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A Kickstarter project. kck.st The man cave is the Universal Remote, the masculine Room of One's Own, the sanctum She avoids. A fond pictorial ode to these dank retreats is overdue. With elegies to pixel death. Voluptuous photographs of pegboard and all that hangs from it. Tributes to glues and epoxies, to solvents that remove glues and epoxies; to cases of spray cans full of air. It's time to devote some ink to vintage turntables. To pyramids of twelve-ounce cans. Caribiners and cleats, Dobrows and axes and antlers. Thrills and agonies of victories and defeats in official team colors. Elaborate home theaters. That sacred cow-ch that journeyed to college and back. But such fond testimonials must spring from Man himself, not from one clever studio. This project must erupt like a flash mob, progress like a pub crawl, spread like a rash. That's why supporters can contribute their own photographs, recollections, diagrams of chemical compounds removed from the rug, flipbook comics, blueprints, tall tales, screen shots, lyrics, chord charts, line art, salted snack recipes, dioramas, drinking game rules, and...stuff inspired by the man caves in their lives. The authors (a writer and an art director) will merely coax these contributions--plus those of a few easily strong-armed professional photographers--into a distressed, pre-dog-eared printed work that, unlike an electronic device, will only appreciate each time a drink is spilled on it. It's the antithesis of getting onto the ...
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