Late news, but. Uh-Oh! Anonymous vs. Viacom. The Battle to End All Battles

Apparently Anonymous is quite pissed at Viacom

Getting kind of hard to trust men who kill God...

Makes enough sense.

The Destructive Nature of Social Value and Worth

Anywhere there's social value and worth, there is also social chaos and unrest. A lot of violence is rooted in social fear and jealousy.

Why else would a place like Los Angeles be such a violent, crime, and sex/prostitution/porn industry-ridden place. Mostly because that's where mainstream fame, showbusiness and entertainment is. It's where the so-called "beautiful people who are  better than the rest of us" live and play and work, and therefore eventually we read news stories about the underside and excess of this activity.

That's right. Success, status, and fame isn't just profitable. It's also pretty nasty, empty, shallow, excess-ridden, and disgusting on the inside.

As of 2012

The median age of the world's population is the age of 28. That's how old I am!

You know...

It never was my job to lie and tell the world, the market will take care of itself and be all right, just keep stigmatizing those you already do.

Primarily because the industry ISN'T going to be all right. Primarily because of how psychotic, narcisistic and greedy Hollywood, celebrity culture, and big business are (all three of them.).

So fuck it. You guys are on your own.

mmmmmm

Where again am I supposed to look for the ones who actually want to have sex with me?
Now wouldn't that be nice. Screwing hot girl after hot girl. Most guys can only dream of such things.
Eh, those girls are all spectacle, no action.
I bet if I asked them in real life if they wanted to have sex, they'd say "Nah. I dun wanna."

LULZ.

Article Online About TV Animation. Perfectly Explained: The End of an Era: The Creator-Driven Era of TV Animation

Creator Driven Animation on Television

[1990-2010]

R.I.P.

Apparently my own career goals were a bit more farsighted than I ever could have imagined, as proven by the concepts about the animation industry in America, pointed out by Animation Brew.

http://tinyurl.com/23zlz4n

Other than me, and, say, Brad Neely, just who is there to stand up for the Creator-Driven Animation cause exactly? Nobody that's who! Not at the cable networks and Fox anyway.

In terms of what's getting made and greenlit, it's:

A) Creator-driven shows from the generation that actually could do creator-driven animation, that the networks are still leaching off of (Simpsons, South Park, Peter Griffen, Spongebob. They're a lot more profit driven than they've ever been creator-driven.

B) Non-American animation from France, Canada, and Japan

C) Revivalist shows of revivalist franchises that were never created with the intent of artistry to begin with.

This generation is not one of visionary auteur operations, with nothing more than a 2% exception (Adventure Time, Regular Show, etc., and they're mostly following that example for the "glory" (i.e. bragging to your stoner and geek buddies at Comic-Con you SOLD a show. Whoopeeeeee!!!), not because they actually have any actual "innovative, new ideas")

Other mediums than TV animation seem to offer a lot more hope for people with new ideas to offer, independent, and/or online stuff. Self-produced stuff you design yourself in your bedroom and upload. You know the deal.

Anime = Production Studio Sweatshop

Animation and comics are hard work. Anyone who makes it look easy and presents it that way is probably just trying to deceive you. Animation and comics (anime and manga included) are not easy to make. It’s strenuous, nerve-wracking, high pressure, and back breaking work and 24/7 obsession and labor. The only people who can make things like that look easy are millionaires in print and on TV, and 12 year old frauds on the internet. The Japanese only make it look effortless because they culturally, socially, psychologically, and emotionally socially-conditioned to perform that way. Their producers beat them within an inch of their lives, sweatshop style, if they’re not overachieving 24/7. We don’t have that in America. In America, we work hard, but I’m afraid we don’t have sweatshops that pass for teenage bedrooms and professional animation studios. The Japanese are brainwashed by their own society to conform to doing everything like perfectionists. It’s not human. At all really.

Anime = High Class Production Studio Sweatshop.

I’m working under different conditions than the Japanese are. No wonder they make me look stupid.

My dwahwing wook juss wike yoas

It suk big don-kee baws.

U go 2 hew. u goh 2 hew nao fat Amerikajin swob!!!!

Bruce Lee

Am I too smug?

Well, the ENTIRE WORLDWIDE ANIMATION INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY has embraced and become addicted and comfortable vegging out on digital technology I helped engineer. I did play a big part in that. So if there were ever a time to be complacent and satisfied with my place in the world, now would probably be it...

"The Jerk"

I don’t know if it’s the fame and internet that made me a jerk, or just all the hype and abuse other people give me when they single me out and scapegoat / censor me. Either way, I probably fucking hate you.

I had a dream last night....

That my christmas present was someone writing another Uncyclopedia article about me and how amazingly great and ballsy I am. I love those guys. At least SOMEONE talks about me LOL.

Then I woke up. Oh wait, their server's still down from the....Uh oh, looks like the "Denial of Service Hitmen" are striking again. I guess Anonymous and Tite Kubo don't like their closet gay homosexual tendencies being discussed in a public forum, but they sure as hell like to talk about others.

I like Uncyclopedia. They're awesome and quite a bit more honest about jerks in the public domain that just about anybody. And they use said jerk's actual names (Gasp! Surely there's a law against this SOME where! Using actual NAMES instead of 40 year old "professional" speaking in gay ass code with gay ass Corpacorp "nick"names.)

Say no to American Communist Media Censorship, kids!

Little Man

Keep both my eyes transfixed on the prize

A high-rise to the blue skies my piece of the pie

There's a hole in my heart that I know how to fill

That's to light my cigarettes with a hundred dollar bill

It's all about cash flow the California dream

To make the grade you gotta make the green

My friend I'm the champion I've no time for losers

Never ask for nothin 'cause beggars can't be choosers

Lookin' our for number ones's a full time occupation

I'll give to me myself and I my own salvation

Some people try to tell me God can save me from my sin

But God can take a number and I'll pencil Him in

Busy oh so busy I got no time to search

My Sunday's are all booked I've got no time for church

That's for those poor souls, dry as a stone

God bless this child 'cause this child's got His own.

Oh, let my pride fall down I'm a little man

He who gets the most toys and dies is the winner

I'm livin' the high life with lobster tail dinners

My Lexus, my yacht, my gold chains and rings

These are a few of my favorite things

But most of all I keep my billfold the closest to my heart

House decorated with million dollar works of art

Roll with the Bigwigs they think I'm the man

But then I stop and look and think about how big I really am

Mammon is an unforgiving God, I cast him away

I live my life to God, not to get paid

Money can't save your soul, don't think I can

I look to God and I feel like a little man.

Windows Live: SkyDrive

Finally, I have a place OTHER THAN YouTube to store my MASSIVE collection of anime and action movie videos online for free. Skydrive is where it's AT (for video sharing)!

Here's some anime videos...

Google Music: Tryin it out

Since I am a former-musician and a huge music fan (always have been) I love seeing music videos and listening to music online and off.

I like Pandora, and iMeme (even though iMeme doesn't really work now) and am giving Google Music a shot. Easy enough to use so far...My windows media library is loading.

Since I know Google might be reading this: Suggestion: Google really needs a system for WMV video files to, Like YouTube, but with webbrowsing storage devices of video hard drives, for video collections, not just MP3s.

Anime and Language...

Though I don't necessarily agree with it, because I'm technically an American and language is not a big deal in America much of the time because we take it for granted here in "normal" American society, because language is very important in Japan, there actually seems to be this mindset that if something is speaking or written in Japanese, that "automatically qualifies it as anime". Well, I'm not going to debate, that language is crucial to Japanese culture in the opinion of nearly all (if not all) Japanese, but language should not be the only thing that defines anime.

I'm starting to learn how to speak a little bit of basic conversational Japanese in my spare time. I'm not fluent but I know a few basic phrases.

These cultural differences between anime in Japan and anime in America is probably something important to take note of though. Many American anime fans don't speak any Japanese. This fact isn't meant to offend the Japanese. It's merely a cultural difference, not an insult. Speaking from observing the fan community...Japanese is a hard language to learn in the eyes of the American public and media, but not impossible if you have good linguistics skills (in general) and a desire to learn foreign languages as a gaijin...

