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Why the Weirdest Designs Start With Something Normal

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  Originally published as part of Kunt Commentary by Kunts Live Forever. By Rose Baxter Anybody can start with a monster. I think it’s more interesting to start with a Tuesday staff meeting and figure out how to ruin it. Although calling anything around KLF a traditional “staff meeting” might be generous. Kunts Live Forever is still a very small operation. I’m here in Alabama, my daughter Violet works with me here, Chad is in Ohio, and my daughter Alyssa...better known around here as Ultra Kunt... provides an impressive amount of unsolicited creative fuel despite not technically being on payroll. Alyssa is also an asshole. I say that lovingly. Mostly. Ideas get thrown around, something completely normal gets mentioned, somebody says something ridiculous, and ten minutes later I’m wondering whether it belongs on a shirt. That pretty much explains how some of the stranger ideas at Kunts Live Forever happen. I don’t usually sit down and think, Today I’m going to make something weird....