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I'm still playing Street Fighter. I actually imported a machine a couple of years ago from Japan, sitting next to my desk. I've been working remotely for the past 7 years so getting in lots of gaming in between actually working.

My man T4M. I"m alive. In New Mexico.

Up at usual time. One of the dope things is that Adelaide and Tokyo are only ½ an hour apart so jet lag was nil. Our apartment was pretty bloody close to train tracks IMG_5916.mp4 Skatepark in this wicked spot under the train tracks for several blocks Took the train into town Graffiti at Ebisu as per usual. Shibuya scramble not as hectic as it used to be with one street closed off. Schnitzel with bandages to hide the tats/provide much-needed support to left knee. Fuck this was a nice coffee and so sorely needed. Hit up the Gashapon place. Big mistake because my daughter got so hyped about it and we spent a lot of money in these places throughout the trip. The Iceman MQUE Tower Records Good lord the older fatter me loved fried stuff on a stick so I was pretty hyped on this one. Takeshita street Harajuku Corn dogs or what I imagine corn dogs are. Some Korean hotdogs Animal café (very dubious animal welfare standards I suspect) Gigantic fairy floss is another big mistake from me. but the kids loved it and they crashed hardcore when they got home. then because the kids were cactus and Disneyland was tomorrow we headed back for some relaxation with the kids hitting the Ipad and schnitzel trying to convince mrs Schnitzel to add another stamp to our passport so to speak doradao day is a couple days in future