Not getting paid what you're worth....

Can your likeness, work, productivity, and influence make millions and billions of people worldwide happy and satisfied just as much as the biggest names in media, yet never get paid ANY credit or money for it on a legal level, let alone millions of $? Is that even possible for some people to make no money and get paid nothing for being really really successful, while others easily do for doing a lot less. Hell yes you can help billions of people and they refuse to pay you any money for ANYTHING. I know FIRSTHAND this is true.

Legally, I can attest to that. And technically, I've resisted the urge to take legal action and never ended up suing people and corporations over it. Lucky them. Fortunately, I've taken the high road. It'll pay eventually, I'm pretty sure. I'd sue certain people BIG TIME if I WASN'T certain I will be paid money for my efforts one day.

Yeah, I'm definitely not at all paid what I'm actually really worth. Not by a LONG SHOT.

Must be the black hair, tan skin, and glasses. I knew they were a liability in the media but JESUS CHRIST, is that what's costing me million in lost profits? How sad is that on the world's part?

Oh Girlfriend

I miss you
And I wonder how you feel about me too
Do you miss the way we would play
And waste our time away?
Suddenly, we're apart
And I can't see you everynight
Though we fight I love you so much
Now I can't feel your touch

Oh girlfriend
That's the end
And I'm lost without your love
Oh love

In your arms
I was happy as a little boy could be
Taking pills and mellowing out
Now I just want to shout
For your love
'Cause I'm drifting further from you everyday
Driving by your place everynight
I used to feel alright

Oh girlfriend
That's the end
And I'm lost without your love
Oh love

Feeling fancies everynight
When I dreamed to be alright
Oh love
Oh love

Oh girlfriend
That's the end
And I'm lost without your love
Oh love

In your arms
I was happy as a little boy could be
Taking pills and mellowing out
Now I just want to shout

[humming]
Now I just want to shout
[humming]
Now I just want to shout

How to Fall Asleep

The Secret: Just think of a topic that bores the shit out of you.

For me it"s politics smalltalk and legalese and statistics

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Psychic Mind...OVERWHELMED. Being an empath is hell if you don't sleep.

Feeling all those minds, trying to invade mine online and on TV, trying to get inside my head.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

BACK OFF FUCKERS!!!!!!!!!

BOUNDARIES. EMPATHIC BOUND-ARIES

GET THE FUCK BACK BEEYOTCHES!

Most of Who Dislike Monsters, Like You Girl

Caught you
Sniffing my boxers
Who the fuck does that
At Red Lobster?
Creepy
When DJ Andrews laughs
That's how your finger
Felt in my ass

I'm gonna come to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl

The way
Your kisses tasted
Skeeve me the hell out
Like shitting naked
Why would
I wanna stay friends?
Rather get raped by
Clowns again

I'm gonna come to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl

I'm gonna go to your house on the back of a horse with
A bunch of villagers carrying torches
Most of whom dislike monsters like you, girl

I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again
I rub the lotion on the skin
Or else I get the hose again...

The REAL Reason America doesn't yet produce it's own anime. Suprise surpise! It doesn't because it CAN'T!

Because of the production staff mentoring system in the Japanese anime industry, On a technical and cultural level, Asians are the only ones not self-taught in that area of production, drawing that way. Talent in production design and choreography in martial arts, in Asian in America. How many people can draw fighting and guns and production design and storyboards in general, in terms of animation population of staffs in Asia, France, and American: What you see is what you get, in terms of how many people can draw in that way. The main reason we don’t see anime in America as much, is not something America is doing by choice. We don’t see more American anime because Americans DON’T KNOW HOW and AREN’T ABLE TO, make anime. What you see a country do with animation is a reflection of what it is actually able to do. There’s no big conspiracy. If America isn’t making anime, it’s because it A) Isn’t able to because no one or not enough people can draw that way, and B) Because no one in America knows how, with rare exceptions.

Einstein and his Breakthrough: A New Era

What does the theory of Relativity really mean? On a nonscientific, symbolic and mythological level.

Einstein's accomplishment was not a normal one. Relativity and Einstein's biggest theories weren't just an accomplishment and breakthrough.

With Relativity: Einstein was ripping a giant black hole in the very fabric of the Human Conception of Time and Space itself! Nothing was ever the same after Einstein made his breakthrough.

It changed not only science and theoretical physics, and therefore human knowledge...

And the Nature of Reality

Not very Christmasy, but it just occured to me. Einstein was important.

"When a Nickelodeon Executive Roles His Eyes..." And other such necessities of innovation

Secret L.A. Animation Hollywood Pro-Innovation List

The Top 11 Things that are guaranteed to make you unpopular with Television animation executives on basic cable, that are impractical on the surface, yet have come to define many of the Greatest American Television Animation Cartoons of All Time, that will probably make a Nickelodeon executive yell at you:

1. Perspective
2. Fabric and Cloth
3. Deep Black Canvas Ink
4. Notan and Expressionist Noir
5. Hyper-Detailed Production Design
6. Mechanical Design
7. Martial Arts Choreography
8. Science-Fiction and Fantasy
9. Realistic Anatomy
10. City Architecture in perspective
11. Military and Ballistic Firearms

Strawberry Shortcake: Actual wholesome TV entertainment? Well it's better than bronies anyway.

Is Strawberry Shortcake the most wholesome child friendly, innocent, not mean show on TV? Probably. Nice work Hasbro.

What's gonna happen next week? Getting bored on reruns waiting? Don't be. Just change the channel! Stay tuned!

Tune in next Thursday for an all new episode and material. Actually, tune in any time, day or night for new episodes/volumes/chapters/footage/fans/articles/message board posts/ blog posts/ celebrity appearances/ bannable offenses/criminal offenses/ condescension and facetiousness/ addicting video footage/ fan and producer and executive appearances, and essentially anything and everthing 24/7. Internet and TV. Always churning out new material they are. Even right now! When they're pretending not to! And instead do so subliminally!

Well WhatEVER That Thing Was...

I'm glad that chaotic timespan is over with.

Life Lessons From Experienced Folk

If there's one thing I've learned from achieving many of my life goals at the age of 28, whether big or small, it's that now that I've actually achieved a lot of my early childhood goals on some tangential level, it's that success does not necessarily guarantee you be "treated like royalty". Especially in young adult hood. Actually, in their own lifetimes, for many of History's Biggest Figures, when they were alive, their treatment was ANYTHING BUT "royal". Quite the opposite actually. Many of them were treated like garbage and abused a lot more than any of their peers were. That's what I like to call "Greatness Hazing for later years"

So let that be a lesson to anyone who's failed at something. Don't let other's short sightedness deprive you of your self worth. You define your own self worth through the actions you choose during your lifetime for the most part.

Did I mention I like hang-gliding and general airborn sports....

Yup. Me likes flight and being way up in the air.

It all started way before the New Millenium, when I was little, a mere 8 or 7 year old and got to fly on a commercial flight to Chicago and back numerous times to see relatives.

I LOVE being airborn! Being indoors 24/7 is kind of dull in comparison.

No wonder Mono is able to take flight...at certain points in my narrative. Being up in the air is liberating!

Hero, or Anti-Hero?

Mono Jubei. Yeah, actually, now that I created his character, I'm having trouble deciding (becuase of the gothic attire thing) whether he's a Rugged Hero, or a Rugged Anti-Hero. I see a lot of heroes AND villains based on him in pop culture, and as a result, me as well. Pretty cool. I like being a muse for complete artistic strangers.

These are a few of my favorite things...

I invent new topics, then read them on Wikipedia
I start a trend that filters into the media
Topics and Subject Matter tied up with string
These are a few of my favorite things

Subject matter and topics with "hundred year history"
That I discovered intuiting willy nilly
Yet no one's written books about it that we see
If no books exist on it How Is That History!

