ORTHOGONIA

A visionary journey populated by an insouciant transient, two dogs, a soup kitchen and the rich undead who go to great lengths to stay that way (rich and undead).

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Fill the belly first. Then the mind. After that, magic happens.

Original Hobo Beau artifact titled The Truth Burns, generated from the filename 03-04-09thetruthburns.jpg. — Set fire to the ships / Plate 01

Original Hobo Beau artifact titled Anse Bundren, generated from the filename 02-18-09ansebundren.jpg. — Anse Bundren / Plate 02

BEAUOriginal scans. Beau has been at it since 2007.

Beau on the sidewalk

Beau’s Bons Mots

Sidewalk koans, fiscal curses, and other small public disturbances.

Read every disturbance

Cover story / Technology

Event Horizon

Our society is past the technological event horizon.

02 / Wealth

Fortunes Favor the Old

Fortunes favor the old.

Hobo Beau holding drinks beside a sign that reads, Social Security is a Ponzi scheme dipped in ponzu sauce.

03 / Public Finance

Saturn

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme dipped in ponzu sauce.

Astronaut Hobo Beau floating near satellites with a sign that reads, Build as much as you can that will benefit people.

04 / Infrastructure

Space Servers

Build as much as you can that will benefit people.

Hobo Beau in front of many neckties with a sign that reads, A necktie is a sophisticated noose.

05 / Workwear

Untied

A necktie is a sophisticated noose.

Original Hobo Beau artifact titled Hobiscus, generated from the filename 03-10-09hobiscus.jpg. — Hobiscus beauregardii / field specimen

Beau, part sage, part mage.

Absurd, but not harmless.

Beau converts wealth into food while Goki converts wealth into survival.

Beau knows what's out there. What's consuming our future. And he's doing his part.

Novus founderHunter / wandererTramp-sage

Do you believe in the future?

Peek behind the thin veil.

There are levels to this game you've never experienced.

Orthogonia exists. You may think it's absurd. That this is a "comic" that can be trivialized. But it exists.

Maslow's Starting Point.

Novus

Food, fellowship, facade. The work and love and recipes are real. But there is always more to the story.

Hunters and explorers

Psilluminati

Let's call it an "Elks-club-for-spiritual-seekers" or a Sitters Club. These are souls being trialed for capacity to think orthogonally. Not everyone makes it.

Sacred Geometry

Orthogonia

A realm that can kill through astonishment or knives. Thought becomes manifest. The hyper-real becomes hyper-realer.

Elite appetite

Kalkari

What happens to a person when their whole lives they've been able to do exactly what they want? Do they go willingly into that dark night of death? Or do they cling to life by whatever means necessary?

Field notes gallery

Beau originals,unsanitized.

45 original field artifacts

Beau didn't just stumble into Orthogonia. The plan has been in the works for almost two decades. He's been hunting alone at nights and opening minds during the day. We have the proof in the illustrated pudding. Here is the pudding.