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Make an EmpowerThirst video

lxpk — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:19:44 -0400

'm going to make an EmpowerThirst video.

The lines lend themselves well to Empowerment.The humor is a good way to make light of what is actually a pretty over-the-top thing in real life.

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Gencon Empowerment Flyer

lxpk — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:18:29 -0400

This is the Empowerment flyer we produced and gave out at Gencon targeted to a gamer audience.

Keep in mind the page order is confusing as it was printed and folded together.

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Write a narrative, webcomic or howto story script for possible use in empowerment comics

lxpk — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:33:20 -0400

Do you have ideas for narrative stories, howto scripts or humorous webcomics dialog?

Post your ideas and we'll draw the best suggestions into empowerment comics.

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Develop Empowerment Comics Concepts

lxpk — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:55:42 -0400

Google's Chrome Comic shows an excellent use of comics as a storyboarding medium to explain things in a way similar to how it could be done in a video.

Indy Workgroup

Tabling At Whiteland Community High School Concert Nov14

lxpk — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:45:29 -0400

Start: 2008-11-14 08:00

End: 2008-11-14 11:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Empowerment has been invited to table at Whiteland Community High School's upcoming November 14 rock concert with live bands.

The show starts at 6PM.

Dr Steel's Indy Army of Fun

Develop Tactical Ice Cream Unit Capability

lxpk — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:53:50 -0400

We need a tactical ice cream unit.

What is the legal requirements to have an ice cream truck and play the music on the street?

What are the materials costs?

Ice cream and antiviral counterpropaganda for the little children!

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I Want You To Empower Yourself Poster

lxpk — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:15:31 -0400

This is a simple recruiting poster based on Uncle Sam.

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The Empower Thyself Symbol

lxpk — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:44:47 -0400

The Empowerment Symbol's meaning is explained in detail in the manifesto: It symbolizes each person's ability to empower themselves and our global opportunity to universally empower humanity.

Here blow under Attached Files is posted original source files and usable exported PNGs for different versions of the symbol and fonts used.

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Conviction: The Power of One

lxpk — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:09:48 -0400

Right click above image and "save image as" or click and "File Menu/Save..." it.

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Empowerment Second Life HQ

lxpk — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:05:13 -0400

Empowerment now has a Second Life headquarters called SLHQ, a virtual world you can visit to meet other empowered doers.

Download Second Life and join (it's 100% free)
Teleport To Empowerment Second Life HQ Now
Start talking to people by voice and chat live
Learn The Second Lifing Medium Skill to get good at navigating SL
Check out some of the landmarks at SLHQ, like the Activist Memorial.

Spacepedia: Get Physical

Empowerment Toolbar

lxpk — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:06:46 -0400

RiZen proposed an Empowerment Toolbar and showed a demonstration of it. I think we should make a toolbar like this and refine its features. This is a really good idea. Let's add featurelists here:

It should use the icons like those on the site and indicate how many messages and updates you have the check out.
It should show how many and which missions you have.
It should be minimizable to show up in the bottom left status bar like Firebug and StumbleUpon do.

http://www.empowerthyself.com/node/880

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Empowerment Manifesto Zine

lxpk — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:30:35 -0400

We are beginning to develop the Empowerment Manifesto Zine, an introductory booklet that explains the core ideas and principles of Empowerment and introduces featured ideas, skills, tools, missions, groups, and Spread Empowerment campaign materials.

It is like an Empowerment For Dummies book.

Manifesto
Principles
The Empowerment Symbol
Using EmpowerThyself
Each section has the full list with one-sentence descriptions and a couple featured articles
Comic or inspiring story
Skills
- Learning
- Doing
- Timing
- Recruiting
Mediums
- Bindering
- Carding
- Flyering
- Letter Writing
Ideas
- Activism
- Voting
- Liberalism
- Conservativism
- Ethics
- Memes
- Cyberpunk

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EmpowerThyself.com Ribbon

lxpk — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:14:35 -0500

Here's a design for ribboning. A higher res version could be made into a magnet vynil sticker for cars and the like.

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What brought you to EmpowerThyself.com

lxpk — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:24:46 -0500

* Google (comment what the search was for)\n* NewsReal with Sean Kennedy http://www.rantradio.com/shows/newsreal\n* http://BarcampLA.org\n* http://BarcampSD.org\n* http://Noodlescar.com\n* Someone I know invited me (comment what they told you)\n* Alex Peake invited me\n* I saw a t-shirt, a poster or other materials (comment where you saw it, bonus points for pictures)\n* Agent Viralink Industries http://www.empowerthyself.com/node/1163\n* Something else (comment about it)\n

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Empowerment Shirt Zero

lxpk — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:36:08 -0500

We produced empowerment shirt zero for Barcamp Los Angeles. (Remember, there are 1 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't. Integers start with zero.)