When the dog bits
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad

I just discuss my favorite Wiki themes
and then I don't FEEL....
Sooo BAAAAD.

[bows]

Anime and You

You know, if I still do end up drawing anime as a manga-ka after all this, it certainly wouldn't be for any kind of money reward. There's just no money in American manga. AT ALL. It's questionable whether that will ever change. I don't set out to "draw anime" OR "manga" really. I appreciate it from an aesthetic viewpoint, I love Japanese culture for the most part, and I take influence from the anime and manga aesthetic, detailing, and pacing style, but aping the genre itself? Seems kind of like a hopeless thing to do, considering how much backlash companies like Tokyopop generated against said genre with things like the name "OEL Manga" and the neat little packing of the whole thing, almost like they were trying to get rich off of it before it even had a chance to make money for publishers to begin with. Bad move Tokyopop. REAL bad move. Priest movie and manga are and look pretty cool though.

Buh-bye.

Buh-bye Iraq War! You have yourself a Merry Little Christmas too.

Honestly, I'm just glad the fighting has been decreasing worldwide.

Propaganda and Subjectivity

Unless you have a lot of money and connections to have complete and utter control and power over some form of propaganda machine—which is biased and questionably manipulative anyway—you can’t really control how other people perceive you.

JOY RIDE: A Short Story

[Author's note: The Following Story is for mature readers. It contains foul language, drug usage, violence, and supernatural events. Reader Discretion is Advised. This story does not contain events related to the End Times Universe. The following events are not related to any particular literary universe, other than the one in the author's mind]

Brian Jason, 370 lbs., or Santa Clause as some referred to him as, sat down at the coffee table with a silver, metallic suitcase handcuffed to his left wrist. He punched the numeric lock combination, opening the case, revealing a large pile of narcotics sealed, hidden, within.

Brian tossed a small bag of cocaine onto the table, took the shaving blade out of his pocket, and cut the cocaine into neat little lines, then promptly snorted it, covering his face with white cocaine dust. He stood up. "Those fucks won't stand a chance against me!" he barked at himself, the small house being empty and poorly maintained, dirty all over. "No one stands up to Brian Jason! Not this time! I win this time! Fuck yeah!"

Brian had already left his house and was making his way to the pickup truck in his driveway, when he realized he had forgot to clean the cocaine dust off of his face when a young girl walking with her mother on the sidewalk, looked over and pointed to the man. "Why does that man have so much sugar on his ugly fat face Mommy?" she attempted to whisper and ask. "Fuck you too, bitches!" Brian shouted back at the little girl and her mother, causing them to walk quite a bit faster. He was impatient, indignant, continuing to attempt to enter his truck by jamming the key at the lock on the drivers side. Realizing what the girl had said, he tried to wipe the cocaine off his face with a dirty towel he had stowed away in his truck as he put the key in the ignition. He had a less flowery looking face now, much less pure white from the cocaine anyway. He backed out of his driveway with a honk, so fast he almost ran over the 6 year old girl and her mother as they barely managed to avoid him and got out of his way just in time to save their lives. Then the pickup truck sped away down the street, tires screeching loudly, as smoke from the burning tires left a trail up in the air.

As it exited the suburbs, Brian's truck increased in speed. "No nigger music for me, thanks," he said condescendingly as possible, turning up the classic rock, quiet at first, but shortly afterwards, as loud as it could go. Brian liked, Really liked watching people in traffic look uncomfortable. He liked making them look uncomfortable. He considered that his Gift From God. Any method of annoyance he could use to torture his fellow drivers with discomfort, he did use. The more suffering and disruption other's had to experience on his behalf, the better. This is America, he thought. And annoyance and agitation is Pure White America, which is why he considered himself to be, and if you DON'T think that, I've got a present under my driver's seat for you, he thought. This was Brian's Life Philosophy. Screw Others Over as often as possible. Be annoying and the Lord will provide, in America anyway. "No one fucks with Brian Jason!" He thought with copious amounts of aggression and cocaine rage. Hallucinations began appearing everywhere in his perception surrounding him in his truck. Suddenly he forgot how fast he was going, or what direction he was headed in. A small white line appeared through his windshield in his line of sight. He swurved left, cutting off two other cars, then swerved right, cutting off another three, making some of them crash into other cars. But he himself found he couldn't avoid a crash. His car crashed first into the car in the opposite lane beside him, and then ultimately was taken out by the telephone pole at the busy intersection, which he drove right through bypassing oncoming traffic and a light that had been red, as tires screeched, horrible crunching sounds filled the air, blood splattered all over numerous cars, and resulted in a 20 car pile up.

Brian Jason's vision then faded to white.

Brian's body felt weird, primarily because he was dead. He didn't have a body. Brian was now a formless Witness, unseen by anyone around him. Now that he was cognizant as a spirit, Brian's spirit floated upward to get a look at the local devastation he had caused. There was smoke, fire, flesh, and blood everywhere (including his), mangled cars, mangled and mutilated corpses, police cars, ambulances, firetrucks, helicopters, and people yelling, screaming, fighting, and generally panicking. Sirens, horns. It looked like a traffic Apocalypse. There was no real life, positivity, or hope to be sensed anywhere. Black crows swarmed over head in a flock. What a good job I did! the disembodied spirit thought. Surely for hurting others so much, God wants to reward me in some way. Brian's Spirit hovered around the morbid scene of the pileup for another 20 to 30 minutes, watching the events he caused unfold. He came to his own terrifying realization. "Hey wait a second! Even when I take that many people out with me in the big finale, no one cares about ME?? Why does no one care about Brian Jason! It's like they're TRYING to piss me off! I'll learn them a Real Lesson, the Spirit said to Itself, diving into the helmet of one of the police officers nearest to him

Officer Rick Marx had been having an off day. He had attended to some speeding violations, but other than that, it was a peaceful day, not too many clouds out. Until now. Marx didn't know what to make of this 11 or so car pile-up. It saddened him a bit. Then Marx felt a chill go down his spine. And suddenly, he passed out onto the cement of the street. He regained consciousness as a different person.

Brian suddenly found himself breathing and feeling again. He then realized he wasn't in his own body but the body of an officer dressed in a police uniform. He began walking in the opposite direction of the accident nonchalantly, when another officer, Randal James grabbed his shoulder, stopping him from walking.

"And just where the hell are you going?" asked Randal.
"Uh, I'm going...to file a police report," said the cop who now had one set of creepily vacant eyes.
"Oh. Well okay then. Best of luck," said Randal, as a chill went down his spine, not sure what to make of the blank and emotionless expression on Marx's face, even for a police officer.

Fucker, Brian thought. How Dare he try to stop me. How Dare any of them not weep for my death, even when I killed all those people. Brian got into Marx's police car and drove away. "No one CARES that I'm dead?!! Brian thought in furious rage. They Will ALL Pay.

Currently?

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

Lotto Fever

In a bottle of noodles
I found a small green fish
Who told a fish story
He could grant me any wish
"OK!" I said, "That sounds great
I think I understand"
The fish rolled up his sleeves
And said "Your wish is my command"

I want a box of gold
And a palace of pearls
A nice big pool for my sad-eyed girls
I want a car that can fly
And X-Ray eyes
I'd wish for more wishes
''cause it can't get better than this!

So there it was, that's it!
I can quit my job
I've got better things to do all day
''cause in my spare time
I'm in a Rock n' Roll band
And in my full time
I just sit and wait
For my box of gold
And my palace of pearls
A nice big pool for my sad-eyed girls
For the car that can fly
For my X-Ray eyes
I'd like more wishes
''cause it can't get better than this!

I can do anything
''cause I'm wishing for everything!
It could happen
It could happen
Will it be?
You tell me?
Does it get much better than this?

When I woke up
I found the bottle was gone
Someone took it away
I guess I'll just have to wait

For my box of gold
And my palace of pearls
A nice big pool for my sad-eyed girls
For the car that can fly
For my X-Ray eyes
I wish I had more wishes
''cause it didn't get better than this!

