New Years 2013

Spare some change? Online handouts ROCK!

The Difficulty of the Present World Situation...

There was a time when drawing comics and cartoons felt easy. Well, to me it did anyway. It really did.

But the honest truth is, the landscape is changing...And it's gotten harder to pursue work and projects that are innovative and new, according to experts and industry veterans. It's difficult to get funding and the support of the corporates, and it's difficult to get anything new greenlit for production. And if you do manage to do something new, there's a high probability critics and audiences will reject it.

Drawing comics panels is hard work. People who can master drawing comics pages, panels, and full compositions are doing some of the hardest work there is

My philosophy used to be "pursue what is easiest". In the past that was cartoons and animation....But due to the changing landscape, evolving industry, internet information overload, and the inflation of aggressive and unfriendly competition in most instances, animation and cartooning has kind of gone from being one of the friendliest, kindest, most welcoming industries, to the other end of the spectrum: One of the most aggressive, hyper-competitive, and at times, meanest. Not an easy industry landscape to work in.

It still is and still can be rewarding, but there's a higher probability of torturous pain and stress being involved.

Animation's a lot harsher now than it was when I was growing up and first decided I wanted to pursue it as a kid.

But what of the industry leaders, you ask? The Modern Day Masters? The Frank Millers, Todd McFarlanes, Dave Sims, Jeff Smiths, Genndy Tartakovskys, Otomos, Jhonen Vasquezes?

I'm sure some of them do fine and are still just as good as ever, but I've read up on numerous industry leaders. I do that, always have, I read articles about and interviews with them in the trades, and most of them struggle just as much as any other artists with things. High Prestigious reputations can be deceptive in some regards. If someone is a media icon like them, it's easy to think they can easily always get whatever they want, which isn't always true.

Despite being difficult to succeed in the industry, drawing in and of itself is worthwhile if you're just doing it for yourself. I've always wanted to see a certain type of cartoon, but before I designed it it didn't really exist, so I built that style myself. The same one I hoped somebody else would design, build, and draw, but nobody did in reality. Even to this day, my art and writing represents my own style. One no one else is doing in exactly the same way. I've built the artistic and literary style I've always really wanted to see.

Don't set out to draw manga.....

Most people who "set out to draw manga" in America end up drawing on the cliches. 

Drawing on manga ELEMENTS is fine, but trying to replicate the entirety of the style is kind of pointless. 

I'm not setting out to draw manga. I'm setting out to draw general comics, which utilize certain manga archetypes, just not all of them. 

American comics, even oel manga, aren't really seen by a Japanese audience, and the Japanese ARE the number one demo for manga and anime. If they're not seeing your work (and they're not), there's really no point to it all, is there?

Just draw regular old comics. Not manga. Not superhero. Create you're own entirely new genre. It's better that way. More natural. Reading manga and watching anime is fine, it makes great reference material like any other form of local or international comics and animation, just don't try to blatantly imitate the format. You'd be trying to live up to a standard that's impossible to meet. At least in America you have the freedom to draw how you want, not how you're readers want you to draw. 

Why own 1 Black Katana, When You Can Own 2 of Them?

Better yet, why FIGHT with one katana, when you can fight with two of them, Miyamoto Musashi style (?)

In High School, I never actually SMOKED POT. Still never have....

But I did hang out with the potheads and stoner-slackers a lot. They had the best sense of humor. I was really only offered pot once growing up. I turned it down.

"Nah, man. No thanks," I said with a wave of my hand.
"Aw right man. It's cool. Don't worry bout it."

Other People, and SHIT like that....

OTHER people in entertainment may need to feed off of lurid obscenity "to stay sane", but that is not a healthy lifestyle, and I certainly don't. Especially not currently.

Think of the CHILDREN! Stealing and plagiarism is wrong!

That must be why I'm one of the most stolen from artists on TOP OF being one of the most famous, innovative, and influential, eh?

"Hello? Yes, police? I'd like to report a theft and robbery from my house? Where? Well, actually, they broke in through my computer and stole my ideas and concepts by the hundred...Yes? Yes? Well, actually, I didn't get their name or what they look like. They were INVISIBLE, like ninja! Or somethin...."

I don't actually go to Comic Book and Anime Conventions....

I'm not going to endanger the safety of my audience like that. Knowing how psychotic some of the people who follow me are, it's safest just to let people admire me from their computers...and NOWHERE ELSE.

Detractors of being Multitalented (Hindrances, not just Advantages)

1. You feel drawn in a million different directions. You're never sure which path to pursue indvidiually.
2. Jack of All Trades Syndrome ("Master of Nothing")
3. You end up in a routine where you're so busy pursuing multiple goals that you forget to spend a lot of time on just one or two things. 
4. You get good with a lot of careers superficially or temporarily, but master or progress financially in NONE of them.
5. Your audience in each pursuit wonders "Where is he?" "What's taking him so long to update??!" all the time, if you leave them in the dark about the fact that you're multitasking.

Time to Play Another Round of: "Guess Why Joe's Depressed!"

Topic: Animation

Here's the deal. As browsing through a Wikipedia Page about TV animated series (of recent years) will attest, there are 2 main qualities lacking in modern American TV Toons: Not quality, as some of these shows still manage to be entertaining.

But 2 qualities consistently lacking in American TV cartoon shows would be: Productivity and Originality. 

Much like Hollywood, TV in L.A. has become so popular with people everyone's becoming scared to do anything original and new and instead they just  greenlight what's already been established and and proven to be popular. Shit that already "works" in producers' eyes.

Nowadays, everything is a "Franchise series, or spinoff, or sequel, or prequel, or a namesake"

TV is an "imprecise science" and that definitely factor's in. Comics are a precise science. Novels are a precise science. Hollywood movies and TV shows? Where there's hundreds of people contributing. That's an imprecise science at best. No one person makes the whole thing. For better and worse. Mostly worse.

So if you're reading this, and you plan on making your own show one day, regardless of whether you have the resources of a rich guy/gal or not. Trust me on this one, make shit up. Play in your own world. Make UP your own world. Do a Motorcity, or a Regular Show, Aeon Flux, or an Oban Star Racers, or an IGPX, or an Invader Zim, or a Batman. Don't just linger in someone else's world your whole career.

What this industry needs currently, is people who want to try something new. Go in directions that no one's gone. Not  being afraid to make mistakes and lose money is the SOUL of L.A., even if it is a highly lucrative business. 

The Internet is Democratizing and Changing a Lot of Genres and Mediums....

The most dynamic shifts from recently as compared to the past that this enormous shift and democratization has brought about can be found in such diverse fields as Video, File Sharing, Broadcasting, Comics, International Culture (Asia, Europe, and America), Social Communication, and Politics. Each of these discussion topics probably do warrant their own individual academic books that document and discuss this change. Eventually. But I'm sure they'll all inspire nonfiction books, in time. 

Who is this "Lee Wonders" Fellow, you ask...Well, he's kind of my on page persona

I wanted him to have many of the same characteristics of myself. I decided to have him actually look kind of like me, minus the spectacles, mostly because at the pinnacle of my youth I never actually wore spectacles. 