Source files will be uploaded here as soon as Adobe patches Flash uploads for Leopard or I slum it through Windows along with a communication log showing pictures of us wearing it with feedback.

There were only two original shirt zeroes produced, one for myself and one for Freddy. A full print run is being prepped this week for shirt 1.0.

Shirt Zero was produced by my new friend Ian at Streamline Design & Silkscreen:

Streamline Design & Silkscreen

1 N Calle Cesar Chavez
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Phone: (805) 884-1025

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NEW: Inventory and Task Lists: Becoming a reusable bag activist! Ban plastic bags!

lxpk — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:03:01 -0400

The Inventory and Actions lists are two new collaborative Drupal systems online now for registered users to use.

Inventory allows you to list the things you have, the wishlist of things you want, requests for things you need help getting, and offers for things you can give.

Actions allows you to post tasks, feature requests, bug reports and support requests into a big to-do list. Have an idea for the site? Post it. Want to help develop the site? Choose an unassigned task and assign it to yourself to work on.

Both of these listings are searchable and both are somewhat clunky to use still but they will gain much more sophisticated interfaces soon. There is already an action underway to improve the way these work!

Actions is already being used with Nihi and Doobius tackling the first Drupal tasks ever to be delegated and loads of site ideas are going up for future consideration.

Inventory is already being used to request equipment from AgentSubversion.

In researching some things on my own wishlist, I discovered a new cause I believe strongly about: Plastic bags. We waste a TRILLION plastic bags every year, a million every second. In a world at war over oil, this is completely insane and costs American and Iraqi lives.

Anyone who uses free plastic bags is LETTING THE TERRORISTS WIN!

I'm going to become a reusable bags activist. I'm going to order a 4 pack of Workhorse black bags and buy a whole bunch of cheap $1 bags to give away to people to get them to buy in.

This issue is so fundamentally black and white that it is easy to see how it will become an excellent example of starter issues we can show people how to pursue that can appeal to everyone without alienating anyone. If you can supply everyone you know with reusable bags Facebook checklist style, you will have gained immense skill and confidence in your abilities as an activist and advocate for good things. Imagine what people will be able to do next once they accomplish this.

I've added my wishlisted bags to my inventory. If you want some bags, add them to your wishlist too!

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Empowerment Postering

lxpk — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:01:01 -0500

Empowerment Postering is a fun way of decorating the world with colorful propaganda.

Master the art of postering and get started printing these out and putting these up or creating posters of your own.

Kill Apathy Poster

The Kill Apathy poster is a culture jam based on the Kill Bill Volume 2 poster.

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Empowerment Desktopping

lxpk — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:49:47 -0500

Download the desktop picture poster and set it up on every computer you can get your hands on. Learn more about desktopping.

Click to Download The Wallpaper
or right click and choose "Set as Desktop Picture"

Old Versions

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Empowerment Shirts

lxpk — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:37:40 -0400

People with serious responsibilities wear professional uniforms with pride. Whereas soldiers camouflage themselves in BDUs (Battle Dress Uniforms), activists draw attention to their ideas by wearing EDUs (Empowerment Dress Uniforms).

Empowerment shirts, sweaters, hats and the like boldly proclaim the idea of Empowerment. Every time you wear the shirt it spreads the word and invites people to ask the fateful conversation-starting question: “What’s Empower Thyself?”

Ordering Shirts

Empowerment shirts will be available for download for DIY shirt making.

They are also sold online and by local Empowerment groups at cost or by Contribution
- inexpensive white & black for $5
- stunning full-color for $10.

Making DIY Shirts: Clothe Thyself

Many people will prefer to take matters into their own hands in true Empowerment style by downloading designs and producing their own DIY shirts rather than ordering and shipping from The Empowerment. Learn How To Make Shirts

Design Contest

There will be special shirt designs to honor Contributors.
People can submit new designs for others to download.

Ideas:

Combined new logo idea: empowerment symbo, empowered person silhouette, empowered humanity globe
Empowerment: You Decide
Why We're Doomed Grap, Don't Join The Empowerment! Apathethics Anonymous
Empowerment cityscape as a landscape wide across the shoulders
Song lyrics from World In Progress like "Before every revolution it is impossible they say. After every revolution it was the inevitable way."
Source note below has URL to get the song

Second Life Shirts are also available.

Open Source Collaborative Art Creation

Original art files need to be made available so others can easily remix art assets into new creations.

"Use the source!"

The Source is about being open and showing your work and methods.

Shirting

Shirting turns your body into a walking billboard spreading the message of your choice.

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