I can do anything
''cause I'm wishing for everything!
It could happen
It could happen
Will it be?
You tell me?
Does it get much better than this?

Interesting Theory

I was thinking about scientific systems. I was thinking about renewable energy sources, and it got me wondering.

What if instead of electricity, the world's technology ran entirely or primarily on thermal and solor energy? What would happen if this energy source could generate electrity?

I don't know if anyone's doing this yet. I haven't studied up on it, but the idea just sort of came to me. I thought it would be an interesting concept to share in my blog. Get on that, Scientists and Engineers!

Lies Beautiful People Tell...About Nerds

Yes, I’ll admit, I am a bit of a science, tech, and comics-&-animation nerd. For a while there, I boycotted the term “nerd” when sexy, physically attractive and hideously shallow female pop tarts started using that term to describe themselves and their mates. That was the gayest shit I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve never seen a few idiots (“The Beautiful People”) fuck up such a great and appealing word (“Nerd”) in horrible and horribly gay TV—The Big Bang Theory, certain neo-alterative musicians, pop music, the press, porn actresses, “Teen Hollywood” MTV, VH1, Disney Channel, and G4—in such a short amount of time. When stuff like that was on TV, I disowned my nerd roots. I boycotted that term (“Geek” in particular), just like I boycotted “Designer”. Attractive, ignorant jocks and preps like the kinds in those shows make being a nerd (and at times, a designer as well) so uncool. With them, it’s a fashion statement. It’s shallow. It’s the verbal and categorical equivalent of fashion runway model. Just a lot of beautiful and dumb fucks trying to be “cool” by doing what is “marketable and trendy and marketing approved”. That’s like Chris Rock saying he’s a "civil rights" activist because he's a black actor who "just happens to take nothing seriously, including civil rights!". Just a sad, sad, very sad attempt on behalf of someone trying to be either something they’re not, or something deeper than they are in reality. I don’t see Bill Gates or Steve Jobs proclaiming themselves to be nerds, even though they’re big time nerds. You don’t get the shallowness and creepy “nothing underneath” vibe from Gates and Jobs though.

In terms of being online, I'm actually quite...booked...

In terms of my digital life, I’m more busy than I’m typically comfortable actually admitting: Writing books, writing documents, drawing comics, writing scripts, posting in my blog, tweeting, posting on message board forums, viewing other people’s online art and writing, updating my YouTube site, uploading artwork to my Photobucket account, checking emails, analyzing the market, filling up sketchbooks. Keeping up with anime titles. I mean, I have free time, but not much.

"End Times: The Prep Work" Document

The first major compilation document of work done for my dramatic comic book series and saga, "End Times", which I wrote, designed and created (to construct my comic book stories) is now complete, sitting pretty at right around 200 pgs of scripts, scene outline bits, narration, and comic page layouts. I've done a lot of work on this book. Got a lot of work to go too, technically, but this does sort of feel like a bit of a benchmark.

Getting to 200 pages of actual real content takes a lot of time and work. No small task. I'll admit it's ambitious, but I honestly do feel I'm still able to manage the whole saga (and it's ultimate end product first draft) on my own. I have a vision in my head, and I'm not going to rest until I completely build the series and manifest it down on paper.

OK, deleted. Finally. Just checked.

It is offline.

Sentimentality and Audience Demographics

If there's one thing I've learned Broadblasting Retro TV Cartoons and Anime programming on my youtube channel, and who watches it, well, it kind of breaks down like this, in terms of old shows and old reruns.

For the most part...older shows appeal the most to whatever generation that saw them when they were first distributed. So advertise to the age groups that best understand the retro classics, the ones who cherish and remember their impact and intensity the best: The people who saw that animation as kids and/or teens, who are now young adults or older, whether it was in theatres, on old VHS tapes their/my parents had, or live on TV when they first aired on their respective networks.

Obviously, the new generation has certain members who are open minded that can appreciate older stuff, but in terms of advertising dollars, the biggest payoff is in the generations that remember the classics the most fondly, IF they're even still around, which of course they are if you air your stuff late at night past 10 p.m. i.e. Adult Swim style timeslots.

[Retro Adult Swim Hour]

Thank the interwebs for making this newfound marketing demographic possible

Comics as a Cohesive Individualized System

Probably one of the most challenging things to do involving drawing comics, is deducing how to construct a visual narrative and aesthetic "language", cohesive consistency, or internal logic of each page and the series of pages of sequential art that makes up a comics serial. Though all pages look different on the surface, even for individual books, if you look hard enough at the mechanics of page composition, you will find each comics title for the most part, has it's own visual patterns, from the kind of camera shots used to the way the pages are inked, to the composition of each page. Good comics and manga, and good creators have their own unique "hidden langauge" (if you will) of cohesive artwork, a system that starts from Page One and stays consistent, continuing to The End of the Series.

It's almost kind of like a Zen Riddle. You SEE the comic book sequential art, but do you truly SEE the internal logic of the (sequential) art? It very much goes beyond mere panels and pages and extends to composition, rhythm, and timing.

Good Creators Create their own Sequential art visual storytelling narrative style and system with its own hidden logic, much that is left unsaid, the vast majority of the time. But if you really look for the hidden sequential art logic, you too CAN see it. The closest filmmaking technique I can think of to compare to such an exercise is to study the editing of cinematography and camera cuts in Hollywood or Asian films.

Every Accomplishment is a Tragedy in the Art World

Every time I celebrate finishing the manuscripts for the 2 Tomes of Manifesto Volumes 1 & 2 I wrote is really just compensation for the fact that I never wrote War and Peace.

Welcome to the world of finishing your projects...

A Few Words on Writing Words

I’m by no means a standard, old fashioned, or conventional screenwriter. I don’t do the “gag writing” thing, though I hear it pays $50 million a year. Sure it seems like an incentive to stick to the animation status quo, but all the writers I admire broke away from their generations status quo. When I draw a blank and get writers block (not that I ever get blocked when I’m writing; it’s pretty much a continuous flow), I don’t generally turn to classical animation for inspiration, even though yes, I am an animation writer-in-training to some degree. For inspiration I turn to stuff like pulp fantasy, Hong Kong films, contemporary French comics, and things like Mario Puzo and Tom Clancy books, when I’m not thumbing through classic literature I have “occupying” my bookshelf and littering my studio floor. I write animation like I would a live action film or novel, because to me, if someone succeeds at writing that way, others would probably follow that example. Once you have ONE Yoshiyuki Tomino, fast forwad a decade, they’ve breeded, and you have MANY Yoshiyuki Tominos, albeit not quite as prominent as him in status, but still nonetheless cranking out awesome friggin scripts for TV, movies, and comics.

But if you want to be a successful writer, just as it is with art, if you want to succeed, you WILL write every day by any means necessary, come hell or high water, come Apocalypse or not.

I do have quite a bit of hidden discipline and will power. I don't have the discipline to stay directed forever like a Dave Sim or a Osamu Tezuka or an Otomo. My willpower and discipline is a little bit different. I have the discipline to write a lot of words just about anywhere, in almost any format: Daily. I developed my writing discipline by keeping a journal I started on my computer around 2000. By 2010 a solid decade's worth of free epic nonlinear work later, I had a giant word processor of folders and a giant stack of papers written and lying about my studio. I wrote over 10 years nonstop in an attempt to teach myself the discipline of a real writer. I wrote when people saw me writing and when people didn't see me writing. I wrote when the world focused on me and when it didn't. I wrote in emotional traquility and stability and also while in instability, domestic chaos, and inner turmoil. The point is, I wrote. I wrote, and wrote, and wrote, then when I caught my breath, I wrote some more, for just a few more hours. I wrote out of emotional instability and out of creative compulsion. Something I have yet to do with my art. While the world dissected and scrutinized my artwork and designs, which were at the forefront of my public persona, I kept my writing  routine in the background, kind of subliminal, and at a safe distance, like that sort of annoying commercial that keeps airing when you watch TV that you don't really mind, but also don't really hate because it's just kind of there, doing its thing, regardless of what you or I or any spectators think of it or assume about it.

