Starmagic
There used to be a little novelty store near NYU called Starmagic. I think I bought a deck of Tarot cards there, and some slinkies over the years. Then it disappeared leaving only an empty shell of a...
View ArticleEnter The Collector
One of my co-workers is decorating one of the walls in his apartment with old Ouija boards that he buys on eBay. Another collects beer tap handles from the same source. I am thinking about starting a...
View ArticleThe Deadprogrammer Tarot Project
For a very long time I wanted to create my own Tarot deck. Complex symbolism of classic Tarot decks such as the Rider-Waite-Smith makes it next to impossible to recreate them faithfully in photographic...
View ArticleDeadprogrammer Visits Japan Part III : Monk Money
Money-making schemes are a on my mind a lot lately, so here’s a little bit about ingenious schemes by which Japanese monks are raising money. As I don’t have much understanding of Buddhism and Shinto,...
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