Esocryptshop.com Soft Launch

The newest addition to the ESOCRYPT Network, Esocryptshop.com has launched with several new products including T-shirts and art items. Studio Artist and Guild Chairperson Royin Yap has also revealed that they are in the process of creating a sticker line that will be high quality and affordable, perfect for journals, notebooks, laptops, and water bottles. When I sat down with Ro to talk about it she said “They're gonna be poppin'”. Esocryptshop.com can be found from the shop tab of this website as well as wherever we feature a shop on our official social media.

River V.C.’s Video Essay on Noble Johnson was released on February 19th, with a warm response (98% Like rating via YouTube Studio). When asked about the Mini-Doc’s release River said “I'm really proud of it. Noble (Johnson) was someone who I felt was super misrepresented in how he was remembered. He literally made groundbreaking once-in-a-century pieces, but is only remembered as savages. It's tragic...”. Writing for this series of documentaries has been fascinating, and learning about all of the people that River pitched was truly fun and insightful. The next video essay subject will be Hollywood and TV starlet Allison Hayes, star of Attack of the 50-Foot-Woman, a cult classic B-movie as well as her sudden disappearance from the limelight.

Internal talks within the Artist Guild have begun about releasing sections of the paper that led to the creation of ESOCRYPT. The Manifesto for the Liberation of Arts, was primarily written by the founding artists of Esocrypt in 2022. The original draft in 2017 was deemed too philosophically null. Instead, it was built into several sections by the remaining members with around 100 pages focused on the definition of art and how society shapes how we think about it. The paper then goes on to give the reader blueprints of how to create ethical studios and workspaces for productive community art. This idea has been ground to dust by the media conglomerate style of production companies today.