7 OF 9 FORMAT IDEAS AND A CALL FOR FUNDING

It seems to me that one faster way to create this set might be to accept that the base triangular shape of the card could be sliced with a slicer tool and with a special customized tool which I'm looking into for rounding the corners quickly of triangular shapes. To be more specific, I'm thinking about a DIY modification of a quality corner-cutting punch which is modelled for a 90 degree angle — so that it conforms to an equilateral triangular angle. 

This lowers the amount of layers that need to be handled by the dye cutter to make the card thick enough, by letting the intricate designs all be made in faster, easier, thinner materials while the thick part is just a simple triangular base. Again, this base would be hand-cut by a slicer because it's too thick for a dye cutting machine. This lightens the load on the machine and blades and greatly speeds the process.

Essentially, I'm invisioning heavy duty lamination of paper triangles, with self-adhesing vinyl added on top of the plastic. I can get holoprismatic gold or silver in either paper or vinyl. I already have it in paper. Vinyl does seem so much faster to work with, but I have yet to experiment with it. Although this thinner layered design doesn't have the same tactile charm as cardstock's thickness, it does provide interesting flexibility such as the freedom to have either the gold or the black / coloured part of the design underneath or on top, varying from design to design, allowing for more artistic freedom to the imagery.

For example, in The KEYS 16(32) set, KEY 1 and KEY 15 are design opposites in terms of weather the little triangles are punched out or aligned with a stencil guide, which can greatly affect the time it takes to assemble them. It would be ideal if those two could both be made in the same way — whatever is fastest — without any alarming loss of visual similarity between cards. 

The possibility of producing The 7 of 9 as a magnet game opened my mind to the possibility of a one-sided card design for all cards. That alone, even in the current cardstock format, would lower the price of the entire system from $11,000 to $5,500. This would only require a design change for the SOLVE et COAGULA series. Instead of having two-sided cards, expand the design of the SOLVE ⨺ 18(36) and COAGULA ⨺ 27(54) Sets so that the card face design so far also has a readable design rich border around it which acts as a coding system to suggest which exact card it is. I was going to have additional symbols on the backs of the cards, but these symbols could take the form of interesting shapes around the edge of the card face instead.

I was already feeling that with the emergence of The KEYS ⨺ 16(32) Set designs which seem much more visually complex and seem to beg for a more complex version of the SOLVE et COAGULA. The KEYS ⨺ 16(32) and UNNAMED ⨺ 12(24) Sets both have no need for any more than card numbering on the back, and this can be replaced by mere visual recognition of card front designs rather than using numbering at all directly on the card. This seems better for the way the system was intended, as a game layout that would lead to a photo opportunity of these ornate cards laid out to illustrate ideas. This way, only one photo is needed to show all the info in the mind map, unless cards have been piled up. It's better to require the minimum amount of photos for ease. 

I have put out the call to Jared Leto and the band 30 Seconds To Mars with a request to hire me in that capacity, which I know they have received. Over time, I actually believe that they will respond. The type of response it will be in the end will depend on their answer, and how they feel the need to communciate their ideas. I think it takes time for them to process requests but they will get back to me for sure.

These people are busy, so I imagine that they would need to make use of staff in order to make the venture work, causing it to be quite an investment — although I'm very curious about how I could maximize my time working independently to hopefully or eventually cut out that need. In fact, I'm a renowned psychic, and since intuition is a deeply featured UNITY LIFE theme, especially in context with Jared and 30STM, I actually believe that intuitively empowered layer of my depth in my ability to work without as much consultation as would be normally used is worth building on and taking seriously.

Also, I'm amazed by how well The 7 of 9 (the current focus of my work on UNITY LIFE) happens to line up so nicely with the expected themes of their next upcoming album, THIS IS WAR Volume 2. That makes 30STM more compatible with this opportunity at the moment, as the story of this relationship between us could help promote their music.

When I have a chance, I would love to write more indepth about just how exactly their previous album THIS IS WAR and the companion documentary by Jared Leto, Artifact, align so well. They don't need me to tell them that. As masters of their own work, all they have to do is understand The 7 of 9 and it's immediately understood. But if they decide to go forward, it will be valuable for the world to be able to see this reasoning provided by UNITY LIFE for their acceptance of my proposal. In my opinion, there's a lot more to it than just that one alignment, but I provide this as one of many examples.

On an intuitive level, I've been receiving waves of response from them since I put out the request. The first was that they are not only interested but desperate, and it's only a matter of figuring out how this should be done exactly — something that might take a lot of design. The second wave came through after that, offering that I do things like (when I can) write more about how The 7 of 9 and UNITY LIFE would support their cause, or even just Jared's as an actor. They would find it important for people to be able to comprehend why they have accepted. Let's see what comes next.