I wanted to describe his skin color as copper pigment, with green pupils, and scruffy short black hair, except more athletic, and therefore able to actually go on crazy adventures like the kind I see my on screen persona's going on all the time. I wanted this to be my trademark-stamped contribution to that popular cultural lore in recent media and entertainment, which is strange in some ways considering he's not WEARING glasses like I see most of the Me's in media do. 

What is Lee Wonders? A young man coming of age. A world traveler and courageous adventurer, exploring all sorts of cultural, geographic, and supernatural themes. He's my literary self-portrait, with some liberties taken.

As for his "racial identity", that's never really completely decided. He's of prestigious lineage, most of which is kept and concealed from him, either physically restrained or sealed off by authority figures, so due to his unawareness of just how special he really is, he's more down to earth, humane, compassionate, and friendly than most people who maintain the same level as his social stature in all objectivity.

All Lee knows is that he's of mixed blood and cultural heritage, as he was orphaned at a young age, and raised by Caucasian parents who never put an emphasis on race, and just wanted him to feel accepted and loved by his family. An illusion that is shattered by lifelong and ancient enemies of his biological side later in the series. Some say Lee is Italian, or Canadian. Some say Lee is Chinese or Hawaiian. No one really knows for certain....not even the Federal Bureau of Investigation (The FBI). Any way you slice it, Lee Wonders as a character does not appear "Traditional" (aka completely white or Caucasian). But he is definitely multiracial, and not of one lineage, but a combination of mixed lineages, making him a "mutt race" and a target of many racist local  bullies in his city. 

I seem to be getting better at the whole "Outline Writing Thing"

I wrote this story purely for fun, probably not for actual publication. As a writer, sitting around my house all day long allows me the luxury of not just writing published stories, but ones I write for pure fun, to pass the time....I invented a semi-autobiographical exaggeration of myself (tan skin, unruly hair) by the name of  a Young Man Named Lee Wonders.....Here goes...


Those who can, write fiction. Those who can't, write outlines.

• Lee Wonders Meets His Father, the reclusive Historical Giant
• Lee must spend Christmas Eve alone, and this drives him on a Quest to meet his real father by The New Year, 2013, In the face of Mayan Prophecy and the Shaman Madman who created the Mayan Calendar Curse.
• Lee Wonders travels back in time, to meet his Deceased Father, who is still alive in the past somewhere.
• Lee doesn't reach out to his own family initially. Initially through some twist of fate, at the hands of a villain who threatens Christmas and Lee's family Legacy, they start the encounter by reaching out, from the past, to him.
• Lee finds a time machine at a garage sale, in a local bunker somewhere.
  
• Lee's birth father's Biography and Legacy.
  
• The villain, Silas, is a social engineer and Evil, Corrupt Time Lord who likes to destroy elements of the present and future by traveling into the past with technology he contributes to.
  
• Lee Travels through time to 1945 in 1940s New York City. He somehow ends up getting sought out the mafia, who want to use Lee Wonder's powers as a future Time Lord for criminal activities in 1940s New York City. 1945 was the year Lee's father was born on a ship sailing to New York Harbor, carried in the arms of a mother who wanted a New Life separate from the life she had once lived in Italy.

And Now, a Glimpse of My Lesser Known Career and Media Half, My Job As a Screenwriter

Here's an excerpt from one of the scripts I'm working on for my Animation Work on Parallax, the End Times Adaptation. This is what people in L.A. call a spec script. Here's a sample....

I've written about 22 pages of this script or so, so far, enough for 1 episode. I'm quite thrilled with how the first draft ended up. I find my screenwriting tends to linger on a lot of humorless drama like The X-Files or the Sopranos, but also packs in a lot of violence and pitch black darkness. More than should probably be for a commercial animated series. But then again, that's kind of the reason I love my animation screenwriting style. It's unusual for an American animation writer. I'm not interested in writing what traditionally works, comedy, slapstick, and other lighthearted merriment. Tom and Jerry or whatever. I write every animation script as though I were David Freakin' Chase himself....

CREATOR'S NOTES: Why I'm showing off script pages for an un-produced show, bottom line:

You see, I got an AMAZING book from my parents this Christmas. I spent the whole day looking at it today, like at least 5-7 hours just reading the creator comments on his artwork. The Art of Todd McFarlane, which is topping the Amazon Manga Bestseller list. I can see why quite easily. It's one of the most worthwhile book purchases I've attained in recent memory. That book is fucking AMAZING! I always liked Todd McFarlane. Now that I've seen the progression of his career in retrospect in artbook hardcover form, I like the guy, and his art and writing even more. Truly a class act of comics. Unlike some comics artists, McFarlane is a very prolific designer, artist, cartoonist, and illustrator. Then I finally got to one of the final sections of the book, the one where McFarlane explores his prestigious animation career as an anime-influenced pioneer. People think I'm copying Bleach, Ichigo, or whatever. EEEHHHH!!!! You are incorrect sir. I don't read Bleach pretty much EVER. Todd McFarlane is the main guy I borrowed a lot of my style from. Spawn and his animation work with DC Animation veteran Eric Radomski on HBO primarily. Everything from silhouettes to glowing ghost eyes, to cloaks and cityscapes. Browsing through that wonderfully enlightening book The Art of Todd McFarlane offered many insights into not only how McFarlane draws and thinks, but like any good artist biography, analyzes, from the artist's own perspective, What makes a McFarlane TICK exactly. He is a fascinating icon of a man, and I'm proud to call myself a diehard fan. I have been ever since the 90s. There's a lot of interesting material from his formative years. Anyway, back to my point. In Spawn for HBO, when they write about the HBO series, they chose to omit the artwork from the first series, and instead showcase work from the as yet unanimated and unreleased, but seemingly still very beatiful to look at second animated series that's going to be on TV sometime in the future, and I said to myself, well damn. If McFarlane's showcasing his own very valuable upcoming but unfinished project in mid production process, he's the innovator, and artistic role model, not me, so I said to myself, why not. So I decided I guess it IS okay to showcase your project online or in print even if it's not released yet or complete. Granted, I've been showcasing Parallax and End Times for years now online, with lots of writing and artwork, but that's the first time I've seen an established MODERN TV ANIMATION AUTEUR show his work, which means we probably WILL see Spawn: The Animation on TV at some point. Exciting, very exciting. 

Christmas Horoscope...

I got a new horoscope today. Christmas.

It says I work hard, am unrelenting or unwavering, and I'm very giving and give a lot of myself for the sake of other people.

Hey!

Everybody! Hope you all get the gifts you want this year, and give other people in your life gifts THEY want, and have a great holiday season.

Christmas is one of my favorite times of year. A time of peace, festivity, cold weather and generosity.

Just in time for the Holidays: No One Gets Rich in Self-Publishing. For the Most Part, No One Makes ANY Money From Self-Publishing.....

TV and Film actually pay people, and if you create a hit, you don't HAVE TO worry about money anymore if that does happy, and therefore "pay better" (but first you must realistically ask yourself, realistically and statistically speaking, how many people who aren't named "Todd McFarlane", "Frank Miller" or "Jhonen Vasquez" does fortunate events like THAT realistically and statistically happen to?), but good luck getting any actual new ideas past most Hollywood and L.A. based execs these days.

