a lot more than a blog. Hopefully you will enjoy the new organization of content and structure of the site.
Word of warning... all of my media review content is based on personal taste and I don't put together "best" lists that compile consensus choice. For example, we can all agree The Beatles had some great music and maybe "Hey Jude" gets into almost everyone's top 10 list of Beatles songs. Therefore, it ends up being decided that this is their "best" song. My list won't include Hey Jude and instead I will list my favourite Beatles track whether it be "Hey Bulldog" or "I Want You". That kind of thing...
Another thing worth mentioning is that the content of Massifesto and Prolepticon is not self-effacing and there is an important context that has to be understood. So please read the precis... especially before you start jumping around via the stamps on the front page.
Just FYI, What was formerly the Lobotomous section is now Fons Bormer but focuses on personal creative and critical works. There is a new Lobotomous section exclusively for gaming related works - creative and critical. The Massifesto and Roman Charity sections are now properly situated in the r/K Universe section. r/K used to be named W.A.R.. Finally, a lot of media review, top lists (i.e. Touchstoner) and so on, are in the XHT Media section.
I think that these four categories make more sense. It will be easier to navigate my site and find what you want. It will also be easier for me to add new content. I didn't like that I was building new pages specifically for 2018. That was making my site more like a blog and LowBrowsing is a lot more than a blog. Hopefully you will enjoy the new organization of content and structure of the site.
Word of warning... all of my media review content is based on personal taste and I don't put together "best" lists that compile consensus choice. For example, we can all agree The Beatles had some great music and maybe "Hey Jude" gets into almost everyone's top 10 list of Beatles songs. Therefore, it ends up being decided that this is their "best" song. My list won't include Hey Jude and instead I will list my favourite Beatles track whether it be "Hey Bulldog" or "I Want You". That kind of thing...
Another thing worth mentioning is that the content of Massifesto and Prolepticon is not self-effacing and there is an important context that has to be understood. So please read the precis... especially before you start jumping around via the stamps on the front page.
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Screenplays...I have been writing a lot of screenplays recently (summer 2018). Two feature-length scripts are complete and I am working on two more at the moment. My goal is to have one hundred scripts complete over the next year or so. A tall task but at least then all of my best stories would be in screenplay format.
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Netflix Reviews...I did a hell of a lot of movie and TV reviews this summer (2018). I reviewed over 100 movies and almost 50 seasons of TV.
This is an ongoing project and I'll probably only get a chance to do more media reviews during holiday seasons. |
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Social Media and Influence...I continue to add content daily to Vero even though the app hasn't really been growing after its initial explosion at the end of February 2018.
As for YouTube, I still upload videos to the site so that I can embed that content here at LowBrowsing. Otherwise, I find YouTube to be completely useless. The search engine is flooded with non-creative and redundant user commentary and it makes it impossible to build a following of fans or haters. |
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I am considering Twitch streaming for Gods of Olympus but haven't fully decided yet.
Banner made by Fons Bormer using official art from Gods of Olympu
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I'm With Stupid, Stupid!This is my shirt design and I think it represents the spirit of LowBrowsing pretty nicely lol. What are you waiting for? Piss everyone off with this awful anti-social message! If you are surrounded by people who can't take a joke, then maybe this isn't the shirt for you.
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My website is intended to be a few things: ironic, a stream of consciousness, experimental philosophically. I hold individualism to be the most important quality of existence, and although in the past I have been a supporter and opponent of different ideas, movements, and people, the reality is that this website presents experimental thoughts and volatile ideas. History isn't fixed and is constantly subject to reinterpretation therefore all ideas that individuals hold should be the same. But, if you want to know who I really am and how I really think, you'd have to meet me in real life. As for online, I like that the web is a platform for provocation and I believe that this helps people grow and develop, both through authorship and readership. If someone claims that how they present themselves online is genuine to who they really are then you should meet that person with the greatest suspicion. The web is a place of creative performances where you can try out new personas, personality traits, ideas, and philosophies. I laud the human race for maintaining the web in this way and the moment that this place ends up policed for ideas and personal statements is where we have then found ourselves living in an Orwellian dystopia. Free speech is speech that does not directly do harm and it should be protected. Hate speech is speech that recommends harm in a sincere way. I am against hate speech and I never recommend harm against others. Almost all of my work is to be treated as fiction and fantasy. If you can't do that then you shouldn't be here.
