misteraven

Lot of sizes running low. Last call… Those that have DM’ed, I’ve set yours aside already.

Thanks man!

Reminder for those interested in the $12 tees... June 2025 tee drops in a couple hours. https://12ozprophet.com

Lead by lies, followed blindly. We live in an era where information is everywhere and the truth feels harder than ever to find. Narratives shift. Agendas leak. Trust collapses. It’s not about choosing sides—it’s about waking up to truth. Seeing through the noise. Asking the questions nobody wants to answer. This month’s release from the Official Bootleg Series is a quiet riot. A statement piece rooted in skepticism and designed to stir conversation. The front holds a stark quote that cuts through the fog: “Lead by lies, followed blindly.” On the back, the message deepens like something torn from a forgotten fable. A haunting 16th-century woodcut of Death leading the blind, screenprinted with surgical precision and framed in CrudeOil’s unmistakable handstyle. It hits hard, without saying too much. Also dropping: A limited-edition flag and sticker pack, each bearing the same heavy message. Aesthetic fuel for your wall, your sketchbook, your city. This isn’t product, it’s a warning label for the times we’re living in. Printed in Montana by 12ozCollective. 100% cotton, 100% intention. Available tomorrow, Thursday June 12 at 12pm EST. $12 until it sells out. No restocks. No second chances. This release isn’t about politics—it’s about perception. Misinformation is the new pandemic. The battleground is your feed. The frontlines are the conversations you’re not having. Also, big things are coming from 12ozProphet. We’re rebuilding our platform. A new site and online shop. A dedicated mobile app for the Forum. Real community, no algorithm. Social media diluted the culture and we’re about to start taking it back. Stay tuned. 12ozProphet – Official Bootleg Series™ Worldwide Graffiti Scholarship™

Thanks man, appreciate it.

Interesting. Haven't seen that before. I think it's something being affected by the embedded videos. I'll dig deeper.

Just responded, let em know. Thanks.

June 12th snuck up on me faster than what feels real. I'm still neck deep in fulfilling orders and got a super late start due to delays in getting blanks. Anyhow, if you ordered the May release, I apologize for the ridiculous delay on it. I'm genuinely at the tail end of a lot of work that will start to surface soon and between 12ozCollective and 12ozProphet and all that both entail, I've really fallen a bit behind. This is definitely the latest I've been fulfilling 12 series orders, but that aside, a lot of behind the scenes progress is being made. Anyhow, lot of people still waiting and I'm doing my best to go extra generous on stickers to try and make up in small part. Pretty sure June will be a lot faster and almost certain that August will probably be the last release on the old system/ New system will be a lot slicker and there's a lot more on the back end that'll make fulfillment a lot more streamlined. Also, making a lot of changes on the 12ozCollective side to improve our production workflows, which will also have a big impact. Disclaimer aside, I'm pretty pleased with the June graphic. Really hope you all dig this one. Obviously my two cents about recent events. Regardless of what side of the fence you sit on, it speaks to the bigger picture. Anyhow, enjoy... First come, first served. First peak, more details to follow. As always... June 12-12-12 tee - Thursday, June 12th at 12pm noon EST https://12ozprophet.com

Link please? My best guess might be that an oversized image its stretching shit somehow.

Being honest, tough to pick up on tone, but I don’t take any real issue with you or your post - for the record. You’re welcome to your opinion, and from my view at least, I appreciate your posts and contributions. Just figured since you called me out specifically, a couple times, that I’d respond. But my post was just me putting my opinion out there, like everyone else on here does. Generally I don’t waste my time on stupid squabbles like this, but felt inclined to speak up since I had a couple minutes and I felt like it. Pretty sure most of you would agree that my track record on here has been pretty fair and balanced. 26 years worth of my comments are only a search away. I think I put up with a lot more than most in my position would, but I can certainly wake up on the wrong side of the bed on occasion and like I said, I’m entitled to run shit how I see fit, for the simple reasons I posted in my last comment. Honestly, I don’t even feel the need to justify myself and I only do so because I’m a nice guy and appreciate most of you so I make an effort when I feel the situation merits it. No doubt I’ve made some mistakes along the way. I think the largest are probably a combination of me getting too busy in real life to maintain a constant presence, as well as me letting shit ride a lot longer than I probably should. That’s certainly on me, not that it changes the scope of any of this. Anyhow, I do the best I can and as stated, everyone is welcome to go start their own thing. Lot easier to point fingers and criticize someone else’s efforts than it is to actually build something meaningful. Honestly, I wish more people did actually create something worthwhile and contribute in interesting and more meaningful ways. But instead we get the dumb shit that is Instagram and an individual that has nothing to do but evangelize a clown like Trump to a bunch of people that really don’t give a shit. Fact of the matter is that decades after its inception 12oz is still a name that resonates throughout the graffiti community. I still regularly get hit up and regularly talk to some of the biggest names in graffiti. Been at this way too long to get bothered by anyone on the sidelines that got butt hurt somewhere along the way. It’s inevitable to pickup some haters in a culture that loves to wallow in drama. If anything, I’m surprised how rare it’s actually ever directed my way. When it happens, it’s always a nobody that feels like they’ve been sleighted and can’t help but hop up on soap box and rant about how everyone is wrong except them. That’s really what all of what this comes down to. Pretty trivial, really. Doesn’t really matter. Still doesn’t mean I’ll sit around listen to it forever. I prefer to not wade through dumb shit when I have some time to come kill here on the forum. So much more fun when you guys post something funny or interesting, so I try my best to encourage that.

