18 Questions & 18 answers…?!?!
1 : What is this..?
18123 is 18123 original images produced and distributed for FREE!!!
Yes boss, 18123 original images are being divided into 1,006.833333333333 packs of 18
Each pack of 18 is then being left out somewhere in the big wide world (or in some cases given directly to associates, family, friends and collaborators)
The first packs are being distributed on 18/12/2024
The last pack on the 18/12/2026
At some point after the these prints are release into the wider REAL world, a digital copy of each unique image will be minted as an NFT on the failed Terra Luna Blockchain available to buy for 18,123 Luna...
In time all images will be also be uploaded to view on the Arweave permaweb in perpetuity...
2 : Are these images worth any £$£$£...?
Could be?!?!
If you give them away, frame them, twit them, edit them, thrown them in a ball, put them on the wall.
Maybe...?
If you write about them, sell them, short them, cease them, crease them, colour them in, reinvent them?!?
And that's up to you?!?!
Perhaps...?|!?!
If you scan them, TikTok them. Claim you made them?!?
You MIGHT make £$£$£...?!?!?
These are a gift to you. A starter for 10 and a way of clearing space our brains and shipping containers.
Make £$£$£ of them what you will or alternatively don't fucking bother and toss them away...?!?
The Marketing Department is YOU...
Are you any good at it...?!?
3 : Who actually did make them...?
The finishing of the images is a collaboration between Paul PIOUS James Deman Giovanni £rd and Lucy Edge, together with the ceaseless aid of the many folks depicted within the images and the technical skills of The MASS Collaborated Naughty Corner Printer Performers AKA The TMCNCPP.
The project is Monitored and Controlled by Deus Ex Fabrika
Approximately 92% of the base images are originally created from nothing by the above actors. The remaining 8% have been borrowed and adapted from the interweb and/or are based on original images made by someone else…
4 : Are they AI?!?!
NO!!!
But they are an intense and well furrowed collaboration between humans and computer and printer technology. Human chance KAOS and dysfunctional software mechanic printers in unison. Sped up decay. Gazing subject matter. Wrong ink. Wronger paper.
5 : These are fucking ugly! This one’s shit! This one has explicit content?!?! Call this art?!?! That image is fucking disturbing!!! This one's shit ‘n all! I wish you'd not put that sticker on the good side?!? etc etc etc
SORRY!!! etc etc etc
6 : I FUCKING HATE PRINTERS!!! They never work....And they cost a fortune
#METOO
Can't live with them. Can't live without them. Embrace the flaws, keep feeding them and give 'em as good as you get back. If they fuck with you put them in the naughty corner. That's my advice...
7 : So is this ART!?!?
The Fine Art Market is one of the biggest SCAM £$£$£ laundering game in the world and can mostly be considered to be a fantabulous scam/ponzi/pravda scheme.
It does however work.
Yes boss, these days almost everyone claims to like art?!?!
Every dating profile professes a love for it!!!
Millions flock to galleries to stand and stare and pretend they understand
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?
Art has become an overblown religion?!?!
Like the stock market?!?!
And so though it's clear Jackson Pollock was a simpleton drunk making an awful mess...
That Mark Rothko was a murky talent free bore.
And that Marcel Duchamp WAS FUCKING JOKING!!!
The world of 'Fine' Art continues to go from strength to strength?!?!
NUMBER GOES UP!!!
And folks keep lapping it up...
And so, though we’re clearly not nearly as talented as folks who make endless slightly different plastic gorillas, this is currently the best we can do to get our piece of that there BAD TV FINE ART pie...
8 : Have you written a long winded and incomprehensible ARTISTS STATEMENT packed full of abstruse words no-one can fucking understand to explain this shit further!?!
YES!!!
We’ll be posting it shortly…
9 : WHAT FUCKING BOLLOCKS!!! I can't understand that at all?!?! Can't you just put your thoughts, ideas and inspirations into plain and simple English like a normal person!?!?
SURE…
That’ll be up soon ‘n all
10 : Who is in these images...?
Friends. Varnish. Models. Strangers. Guts. COLOUR!!! Randoms. Family. Yellow. Rough Energy. Digital Decay. Mistakes. Mutilated Printers. Green. Mil- MILK!?!? Ink in the wrong cartridges. Wrong ink in the right cartridges. Paint. Soul. Sour Glue. Buildings. Industry. Wildlife. Waste paint. Landscape. Black. Dead wildlife. Dead people. RED. Ink. Smudge. BLURRR and Gilttttter
11 : Can I get the phone number of the man/woman in image number (insert here)?
NO!!!
12 : Where can I get more of these...?
All 18123 images in this A4 series are being made and distributed for FREE!!! and cannot be bought from the creators...
You are however welcome to create a vibrant secondary market and to download and fake your own sets.
(Please do drop us a line via the CONTACT PAGE or the form below if you’re doing that and tell us how?!?)
You can also buy the NFTs as and when they’re minted...
And to find out where the latest drop offs have taken place (or might yet take place) please do subscribe to the mailing list and keep an eye on the blog and the soon to be made socials…
13 : Why A4..?
A4 is the paper of democracy.
Of school work
Of WORK work.
Of hours next to the photocopier.
Of photocopied arses.
Of bungled reports and inept enquiries.
Of endless pages of accounts.
Of endless pages of legal filings
Of artists statements that no-one can fucking understand (see above).
A4 is shorter than foolscap and it makes EXCELLENT paper aeroplanes
14 : Are they really all unique images...??
Yes. There are many based on similar original images. Many that in some ways are quite similar to others. But the production on each is unique and no 2 are quite the same. Different papers, ink, filters, varnish, paints etc etc
Each has it's own unique flaws and beauties...
15 : Why 18,123
We may or may not reveal the reason at a later date...
16 : Can I give you £$£$£ and/or praise and thanksgiving...?
PLEASE!!!
Though this is a FREE distribution, it is costing us a BLEEDING FORTUNE to put together and therefore if you feel so inclined please do send £$£$£$£ by any of the methods below...
Send comments, PRAISE!!! requests to be photographed and included in the 18123, and fervent critique using the form below
Alternatively send £$£$£$ to
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And don’t foget to buy different sized prints, originals, framed works etc etc from this here SHOP as and when we release them…!)
17 : Where can I see all 18,123 images produced for this series...?
On this here website
And eventually in perpetuity on the Arweave Permaweb
18,123 : What next?
Countless thousands of BIGGER and smaller versions of largely the same thing. Mounted and framed in sizes other than A4 in an attempt to cash in!
Quite possibly some other shameless attempts to cash in and claim GENIUS!!!
Then a film called Black Fiesta...