IS ANY ART MY OWN?

 This was a question I pondered after reading people discussing plagiarism vs. original art, and I started wondering where the line between original art vs. plagiarism actually lies.

Here are 10 of my pictures, that I’ve given a percentage score on, starting with 100% original and working down to 50% or less. I’d call anything over 50% my own original art, but this is subjective and totally arbitrary. And that is the nature of art!

All these pictures taken from my old Frot blog have been through a similar process of digital editing, including being cropped to a 1×1 ratio, and finishing off with a black frame and my www.frot.co.nz URL. I’d be happy to post any of these pictures anywhere online, but I’m not a commercial artist, and I imagine some of them would cross an imaginary line in the sand for commercial use. But I have no idea where that line would be. I’d say anything above 50% is fully legit, but below that may not be.

1. FREAK DOG TOMATO THING – 100%

For my first picture I’ll go totally safe – this is originally a painting I did with acrylics on canvas. It’s all from the deranged contents of my subconscious, so I’ll call this 100% original.
 

2. STRANGE SCENE IN THE STREET WITH DOG PISSING – 100%

Most of my art is based on drawings I randomly do using pen on paper and then add colours. This is the sort of bizarre stuff I seem to keep drawing, it’s all mine but don’t ask me to explain it’s deeper meanings!

3. GROOVING OUT AT THE SUPERMARKET – 80%

This is not a photo from a nightclub, it’s actually taken in a supermarket. The guy in the photo just happened to be standing in line in front of me. The original photo looks fairly different, and although the subject might be totally oblivious to the fact that he was being photographed, I’d use this image anywhere and would give it an 80% score.

4.BIG BIRD IS LURKING IN THE BUSHES 80%

This is a photo I took of an ornament in a garden. It is just a mass produced garden ornament so I’m not likely to be sued for copyright! I’d say this is pretty safe ground and score it 80%. Not my original sculpture but the photo is all mine, and I’d happily use this image anywhere.

5. GET THAT FUCKING CAMERA OUT OF MY FACE – 70%

Strangers in the street are one of my favourite photo subjects. I regard anything in the public domain as mine to record, but some people disagree. Would all the people I photograph like me using their photos online? Hell no! – in fact the ones that look pissed off are often my favourites. This lady did not look impressed that I was taking her photo. I like this photo but would be a bit careful about where I posted it. So 70% on this one I guess.

6. A COUPLE OF ABORIGINAL GUYS – 60%

This a drawing I did based on part of a photo of two Australian aboriginal guys. But it’s not my photo and I no longer even have a copy of the original. My drawing is a bit different to the photo but probably fairly recognizable. I’d call this my own art but wouldn’t use it for an advertising campaign!. I’ll score this as 60% original because although I’ve changed it a lot, I’d be on shaky ground if anyone asked about the original photo.

7. SNAKE PSYCHEDELIC PARTY – 50%

This drawing was originally done by a friend – I just coloured it in and did some edits – but she was happy for me to do that and liked how my version looked. I’d call it a collaboration, and would ask permission to use it commercially for any purpose. And if it made a bunch of money I’d give her half, so I’ll call it 50%.

8. AN INSECT AT THE WETA WORKSHOP. 50%

I take photos of all sorts of things, and with things like cars and motorbikes I don’t hesitate to call it my own work. But 3D art is trickier. This is a photo of a sculpture I took at the display at the Weta Workshop here in Wellington.   

https://wetaworkshop.com

My edit does look a bit different to the original, but the original was very cool and I make no claim to there being much of my original art here. So it’s my photo but not really my art. And this is based on a photo of a model from a very commercial source. Where is the line?

9. SKULLS GETTING MARRIED ON A WALL – 50%

Street art is another thing I like to take photos of – It’s not my art though, and I have no idea who originally painted it. So although it's based on my photo, taken in the public domain, it is very recognizable and not my original work. I like to edit photos of street art but have no idea if that is considered OK. 

10. WONDER WOMAN GOES QUAD – ?%

I like to do edits of random pictures from the internet, and from my own image collection. Pictures of Wonder Woman are all over the place, and I have no idea where this original photo came from to start with (but I do have a copy of it). Here I have edited it into four different coloured copies, but Andy Warhol used to do that sort of thing a lot. Is this above or below the 50% line? I have no idea… 

GOATS ARE RUMINANTS

Goats have been domesticated for many thousands of years. The word goat has always been primarily used by English speakers as the name for these ruminant animals. 

There have long been some alternative slang uses of the word goat such as "Get my goat" (to annoy) and also some more recent ones like "Go Away Troll", but what I'm really interested in here, is the sudden popular use of the acronym  "G.O.A.T" to mean "Greatest Of All Time".

That has really taken off recently, which could just mean it's suddenly become a fashion trend to use it in that way, but like many sudden trends, I suspect it's use for that meaning has been manufactured rather than having occurred naturally or organically. 