-JM

So, what kind of action cartoon would be good for Adult Swim, you ask me?

That one's easy. Video Games anime knock-offs!

[insert the title of whatever videogame franchise AS is currently airing/advertising during their commercial breaks here]

Voila! "The next Dragon-Age Funimation anime co-pro"!

Works like a well oiled Machine every time. Heh.

Here's some Pro Tips:

Zelda: Skyward Sword
Modern Warfare
Assassin's Creed
Saint's Row

All are acceptable for anime cutting edge mimicry.

The Scenes, They Are Arriving...

Finished writing the first draft outline for around 10 fictional scene outlines, for upcoming fiction I'm working on. Not too torturous, unlike my art. Yeah, when I actually focus, in my opinion I'm not TOO bad. At least I'm doing the work finally. Outlines are enjoyable to write.

Success, and Learning to Accept Criticism

Successful living = criticism from people all over the place. Everytime my popularity is at its highest, I get some negative input. I just…wish I responded to negative comments better. It’s a natural part of being successful in art: Being criticized.

Telly Awards

A year or two ago, I got a notification in the mail that because of my achievements on YouTube through making the Spindack and SplitAtomBoom YouTube channels, I was actually eligible to be nominated for a Telly Award, for innovations in broadcasting. Honestly, it's just kind of cool knowing there's people out there who think I'm as innovative as I probably am. Yeah, I'm the man. Was that ever in doubt?

Never thought I'd see the Day

American entertainers, conforming to Japanese cultural standards on various levels?

Dunno.

When did it suddenly become "cool" to copy anything from Japan? Or go to Japan? Or comform to Japanese standards in any way whatsoever, kids? Why is it suddenly cool to emulate such a weird culture?

Just wondering.

Because I don't really do that. I draw like an American. I don't speak or read Japanese, and am damn proud of myself and the country I live in (America) regardless. Japan can't touch us in terms of computer manufacturing. For starters...

Mama-Mia!

I actually got a fully grown mustache ah goin on! I don't even really care for mustaches that much, but yeah, I got one. I gotta ah mustach-sha!

Rampage

So I was watching this action movie I had never seen before. Rampage. Told from the point of view of a lone gunman who goes on a killing spree. Not as shocking as one would imagine, but still pretty fun if you like ballistics and cinematic violence. Which I do. Pretty dark psychologically speaking. Available on Netflix. Much better than Gamer.

Photobucket Artwork Profile

My Photobucket art gallery profile is getting pretty massive. There are at least 500 or so pages on there.

LINK to Photobucket

Secrets of Business Success Management From a Web 2.0 Master. Why? Because I like GIVING...

Media Business Rules: by “SplitAtomBoom”

Managing You Tube

Advice From A Business Pro (Me)

I didn't start off using these rules, they're more like maxims of advice for people wanting to run a successful web business who are willing to listen to someone who helped one of the most successful websites in the world, in it's formative years.

• Encourage originality, but don’t be an originality-nazi. Let more than one person do the same thing if they want to.
• Let people common gut reactions determine the laws and standards of decency.
• Copyright Ownership: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Need to know or enforce basis.
• Let people know how influential they are by showing them their audience stats
• Don’t emphasize profits and so-called bottom line (money) over employee appreciation
• If you contribute significantly, you’re with us
• Say whatever you want, within reason
• Efficiency of Function is Everything in the World of Technology
• Let people do their thing. Encourage others not to discourage said people. Be nice
• Don’t exclude people for any specific reason, probably not any reason unless it’s a blatant violation.
• Everyone’s in charge, not just one person, not “just us”. There is no “us vs. them” here.
• Don’t penalize those that just want to have a voice and express themselves

A Book You Can Buy, Which No One Will...My Art Book

Link to a retailer selling my self-published portfolio book, Art Manifested: The Art of J.M. Matthews.

[LINK]

Online PDF Download coming...eventually.

300 pages of shifting and evolving draftsmanship quality, as manifested on 300 pages of paper, as I lounged and drifted about my house. Nice.

Animation Writers

Perfectly profitable profession. Not as competitive as being an artist for the most part. You can actually have talent and succeed, assuming the right people see your script. Simple. As. That. But I should clarify.

There's really only a handful of REAL American animation screenwriters who AREN'T subliterate drunkards and potheads, to the best of my knowledge. I'm including decent Japanese screenwriters for good measure. The rest can go to sub-literate hell:

Those actual good animation writers ARE:

• Aaron McGruder
• Jhonen Vasquez
• Michael Reaves
• The Avatar Team
• Yoshiyuki Tomino
• Dai Sato

The rest (unless I'm forgetting them or am unaware of them) for the most part should be ashamed of themselves. This BLOG ALONE has more literacy than the majority of American animation scripts.

Let me tell you a little something about BLACK, mr. "WHITE...SUPREMECIST"

You can’t get any leverage out of a single page of art. Believe me, I’ve tried. Art is a continual process. Doing just 1 page doesn’t reflect well on you as an artist. Black and Dark Pages look better than White Pages, both technically and aesthetically. This is how I prefer to do things. Take it or leave it. Nothing’s going to change this, my love for Black. I am part Goth after all. Black pages appeal to intelligent, mature, and sophisticated readers who like dark and macabre things, and other innovative creative visuals. White pages lack not only maturity, experience, and wisdom, but also age and creativity. I know with most white pages I’m not going to get anything truly adult. White pages are for children. Black compositions are for mature adults and have a sense of sophistication and timelessness. Black pages aren’t just meant to portray death and horror. They also represent wisdom and creativity. White may be “pure and cute”, but at least black has some experience behind it. And no one’s going to sell me a counter opinion any other way either. Far as I’m concerned my mind is already made up. Black is better than White. Fuck white. Fuck purity.

One of my unconventional aspects has to do with my usage and philosophy on color, or more specifically, Power Colors. I believe Black can make just as much of a healing color as white does. Most people, when they think healer, they think white, and when they think evil, they think black. I see it in reverse much of the time. To me the purity of white, there’s something fake and untrustworthy about it. White’s initial innocent impression can easily be used to deceive and lie and exploit trust. Black is a constant. Hardly ever does it change or get darkened. Black absorbs all, including pain. This sounds like Goth Poetry, I know—not that there’s anything wrong with Goth Poetry—but it truly does express how I feel about White and Black. Black gives me a sense of power, and therefore paves and pioneers the way through fear to a sense of acceptance, peace, and comfort. Power cravings aren’t always bad. Power represents stability and security in some ways, and therefore has a strong potential to be used for Healing and by Healers. White isn’t the only color that purifies people. Black can revitalize and sooth.

Cel-Shading with Black

My art style is a mixture of gothic aesthetics, pen-&-ink techniques, and digital cel-shaded Notan compositions. It's my own brand of Goth-Noir. I'm interested to see how my black and white digital inking style would look animated using animation cel-shading techniques. After all, I've already been using a brand of cel-shading techniques in my inking style without even knowing it.

Fight Dictionary

So I came across a choreography book (one of my favorite  books of late) with a fight term definition archive in it. But NO ONE bothered to put it on the internet, maybe because no one's seen it but me (theory). Anyway, yeah, compiling an amateur fight choreography "Glossary" or "Dictionary". Or am I the only one that cares about that sort of thing (cool action)?

I can say your day all day long, but I guess you can’t say mine!

I can namedrop the names of Time Warner and Viacom all day long, and they can’t even SAY my full name on their shows or anything. If they could, it's obvious they would have by now. They’re too afraid of getting sued for name dropping. Therefore Time Warner and Viacom are my bitch, NOT the other way around. You can’t make someone your bitch if you’re too legally castrated to say their name without somebody suing you. Sucks being you I guess. First names and face clones don’t count. That’s for pussies. You can say my first name for millions of years on end all day long, but it’s kind of obvious your too much of a bunch of legally entangled PUSSIES to say my FULL name. HA HAH HAH, pathetic.