Sad, but true. 

2012: A Year of Accomplishments, in Review

2012 

A List of Accomplishments and Activities for This Year

•    Finished work on Art Manifested, my First Commercial Art Book
• ·        Issued a Press Release for Art, Manifested, My First Commercial Art Book
• ·        Started an Art Journal Scrapbook collecting all my creative notes
• ·        Entered Animation Magazine Pitch Party 2012 Contest
• ·        Got my Artwork Portfolio Reviewed by Andrew Ahn, an administrator at Calarts
• ·        Released The Imaginomicon, My Second Commercial book, a book of Journals through Book Tango
• ·        Traded @Tweets w/ Anipipo
• ·        Contributed Online Promotion to Barack Obama 2012 Re-Election Campaign
• ·        Traded emails w/ Supervising Producer @ Titmouse about animation business logistics
• ·        Considered Teaching Classes About What I'm Good At

WHAAATAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DON WE NOW OUR GUN APPAREL, FA LA LA, LA LA LA, LA. LA. LA!

Merry Christmas, From Action Movie Halloween Town.....

Here's an all new comic...

List: Classic Things That Influenced Japan and Manga or Anime

• ·        John Woo
• ·        Hollywood
• ·        Walt Disney
• ·        Film Noir
• ·        Batman
• ·        Heavy Metal / Death Metal / Thrash
• ·        Punk
• ·        Alternative Rock
• ·        Pop
• ·        Hip-Hop
• ·        Pornography
• ·        France
• ·        French Comics
• ·        Moebius
• ·        Fleischer
• ·        Windsor McCay
• ·        Henry Darger
• ·        Todd McFarlane
• ·        George Lucas
• ·        Star Wars
• ·        Maya Deren
• ·        North America
• ·        Canada
• ·        Pulp Fiction
• ·        Quentin Tarantino
• ·        The Matrix
• ·        The Wahowski Brothers
• ·        Gun Fu
• ·        Chinese Folklore
• ·        Chinese Martial Arts Choreography
• ·        China
• ·        Mythology

Ghosts and tortured souls keep haunting my monitor...

HELP....meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....................
HELP, Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........................
My soul won't rest.......................

HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE....................

Damn buddy, wish I could help you out,  but apparently... Yer a GHOST!

The Horrible Horrible Terrifying Truth About Anime

Most anime of the last 5 years only gets licensed in America for DVD IF and ONLY if it's made with 14 year old underage pervert artist girls in mind as a demographic. Obviously they're the only ones WATCHING THAT SHIT.

When I first got into Comics...I didn't realize a few things....

For one, without an editor there to tell me otherwise, I never realized what a big deal describing a title your working on before you actually finished the final page or the first chapter WAS a big deal.

Then after I opened my big mouth, I saw 1,000 bad knock offs of the concept I described, and I kind of had to sit back in awe. So THAT'S why you're supposed to be secretive about your work! Competition cheats and rips you off, and steals from anything you put online! Duh!

The Devil

The Devil definitely enjoys a Good Laugh more than most saints, with perhaps the only exception being The Buddha himself.

Was Practicing Dramatic Portraiture The Other Day....Anything but Gags...

Please, hold your calls....

Sorry folks.

I don't do cool ass Samurai Ninja Blade World's Greatest Vigilante Detective stuff around Holidays or weekends.

If you DON'T see me online much for the rest of 2012, there's a good reason for that I'm not telling any of you about....

More than likely you won't see me online much because I'm brooding. In some ways I am the most emo, of emos.

Though I have built an enormous empire of media, art, and technology out of nothing, even I miss how things....used to be. Despite my success and immense power, things felt better when I HADN'T grown up enough to make my family resent the adult me.

Fan Trivia about my YouTube channel: Nearly all of the "retro content" on my channel was hand picked by me. All the songs, TV shows, and music songs, albums, and anime and animation and clips that existed before YouTube, but made it into my favorites section in the present, was based on the experiences and visions in 90s, 80s, and early 2000s media and video that moved me on a personal level as a wayward youth, as a child, or as an adolescent. I found the most truth in escaping to an alternate universe built up and stored in my mind and memory, lingering in a favorite alternative rock album or anime VHS tape or something. That was where the real inspiration for my brand of YouTube lies. In the emotions I got from the past, not the empire I built in the present. Sometimes the past DOES build the bridge to the future. Even if that one video doesn't make sense now, it meant a HELL of a lot to me at the time, the first time I saw it in real life, not online.

Take care. And Be Good to one another, for goodness sake.

"REAL Friends" This Emo Moment Brought to you by the Emo Conglomerate

"What the fuck are you talking about? My friends in middle school, my best friends, ALWAYS accepted me as I was. They were always honest, never  bullshitted me, didn't abandon me. They weren't a bunch of sociopaths, tyrants, moles, rats, and backstabbing gluttons and greedy backstabbers like the people in my life now. The "Superficial Crowd" that only hangs on my nuts cuz they think they can get something from me...."

"But they're NOT HERE ANYMORE. After things got difficult in all your lives, They skipped town and moved on with their lives. They knew better than to stay in this shit pit of a small shit town chasing silly ideals that have long gone stale, where all your neighbors are pricks and asshole jerkoffs. Face it, your friends left you and never looked back."

"Yeah? Well that doesn't mean I'm ever gonna forget or get over them."

Annoying Fan Nerd Bastards

My annoying fan bastards are EVERYWHERE. I can't get a moments peace with these people. The funny thing about fans is, no matter how much you hate on your fans they're still stupid enough to follow you....EVERYWHERE. 

I used to want to be nice to my fans, but they're annoying, persistent jerks, bastards, bitches, and freaks. Fans r dumb.  That's why you can be mean to them and they stay fans. 

History Channel, you better air SOMETHING about film, the arts, comics, animation, literature, and historic inventors and Big Business Entrepreneurs that doesn't suck....

Considering how SCARY the current "Family and Kids Channel" "Landscape is" (meaning it's an unforgivable wasteland, there'd BETTER be some high culture programming on that isn't a cartoon for a change.

I'm ready for mature but sophisticated LIVE ACTION TV

Cartoons on the telly now are just so wrong and depressing...ESPECIALLY ADULT SWIM!

I don't think I could LIVE WITH MYSELF if I spent the rest of my lifetime lying on a couch watching nothing but WORTHLESS PUPPET HALF-ASSED AMERICAN cartoon shows.

Bring on the real life.

When I get a house of my own....

I am so putting a Tech R&D Laboratory in that thing.

Boy and his toys.

Tis' the Season....

I'm a Better Technologist Than Most....And my Ideal Life is going to reflect that....

Word on the Street is...Google....

Is losing its edge because it thinks social media is "more important than everything" and abandons its actual innovative effort and R&D in an effort to compete.

I don't agree with this. Just because I use Twitter doesn't mean I'm not using YouTube and Search as well, because I am.

Stick with what you're good at, Google, which apparently isn't social media...