Going back any more than about three years, the use of goat to mean "Greatest Of All Time" was fairly rare, but since 2025, that meaning has been all over the internet.

Words are being constantly used against us in a variety of fairly cunning ways. But like chemtrails and many other things that are being used against us, most people (Normies) seem to be completely oblivious to what is right in front of them. 

I have already blogged about some other recent changes in the way words are being used, that are being used for various devious agendas. Although this has regularly been the case for hundreds of years, it is becoming ever more common, as most media and internet content is now being used for social programing.

"SUBMIT" is a good example, every time we are asked to "SUBMIT" in order to log into a website, we are being programmed. And there are dozens of words being constantly used against us like this. 

 

 So why has usage of the word goat recently gone through the roof?  

https://www.definitions.net/definition/GOAT

 

I'm not a fan of religion (any of it) and think "satanism" is just another bogus psyop, but a lot of people really seem to get sucked in by all this moronic satanic crap one way or another...

That is why I think use of the term "G.O.A.T" ("Greatest Of All Time") has gone through the roof in 2025 - a bunch of cunning globalist manipulators are promoting it as yet another other part of their social programming.

And I'll leave it at that point for now and not get any further into this vast rabbit hole today. 

There is a lot of interesting content relating to this subject here in this video -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKO2fCPD19A&t=88s

NORMIES ARE RETARDED

Here is something I wrote last year, but to tell truth after watching the first half of 2026 play out, I'm thinking it 10x more now... 🥹 

If there was one thing I have learned over the past five years, it's that normies are clueless retards, and they will believe whatever bullshit they are told by the deep state controlled media, rather than research any contrarian opinions. 

So if I still keep posting that sort of stuff myself, it's really more about getting things off my chest, than because I genuinely believe this vast train wreck can be prevented now.

  

CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Back in 1992 (Yes, 33 years ago!), I had a long conversation with a guy who seemed to have a lot of strange and paranoid views about all sorts of stuff. Most of what he was saying was new to me, but for some reason I found it all fascinating.

We had started off discussing performance enhancing drugs in cycling (PEDS), and then got onto a whole range of other topics. At that stage I had never even heard the term "conspiracy theorist" and it was more than a decade before I realised that discussion had sewn seeds in my mind that later took me down the same path.

How he knew so much back in 1992, in a largely pre-internet world, is beyond me. I was familiar with PEDS because I'd seen them first hand in cycling, and also because I'd read a lot about the history of the Tour de France, which is littered with thinly disguised references to drug use.

Some great undisguised quotes came from five times tour winner Jacques Anquetil (1957,61,62,63,& 64) who actually said all of the following:

"You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water"

 "You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants"

 "For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants"

"Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope"

 

 

Beyond that, the only "conspiracy" topic I knew much about was the dangers of "vaccines", mainly from having read a couple of books exposing what was really going on with those.

 

Here is a list of 37 books warning about the death jabs ("vaccines") published between 1889 and 1991.

 

 I did go on to read some more books about other "conspiracies", but it wasn't until I got an internet connection in 1998 that I really started looking into things myself and doing a bunch of research. 

 

In those relatively early days the internet was filled with good information, in a way that the controlled internet of 2025 is not. The key thing being that it was actually quite easy to find a lot of the information that is now so carefully buried in utter crap.

I started out pretty keen to share the information ("conspiracies") that I learned about, but over the years I learned just how many people not only don't want to question what they have been programed to believe, but also how angry they get about anyone discussing it.

So I have tended to share more stuff online than in person, but even so, during the giant covidhoax, as society completely split in two, I became increasingly antisocial, (and I wasn't very social to begin with). The sad truth is, I became quite repulsed by "normies" and wanted nothing more to do with them.

Over the past quarter of a century I've very seldom encountered anyone who I would consider "more of a conspiracy theorist" than myself. I'm used to people only going so far, and then drawing their line in the sand. For example they typically might be fully onboard with "covid is a giant scam", but they get a bit edgy with "lots of celebs are trannies".

Being a "conspiracy theorist" has at least two major drawbacks:

1. To a certain extent it limits your social circle to only about 20% of the population. In general society you have to button your lip, saying nothing that disagrees with the brainwashed normie's moronic delusions. Or you constantly create anger and enemies. So for an introvert like me it's easier to just avoid all social interaction. 

2. The other less widely discussed one is that it can leave you in a negative and defeated mindset. Once you have repeatedly seen that the majority of the population are mind controlled sheeple, who will follow the herd every time, and seemingly never learn anything, it gets really hard to have a positive outlook. Which is unhealthy and dysfunctional.

 

In an attempt to reduce that, I have been drawing my own lines in the sand...

Last night I listened to a guy who has been down most of the same rabbit holes I have, talking about a bunch of them, and was surprised to realise that I've been deliberately drawing lines in the sand for some subjects myself. Sort of like a normie!