"THE DESTRUCTION OF TRUMP" by Fons Bormer
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Fons Bormer
r/K Universe (pronounced "Ark")
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Lobotomous
The Gods of Olympus Book
XHT Media
Art Blog...
Social media sites are becoming more and more crooked and corrupt, and I don't trust using them. Content gets pulled and accounts get suspended, defying community trust. I plan on making my own social networking site in the near future, but that is a very big project so some other stuff comes first. In the meantime, I have started an art blog (on hold temporarily while I completely rebuild my website - completed July 31st, 2018). I love art and love sharing the best art so that people can become more aware of the great artists out there in the world today. More details to follow...
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I am on VERO as LOBOTOMOUS. You can try adding me there. I have been doing daily updates since the beginning of March, 2018.
I have over three thousand followers who enjoy the regular updates of cool visual art or media reviews. If ever my account is shut down at VERO, I will continue updating here. |
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I have content up on dozens of websites, including Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Vimeo, however I will likely never use those sites regularly again. I tried Gab for a bit because of the free speech promise, but there are too many political radicals there. I still check in on Deviantart.
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Fallen King...
Fallen King is my new Twitch.TV channel persona. The channel name is FonsBormer. The plan is to stream a lot of Gears 5 in 2019, but before that I'd like to stream some content related to the stories I write. We'll see how that plays out.
Mission Statement...
There is no truth in collectivist activism for the Engineering epoch. I accept that activism was critical in previous epochs and I do not argue against the value of the American Civil War, or French Revolution, or Civil Rights movement. My fear is that the activism borne of the Service epoch may disrupt our transition to the Engineering epoch and delay our social progress long enough that automation renders us useless. I believe that this anxiety is at the heart of classical notions of socialist dystopias. We get a sense in classic dystopian narratives, from film and literature, human work is redundant and organized for political ends because there is no other purpose for human effort. We must avoid this future. The most effective way to make the transition to the Engineering epoch is to master individual-based rationality, to reject political activism which does not naturally resonate internally, and to promote the philosophy of shared space over that of safe space.
"CREATOR VS CREATION" - collage work and photomanipulation by Fons Bormer
Disclaimer: This website is "Shared Space", not "Safe Space"
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There are some old LowBrowsing disclaimers still on this site. There are also explanations for The Massifesto and The Prolepticon. I create a lot of online personas and explore those characters through assuming their identity at times. I believe that this is a great exercise for writers, which I consider myself to be. It is like shadow-boxing... so don't put your face too close to my fist because I'm not intending to knock you the fuck out.
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It is difficult to keep track of my aliases, but currently Fons Bormer represents original creative work (formerly Lobotomous Monk). Lobotomous now represents my identity in the world of gaming as that name has been my gamertag for many years. The r/K Universe has Lobotomous Coal's Prolepticon and Bill Ides's Massifesto. XHT Media is for work that reviews other people's creative work, and not my own. If I did it, that content is in the first three sections, and if someone else did it and I'm reviewing that then it is in XHT (with a few exceptions). I cycle through my online identities but here is a shorter list: Typo Monq, Typo Oth, Lobotomous Monk, and Fons Bormer. Some of my older work still has these aliases (and maybe others such as "A.J. Dubya" or "Jackman Wylde").
If it is important for you to contact me and deal with me directly, email is lowbrowsing @gmail.com. However, if you stay at this site then you agree that this is a place where fiction and reality are intentionally conflated and ALL work is satirical. I'm serious.