What it Feels Like to Write One of the Longest Manuscripts in the History of the World (My Achievement)

It's a deeply gratifying achievement, reaching and going over the Million-Word Manuscript Realm.

I've written one of the longest manuscripts in the History of the World. One of my Bigger Secrets involving my Literary Career.

-J.M. Matthews

I have an Academic Dream....

And it's the study computers and engineering at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and/or the University of Michigan.

If I really am as good with computers and engineering, reverse-engineering as everyone else seems to say I am, maybe I should further my education in computer science. I already mastered basic computer science. It's the math and code based elements I don't entirely understand. A lot of my knowledge about computers is intuitive. I let my intuition and technical knowledge guide me when making web applications. 

Ever Since I became an Inventor and Engineer, My career so far has been short, but lucrative.....

If I just count raw ideas, in the last three years I've invented 20 different concepts for 20 entirely new, entirely innovative inventions. I'm a regular Howard Hughes. 

My Inventors Notebook is actually starting to get more thick, full of online articles, theories, functions, commands, hand drawn schematics. The Works. 

Yeah, One Person Rejected me and my Invention, Emphasis on ONE....

I'm still pursuing my technology and unlicensed invention. Some guy on the phone told me "No Way" and I ALMOST let it crush me for good. I guess negativity gets to me THAT MUCH. That I'd give up on a great idea just because some guy on the phone criticizes me.

That's only ONE REJECTION.

Todd McFarlane got rejected by over A HUNDRED publishers!

Truth is, you can't let one guy telling you No make you give up.

I almost DID give up after that indignation, but I'm NOT giving up. NOT anymore.

Never GIVE up. You can do and engineer anything you set your mind to. In some ways I already did. But I could do so much more...

Top Tags Associated With My Name(s) and/or Celebrity Online

Blogging, Comedy, Animation, Anime, Social Media, Algorithms and A.I., Twitter, YouTube, Inventor, Author, News and Reporters, Music, Tech and Silicon Valley, Father, Europe, Asia, Design, Epic, Noir, Action, Fantasy, Lolita, Nerd, Artist, Comics, Comic Books, Webcomics, Architecture, Voice Actor, TV, New Media, Adult Swim, Toonami, Barack Obama, Cartoon Network, Co-Production, France, China, Japan, Digital, Erotic, International

TOGETHER

ToGETHER, with my trusty sidekicks, SUICIDE GIRLS, HR GIGER, and Hugh Jackman, We Shall Dominate The Remains of Humanity AND THE UNIVERSE!!!!

AH HAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHHHAH!!!!

Quite the team we are...

Unevenly Distributed Gifts.....

Y'know, my ART is often nothing more than the mongoloid cousin of my literary abilities, which are perfect.

But god loves all our babies, does He Not?

Just as [Adult Swim]'s Comedy portion of its programming is the slow Mongoloid Cousin of it's Action and Toonami Programming, so too are the inferiority of my art when compared to the inferiority of my literature.

It's tough to explain, but I'm passionate about both, even if I'm only good at one most of the time. I'm not bad at art all the time. Just a lot of it. I draw like Tim Burton and Genndy Tartakovsky more often than Frank Miller, Michelangelo, JMW Turner, or Eugene Delacroix.

With a Trusty Book and Trade Paperback By His Side

I gotta tell you the truth. The only books and comics I keep by my side and read like the bible, is the ones I self-publish and self-print and that exist exclusively within my own library of books. I'm addicted to liking my OWN work. I read it more than the Bible itself! SOME day others will be able to read it all, but for now It's All Mine!

Got a business or book idea you want to advertise on TV?

Google's got you covered....

Google's now made it possible for anyone to produce a commercial and upload it directly to TV for all sorts of products, YouTube style....

Check this link for details...

http://www.google.com/ads/tv/

You Know Me, I'm Pure Asian....

That means I believe in Crushing My Rival Totally and Tapdancing on his Grave...

...Before he HAS the opportunity to do that exact thing to ME....

It's a Darwinian Thing...

What I've been working on, since YouTube in my Tech R&D Dept.

I've been experimenting with algorithms. Streaming digital video algorithms, to be specific. Almost got a patent it with an attorney, but the lawyers said he found certain patents that were already attained which were too similar.

Lately I've been working with Windows Media Player, and video algorithms. "Video A.I.", so to speak. If my newest tech development assessment is correct, one day TV network shows won't be broadcasted by humans, but shows will air one after another based on an algorithm. You'll be able to make a list of [video] files, and whatever order you arrange the filenames in is the order of the list that will be broadcasted. I discovered this new form of video showcasing and broadcasting algorithms when I was experimenting with my ripped video collection and file management skills. I love toggling with my computer files and arranging them....Video sequence arrangement was the next logical step. Some websites already do similar things, but there's so much more we can do with the technology! We haven't even scratched the surface of algorithm technology! Some day, they'll figure out how to get a computer Windows Media Player-esque video file to replace a "Master Tape", WITHOUT skipping, scrambling, or losing its signal. YouTube plays billions of videos a day, and the majority of their signals don't even get disrupted. You mean to tell me YouTube can get digital videos to play for billions of hours without skipping or losing a signal, yet TV networks don't want to bother investing their budgets into developing technology that broadcasts a digital signal on TV from a video computer file? I mean, computers run Hollywood theaters and movie special effects, yet TV is still doing...what is it, analog? Master Tapes? It probably WILL happen one day. People just have to figure out how...

That's right! GIR [from Invader Zim] is the next Programming Executive, the next Sean Akins and Mike Lazzo!!! LOLOLOLOLO!!!!!! Robots will be running TV one day just like the internet websites are most of the time.

AUTOMATE THIS: 

I STILL GOTTA READ THIS BOOK, but I WILL. IT'S RELEVANT.

That's right. This "Law of Robotics" [see Asimov and I, Robot] will someday apply to Network Television too, once they stop relying on Tapes to air shows and instead use computers, if that happens. I suspect it's only a matter of time. 

Does a Cartoonist Ever Really "Outgrow" Saturday Morning Toons, Anime and Otherwise

Seriously....I NEED my Cartoon Network "First thing I do after I wake up and drink coffee" 8 a.m. Pokemon-Beyblade mornin' coffee time toon fix! It's like oxygen. Morning toons are like energy drinks, flattened eggs, and morning exercise. They energize me and help me prepare for my day, mentally and physically. In the morning, everything is clean, new and fresh. Especially if I wake up before my everyone. It's heaven. From the chirping birds in the  backyard, to the morning dew covering the front and back lawn. 

There's a sacred beauty to the morning that heals me, gives me vitality that the afternoon and evening don't give me. 

Visual Stimuli...

It's important to look at something when you draw. Always be adding onto and touching up old drawings, and always have some art object to trace in your mind. Never only use a blank page. Always use other art as reference. Never just try to pull something out of the void in and of itself. You'll fail unless you do have and use a page-sized ruler and comic book art to look at. 

Here's What a Small-Minded, Small Time Web development operator will tell you...

When you tell him you'd like to find programmers to help you because you're interested in starting your own dot com business in the tradition of streaming video sites like YouTube, but you leave out the small detail you're the guy who BUILT most of YouTube's functionality....singlehandedly, by being a pioneer engineer.