I don't disagree with most of what he said, because I know there is a strong basis to support it all, and he had clearly done the research. But if I constantly hold all those beliefs as certainties, it is going to mess my headspace up even more than I already have done.

One of my coping mechanisms is to say "yes I do think evil globalist powers are attempting to take over the entire world, with a specific plan to kill most of us and enslave the remainder" while at the same time saying "their plans (including Agenda 2030) are deeply flawed, and while they are very cunning, they are also deeply degenerate, and that will lead to their own downfall".

Much as I wish I had some sort of practical plan to defeat evil and create a better world, the truth is we are all at our own levels in this giant game, and while I have a pretty good track record with all this conspiracy stuff, if I don't hold some degree of positivity in mind, I'm not strong enough to deal with it all.

Yes, I think we are in deep shit and we have less than five years to turn this globalist plan around. And no, I don't think most normies are ever going to learn or resist anything.

But at the same time I can see that in order to defeat them it is essential that we first hold in mind that defeating them is actually possible. It's a difficult balancing act, but we can do it. 

Why are we being constantly spoon fed "end is nigh" programing, not just from the mainstream media, but possibly even more so by the so called "alternative" media? 

My feeling at this point is that personally I've been out of balance, too focused on how bad things are getting, and not seeing enough possibilities. So my best plan today is switch to a more positive focus. Writing this blog post is my first step. 

EX-FRIENDS

In the 90's I was co-owner of a small but popular Wellington business. We had hundreds of customers and many of them became friends beyond being customers.

After closing the business down I stayed in contact with lots of them online, and because we had a shared interest in cycling and a bunch of other connections, I often tended to underestimate how large the gulf was growing between myself and many of them in terms of our "World Views".

Up until 911 I had never even thought much in these terms, but some of them were turning into what I would later come to call “libtard normies”, and to them I was becoming what they would later call a “conspiracy theorist”.

After 911 this slowly became an ever increasing problem. On the social media platforms that we interacted on, some exchanges became quite heated and unfriendly.

In fact some of these ex-friends became really angry, to the point of becoming abusive. And from time to time even some of the calmer ones said things like "stop saying X or I will unfriend you”. It’s safe to say I didn't stop saying X and they did unfriend me.

I disagree with lots of people about all sorts of things, but I wouldn't usually demand that anyone changed their opinion to match mine online. At least I wouldn’t generally have done that up until convid, but after that epic storm in a teacup, if they were a vaxtard or a masktard, I would relatively politely tell them they were a clueless moron and stop interacting with them.

For me this threatening to unfriend posturing was rare up until 911, but it increased after that massive false flag, and then it started increasing further when I began posting about fake germ theory and the lies of virology during the SARS hoax. Then the number of angry reactions started to grow.

But that was all insignificant compared to the shit storm of the covid hoax. Around 2020 there were all sorts of believers stalking around the internet looking to make ex-friends online, and in real life there were plenty more of them out looking to stir up trouble as well.

Like most people who were aware of what was going on during the big plandemic, I knew that I was outnumbered by a herd of angry mind controlled zombies, so I politely said things like "I have an exemption" whenever I was harassed in public for not wearing a face nappy.

These days I'm well past using “exemption” excuses, so I probably won't be that polite next time around if any believers ask me to submit to the face nappy again.

What got me revisiting all this old negativity again was seeing someone online lamenting the fact that not one of their ex-friends had ever apologized to them for being wrong or even admitted that they were wrong.

At the same time they were also noticing that they had seen many of them posting that it was all water under the bridge and it was time to forgive and move on.

I wonder how long it took the French people to forgave Nazi collaborators after WW2 ended? Had they “moved on” by 1951?

Although I often struggle with it, I do grasp the importance of forgiving and letting go, so I usually try not to be too unpleasant to delusional mind controlled normies, but that is mainly for my own mental health.

No, I don't think I'll ever really forgive them, but as far I know I no longer have any friends who are still full on convid believers. If I do that could become awkward because I regard believers as gullible idiots. So in my eyes they have no real credibility about anything else either.

Sometimes there is discussion of society being divided in two in order to make us easier to control, and that is certainly happening. I guess we could just pretend to have forgiven and moved on, but the convid believers exposed their true colours for everyone to see and that can never really be undone.

When the next wave of psyops start (and many already have) the normies will fall for them hook line and sinker again. Would you buy a car that was blowing smoke and making a clunking noise?

No, people are not all equal, and gullible normies are best avoided. That may not be the best path to be on socially or even psychologically, but it's what I really think.

Apologies here to Louise Hay, I'm not writing this as spiritual guidance, but mainly for anyone else who like me, probably won't be forgiving those clueless convid clowns until hell freezes over.
 

Thanks and best wishes to all my old friends who didn't fall for the last wave of globalist lies and are still friends to this day. Stay strong for the next wave!