About Tackorama

Tackorama was started as a one man effort to remind the people of the world of the fruits that can bear when an artist has the freedom to roam, and show his exploration. It still is a one man effort, now with a website.

Tackorama does not make money, it actually loses it with the costs involved. It is not a company, not a charity, just an individual with a lot of creativity.

Tackorama Philosophy

1st Premise: Good taste is not always good.

Leave aside all the semantics and technicalities about who defines good taste and just look around you and what is in your life at the moment. Are the walls to your home or office clinically smooth? Do all your magazines have neutral colours, plain typefaces and elegantly lit photographs? Is your musical library only full of bands/songs that you can say out loud to a stranger?

If the answer is yes, then I would venture a bold assertion: despite the surface good taste in your life, you have nothing that would mark you as interesting or fun. Good taste has only offered you un-challengeing, non-offensive products, the very worst that modern companies can offer. Good taste has denied you the comic, the daring, the hypnotic lure of the not-so-good taste.

Tackorama ignore the boundary between good and bad. If it's interesting, funny, shocking, entertaining, provocative or simply beautiful, we do not care where on the good-bad scale it lies. Fuck pigeon-holeing. Tackorama's primary goal is satisfaction, without giving a shit about taste.

2nd Premise: Free Speech is the heart of democracy.

Like the heart in your chest, free speech in a democracy needs to beat regularly. And every now and then, it needs to be worked until the thumping can felt throughout the body.

Tackorama contribute to that excercise. We do so willingly, with two fingers stuck up at critics. If you don't like it, turn off you fool.

3rd Premise: The power of nightmares has paralysed artisans.

We do not how it happened, or when precisely it started. Suddenly them in power started getting specific about what you could say, how you could say it and the medium in which you said it. Despite the internet, the censorship has increased. Religion, sexuality, politics, class, race, nationality, regionality, occupation and even gender are suddenly off limits.

Artisans have found themsevles worrying about how there work might be received. Self-censorship far beyond the normal corrective measures that artists employ has become common.

Tackorama aim to encourage the natural born right to speak up. We recognise, as John Stuart Mill did, that there must be limits to free speech. Even so, those limits have been increasing slowly in the last few years and we have had enough. It was our freedom and we are getting it back.