BarRi er kult / The Range Of Propaganda chapter 1: an introduction
it seems like a paradox to consider the mysterious and cloaked Deer Man Of Dark Woods as “well-known”, but he’s often considered the face of the globally popular and equally feared Barrier Kult Horde. D.M.O.D.W. first emerged on the pages of Concrete in Issue 98 of 2009 to explain the BA.KU movement, and his personal mandate (check out the feature online at concreteskateboarding.com/?p=766). The magazine was eventually granted an exclusive cover shoot with Deer Man nocturnally skating a barrier in the west coast forest landscape for the retrospective 100th Issue. The Barrier Kult has undoubtedly swelled in its official membership over time, and this segmented feature will profile a different BA.KU entity in each issue throughout the year. But first, an official introduction… —Frank Daniello
The Barrier Kult has been approached for a Canadian propaganda program that is insured to promote blackened terror – something from the snow-filled range of epic visage after the Kult has been risen, fallen, then risen again through the hills and the mountains of the interior, and thus powerfully falling into the ocean abyssal plain. The horrific adventure tales of writer Algernon Blackwood are pontificated through the language of BA.KU as the kult reaches the mountains of violence and secure obsession. Again, as the Kult now reaches the ocean and its coastal depth, the knife violence of barrier scraping has begun to be looked at from the ocean – the rock faces that stretch into the abyss that acts as the stage for the Kulting members as they watch the barriers of ritual magic act as voyages of ascension. The verse above signifies the tangible dark arts that BA.KU has manifested through the concrete scraping and blood scraping knife violence of obsessive and militant jersey barrier skateboarding (or “knife stabbing” – as Kultists title the act of violent barrier skateboarding now and forever). From the fire swept, rock and witches wood of the British Columbian Interior has come the very early days of BA.KU. Select members that began the militance via barrier violence; the “shallow end of a pool” that is ready-made and common. The Interior B.C. originators of the violent plague – Depth Leviathan Dweller (named after Ogopogo, shark, and ocean depth obsession), Deer Man Of Dark Woods (named from the awe and fear promoted from the dark Okanagan woods), Vlad Mountain Impaler (named after the violence stemming from the snow-covered black Interior mountains of the Kootenay region, and the acts of Dracul in those hills and then to the ocean-side).
D.M.O.D.W. - transfer photo judah oakes
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Legend
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Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) = a writer from England, and one of the most prolific in the ghost story genre’s history. Knife = skateboard Violence = the act of a skateboard hitting and ascending a tight (“violent”) transition. Violent plague = BA.KU’s dark propaganda machine. Ogopogo = a serpent-like creature that allegedly dwells in the Okanagan Lake of British Columbia. It’s also referred to in Salish as Naitaka (lake demon) by the area’s First Nations people. Seylynn = a North Vancouver snakerun built in 1978; it stands as the oldest active concrete park in Canada. China Creek = an East Vancouver concrete tub and teacup
built in 1979.
BA.KU online = thebarrierkult.blogspot.com Altars = barriers; the chosen obstacles of worship.
These three ritual Kultists made the wooded trek westward through the ranges of awe and madness to fall upon the health and bloodlines of the Lower Mainland in the late 1990s and early 2000s. echoed by the live influence of the Northern Okanagan’s “Dead Men” and already possessed by the ’80s cult of black-and-white Skull Skates worship – the diehard, the horse, the upper-section Seylynn rituals, and China Creek violence – The founding Barrier Kult members slowly built a mandate of followers after early print manifestos and militant barrier knife scraping through the dark areas of Vancouver. These fellow Kultists also follow the themes of tight transition violence via barrier skateboarding – ascension through skateboarding deconstruction, and the death of the creative “self”. The blood scraping and pacts were built upon the mania and the dark arts of barrier knife culture obsession. BA.KU has now constructed a group – a mastery of plague-ridden individuals – sick from the militance and the starving dark rich rainforest soil majesty of the Vancouver mountain realm. These titled Kultists of the B.C. Lower Mainland (that again, feature the epic horror visage of the mountains, and horrific darkness of the oceans) are Black Glove Of Internal Combustion, Hammerer Of Roots, Muskellunge Of Dark Island, Vertical Cliffs Of Eastern Shores, Black Plague Flock Herder, Finger Pointing To Oblivion, Statue Of The Black Crow, Crusade Templar Horse Skeleton, and Beast Of Gevaudan. With this opportunity to spread further paper image and text-plague madness, the Barrier Kult will be writing verses of propaganda in chapters to cover the whole violent capacity and characters of plague that knife stab the tight transition altars. They shall be exposed to the Canadian readers in repeated verse ritual. —Depth Leviathan Dweller
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Concrete skateboarding