I've been building with the mods for the last couple weeks. First providing a heads up on that server migration and upgrade and after, on some stuff I'm working on to evolve the 12ozProphet brand, forum and community. I figured I'd take this discussion public, with the hopes that I might be able to get some feedback, insight and assistance from all you guys... TLDR Version: There is the biggest forum update in our history coming up next month, that will be the first major step to the rebirth / relaunch of 12ozProphet that will be taking place over the course of this year. I have a lot in motion already and a lot more mapped out that I'm working on, but could use some help in making it happen. We're also going to relaunch the brand, build a new main website and start promoting the shit out of all of it. If I can pull it together, I'd also love to kick off a podcast. ---------------------- Full Explanation Long Version: 1. More Forum Upgrades: The forum will be undergoing a massive update, expected at some point in March. This will be the biggest update to the forum software since the very beginning. The software itself has finally evolved to a point where it's no longer chasing social media and trying to compete feature by feature. Seems the world has finally realized we all got fucked... It's almost generally accepted by most that social media has run its course and everyone is wondering what's next. Even people I knew that were champions for social media and quick to claim forums were dead see the algorithms and big data for what it is and are pissed with what we've been left with. I've been beating that drum for a minute, so not at all surprised to see it come full circle. Seems the big brains behind the base software that makes up this forum have finally stepped back and embraced forums for what makes them distinct from social media and have focused on the differences that make forums a unique flavor of online community. The new forum update shows an obvious understanding and focus on building and refining the features that underpin this type of community instead of scrambling to try and copy shit off Instagram or Twitter. The new forum won't feel entirely foreign, but will feel like we somehow skipped many versions forward into the future with how slick it all feels and functions. Obviously this forum is best experienced on a desktop, but does work okay on mobile. The new version will be many times better on desktop and an entire new level as far as mobile. Though this version is adequate on mobile, the new version is designed from scratch to feel like a mobile app with a user interface that is extremely well considered and features, function and user experience that is much more app-like. I will announce a heads up before that update happens, but it's expected sometime probably in the latter half of March. 2. Dedicated 12ozProphet Forum Mobile App: With the advancements in tech with mobile devices as well as the new forum software, we're finally at a point where it looks like we can actually pull off a dedicated mobile app. I've been running a sort of beta version on my iPhone for about a month and it works about as well as the mobile version of the forum currently. With the massive overhaul of the new forum software we'll be upgrading to next month, that version genuinely feels about as slick as you'd expect for a legit mobile app. @psm026 has told me for years that the biggest reason for the forum dropping off was the dawn of mobile apps. How apps are self contained ecosystem that keeps you boxed into their world and with a compelling reminder to jump in every time you see the icon on your phones home screen. If nothing else, people have been begging me for a 12ozProphet app for at least a decade or longer and it's finally about to happen. Again, we'll announce it as we lead up. In fact, I might run some unofficial beta tests with some of you guys. But this is expected deeper into the year after we've upgraded the forum to the new system. 3. Relaunch of the 12ozProphet Brand: Most of you guys following along know I launched a screen printing business a few years ago just before the world went sideways with COVID. I documented some of the early days of that in a thread here on the forum. Since then, it's been greatly evolved and now encompasses a pretty big space with a ton of capability and capacity. It's retarded that it took me so long to get back to the 12ozProphet brand, but truth is that it wasn't easy building out that facility and between that and all else I have on my plate, I just fell short. That will be changing very soon and the goal is to not only bring 12ozProphet back with a vengeance, but to treat the facility as a creative studio and spin off all kinds of related and unrelated brands and projects. This facility is perhaps the biggest strategic advantage we have along with the fact that of all the 1990s era brands, very few can point to the love and respect 12ozProphet had plus the fact that we simply never sold out. The integrity and heritage that 12ozProphet represents is something that very few others can claim and between that, our history, experience and talent on top of the strategic advantage of owning a facility like 12ozCollective puts things in a pretty amazing place. Took me many, many years but finally about have my ducks in a row. 4. Relaunch of the main website: Maybe it can be argued that the forum is the main website, but I've been working on and off to create a main website that covers the basics of communicating who we are, what we've done and what we're doing. I'm not in a position to do all the cool editorial I'd like to do or have the resource to bring back the blog roll (though I have been tumbling that idea in my head). I am in a position to at least create a good landing page, a few key sections to help describe our story and perhaps showcase some of the milestones and projects. It's largely done and will also allow us to create various landing pages and conversion funnels to help everything from recover old forum accounts to helping convince new people on why they should drop off Instagram and share their ideas, experiences and photos on 12ozPorphet instead. 5. Podcast, marketing and promotion (etc): I've been asked to develop a podcast since just about the time podcasts started. Honestly it's been something that has drifted in and out of my focus and something I feel like an utter dumbass for not having done earlier (along with a decent Youtube channel). Being honest, I'm still struggling on deciding what form a 12ozProphet podcast could take, but I am working on developing the idea. Most likely it'll probably launch as a 12ozCollective podcast first, focusing on creative, production, fashion and culture; but I'm also looking at how the framework I develop (if I proceed with it) can be applied to a 12ozProphet podcast. I have a tendency to over think shit and often take it way too seriously from jump street, which in turn has a tendency to bog things down and become over built and top heavy. I'm trying my best to reign that tendency in and treat it as something just fun and informal. As much a personal diary of sorts or way to think through and workshop up ideas and discussions with interesting people. Then record it, package it and share it. Anyhow, that's the idea and I hope I can pull it off. Unlike the stuff mentioned in 1 - 4, the podcast concept is a "hope to pull off" and not a "dedicated to making it happen". Beyond that is the plans to truly start leveraging social media and outreach to start making real noise. I know a ton of people and the people I know, know a ton more. Additionally we have a large, engaged community on here that collectively, probably know just about everyone worth knowing. My hope is that we can work together to mobilize and coordinate on these efforts. To spread the word and help make the case on why it's worth returning and joining our community versus getting taken for granted and taken advantaged of on social media. ---------------------- I know some are likely skeptical we can pull it off. Lord knows I've been trying for pretty much my entire adult life. We've come close a few times, struggled and fell short other times, but the important thing is we have never given up on what this can be. I have never given up on 12ozProphet and I'm hoping I ca count on all you guys to help me keep pushing. Between the grumbling I keep hearing from more and more people about social media and all the strategic advantages I've engineered over the past years, I think the time has finally come. I'd love to hear feedback from you guys, as well as ideas on how we might be able to take whacks at some of this stuff.

Think it’s been far too long since we had a travel pic thread and since I’m all for generating new content on here and avoiding the “back in the days” nostalgia thought I’d put my photos where my mouth is. It was a gloomy rainy day last April when I looked at flights. And since I have the right combo of a bit of spare cash and a TOTAL lack of long term planning Ibooked some flights for last September to Japan. The plan was to fly to Tokyo, then to Okinawa for one week where we would drive around, and then to Osaka before flying home from Tokyo. This way we hoped to combine Japanes-y stuff ( for me) with tropical warmth (my wife), Japanese food (me), Disneyland/colossal aquariums (kids), bullet train (my son), and J-Pop and kooky fashion (my daughter), animal cafes (my kids). So, hope you enjoy. Had a crazy moment when my wife (for some reason I cannot fathom) packed my daughter’s old and new passports but forgot my son’s and we nearly had a big old argument. Had to fly to Sydney and overnight there. 7 years ago when I left Sydney I was stoked to see a tag on this wall but the scene has gotten way more hardcore. Flying over PNG Sunset ooks cool through the Polarised windows Landed. Japan really doesn’t trust gaijins you have to give some of your fingerprints before you even get to immigration. NOTE the stupid fucking sushi soft toy my daughter insisted we take Made it to the house. Kids to bed Schnitzel to 7/11 for beers