“Are you living in a FANTASY world or something?? Your idea sounds like a guaranteed failure. It would never work. How many people do you think would be INTO your website business idea anyway. I can assure you, in terms of video uploading, you’re nowhere near their league. Besides, I can tell just by talking to you you’d never be able to afford the monthly costs of maintaining anything at THAT level…”

This was what an operator at a “programmers for hire” site told me when I told him I wanted to start my own website business, but left out its because the one I already built refused to pay me any money or royalties for my "free labor".

What I didn’t tell him was that I’m the guy who was the first person to upload copyrighted material to YouTube. WHAT other websites are doing what I want to do?? Oh, you mean the ones, or should I say the ONE I BUILT MYSELF?

Pretty frustrating…What a schmuck.

I hate being NOT RECOGNIZED. Can't a guy catch a break. 

"Paris & a .45"

"That's Very Funny. A Fly Marrying a Bumblebee...."

Artist's Notes:

Foreground and character design drawn on Nov. 10th

Background (sky, ground, Eiffel Tower) rendered Today

I'm digging through old designs, concept art, and illustration, and adding things like backgrounds and perspective to them, adding a richer sense of compositions. I always did like full compositions more. I know I tend to draw the opposite of that way (with just the character in the foreground with white or black background, but even I tend to like full page compositions better than compositions that only have 1 character on them and nothing else.....

Story behind it:

I've been wanting to add more detail and a fuller, more dense and crowded composition to NUMEROUS older drawings I've done. In truth I've done a lot of different drawings, but often a lot of them look almost too simple for me to be happy with them. Either they're not polished or truly fleshed out, or they lack textural variety, or they're flat with no perspective or depth in the background. I've wanted to go back and "remaster" and touchup old sketches I've done for YEARS now. But it was just today that I DID go back and add some depth and density to a handful of them..I don't know whether it was laziness or artist's block, but I always felt some kind of heavy and negative energy field interfering with me reconnecting with older sketches and adding density elements to them, like perspective, hatching, effects, backgrounds, and a dense composition (i.e. what Katsuhiro Otomo and Moebius do), because truthfully, once I stopped working for one day on a 10 to 30 minute sketch, I'd add it to my pile/stack of sketches, and would never hear from it again. Left me with a big sense of incompleteness on the bulk of my work. Now I seem to have entered some kind of "Revisionist and Polish Mode" where going back and "correcting my compositions with more depth and perspective IS possible. Which is considerably less depressing.

Secrets of How He Did It:

How I got the likeness of the Eiffel Tower's details right: Simple. I used 2 things: Cross hatching for the metal, and a ruler on the proportions. I was looking at a photographic reference of the REAL Eiffel Tower when I drew its architecture. I used a construction line that was essentially 1 vertical line drawn WITH a small ruler I own to size up the proportions of the tower. If you want your backgrounds and costume to look REALLY good, don't always draw EVERYthing by hand. Most, if not all realistic architecture in Japanese anime and in detailed animation and comics is drawn with a ruler, as are swords and other props. Don't be afraid to "Draw with a ruler for your backgrounds". It's how you make your backgrounds look professional.

All My Character Designs Look Like Withering Dying Trees, But That's Just Because All The Kids At School Cuss and Yell at me in Science Class

Hey, WE ALL don't like being abused by others.....I think?

The key is to keep persevering. That's what I did anyway.

Actually, I still do that. Not as much as before the internet though.

What I name myself online is ALWAYS a profitable fiasco

...Much like your whore mom's kootchy.

Awesome Fucker I Am...

Name is mc. Hey ladies, please gather 'round my balls.
One at a time, get in line, this is a cattle call.
I will inspect via sex if you've got what it takes.
Time to disrobe all your clothes and give my tube a taste.
I hit the bush and the tush, she's screaming 9-11.
I make her gush in the puss, she's leaking like a levy.
I got her legs in the air like they're TV antennae.
I'll fill her box with my cock and make her cable ready.

Fail to foresee that mc was such an awesome fucker.
All the ladies beggin' please. I say, "Hey, take a number!"
Let my dick rest, it is raw, now is the time for slumber.
When I awake I will take control and bring the thunder.

I'm like a boy in the barn. I'll fuck you by the horses.
I'm like the guy on the side who makes girls get divorces.
I'm like the coach that you poke while you're at tennis practice.
I like my balls in your throat, this is a dirty racket.
I like to fuck in my trunks, yes I prefer jacuzzi.
I fell her nails, hear her wail then I impale her cootie.
We make a mess for the guest and fuck up the filter.
I guess I get her head wet, but that's how Jesus built her!

Fail to foresee that mc was such an awesome fucker.
All the ladies beggin' please. I say, "Hey, take a number!"
Let my dick rest, it is raw, now is the time for slumber.
When I awake I will take control and bring the thunder.

Fail to foresee that mc was such an awesome fucker.
All the ladies beggin' please. I say, "Hey, take a number!"
Let my dick rest, it is raw, now is the time for slumber.
When I awake I will take control and bring the thunder.
Fail to foresee that mc was such an awesome fucker.
All the ladies beggin' please. I say, "Hey, take a number!"
Let my dick rest, it is raw, now is the time for slumber.
When I awake I will take control and bring the thunder.

To Nicole...

Code of Conduct

Have a good creative and innovative imagination, be ingenious in your own eyes, work hard, be honest most of the time, treat others with respect, play fair, fight to be treated fairly, neva stop hustlin' (like any good entrepreneur gangsta), and one day maybe you CAN be as good as this!

Unfortunately, my family and home state can't seem to function properly without me...Me being absent, in "ANYTHING" (pretty much) is viewed as disruptive...

Not exactly the fairest deal. But I blame myself. For being BORN.

Like my pet cats. They feel abandonment issues almost every time I leave them alone in a room. Give them enough time they'll start scouring the earth in search of me.

 "MYEOW!!!"

Well, being needed makes me feel good and loved, but seriously, why does everyone in my life seem so helpless without me there?

So I had....The Most Wonderful Opportunity The Other Week.....

To talk to an animation insider through digital correspondence. Ben Kalina of Titmouse Inc. (Motorcity) fame. And though I didn't talk to him a lot, the guy knows his stuff! I love the fact that he knows exactly how much it costs to be a producer, tactically AND logistically. Supervising producer as is the case with him. 

Ben Kalina knows his stuff. 

Shaving Beards, The Old Fashioned Way....

Bout a week, week and a HALF ago, I shaved my beard. I do that sometimes. But this particular time I shaved the beard with a traditional razor, as opposed to an electric one.

Sometimes in my daily/nightly routine I like to swiggidy switch it up.

Strategywiki.org? Where have you BEEN all my life!

I stopped playing video games right around the time most of their graphics when digital. Something about the none 2-D Depth Perception of the level wandering threw me off and offended my perception. I was always used to everything on screen  being so...flat, and not getting lost in this nonlinear world, where you DON'T follow the formula of walking from Point A to Point B. 

Now, I'm actually making an effort to get back into games.