"Vanity Press n' Crap"

If my schedule permits it, I'll be publishing a 300 or so pg artbook through print on demand publishing. If you want to purchase a copy once it's on sale, and you want to create demand for my publishing work in any way, be sure to let me know if you like my art and want a copy of my art book, and I'll make it available to the general public where people can buy it. But it helps to know if anyone actually wants to buy a book i publish before I go all out and invest time in marketing it. I'll probably make a free extra differently formated exclusive version available online, if anyone contacts me at my gmail account (JM, c/o spindack@gmail.com) to let me know someone actually wants to buy my art. No one bought any of my Art Flakes prints, so that bombed. Maybe this upcoming book'll be different. Kind of doubtful if no one contacts me about it though. Worth putting some effort into I suppose.

Sketchbook = Visual Journal Manifestation Time Chronicle Tome

A sketchbook isn't just an art practice document. It's also a visual journal of your visual thoughts chronicling your visual thought process on paper. Sketchbooking is one way of using a literary device (paper) to chronicle the manifestation of your artistic, design, and visual forms, thoughts, and pencil mileage on paper for future generations. Sketchbooks don't necessarily need a thematic narrative. The forms and lines on paper and the time and space that art travels through to be made manifest is narrative.

I always found free form expression with lines on paper just as literary as writing in a written journal all day, but I never thought to write an artistic statement to go with my creative accomplishments, Now that I bought a highly expensive (around $250) Neat scanner, which can scan artwork, if your willing to seek out some freeware that converts PDF documents. I scanned well over 300 pages in 4 to 5 hours with that sucker, condensing a weeks to months worth of work into less than 24 hours.

 so there you go...The first paragraph of this blog is my artistic statement on sketchbooks, or nonsketchbook compilations of ballpoint pen linework on printer paper stacks and the like. Either way, my artistic statement.

Random Fact of Chi

If I stand up in my room, and clap my hands together and continue putting pressure between the two palms, close my eyes, and breath deeply as though I were practicing meditation, I consistently give the back of my upper spine goosebumps. At one point I was able to create goosebumps on my upper spine 4 to 5 times in a row. It's like the room has electricity in the air or something. I never used to think goosebumps and hairs standing on end could be controlled. Looks like I was wrong.

Something, Something, The Sage is a River that Flows Beneath Valleys, You can be one too?

Ah yes, the RIVER passage. This is my philosophy about influence and being influential in the media and web in general actually.

Manga...or things like it...

Haven't written about manga and anime in a while. Still a fan, but even I can see that the simultaneous death of both Borders AND Tokyopop, and on top of that Floods and Earthquakes in much of Japan, have done a LOT of damage to the anime and manga industries. That's billions of dollars in losses. Which kind of leaves me asking, just where exactly IS the anime and manga community. Online feels a bit isolating in some ways. I will admit though, 2003 was a horrible year for me personally, but it was probably one of the best years in recent anime and manga history

I have been working on Parallax, until I realized no one really cares about what I draw all that much. What I review maybe, but not what I draw online. If you think differently you can always email me at my email address and convince me otherwise at spindack@gmail.com. No one ever really does that though, except one person who ended up filling in as a guest artist on my WCN JM Magazine. But other than a few supporters of that kind, most people just aren't interested in what I have to draw and probably write.

Update on work report

So, I've drawn and written a lot of pages that have accumulated over time, and by now I have a stack of pages of art and literature I created, that's around 2 feet thick, made entirely of 50% typed up writing and 50% sketchbook pages. I'm happy with my progress over the last 5-10 years. It's manifested in that 2 foot tall/thick stack of papers. Glad I'm finally upgrading to a faster scanner...

Let me explain a little something to you dear reader. Why I'm not famous...

You know, some people online actually consider me (of all people) to be a famous celebrity, just because there are rip offs of my look(s) (whatever look THAT is) in movies an on TV.

I'd be more inclined to buy into such a bullshit claim IF I actually was an actual celebrity.

But think about it. No, seriously, think about it. When people think your famous, they don't think you have to deal with hassles. Do I?

Am I happy? Can I find a girlfriend of ANY sort? Am I rich with three children and perfect health and hygeine? Do people respect me? Can I find a job? Do my neighbors and family not hate me with a passion?

I'll give you a small hint. I wouldn't answer "yes" to any of these questions. This speaks volumes about how delusional some people's perception of the reality of my life is.

I ain't famous.

And NOW, Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to talk to you about a subject near and dear to my heart...The remains of Adolf Hitler's corpse during World War II

As the legend of deserved death goes: Hitler in his  bunker on his las legs, took 2 cyanide pills, stuck a revolver in his mouth and blew his brains out as the cynanide pills were taking effect. BLAM! Choke. BRAVO! And the crowd goes wild! At which point not far afterward the Russian army flew over head and bombed the shit out of his bunker. POWPOWPOW!!! The Russians didn't find a CORPSE. They found the smoldering remains out of PIECES of a corpse and did God knows what to it. It's a mystery. Now if only that could have happened 10 million times over there'd be real justice in the world. But unfortunately, there isn't Justice in this world much of the time

Good Night Boston!

Me n' Da Industry. Da Industry n' Me.

For a long time, I’ve wanted to break into traditional comics publishing as an artist or writer. Perhaps because it was always (and always felt like) more of a challenge to succeed in commercial print bookstore and comics shop publishing than it did to succeed in digital publishing and webcomics, even though the latter doesn’t pay much if anything most of the time, and the former does. But with new media becoming increasingly more popular, and traditional media like books and comics losing sales, one has to wonder where the readers money actually is going: To digital or to print. Or are readers PAYING FOR anything at all? I’m not a commercial publisher. I don’t have tabs on this kind of information. It would make my job easier if I did, but I don’t, so like everyone else I read blogs, online articles, and the trades. But deciding where an upstart artist and writer like myself fits into the industry, be it manga, indie comics, or webcomics, is no easy task. If I can’t pinpoint it, I have doubts anyone else ever will.

Strategy and Family: A volatile mix

If my father were a war general in another lifetime, his "strategy" would be this:

"Do the most obvious, most direct, most naked thing possible, and don't anticipate any strategic or defensive moves on any of your enemy's parts. They'll just let you into their home base of course!"

&

"Full frontal assualt on the main road, fully advertised to the enemy, and full exposure of all defenses that are easy for enemies to spot"

Good luck with that, Dad. Go let someone kill you, because they definitely will.

New Fiction Piece I'm Working On

Multi-Race: An Autobiographical Short Story

Synopsis: A young baby with a mysterious Eurasian past and high visionary creative sensitivity and intelligence is adopted by loving white parents, but eventually grows to question his community, peers, mind, and ultimately, his own identity and place in the world after his life is threatened by a sociopathic acquaintance who stalks him and wants him dead, and the comforting innocence of the young man’s childhood has faded.

You know, I really, REALLY hate writing by internet-accessible computer.

God only knows what's sneaking into your CPU.

Trying to write with a non-wireless, hacked computer and compose literary compositions iss like being a musician trying to tune your electric guitar before a concert, where the stadium is ALREADY FILLED with a drunk, drug induced, and disorderly studio audience who show up at your rehearsal space...BEFORE THE FUCKING CONCERT EVEN STARTS. Just this massive impossible task. It's impossible to practice writing in such insane safety conditions. Essentially not possible, no matter HOW MUCH effort is put into it on the author's behalf. Not everything from the performer is a performance, and yet the audience (my audience) seems to relish in reacting this way. Fucking scary.

Exit to a Film...

Now I will admit, I did kind of leave my last job in the media with both my middle fingers raised high into the air, straight at America and most of the world. But no more of that...probably.

Still though, sometimes you don't want to put up with asshole crap.

Venture Industries

To think, I spent all this time, at least 4-5 months nonstop venturing into the big business and tech manufacturing world as a freelance inventor entrepreneur, and yet, now that I technically CAN talk about it, even with such legal freedom, I don't really much feel like talking about it. I'm just so used to not talking about my big business negotiations and adventures online. I should be spilling my guts to the world like usual, and yet this time around, I just don't feel up to issuing a public statement about that time of my life...