Since 1999, so 26 freakin years… Every month the bill for the forum comes due. For many of those months, I’ve though back to the previous month and have wondered whether it’s worth skipping paying for my home, paying for a new property that I can rent or maybe just treating myself to something I want. Some months, more than others, are harder and harder to justify. People have come and gone, trouble makers have come and gone. People have straight up called me out, disrespected. More often, people come and gripe or do subtle shit to undermine what I hope this place is supposed to be, according to my vision of it. I appreciate a lot of the LOLz as well as many of the friendships, but I often question whether it’s worth it. After 26 years of doing this, I’m sure many can imagine how much money has actually gone into maintaining this place. And before someone gets retarded, no… the ads we ran for a few years never put a dent in that cost. No, the $8 caps and more recently, the $12 tees, haven’t started to scratch the surface of what this place costs. Never mind the countless hours in designing, maintaining and trouble shooting that I will never get back. For now, I continue because I choose to do so. This place continues to exist because I chose to keep putting my money, time and energy into it. It exists at my discretion and only my discretion. Nobody is entitled to anything, except what I allow on here for so long as I continue to make the decision to maintain it. Likewise, everyone is free to go spend their time wherever they want. If this place sucks, no worries go find a better place or better yet, start your own. I’m a pretty easy going individual, but I’ll run this place - for better or worse - how I want. Or maybe one day I won’t. It’s as simple as that.

Bump because the original version of this thread might be in the top 5 of all time. Between Adobe Photoshop v28 and AI, this could be lotsa LOLZ if we make it happen. @Mercer @One Man Banned etc.

Classic.

Yes, been taking Ashwaghanda for a while. Magnesium Glycinate is also a good one.

Appreciate the kind words and support.

As mentioned, I’m working on this. I have no way to auto resize which is the solution here. But many of guys are at 1gb of storage because each photo is in 5 - 10mb range which is pretty huge, even by today’s standards. Since I removed the 1gb cap, I need to throttle this some other way of it’ll add hundreds of dollars in storage fees per month at the rate it’s going. This becomes exponential as more members do the same so trying to find a solution.

Also, would be helpful to get a screen grab of the error if it persists.

I’m making adjustments to the system but uploads are capped at 5mb whether a single file or single post. Verify your images are less than that and let me know.

Yes, 7mb is pretty huge. What are you trying to upload? I’m working on this function so will do my best to get it figured out asap. But yeah, helps if you aren’t uploading ginormous files.

First. Following up to myself… I saw a meme posted that was a screen grab of a twitter post. Wish I’d saved it. Was a person that said how can you be bearish about America when companies like Palantir and Anduril exist? There was a lot of wisdom in the simplicity of that statement. When you consider how far and how quickly we’ve come, it’s truly incredible. Not sure how many of you guys know more than just the MSM spin and social media conspiracies about these companies, but the technology is pretty damn insane. We have SpaceX, which is such a short period of time managed to build reusable rockets to space that can land autonomously on drone ships in the ocean. We have AI that can help you do everything from draft viable legal documents to help you build a mobile app without knowing how to code a single function to literally finding cures that have stumped humans for decades. Honestly, it’s all pretty amazing if you can get past the arguments about whether Elon is a Nazi or that AI is going to turn on humans and take over earth. Anyhow, I agree with that twitter post meme. I’d rather figure out ways to learn these tools, identify the opportunities and shape my destiny than sit around arguing about bullshit that you can’t even influence, let alone control.

