Hello Kultists!
As promised here are some of Tax Deductible’s brainstormings, ideas, and things that made us go ‘ooh’ when we read the brief. This has brought out our inner geek. Sorry. Hope we haven’t missed the mark completely, let us know.
Characters and scenes
- As glastonbury gets muddier and muddier, the mayor’s lackey is constantly placing board after board in front of his feet so he remains pristine white and clean despite the decay, after the uprising of the outsiders he is the filthiest.
- Prosthetic cyborgian outcasts – out of date robots from AI, wires fried, CPUs addled. (We have a wicked prosthetics lady who makes all our creepy stuff for shows.)
- Mad gonzo journalist – a la Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan – interviewing the ‘city’ and documenting the downfall. Increasingly aware of the corruptness of the mayor, becomes some sort of hunted renegade for spreading the TRUTH.
- Freegans eating everything. EVERYTHING.
- Blade Runner style shanty china town market selling noodles and whores
- Pleasure droids with oyster card style touch in pads.
- Leisure Officers – enforced leisure time – maybe something simple and aesthetically odd, like everyone HAS to play with a large red ball. Leisure sirens! FUN FUN FUN! Lectures on the philosophy of fun. Pleasure junkies – people who have had far too much fun.. abandoned outside the main area, moaning for red balls. Pleasure Moderators.
- Love the workers digging the hole. Would be brilliant if they kept changing their mind. Holes EVERYWHERE. With signposts and directions to some sort of spiritual underground ‘metro’.
- BMX couriers sound so brilliant – love the idea of taking the typical cycling courier look of today and making it even more silly and sci-fi and scuzz punky.
- Do Androids dream of electric sheep? ELECTRIC SHEEP. Mood organs! Vendors selling moods in microchip form.
- Religions from the future – cult of the oyster card – touch in touch out touch in touch out. The idea you raised about rituals – touch in pads everywhere to do everything. Devices that track everyone’s movements via the cards creating giant screens of data, graphs, maps, tangles of information – everything digitalised and recorded. Religious preachers, cultists working the outsiders up into a religious fervour, howling prophets fighting for attention – speaker’s corner but even more insane.
Some inspirational things:
The sci-fi and futurist art of Syd Mead(concept artist for Blade Runner)
Transmetropolitan (dystopian comic about gonzo journalist from the future!)
Vivienne Westwood’s litter tribe
Postcyberpunk
Blade Runner
Sin City – tribe of whores
AI’s Rouge City – home of the pleasure droids
American ‘White City’ of the early 20th century – forced, idealised utopias
British Pleasure Gardens late 18th century – Vauxhall Pleasure Garden – utopian mish mash of cultures and entertainments with little coherence!
Ray Gun Aesthetic
Metropolis
Spray-on tattoos
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