It's Clear Now: DBZ is the Most Popular Anime in the World History of Anime...

And as much as I like most anime,

even I'll admit:

More popular than Pokemon
More popular than Naruto.

And more popular than Sailor Moon.

And more popular than Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Yu-Gi-Oh.

And it's lasted just as long as a franchise if not moreso than all those shows, a 24+ year history

DBZ is the most popular anime show in the world, with popularity and devotion rivaling that of Star Wars and Harry Potter.

Not only a major and highly profitable franchise through not only Japan, but America, and the world, dubbed by two seperate studios (FUNimation (a studio DBZ helped build, launch, and found overall through the 90s and 00s) and the Ocean Group), adapted into a major (albeit not as popular) Hollywood live action film (ironically enough), and syndicated on not just CN (Cartoon Network)'s most popular programming block of all time, Toonami, as well as on 2 other major networks, Nicktoons and Kids WB's newest incarnation, CW4Kids. Not to mention spawner of numerous parodies and websites. And that's just in North America alone. Which is actually amazingly successful for a show that's an anime in America.

Submissions

Got an email back from France Film today. They're interested in hearing more about my submission. I'm quite happy about that.

Injunction

Eventually, I will be pursuing a legal injunction against my adoptive parents and my psychiatrist and therapist, essentially for making me a "medical prisoner" of my own home. But that's neither here nor there. Nothing will happen for a while. Moving on.

Fiction Writing Publishing

I’ve decided to try something new at WCN. I’m publishing some of my fiction writing prose online over at WCN http://tinyurl.com/3bptxet.

But MOST importantly, REAL art is more personal than could EVER be commercial...

One should never be discouraged from picking up a pencil, or opening photoshop, and just putting lines on a page. THAT, my friends, is real art, not some TV show that was anonymously made to annoy and irritate you. That has no real meaning. You or I putting lines on a paper to create simple geometric shapes, THAT is art. Simple shapes or forms on a page IS art. Half that shit you watch on daytime television every day? Sorry. That ain't art. It doesn't have to be hyper-realistic or ultra detailed just to be art. And it doesn't "need to" be big bug eyed anime girlies to be art either. DeviantART and Cartoon Network in particular, are, quite frankly, solely responsible for fucking up an entire generations view of what real art is. Now an art history book isn't art to a 13 year old. A fucking stupid ass hentai online is though??? That's pretty fucked up, man.

Anyway, I said my thing. Anonymous shit on screen isn't actual art. Lines on paper created by a human BEING, (even if they look incredibly simple and crude) ARE. See the difference? It's actually more democratic than some of these kids nowadays think.

Let me tell you a little bit why I hate the fact that people actually (and thoughtlessly) consider DeviantART anime and Cartoon Network to be "real art" when it's pure shit most of the time. Real art isn't manufactured or an imitation, or duplicate. Most of what surfaces from the abyss of CN and DA isn't real art by traditional standards, and instead is junk food and diarhea of media, BECAUSE it's not personal. It feels algorithmic and automated, like a robot with a crayon. Not personal at all, and therefore filler shithole. Anything you or I put down on actual (get this) PAPER(! Wow, paper!), is art, because it was produced by an individual. Anonymity, as far as I'm concerned, is one shitty substitute. It doesn't MATTER that you can automate and mass produce and manufacture thousands of crappy ass random, anonymous, and non-identity images (not art, IMAGES, and random ones at that) a day. That's not "prolificacy". It's lunacy, fucking crazy ass stupid retarded insanity, coming out of the ass of a corporation like turds get shot out of your ass. Art has an identity. Art has a name. It's not manufactured by an anonymous group of nobodies.

THEE END

And Another Thing. Commercial Animation Isn't Real Art. Not YET.

Anime is fun and all, but it isn’t real art. It’s commercial, and therefore not entirely pure, just like animation in every other country. There are a lot of fans that don’t agree with this kind of objective sentiment. But ultimately, like Hollywood and videogames, anime and manga aren’t real art. They’re entertaining, and they use creativity, yes, but that isn’t the same thing as being Leonardo or Picasso. They’re Commercial art and commercial media, which means they’re not real art.

Animation CAN be art, and there can be exceptions, but to me animation is more media and entertainment than it is art.

Real art is pure. Real art is on paper, or in some cases digitally painted.

But the thing about anime and animation is, yes Disney Studios films (at the start) are cinema, and Production I.G. does real art. But not every single show that sees airtime on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon is REAL art. If that were the case, those crappy commercials for brand products would be art, too. That shit ain't the truth. Art has real meaning. Art makes a statement on society, humanity, anything really. Most shows on TV are not art. And many anime, are not art. They're pure filler, designed to sell advertising space, and be forgotten about when they're replaced by newer shows.

The more it wants to sell you on a product, the less artistic credibility it has.

Newest Project

Submitted a little something to Film France, which I read about in the trades. Hopefully I'll get a response of some kind...Sounds like a fun prospect.

-J.M.

Hate to say it...

I hate to say it, but Google is the only company that's actually bothering to fairly monetize the interweb. The rest, like Time Warner, Disney, and Viacom (traditional media companies) don't GIVE A SHIT about you or I, only volumizing pre-existing profits for their pre-existing employees. And for the most part they do a terrible job of integrating pay scales to the web. They want slaves, not contributors....NOT internet users and prosumers (i.e. random peeps and me). At least someone's trying.

Smart Mind, Inferior Physique

I heard from watching the science channel that the body of a man with Aspergers ages faster than those who don’t have the condition. Your body fails on you faster. So technically, I have the brain of a super-genius rocket scientist, but the body of a 45-50 year old man. Not EVEN joking. When you’re a supergenius like me and your brain works at such a hyperefficient level, you’re body basically fails at adjusting and can’t cope, therefore making many people with Aspergers physically disabled and weak, while the brain functions in the 1% (genius level, the highest level possible).

I mean, hell, if you check the history books and the headlines, most real life geniuses don't survive past their 50s, if they even make it that far. I'll be lucky if I see 55.

Yep

Well, exactly 1 month to go until I offiicially survive that silly "27 Curse" thing.

That Plan

In my prison cell I think these words
I was careless
I can see that now
I must be silent
Must contain my secret smile
I want to tell you
you my mirror
you my iron bars

When I made a shadow on my window shade
They called the police and testified
But they're like the people chained up in the cave
In the allegory of the people in the cave by the Greek guy

No one understands
No one knows my plan
Why the dancing, shouting
Why the shrieks of pain
The lovely music
Why the smell of burning autumn leaves

No one understands
No one knows my plan
Why the dancing, shouting
Why the shrieks of pain
The lovely music
Why the smell of burning autumn leaves

In my prison cell I bide my time
Always thinking
Always busy cooking up an angle
Working on the tiny blueprint of the angle
Sketching out the burning autumn leaves

No one understands
No one knows my plan
I must be silent, must contain my secret smile
I want to tell you
you my mirror
you my iron bars

No one understands
No one knows my plan

Do Not Forsake Me

O, do not forsake me, my indolent friends
O, do not forsake me though you know I must spend
All my darkest hours talking like this
For I am one thousand years old

One thousand years old
Sure, you think that's old
One thousand years old
But what do you know?
In my darkest hour I'm talking like this
For I am one thousand years old

Oh, some have forgotten the flower of speech
And walks through the garden where I go to defend
Misbegotten notions while talking like this
For I am one thousand years old

One thousand years old
Sure, I'd say that's old
One thousand years old
But what do I know?
In your darkest hour, my indolent friends
We'll be one thousand years old

Story System Structure Map: Writing Fiction

STORY

DEVELOPMENT OF A NARRATIVE STORYTELLING SYSTEM

Beginning—Middle—End

Inciting Incident (Setup)—Conflict (Confrontation)—Resolution (Solution)

BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END

• (BEGINNING, MIDDLE, END) How do these three segmented parts-elements relate to the supporting cast of characters-&-villains?
• (BEGINNING, MIDDLE, END) How is the setup-inciting incident, conflict-confrontation, and resolution solved for each major character-player of the narrative?
• (BEGINNING, MIDDLE, END)What do we know about the characters/world at the beginning, middle, and end of the story as it relates to the beginning’s (setup), middle’s (conflict), and end’s (resolution) essential elements. In other words, how does each character interact with and influence the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

BEGINNING

• (BEGINNING): When does the inciting incident really happen? When does it start and end? Can there be more than one inciting incident at the beginning?