I recently purchased a copy of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, the prequel game to FFVII, and I'm digging it. Was doing some internet research about strategy guides for RPGs on StrategyWiki.org, but noticed how many games HAVE strategy guides online nowadays that anyone can browse and read to beat any level of pretty much any game recently...It was just recently when I realized something about gaming and strategy guides. The game publishers DON'T REALLY WANT YOU TO FIGURE EVERYTHING OUT ON YOUR OWN. That's why I uses strategy guides and walkthroughs for the games I play. Or at least I do from now on. 

Migration Patterns. I SEE What's Happening Here...

The anime industry is putting a lot MORE effort into going digital and being on places like Amazon, Netflix, iTunes, YouTube, and Roku.....

And it's putting a hell of a lot less effort into being on Nickelodeon, Time Warner, and Disney....

One's been deserted in favor of the other..and it's made fans of anime PISSED.

And when the fans have become THIS PISSED, one must wonder, are anime execs doing the right thing?

Apparently, we anime fans don't HAVE anything to veg out on, on a couch and shut our brains off to.

Better get comfortable in that computer chair...

Work Work Work! Time Is Money!

Well it is with me anyway. My net worth increases every, oh, let's say, SEVEN HOURS or so, every day of the week.

Say, where's the chapter on the history of Chinese Literature before the mid to late Twentieth Century??

WHAT history?

There never was, and still often is no FREEDOM of speech in China. Not without invoking the wrath of bloodthirsty government funded Maoists anyway.

Truth is, you wrote about mysticism, spirituality, freedom of expression or speech and press, and religion ANYwhere in China anytime before the year 2000, chances are your own countries GOVERNMENT would in all reality COME AFTER YOU and make great efforts to silence you, maybe even kill you if you say ANYthing contrary to the government.

In a country like China, writing is a democratic luxury most Chinese COULDN'T AFFORD TO FEEL THE UNADULTERATED JOY of expressing oneself with words until only just in the last few years.

The Pen and Page....of Destiny

I made a vow to myself before.

I once made a promise to myself I'd draw a comic book one day.

Some odd years back, I said to myself "I MUST finish work on completing a graphic novel, before I get old and die".

I've finished my first attempt at a graphic novel, imperfect though as it may be. And I couldn't help but notice, I'm still alive!

That's a load off. Well, I finished my first graphic novel before I DIED. So I'm good.

PSP, Awww yeah.

Got a PSP recently.

Not concerned about status

If I'm being completely honest about what motivates me. It's the fans positive reactions to my artwork. That makes me feel the  best.

Getting a positive reaction from the press, media, and fans (even indirectly or by proxy) for my work, and especially my artwork that positive feedback is really all the incentive I need to continue drawing indefinitely. I love when people notice and acknowledge my artwork in a positive way.

As long as I keep getting positive feedback, I'll keep trying my best and giving my all, and ultimately doing more comics....

My Future In Comics and Publishing

Honestly, I'm still in love with real indie comics and manga. I don't read as many new titles. Most of the better titles in comics are older and were published around 2001, a golden era for modern comics if you ask me.

But in case they ARE reading this, I'd love to eventually team up with either SLG and/or Oni. I'd LOVE to do an End Times / Parallax miniseries with EITHER ONE of those publishers. Working with Dark Horse, Image, Oni, or SLG would be a high honor for me if I ever attained it. Just as much of an honor as working with an anime studio. 

Oni and SLG (and to a degree, Dark Horse and Image) from the black and white artwork to the eccentric storytelling are very in tune with my own sensibilities. 

To me, that's quite the step up from Webcomics Nation. I know I have a good thing going ALREADY, but I still do want to one day work with a normal publisher. I don't plan to only self-publish for the rest of my life. When I finish more work, either written or illustrated, I'd like to pursue a relationship with a more mainstream publisher in a more conventional sense. There's still a lot of honor in printed publishing, if you ask me...Not to mention more money....

There seems to be a whole shitload of people....

Who just seem to want to "do what I do", and "follow in my footsteps".

Why on earth anyone would want to face THAT MUCH hostility & rejection [from EVERYONE]  is BEYOND ME.

Kind of confuses me a bit. Trying to perfect your art can be difficult when so many people only want to pay attention to your surface details and personality.

Eh, it's a living.....

Well, actually, I remember I at one point really admired Dave Sim, then when everyone accused him of being a "misogynist" in the media and online because of shit he wrote somewhere and the shitstorm of shallow animosity it unleashed on him, I very well could have been foreseeing my own controversy and destiny....one of great conflict and animosity from the public and peers. I remember seeing how HATED Dave Sim was, just as I am now, and thinking to myself "Wow. That guy gets under certain people's skin just for bashing feminism, a stupid concept anyway. He is SO FUCKING AWESOME!!!" I love "the hated guy". I always have, ever since the 90s. Probably because I AM the hated guy. That's one aspect of celebrity and publicity I can relate to: "Being hated". The hated guy is almost always the one that reflects the truth about how nasty society really is. How we're always ready to throw a brick and a stone on the guy (or girl) who really doesn't commit a crime, but instead "commits the crime of showcasing the worst aspects we're afraid of seeing and especially confronting in ourselves". From Marilyn Manson to Fred Durst to mugshots. I love it all! I love watching people acting like bitches about stuff. It's fun to LAUGH at the stupidity and thoughtless lynch mob mentality of the biased and bigoted (among other things) general public.

But Cerebus is quite the comic. I always sense an unrefined RAGE and ANGER and HATRED about Dave Sim and his best work, Cerebus. And I like Gundam too. In their prime they were driven by Anger and Rage. And Hatred. So is Metal and Hip-Hop. And Goth culture. Is this a dangerous element:? Maybe, but emotionally, channeling Anger, Rage, and Unfettered Hatred into An Epic Narrative and Lyricism is VERY appealing. Go ahead and KILL THOSE BITCHES. You're creative spirit will be eternally grateful to you. Channeling Anger and Rage into narratives, lyrics, and art is okay in my opinion. There's a certain virtuosic quality to approaching art and narratives in that way. But if you're anger ceases, you'll be less inspired.

Angry Masterpieces are Better. They JUST ARE...

It's an Unspoken Truth, that sometimes to Reach Paradise, Heaven, sometimes we have to channel and invoke the the Wrath & Flames of Hell Itself. We often must risk Damnation to Attain Transcendence.

I don't know if it's just me, but currently, most cartoons on TV feel a little "Prozac Happy, with fake ass characters, fake ass motivations, fake assed "design" and fake ass smiles. There are so many fake smiles and fake corporate happiness on TV recently. None of it's real. There's a difference between being a person with a burning passion and rage of life who's gonna annihilate something, and "just being a worthless, uptight PRICK DICK" Just another phony. 

What? Yeah, I'm stilll ALIVE, actually. Don't let the tombstone fool you....

Alive enough to draw this thing anyway.....

Soundtrack to this Thing: #ToonamiIsBackBitches, Richie Branson

On a technical level, I don't see anything this wicked out there on TV or the internet. I STILL DON'T SEE ANYTHING EXACTLY LIKE IT....anywhere pretty much. So I'm not worried. This kind of style is hard rip off. Well, it's hard to rip off successfully anyway. Better play Johnny Bravo....!

