Andrew (Television Executive)
Andrew (Television Executive)

@ajroach42@retro.social

Trying to reshape the future of television.

I write and build stuff.

Est. 1990. (He, Him, Etc.)

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July 7, 2017

Spent the day with a friend from the indie toy world and one of the things we ended up discussing at length was the idea that, as artists, it's very difficult to make a living without engaging some kind of pandering.

In the art toy community this takes the form of something called "platform toys" which are largely generic barely characters that serve as a platform for multiple color schemes.

Mostly, this means making a boring toy, and then letting a bunch of different artists get together and paint it in the color schemes of well known characters from big corporations like Skeletor or Darth Vader.

I had thoughts, I'm going to try and summarize them here.

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