Oh hai guyz, Long time no see. I’m still alive and well. Got tagged in this post so I figured I’d pop in. Glad to see y’all are still Oontzing. I’ll try to not be a stranger! if anyone wants to follow my art endeavors, check me out on instagram at bob_peck_art

Alright. The fiction, architecture, gardening, bonsai, Graff, pin-up, half the art, tattoo, and misc other are mine. But well over half is the wife's, she also has another 8' of shelves upstairs and a bunch at her studio.... I only took a few highlight pics or author's collections I'm most proud to own. Do we all own Papillon?

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This shits fun to navigate from my phone LOL Just kidding. Idk how tf it all works now… No more uploading pictures from my old camera.. haven’t done a Days in Pies in I don’t know how long 😞 was just mentioning @PITOFZOMBIESa few days ago.. It was his end of life anniversary 😥 I still wear my 12oz shirt with all our names on it! Anybody else? Hope you all have been well 🖤

Yoooo just got summond to check in. What's up 12oz!!!

The big day for the kids Tokyo Disney land Breakfast of champions Pork Buns and iced coffee. manhole cover shot because it was nice In our $150.00 Uber to Disneyland because where we were staying would have involved 4 trains to get there. Monorail from train station before we hit the queue. Fuck me it was like 5,000 people long and it was 25 minutes before opening time. But being Japanese it was fast to get in and no bad vibes. The same queue in Australia would be full of people complaining about it. Everybody was decked out which was really cool. I was 100% in the top 10 fattest people in the entire 20,000 people there that day. It's funny the Japanese seem to like nice, clean-to-eat food until you get to Disneyland in which case everybody is walking around chomping on a big ol greasy smoked Turkey leg good thing about riding the teacups was that the parade came out while we we in the queue right next to it Thicc? (mrs incredible haha) biting this tshirt for a piece one day. I thought it was pretty cool to wear some bootleg disney shit at disneyland Had to stay for the night time parade the exit was also mobbed as was the giftshop - this shit was like the last dry deck on the titanic. then we got outside and discovered that an uber was going to cost about $250.00 and would be a wait so I grabbed a taxi. The one taxi in Tokyo where the driver spoke not a word of English and could not read a word of English so I had to set up google maps and pray my phone didn't go dead on the 40 minute drive home. One thing is for sure. TOKYO by the freeway at night is a beautiful experience. it's just a sea of lights as far as the eye can see. would have taken photos but my phone was dying and I had to wave my arms to describe which way to go to the cabbie. Until we reached the home area and he understood what I meant by "OTA CITY" then we high-fived. more later Always. I always keep 12oz in mind when traveling.

Greek freak officially logged in! Whats up people? You guys and girls are the last memory i have from the internet being cool!

Had lunch with Caligula! Went to a local farm stand to purchase some veggies and found out they adopted a dog from me 2 years ago My foster pup Marble who has been adopted!

Hi! I moved to Indianapolis. i started tattooing. i got a dog. I’ve been sober like 12 years. life is cool hi

Mostly bicycling/ebiking since theres way more you can access, but still got all the motorbikes. I dont think Ive shared much of this but I did a few stints crewing for friends in amateur and pro racing. heres the pics.

funky freak reporting for duty, sup oontz fam

OONTZ SET what up

I feel like I've been @'d from the year 2k.

So here is the initial video I pieced together of today’s events which depicts the lead up to Me “Going for a Walk(about)” as any Australian kid probably was forced to read the book Walkabout during their tenure as a student. There is going to a be a part as the days events unfolded as I detail what happened in the hospital (will make sense if you watch what happens). Also I’ll try and include the local art from time to time as I’m sure it will be appreciated here. I will have a shave probably at the end of next week when I set off on the journey fully as a new beginning for Me. While My phone recharges I’ll be going to decorate My van with some prints I have, yet if anyone wishes to send Me their stickers, prints, pieces or whatever to decorate the inside of My van until it looks like My “local” haunt Hill St Blues in Amsterdam, hit Me up in PM for a mailing address. I refuse to leave it as I found it, and I have a paint can I can spray something with on the walls to match the blue that the previous owner coloured the interior. I’ll perhaps film an update tomorrow and additionally show you around the various suburbs of Perth as I work away starting with Applecross.