What?? No, I didn't mean it like that! How could you even THINK such a thing about my intentions. I don't do this sort of thing to get press coverage in the Ninja World....Ah, you got me. Okay, maybe a little...But ONLY SORT OF.....Actually, I do this because I love it. Press is good to me half the time though, so that's a bonus...

PSP? Probably...

Probably gonna buy a PSP system. I've wanted to start buying and playing games again for a long time now. Been waiting  a long time for the opportunity to be a gamer again. Lot's changed since I've last played a game on a game system I own. SNES is collecting dust. PSP is the what I'm gonna get. They got a lotta great titles from Square Enix, one of my favorite Japanese publishers. 

Well, I'm happy for now...

Things seem to be looking up for me. I'm on the verge of a breakthrough with my work and have gotten noticed by an important animation producer in Los Angeles, and as a result, I'm not depressed and fatigued anymore. 

I'm a little Disappointed with the Current Japanese comics publishing scene....Why? Read on. I'll tell you...NO ACTION!!!

Am I influenced by most modern manga? Hardly. Modern manga retailers in Japan these days are so deprived of the modern day Katsuhiro Otomos and Hiroaki Samuras. I log onto Japanese Amazon, and all I see is sexy girl manga, or really perverted hentai, or eloquent boy's love or Yaoi. Nothing like what I'm used to in the states. It's all very naughty. It left me high and dry. Where is all the ACTION and Manly Martial Arts Comics I wondered. Does Japan even make real action comics anymore. Shows and studios like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Titans, The Boondocks, and Titmouse have got Japan's comic books beat in the contemporary action department, hands down. I guess all this isolation from Japanese society left me blind to the reality of it. That most Japanese manga nowadays is just porn!

But not all Asia has lost it's martial arts way like Japanese manga has. Fortunately for readers worldwide, there's two countries in particular that make comics of the manga variety with TONS of good old fashioned ASIAN Action Martial Arts and Ass-Kicking in them: China and Korea.

Chinese and Korean comics are still being made quite often today, and it's obvious the Koreans and Chinese know how to draw fighting and martial arts in sequential art form just as much as the Japanese do. They're picking up a lot of the slack Japan is leaving lately when it neglects action and martial arts combat in favor of pornographic imagery. 

Some actual GOOD comics that are action?

Avatar The Last Airbender
Naruto
One Piece
Bleach (Lotta filler material though)
Rurouni Kenshin
Priest
Jackal(s)
Tales of the Blood Sword
Trigun
Claymore
Berserk 
Dragonball Z
Star Wars Comics
Blade of the Immortal
Felipe Smith
Batman
Spawn
Scud: The Disposable Assassin 
Tank Girl
Queen and Country
The Gunwitch
The Nocturnals

It Almost feels like action and martial arts comics have fallen out of fashion in Japan

The era of great fighting manga that isn't just shonen coming out of Japan seems to  be over, or at least on hiatus. I go to the Japanese comics stores online, and what do I mostly see? Porn. Cute girls. Hentai, fanserice. And boatloads of it. Arousing, but not to testosterone!

If you want action shows and comics, watch stuff like Toonami. Because chances are you won't find that kind of thing in Japan mostly. Toonami packages its anime and action in it's own branded way. Toonami action is way more intense than most manga in Japan. 

Japanese anime is slightly better and less vulgar than manga. It still makes porn, but not as much as Japanese manga does!

Animation Race Card, Till recently...

I always felt like the online international Asian art community took me less seriously than 100% as an artist, ironically enough, seemingly because my genes are not 100% Asian. The harder I worked, the more I realized it had more to do with international reputation and stature in the Asian and American communities than ANY kind of artwork I could ever produce. No matter what I did, and STILL do, no matter what I draw it will probably never be taken seriously by white artists OR Asian artists. Many of elite artists despise me and my so-called ":big ego" purely because I don't fully belong to any one specific culture, but am instead a new  generation of cultural artists: The Mutts. The Half-Bloods. The Mixed Bloods. The Multiracial artists.

But yeah, I've always got that kind of reaction from the fans. THEY HATE IT. And I mean,  the REALLY hate it, American and Japanese anime fan alike.

To Americans, my style is "too detailed, too Asian."

To ASIANS, my style is "too simple, too white, too abstract, too American and Western"

I get rejected enough equally by most artists in  BOTH countries

The RACE CARD has always influenced my popularity, or LACK THEREOF

Fine, I can accept this. You'll never accept me Asia. Great....

I have yet to see if the race issue affects my employment status in animation and comics.

I started off in this world with NOTHING. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Ground Zero. No money. No family. No friends. No education. No overwhelming talent. No connections. NOTHING!!!!

Whatever legacy I leave on this earth at the end of my life, whatever revolution and empires I start in art, literature, comics, animation, computers, technology, and media business will have  been 100% self made. Built from the ground up.  Built by an Builder and Architect who had to build his empire using NOTHING to aid him at the beginning. Any money I earn from my career, any fame I achieve, any power I have, CAME FROM ME. I inherited a big fat NOTHING from my family resource and connections-wise. Even my genetic lineage is questionable. But it does exist somewhere, far off in posterity records of future researchers and outer space. 

I'm Becoming Quite the Expert at Making Contacts in Hollywood and Los Angeles, Digitally

I've emailed at least 3 to 4 main players in the Greater Los Angeles Area in the last 3 years alone, and because of my willingness to network in animation and comics through email, I've gained some very influential contacts in my inbox.

I'm surprised more artists don't think to sell themselves in this way (email).

How to Get a Larger Audience on Blogger (From a Comic Artist Perspective)

1. Always Link the Articles You Actually WANT the world to see, which would probably be all of them, to your TWITTER ACCOUNT.
2. Use as many pictures in your article as possible. People enjoy picturess
3. Post comics you've created and your NEWEST work no one's seen before.

Ah, I see they have a pre-prepared response for EVERY SINGLE THING I will ever say.....Well, in that case....

Reads from the phonebook aloud...for the next ten years.

Promotional Tour

I do love Travel. God how I love Travel!

I want to Travel The World some day.

I'd really like to travel the world to promote my mainstream work some day. If I've got any mainstream work to promote, and even if not.

Dammit, I just wanna get out!

Anybody want to fund my travel expenses?

Just thought I'd ask. It would go to a good cause. Mainly the cause of getting me out of an away from my parents house.

Fashion Sense

Hmm, let's see here. When I'm not drawing Trenchcoats, cloaks, Japanese Young Man School Uniforms, and Chinese Dynasty and Trappist Uniforms with my own spin on them....

I'm drawing suits.

The biggest influences on my suit design Japanese Silhouette aesthetic (this side of the John Woo / Jason Statham, and Jet Li brand of Yakuza and Triad movies) is Tarantino's 2 most famous films this side of Kill Bill (which also has suits). Of course, I'm talking about the films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Characters such as Vincent Vega and Jules and their various hilarious and cool conversations and shenanigans in Pulp Fiction, and the gangsters in Reservoir Dogs and Al Pacino films, the Italian and Independent Miramax brand of filmmaking, just kind of carried over into the way I draw many of my character costume design in my manga. Wolfwood from Trigun, Heat Guy J, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Gungrave set the anime bar pretty high in terms of fashion design and the rhythm of the clothing. The sleekness of it all. Young Adult Males in particular LOVE this sort of thing! Even when they're an organized crime member, they still look like a million bucks.



