Collect weird evidence
Scraps, dead formats, odd machines, overheard phrases, and the useful part of a bad idea.
I keep making the joke bigger.
I’m Mack. I make tiny machines, printed worlds, suspicious merchandise, and jokes with enough rules to become infrastructure.
“If the joke has rules, it can become a world.”
The pile
There is a system in here somewhere
I like tiny machines, heroic infrastructure, printed junk, fan culture, and jokes that accidentally need 82 finished versions.
I bounce between playmats, character families, fake park posters, bootleg shirts, identity systems, and research tools. Usually I start with one dumb rule that feels promising, then keep going until the folder structure becomes alarming.
Things I can accidentally make on purpose
- ✦ Worlds with rules and too many details
- ✦ Characters that survive more than one pose
- ✦ Posters, prints, playmats, and other flat objects
- ✦ Strange merchandise with an actual system behind it
How the problem gets worse
Make it collide
Put two things together that should not share a room. Listen for the argument.
Overdo it
Make one. Then make enough that the joke develops rules, cousins, and a filing system.
Keep the good damage
Remove the confusion. Keep the fingerprints. Leave one small thing unexplained.
If your brief is clear, strange, or beautifully unreasonable, send it over. If it is only two of those things, we can probably fix that.
Tell me the weird part ↗