So I got a free copy of Madison's Kill The Architect e-book and there is a very interesting excerpt just from the intro:
With this, it looks like there was a massive minimalistic overhaul of his site, getting rid of his merch, books, the only things being left are social media links and a link to the remaining sheets and decks of Madisonist cards. This just be my mobile browser not displaying things properly or I looked at it during a web design renovation (why would he release the bottom deal project not even a week ago and then take it down, for example).
But overall I have a lot of mixed feelings regarding this. As it isn’t my property to post more of, a brief summary of it is who was, which is the 17 year old cheat story with some inconsistencies to other times he has told it, how that ended up for him and where he ended up and why he decided to “Kill the Architect”. Which is also a hip hop reference too I believe as one of his Disconnect projects had him mentioning his favorite genre was hip hop.
Overall my gut feeling is that it seems like a man who recognized he reached his peak and created a unique way to fade into obscurity. I could be very wrong but a 20 year incidental performance art piece seems highly unlikely.
"What I believe to be the most interesting factor in my self-qualified position, is that all of these morals where acquired during what became a twenty-year long performance art piece in which I would pretend to be a magician.What started out as a simple experiment became a full-time character-driven career. In the end, the line between Daniel Madison and I, became so blurred that trying to separate the two almost completely tore me apart. Daniel Madison does not exist."
With this, it looks like there was a massive minimalistic overhaul of his site, getting rid of his merch, books, the only things being left are social media links and a link to the remaining sheets and decks of Madisonist cards. This just be my mobile browser not displaying things properly or I looked at it during a web design renovation (why would he release the bottom deal project not even a week ago and then take it down, for example).
But overall I have a lot of mixed feelings regarding this. As it isn’t my property to post more of, a brief summary of it is who was, which is the 17 year old cheat story with some inconsistencies to other times he has told it, how that ended up for him and where he ended up and why he decided to “Kill the Architect”. Which is also a hip hop reference too I believe as one of his Disconnect projects had him mentioning his favorite genre was hip hop.
Overall my gut feeling is that it seems like a man who recognized he reached his peak and created a unique way to fade into obscurity. I could be very wrong but a 20 year incidental performance art piece seems highly unlikely.