Crazy you asked - a buddy last night asked me to send him some pics to show to a guy. So I have photos on hand looks a bit like this: there are about 6 more graff books around the house and another 500 odd mags in tubs in the shed. Literature books seem to be scattered elsewhere The shoeboxes are filled with small format zines the most premium mags in the collections are currently in a mess the worn out book on the left is a cookbook from the 1970's that was my mum's it's full of food stains from the kitchen and handwritten notes from her along with some notes about recipes so it's a little bit of her even though she's been dead 18 years.

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Went to Madonna Didn’t wear my sweats New mural in Little Tokyo/Arts District (barf)… let’s go Giants! DimSum Dashi Kombu

rapidsave.com_indians_dont_joke-sul1tu05xknc1.mp4 A classic

Dorado Day for @LUGR Morning snorkel with the boy - visibility was shit. found a wicked concrete pipeline I could walk along to get miles out in the water. Probably a sewage line but it meant we could walk out rather than swim out. An interesting thing from the US occupation was the rise of drive-in diners all over the island. we were told to go to Cape Zanpa Drive-in. So we did. Coffee and burgers and shakes went up the lighthouse and watched a guy frantically casting to take advantage of the Dorado kicking around the deep water cliffs (my wife's camera has a piece of dust stuck in the lens can you tell?)

Had to be up semi early the next day love all the train posters they have in japan my inner rail nerd wanted to steal it. Airport where we found out the robotic baggage check-in does not mess about with weights. We had to repack all the bags just right and eat all the snacks etc. Tokyo goes on forever from the air. Landed in Okinawa. can of coffee. Rental car The Toyota TANK lol! Then 37km drive along the main north-south freeway. Okinawa is the only Japanese prefecture with no rail at all. During WW2 the United States bombed the railways so heavily that it was eliminated and during the occupation, the US put in freeways instead of rebuilding. Driving in Okinawa is pretty fun. The top speed limit is 80 km/h but I was doing 100 km/h and still being overtaken by everyone. The apartment was fucking sweet was a bit scared it was gonna be a shithole but I needn’t have worried. Cool bus for a restaurant. The creatures are called Shisa and they came to Okinawa from China in the 14th century. Closed mouth – good spirits in Open mouth bad spirits out Love a good Asian restaurant. Eating would be so much more fun if Australian restaurants decked out like Las Vegas. The tank in all its glory. Looks like a piece of shit but was great for parking with sliding doors and the back was flush so you could park real close to a wall. went to American Village for dinner in Chatan. it's close to Kadena Airforce base and was packed with African American servicemen and their ultra tanned Japanese girlfriends.

Member Number 0000001. JOINED: May 7, 1999. Early 50's now. This thread makes me want to start posting stories in The Unofficial History of 12ozProphet Thread. An especially good one that is highlighted in the Spotlights section. Thank you to all of you, past and present for decades of LOLZ. This thread though, gives me the warm and fuzzies.

I came in here to wish everyone Happy Holidays and I see this and start to get bummed out. I felt this way once, and still do about what it's turned into, but the spirit is still there. Maybe go serve at a soup kitchen during the holidays? That's the real spirit of Christmas. Not packages with pretty bows.

Just want to spread some good news for a change. My homies daughter just beat cancer again. @Makeryou follow Mike on Instagram? Go show her some love. She loves reading all the comments people leave for her. Edit- @Mr.Maker

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hey hey, still alive here! @larscopenhagen on other platforms

Well well well what do we have going on over here.. Keep up the good work, feels right to be back

hello dawggs

Breakfast then off to town Largest city is Naha traffic sucks so they have a monorail that goes around town. Pokemon trains etc. Samurai mac but I can't recall what made it special. went through the centre of town to kokusai Dori coffee obviously didnt work on this dude 2000's era graff at Xlarge went to DonQuiote discount store. this shit is an institution in Japan. I love it for the bonkers signwriting in the store - all hand cut hand painted lettering. each store employs a full time sign painter to do their merchandising and it rules. found paint so I decided to go scope a spot out under the freeway near our apartment. Went back that night expecting it to be a ghost town and came face to face with a group of bus drivers eating noodles round a card table.

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9 also equals our total number of regular users.....