About Us
The Neon Crypt is a plural system with many members having an interest in art making, playing music, creating films, designing games, tinkering on gizmos, and all of us have ideas that we struggle to organize, recall, and evolve over time. We’ve created this space in pursuit of a collective desire to do the following:
- keep track of our various in-progress projects and interactive media
- share our process for creating media and learning skills
- see what connections grow between ideas
- seek creation
to spitein spite of existential absurdity - document the process of shenanighans and mistakes that emerge from life
If other folks happen to find something of interest when exploring this online collection of ideas, then that’s pretty rad too.
This space is likely to change over time, the same as us.
Acknowledgements before walking the garden
Our experience of living in a trans body, thinking with a neurospicy brain goo, and keeping to life’s rhythms as a plural system does inform our stance on a few important values, which we share to keep this space safe and welcoming to all visitors.
Care to all, all deserve care
This garden is intended to be an open space for the cultivation of creativity and learning. We wish to welcome all with warmth and virtual dopamine!
However we will not support or tolerate any who wish intolerance, discrimination, oppression, or genocide upon any living beings inhabiting this world. If this matches a belief held close to heart, we politely ask that the current internet browser be closed and revisited when such hate does not hold root in such a closed off heart.
We also do not cast doubt on lived experiences that do not overlap with our own experience of life. Instead, we seek to find inter-subjectivity and empathy in these moments. To create a garden which is as concerned with growing our hearts as much as our brains, we expect that other creative minds will do the same at times when differences arise. As part of this belief we ask those that allow transphobia, racism, gatekeeping, transmedicalism, ablism, sexism, or any other dehumanizing views to leave this site and return when the beauty of humanity’s diversity becomes clearer.
Terms for growing the garden
As the cultivators of this online garden we want to ensure the experience of wandering around here is as pleasantly dangerous, expectedly non-sequitur, and generally helpful as our weirdness will allow. To accomplish this we have the following tenets that we aim to uphold so that the firmament of this garden doesn’t become unaccessible or unintentionally incomprehensible.
Changes to this garden are posted and logged
No one likes to return to a once familiar place to find it all rearranged. Like, where did the hydrangeas go? What happened to that buried cache of chainsaws? We’d been saving them to eat later!
So, when a change is made to this garden, we promise to upload a new entry to the garden’s changelog. We also hope that by having a moderately difficult to understand versioning system (which is purely unnecessary) that we will help lift the beleaguered spirits of those still charting releases of their own.
Evolve thoughts with time
When we originally write out a thought or a process, we may find over time that it lacks insight that we’ve since gained. When this happens we will aim to update our garden as soon as possible. There may be delays based on health or the chaotic life that we tend to live, but our intent will be to keep this garden updated as a repository of current thoughts and creative practices.
Allow seeds to be seen, even while they lay dormant
There is an astonishing amount of projects that we work on simultaneously, and at times these projects will lay incomplete for months at a time. This is not abnormal, as many ideas work like seeds and need time before sprouting into fully fledged projects. The idea of sharing a project before its finished is to demonstrate our process as it happens and to document the steps we took to reach a particular outcome. It is without judgement or concern for the current aesthetics that we endeavor to share in-progress work since to wait until completion may mean a seed never sees daylight for years.