It’s easy to get pessimistic with all the shit we’re bombarded with, from legacy media, new media, social media or even the world at large. God knows that despite having deleted all news apps off my phone and generally avoiding news altogether, I can feel my psyche being contaminated by all the constant negativity. I’m not saying let’s put our head in the sand. I’m also not looking to sprinkle fairy dust on a rotten corpse so we can pretend everything is okay, but are things really that bad? Obviously zombies won’t be walking the earth. The chance of a post-apocalyptic hell scape is also probably never going to happen. The earth will keep turning, the sun with shine and birds will chirp their songs every Spring. An analogy that one heal onto - first out of some sort of self soothing desperation, but after as a true and honest belief - is that if the boat is rocking during to stormy seas, those that are poorly positioned will fall out of the boat. Those that can brace and weather the storm, in other words, well positioned… Well, those people get to move up to better seats on the both once the storm starts to abate. No storm lasts forever. Adding further to this way of thinking, imagine if the economy was booming. Imagine everyone is on their A-game and killing it. How much more competitive, and therefore challenging, would the world be? Imagine is everyone out there was a savvy, talented, genius type individual. Confident, happy, healthy and strong in every way… Would be a hell of challenge to go up against. Imagine trying to start a business, get ahead, compete when everyone is the best version of themselves. I don’t subscribe to the idea of a herbal utopian existence. We’re all human and both the beauty and curse of being human is a flawed existence. To appreciate light, you have to experience darkness. So this being said, after God knows how many threads have been posted about all the negative shit (whether true or not), which in turn has sparked an untold number of arguments… Which in turn is a small reflection (a relatively benign one at that), what if we flip this isn’t a conversation about the flip side of the story? The part that neither legacy media or social media seem to care to discuss. Fact is that in general terms, we live in the most prosperous time in human history. Everything from general safety, to quality of life, to knowledge and opportunity… There has never been a time of such abundance. For starters, you have the world’s knowledge in your pocket. You have access to interact with humans on the other side of the planet in real time. For the most part, we can all navigate the real world without the fear of death and disease. Sounds fundamental and certainly something we take for granted, much less really have to worry about, but 100 years ago a women really couldn’t travel alone in the USA. In fact, even in cities and towns, they’d generally have a male escort of some sort to avoid assaults, theft, murder etc. (Season 2 of 1923 actually portrays this really well). Now we live in an era that most people have so few actual problems, that they adopt problems. No doubt some might do this to distract them from their own problems, but in the grand scheme of things, life is comfortable enough that we can protest who gets to use what public bathroom, rather than sweat having half your family die from cholera because you’re forced to shit and bath in the same river you drink out of. I know, sounds so off the rails that it’s hard to actually consider and apply to your reality, but that is sort of my point. We’re all pretty damn comfortable. This naturally leads to complacency and in our flawed existence, there’s no shortage of scum bags willing to capitalize on that dynamic. But you know what? You don’t have to participate. Do you… Study. Learn. Network. Grow your skills, your knowledge, your equity. Be 1% better today than you were yesterday. Plant a garden. Skip that coffee or lunch in the street and save that $5 - $15. See what it adds up to at the end of the month. Take that monthly bit and invest in yourself or your future. Expand your skill set. Buy crypto or stock or whatever you deem best. Buy land. Do you. So, with my wall of text having been said, let’s maybe work shop and discuss the opportunities that exist in the cracks between all the doom and gloom. I know it feels helpless a lot of time. I know the thought of owning land seems wildly impossible to most people these days, but that is largely because we’re too busy buying overpriced coffee, eating shitty food and arguing with each other over topics that are truly and well outside any semblance of your control.

Following up, and perhaps off topic, but I sincerely hope all the political division comes full circle. That after years of Obama / Biden versus years of Trump, that everyone is so entirely fed up to finally realize that it’s two sides of the same shitty coin and regardless of who’s in power, the average person is still getting fucked. And that is the absolute truth. Hopefully everyone looks at government, all government, from a position of skepticism always. That every word out of a politicians mouth should be considered a lie until proven otherwise and that trust is never fully granted, but instead earned every single day they’re in office. Fact of the matter is if your a Democrat, you literally watched your party sell you out. If you’re a Republican, you’re watching it happen now to you. You can point to this or that your guy may have done that is perhaps good. But it pales in comparison to the damage and destruction that vastly out shadows it. Only thing worth arguing about is if what we’re seeing is gross incompetence or malice. /rant

Just skimming the last page or three so my bad if I’m dropping an out of context reply, but two things jumped out… The last HHS director was a tragic joke of at best or some bizarre coordinated effort to further divide and destroy what’s left of this country. Useful idiot is probably accurate. Not sure you could find someone that epitomizes the opposite of a healthy, qualified individual if you tried. Par for the course… What government agency is actually fulfilling the goal in which it’s establishment and charter was founded on? Second, from what I’ve read and seen in interviews with RFK, he seems pretty level headed. He actually acknowledges that he isn’t an expert on everything and consistently encourages a position of transparency and individual decisions. Lot of negativity regarding his position on vaccines, but every interview I’ve seen, dude is like… Pharma should receive immunity from accountability, the studies and testing should be mandatory, public and legit, and people should have the right to make their own choices either way. Maybe, like most, my exposure to news (“truth”) is an echo chamber of disinformation, but I’ve seen several interviews where he states this and can’t say I’ve seen him say anything that o took to be super fucked up. When ver I have bothered to look up something he said that sounds fucked up, it generally tracks back to some legacy media article and I can never find actual evidence of him having said it (actual full video or audio transcript). At last dude is calling shit out and putting some attention on an industry that is about as corrupt as they come (FDA, big pharma, big ag, etc).