the Braille Project

The best crackpot idea I've ever come up [within the last few days]... Braille... What a powerful word... a heavy word. A perfect name for the most bad ass band ever. A band full of blind people. They're an instant internet success. Bands with a gimmick always succeed. They're fame and popularity rise quickly. A few months later, it is uncovered that they aren't actually blind, they were just pretending to be blind for the publicity. Outrage sparks across the nation. Blind people everywhere unite on the internet to blast the band, calling them the lowest form of scum. Blind people everywhere demand satisfaction, in the blogs, on the forums, in their facebook groups, etc. It is picked up by the 24 hour news cycle during their endless quest for news, even when there isn't any new news to report. When the cry for blood [or at least a public apology] is at a fever pitch, the news breaks again. Braille isn't even really a band. It's an anonymous group of 50 to 100 people. And that is where you, gentle reader, find your moment to shine. I can supply the music, fake band photographs, lyrics, whatever. All I need is a shit load of people to help me plaster the internet for a few month with Braille pages, fan art, and general conversation of how awesome they are. Then those very same people a few months later are the ones, pretending to be blind, saying the band is totally offensive shit heads.

Now you might be thinking, "Why would I want to be doing that for the next six month?". The answer is simple. It's a big fuck you to anybody and everybody. To the dumb ass news stations, reporters, and journalists, if it were ever covered in the main media. To the band wagon jack off's who got swept up in the Braille mania and loved the band / had Braille trapper keepers or whatever. To the people who really were offended by the prank, for being to goddamn serious and not appreciating a joke. Just for the hell of trying to pull off a big stupid hoax. It's so crazy it could possibly work. It could be a huge inside joke and we're all laughing like hell at all the retarded people who don't know the truth. Because it is a fine piece of performance art with profound underlying messages, and you could be a part of it. Too bad no one really reads this... I'll never have an army of fake Braille fans...