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We print custom vinyl stickers in small batches with your message or logo.

You can use StickerNation to easily promote any project, band, message, or point of view.

• Type in your message.
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We make it easy to use stickers to spread the word so get started today! :)

Yes, they easily peel off!

We’re sorry, but there is no efficient way to make fewer than 125 stickers of any given design. Wondering what to do with the extras? Give ‘em to some kids down at the shore. Odds are they’ll find some use for ‘em. :)

Glad you asked! I based this site idea on a recent development in communication studies called “memetics”. A “meme” is a replicating information unit, such as a bit of slang or a song or a sticker slogan. Collections of organisms make up ecosystems; human culture is a vast collection of memes, a memetic ecosystem. Stickernation is all about giving YOUR memes a chance to compete against those of the System.

The stickers are typically 9” x 1.25” tall. When you add an extra line, the sticker’s a little thicker, which rhymes. If your message is short, we’ll make the sticker 6” wide and taller than usual. We design all the stickers to have the best look & feel possible, using very legible text that isn’t too squished. Sort of like the below examples:

You will get your stickers within three weeks. If we are running late we will let you know as soon as possible.

They aren’t printed; they’re MINED in the asteroid belt.

the best way to reach me is to send me an email!!! teamsrini@gmail.com

THE TEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

memes are a technology: just like a computer, they can help you to get from intention to actualization. if your intention is to sell more Ruffles, you can use memes to do this. if your intention is to make sure nothing ever changes, you can create a “memeplex”: school=education, bosses=management, money=wealth, work=productivity, consumption=fun, mcdonalds=food, TV=leisure, NFL=athletics, CNN=knowledge about the world, etc. etc. etc.

These false (or incomplete) equations are the psychological tools with which “they” govern our lives. the way squares relate is almost a “buy-in” process – they buy into one after another of these ideas and ultimately they become predictable. The left side of the equation is easier to achieve than the right, so obviously instead of really informing yourself, you say “i watch CNN”; rather than making reading books a part of your life it’s easier to say “i went to college, of course i’m educated”. No need to converse intelligently – you’ve got a Harvard degree, of COURSE you’re smarter than everyone else in the room! Swathed in memes created by the System as indicators of status, congregating in the pseudotribes that are marketed as “communities” while your family erodes and your friendships remain removed from actual creativity, you become dependent on the easy answer, which is to say addicted to that component of the System.

MEMES: Once you reject one equation, you find that others keep popping up. Any tiny rejection of the system can be tolerated by it as long as you keep buying into other parts of it. In other words, you can have a cool punk business and still be a slave to “their” economic values because of debt or whatever. It’s only by rejecting (or re-evaluating or redefining) all of the system’s memes that you can escape the memeplex they’ve created. Once you do, then you start seeing that everyone else is sort of trapped, and you then have to go through endless temptations to rejoin because it’s lonely outside of that belief structure. Either that, or you form your own little meme scheme and hope that a hundred million bottles will wash up on the shore like in that Police song.

Of course, like every technology from fire to nuclear power, the effects of the technology derive from the intent of those who wield it. If there is to be a meaningful resistance to What We All Fear Most, let the resisters be at least armed with an understanding of the memetic nature of the tools wielded by The System in its domination of civilization. We, too, can wield these tools with a minimal outlay of capital. At last, an easy-to-subvert tool that potentially could make all of their tanks and financial instruments look positively stupid. The more complete the System’s domination of the meme ecology, the less diverse it must become. This uniformity is the relentless product of all civilization – uniformity enhances governability – but it is also its Achilles heel.

For uniformity is easy to wipe out. An ecosystem that allows a few species to dominate soon becomes desperately fragile; even a minor change in the environment, and all life is wiped out. Our biosphere did not evolve to produce UNIFORMITY but rather DIVERSITY. This diversity means that “if the forest burns down, life begins anew”. I view the loss of this diversity – witness the cancerous growth of Wal*Mart – as a historical trend that shows no sign of slowdown. If what we have to do is engineer a new paradigm, we must use the uniformity of the society that capitalism has created to our advantage, else it will smother us prematurely.

Memetically, the System is in just such a box. As people become simpler to program – which is the Prime Directive of the System – they become less able to resist ANY new memes; their memetic “immune system” has been compromised by their relationship with the most intrusive and involving culture ever known to man. As the above document labels them, these “Hollow Ones” have relinquished their autonomy in favor of blindly obeying instructions from those perceived as authorities. These instructions must be carefully crafted – an enjoyable 30-second spot with a comedian rather than just “buy more Ruffles” – but can largely be counted on to modify the behavior of the target population. Additionally, the backdrop of conditioning against which the modern American consciousness must struggle makes for a stunning uniformity of thought along educational lines. The steadily increasing rate with which memes have been flooding the modern consciousness makes the discrepancy between natural behavior and conditioned behavior more and more obvious.

As the absurdity of this causal connection dawns on the population – an easy task for radicals to achieve by memetic means – perhaps the entire paradigm used by capitalism and the State will collapse. While this outcome seems hyperbolic, remember that this kind of change may be most effective when pursued along generational lines. Also consider the logarithmic spread of correctly devised memes and memeplexes. If we are clear and unwavering about our intent, we can alter huge swathes of society – assuming we’re clever enough and have predicted the historical moment accurately! Cue Han Solo – “Never tell me the odds”...