MIDDLE

• (MIDDLE; CONFRONTATION; CONFLICT) What kind of buildup and rising action or tension helps get us through the story’s narrative? What’s causing the suspense and drama? How does the confrontation define that suspense and drama?
• (MIDDLE; CONFLICT): What is the nature of the conflict-confrontation? Nature, Society, or Supernatural/Scientific? What is the Conflict, and who/what’s causing it?
• (MIDDLE): CONFLICT: Who/what is leading/causing/instigating the conflict/tension/events of the story? Character action or the situation/events?

END

• (END) Where does this element/segment/act/final scenes truly begin/end? And with who, which characters, one or more?
•  (END): How is the story problem-confrontation completely resolved-concluded-solved?
• (END) Is there an emotional-psychological resolution too for the audience-&-characters, or is it just physical-temporal?

2011: A Productive Year

2011 felt kind of long for me.

I got a lot of work done during 2011, probably more than usual.

I produced some spec.ulative work as a screenwriter, concept artist, production designer, and storyboard artist. I've expanded the range of my portfolio of work by quite a bit. I didn't publish much of what I did this year online, but then again, why should I?

-JM

The Story of HERE

I sit at this laptop, typing yet another blog entry. On my desk is a stack of printed computer papers and sketches. In my closet, on a dresser, is a unworn flannel tee shirt draped over dual kendo shinai bamboo blades.

Seriously. Yup. That is the story of my life in one paragraph

Trendspotting: Story, Literature, and Japan

Fiction writing, screenwriting, and literature all seem to be on the rise in popularity with younger male readers in Japan. There are more Japanese novels being released in the United States than any time before, with things like light novels based on anime, and fantasy and science fiction novels such as Brave Story and All You Need Is Kill. And famous Japanese scriptwriter Dai Sato—who started writing professionally at the age of 19—starting his screenwriter consulting company StoryRiders as recently as 2007. Never has the Japanese love for literature and the printed word been so strong collectively. I can’t wait to see how this develops in the future.

I've been into anime and manga for a long time now, and I don't remember Japanese printed literature that wasn't primarily visual, like novels, scripts, and whatnot ever having this much visibility in the American anime mainstream. Personally, I've always been a writer since at least the age of 16 or so,  but it's nice to see a visual medium like anime seeming to really start considering story and literature more.

Stop thinking of yourself for once, prick....

And START thinking about people who are richer and more famous than you! How are they gonna eat, huh?!

Now they're gonna have to drive in a limo HALF that size and jerk off on a pile of money one third as massive the size!

Asshole!!!

My current Teacher in Art...

So I remember my most recent teacher, Donna Frank of Orlando, once  telling me in person how in terms of her current cityscapes, the production design and architectural designs I've drawn for Parallax influenced a lot of her painted Impressionist cityscape interpretations of Downtown Orlando's Architecture. I was kind of honored that I'm now actually directly influencing a member of the fine arts community, not just anime online, which is a tad bit different than what I'm used to. Usually it's just teenage Asian girls online who want to copy Mono's trenchcoat and draw their own renditions of it. It's nice to talk to a fellow local artist directly. Hasn't happened before now for a while. She did receive some of her art education in France and Italy during her career at one point. So technically, even though I haven't been to France to study art myself (yet!), I'm still the protege of an older artist who DID have some of her art education take place in France for quite a  while. Better than nothing I suppose.

The most feared man ever to walk the earth...BLAH!

I am the most feared man in entertainment. My enemies have got some big ass balls, primarily because they have the audacity to talk back to someone as powerful as me. You got balls, kid. I like that.

Academic Theories: Surrealism Makes You A Visionary

I like Surrealism, and I've derived a scientific psychological-developmental theory around it. I saw a lot of surrealistic imagery as a child, and not surprisingly, I grew up to be a very creative designer and general artist.

That is why I can't help but suspect the following scientific theory:

If you view a lot of surrealistic images at a young age, in print (comics, children's books), on TV, and on computers, (NOT anime. Surrealism. Difference.), your brain will automatically become highly imaginative and creative visually. Visual intelligence.

My theory is similar to the notion that "Listening to Mozart makes you smarter"

And because other than Science fiction and fantasy, Surrealism is the most creative visual art, and it will likely broaden your creative mind, and make you a better visual stylist when you grow up.

I wonder if psychologists will ever test this theory and conduct research related to it...Hmmm.

The French Animation Scene (IS there an animation scene in France???)

French Animation Productions

“Co-Production Market”

• Totally Spies
• Valerian and Laureline
• Marathon Animation
• Oban Star-Racers
• Code Lyoko
• W.I.T.C.H.
• Martin Mystery
• Fantastic four: World’s Greatest
• The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
• Magi-Nation
• The Amazing Spiez
• Team Galaxy
• Gormiti
• Redakai
• Bots Master

It’s clearly anime and manga influenced, yet quite distinctive and different from those styles and

genre-mediums. They all have realistic backgrounds, use a lot of perspective and stylistic

character design. There are a lot of angles and sharp edges in the clothing and character design,

and fashion savvy costumes; vibrant color scheme and color composition. Their production

values are profound, cinematic, and high standard, much like anime.

French Animation and Co-Productions:

The French TV animation market was built on co-productions. French animation on TV is very co-production friendly. It’s the entire market. The concepts of co-production and French animation are interchangeable.

So why are so few TV shows available in America on DVD. This one's, that aspect of it, is a mystery to me.



The French television animation style is actually a very distinctive style of Western animation.

I Like My Cartoons BLACK Just Like I LIke My Metal...

Ever since I found out that “Noir” is the French word for the color “Black”, I’ve been fascinated by, and addicted to, the aesthetics and execution of the Noir genre. Whether in comics or animation. Interest in this genre is at an all time high in the mainstream and in the international film and comics world. From the Sam Noir graphic novel, to the French animated film Renaissance, to the anthropomorphic Cerebus-esque painted comic book Blacksad, to the live action adaptation of Frank Miller’s equally neo-noir comic book Sin City, to my own comic book cover style. Noir, or “Black Cinema and Comics” seems to be everywhere, particularly in French comics and animation, and in live action film. Black, while seemingly one dimensional and traditionally considered “evil” on the surface, allows for much expressive potential in the arts, literature, and cinema.

I’m quite proud and more than happy to at least appear like and feel as though somehow I pave a path to in other people’s eyes, somehow come across like I’m one of those modern day auteurs who have his finger on the pulse of something like that. Or not.

The French were some of the first appreciators and connoisseurs of the Black Cinema movement, the “Noir Thing”.

To me, Black and Dark are the same genre. Noir Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Gothic Fantasy. Future Noir (“Future Black”; Blade Runner). Noir and Goth. German and American Expressionism. Though other people don’t always think this way, they’ve always been integrated in the creative parts of my mind. The words and terms can be translated and intermixed both ways. Not just one way. Noir is not as big in Japan, but if you ask me, it’s only a matter of time, what with stuff like Darker Than Black, Hipira, Big O I & II,  Black Jack, Ghost in the Shell (Noir), Berserk, Akira, Strait Jacket, X/1999, Hellsing, Vampire Hunter D, Trinity Blood, Sword of the Stranger, and Karas I & II. I don’t know if the color black will ever be as heavily used in Japan as big eyes, but WHATEVER direction it takes over there, it seems well beyond being on its way.