The point is that TEDIUM is the unintended consequence (or “externality”) of our increasing jadedness towards the memes beamed at us by the System. The price paid for all that advertising is greater than the cost of the actual ad – in the zero-sum game of the attention-span pie, every additional ad suffers from diminishing returns as we get more inured to the constant stream of commercial bleating. Radicals can help boost the mimetic “immune systems” of our countrymen by encouraging people to pay attention to the brainwashing, watch their spending behavior and entertain each other with memes generated by the grassroots rather than corporate ones with their baggage of advertising.

The point is that this tedium is truly a great opportunity for anyone who wants to see the System vanquished. This tedium represents a resistance to mass-broadcasted memes and a correlating interest in subversive memes. This tedium IS a message for all of us who wish to instigate nonviolent change. This tedium, when accurately charted, will yield to us a map of memetic control and countermemetic opportunity; for every meme, there is a countermeme (Kumar’s First law). As a thought exercise, a group of us could piece together a potential future history in which we manage to elect a Green President in 12 years through the use of memes and other easy-to-implement interpersonal tools (the internet, tribalism, collective purchasing to lower consumption thus freeing up time for political activity, raves for fundraisers, knitting together a diverse coalition of support, appealing to libertarians and cynics, etc.). It is the shift in consciousness that I witness in the kids I work with on Unamerican that leads me to believe that this generation would be excited for a memetic revolution and would gladly support one.

All that remains is the determination of what countermemes we can spread. We have the opportunity to become the memetic equivalent of the Center for Disease Control. We simply need to begin engineering VACCINES, as well as their means of distribution. I like to think of memes wielded by radicals as needles. The System is an enormous balloon. Its memes are stretched so tight that you can see through ‘em. Pop, pop goes the weasel, the weasel.

Exciting times, ladies and gentlemen. Apologies if my prose seems overflorid or if i otherwise offended. Thank you for reading! :)

!!!s

1) CHOOSE A VENUE AND “SEGMENT”: finding a test population or environment – a “lab” as it were. some examples would be a rave or bar or punk show, or “every vending machine in the city” or “all the mcdonalds drive-throughs in town” or “at the mall”. determine what it is you want to DO to the target population. What is the behavior you seek to impel by your campaign? Can you measure its effectiveness?

2) ITERATE YOUR DESIGN TO “TARGET”: learning enough about some form of design to create a meme that disseminates some form of THERAPEUTIC or ANTI-TOXIC information. In other words, either choose a message that is intended to HELP the propagator or the receiver (an example: an article called HERE IS HOW TO GET A KICKBALL GAME GOING IN YOUR TOWN) , or a meme that strikes against some TOXIC meme (an example: a sticker that says DRINK WATER NOT COKE). this is not a hard game to play. obviously some pretty retarded shit gets propagated. as smart meme-savvy people we ought to be able to configure some choice cuts. Don’t forget humor and that size matters (listen to the minutemen if you get stuck). Remember: turn your AUDIENCE into an ARMY.

3) INFECT: distribute the meme. get some friends. hell, just hand it out to friends and watch them hand it to others. magazines, in their ad kits, boast of “pass-along readership” – every actual issue of Spin gets READ by perhaps 2.3 people. This is the behavior you’re gunning for.

4) REGROUP: Learn. Wait. Learn some more. Philosophize. Ask yourself – “am I really so important that I should have such power? are my memes accidentally causing people harm?” Question yourself until you go schizo – and justify your insanity by pointing at the ever increasing accuracy and longevity of your campaigns. Convince yourself that God is talking to you so you don’ t dare give up. Get really, really good. Go head to head with corporate memes and intuit whether your experimentation is making a difference or just making you look stupid in the moshpit (not the best place at the show to be handing out stickers – try the lobby instead).

5) STRATEGIZE: Talk to other people playing the game. Form a meme tribe. Merge mafias. Brainstorm a future chronology (for instance, here’s mine – “3 months: found meme-related startup. 6 months: publish book. 9 months: travel across country to do ‘zine. 2 years: make Bush look stupid during the midterm elections. 4 years: get Nader up to 15 percent through organizing and clever memes distributed peer-to-peer rather than over corporate media. 8 years: Nader’s successor does even better. 12 years: Nader’s successor wins.”) Take the necessary steps to engineer the veracity of this chronology. Of such simple stuff are prophets made. Create the future and predicting it is a piece of cake.

6) ATTACK: implement 5, above.

7) REVIEW: are we in Utopia yet? if not, back to work, you! But don’t just automatically toss out your previous work and start from scratch. Many of the most effective memes and memeplexes have long heritages and it’s almost expected that a meme go through several mutations before spasming out into the mainstream. Learn from your “competition” and establish memetic synergies with other memes, and steal whatever works. If all you’re after is ego-gratification, plaigarism may be the way to go, although it couldn’t satisfy those of you who pride yourselves on your creativity.

hope that helps.

!!!s PS: i like that “peer to peer” reference – the System as a giant “server” of memes, and by our mastering memes and their distribution, fewer memes depend on the System’s endorsement in order to spread rapidly… hotmail placing just one ad in its arc skyward, because word of mouth was just way faster… hmmm…

• can i send you a zip of fonts to add ?
• can you create an iPhone app of this?
  • form factor
• can you create a Facebook Widget with this?
  • integrated with e-commerce ?
• change the default interface font for me to Trebuchet
• do i like the color picker?