As for AUTHORS and Screenwriters who most influence the literature I produce:

They would include (currently, not all time) Tolkien, Frank Miller, Tom Clancy, HP Lovecraft, Mario Puzo, Robert E. Howard, Aaron McGruder, and the Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1960s (good luck finding and reading any of their scripts though. I'm more influenced by the actual choreography than the literary of 1960s Hong Kong. Script examples, online for 1960s Hong Kong Wuxia, are scarce. Asian cinema, from a literary perspective actually has more journalism and scholarly text (by writers like me) written about it in the United States and Asia than actual production writing and scripts on display. In other words, most people don't know how kung-fu and Asian Wuxia and Japanese cinema is actually drafted and written by it's own authors. The emphasis, historically has been visual. Until I CAME ALONG of course! Heh. I always found that kind of weird.

Crotchety Old Man Geezer "Dad"

My adoptive father is 63 years old, and he acts the part too. Pretty much being a crotchety old man who's going senile and yells at me a lot. He eats food that resembles his own stool sample. Rot in Pieces, Cary. Have fun choking down your 50 pills a day.

He's such a nasty disgusting man it's more than a little  gross.

I'm 29.

You know, I've always said "If it's good enough for my Bank Account It's Good Enough For ME"

Naw. I'm just shitting you. I've NEVER said that. I Don't even HAVE a bank account. But I WILL...

New Tech [Concept] Unveiled...Coming to YouTube, in 2015, New Software that Will Revolutionize Uploading to the Web 2.0

YOUTUBE DIRECT DVD UPLOADER

This upcoming software will function as an all in one package that merges the technology of DVD file management, Magic DVD Ripper, and the YouTube/Google Uploading System.

Just as soon as I find a programmer to hire to build the technology.

Or if someone else beats me to the programming punch. Either way, YOUR DVDs are all gonna end up getting uploaded to YouTube, or competing companies with more liberal uploading copyright policies who will put YOUTUBE's copyright fascism to SHAME some day.

It WILL happen. Just you watch.

[Straight From the Source of the Upload Master]

Cyber City Internet Cafe of Winter Park

Sounds like a fun place to log into my YouTube and Netflix Accounts! I'll be stopping by at some point. I want to see what that's all about...ever since I drove past it one day.

I think YouTube, Netflix, and streaming copyrighted material are gonna help a LOT of fledging internet cafes catch up to Starbucks in the long run, IF they draw in enough business.

Might as well.

Finally, a place in public to hang out that isn't Borders! My needs are met.

List of Sites I Visit Online When I'm not Writing/Drawing Offline

Sites I visit weekly

• Adultswim.com
• Boards.adultswim.com
• Megatokyo.com
• Funimation.com
• Amazon.com
• Gmail.com
• Adsense.com
• AnimeNewsNetwork.com
• AnimationMagazine.net
• YouTube.com
• Webcomicsnation.com
• Twitter.com
• DeviantArt.com
• Viz.com
• Naruto.com
• Blogspot.com
• Google.com
• Wikipedia.org
• Manga.com
• Anime.com
• Rhapsody.com
• Google Play
• LinkedIn
• Questionsleep.com

I don't visit all these sites each day, except sometimes, but within the course of the week, I drift to them, on and off.

Yes, like everyone else out there, I CRAVE interaction with the fans. But unfortunately, many of the sites I go to are deserted.

So if you're trying to find where I am, I'm probably behind the curtain on one of these sites...

JM Pontificates on the New Rules of Fame.....

Fame is a powerful thing. But one thing to remember about the power levels of fame.

In a fame chart that seems to reward more with less and less with more, it's weird how celebrity works in America especially. In Western society in general really.

I've been around the block more than a few times, and therefore I'm closer than ever to sensing and measuring what my limitations are.

A) If someone's the MOST famous. There are people camped outside their home or wherever it is they are. They get mobbed. It's noisy everywhere. That is what a true superstar is. You can't do much without every nanosecond of it being documented. I'm closer to that level in the last few years, even when it's by "proxy". But doing things by proxy still counts as doing things, technically in my opinion.

B) And then there are the people working in showbiz who are professionals, but their job or their lifestyle isn't conducive to fame. They DON'T get mobbed for autographs and pestered for comments, photos, and interviews. They're more the creative and business stars, and not the musicians, real celebrities, and performers.

I'm somewhere between Crowd A and Crowd B.

The truth is, the more famous your lifestyle is, the less easier it IS to work, and the less work you're  going to be ABLE to do. Fame interferes with both life and work, be it positive or negative. Famous OR Infamous. When you're a workaholic, both types of fame, celebrity and infamy, suck.

Great!

Now some of my fans on YouTube are bragging about being the first ones to comment on certain videos I do. Not that I'm COMPLAINING!.....I seem to have a large group of fans on YouTube...

Man, maybe I HAVE reached the next level...

About copyright, YouTube, and originality....If you ask me....

It's OKAY to use copyrighted material like anime, music, and music videos or anime music videos (because that is what the public demands and loves and wants to actually see. Audiences don't care about the legality of YouTube, they just want their videos....Plus it's a great way to make a few dollars on the side while you work on your "real" projects), just so long as you don't do it for the rest of your life, and as long as you at least strive to write, draw, produce, create, and sell your own projects in animation, comics, or internet entertainment someday, which YOU YOURSELF own the rights too. Think of it as working your way up in the industry. 

How Computers and the Internet Will KILL TV Eventually, Especially BAD TV....

Progress:

Turns out 2.4 billion people in 6 different continents worldwide are online at any given time each day. And Google and YouTube make up an enormous percentage of that usage.

That's more than half as much as TV's total worldwide current broadcasting audience of 4.5 billion or so

Eventually the audience of the internet will match and surpass the audience size of TV within the next 40 years. TV is on its way to computer dependence, and undeniable obsolescence.

One day more people will use websites than ever will TV. We're already starting to see it all headed in this direction already. Things are not looking good for non-digital TV.

Now it's MY Turn! Here Goes!

How to Draw MY BRAND of HIGH FANTASY.....

You really only need ONE book to vividly manifest MY BRAND of Happy Rainbow Colored Magical Gumdrop Disneyland Fantasy.

And it's THIS BOOK. How to Annihilate Everything, Manga Style....

Seriously. I OWN a copy of this book now. And I FUCKIN' LOVE IT!!!

I'm all for wielding a Blade while Blowin the White Knight's Brains all onto the Shrapnel littered canvas......

Seriously, my tolerance for Namby Pambers is a bit low

WAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!! I always HATED that Muppet...

UNMASKED: It's True Also

Honestly, I don't act like Woody Allen, contrary to presumptuous asinine beliefs in pop culture. And I don't look like "Jonas Racist Brothers" so much as I look like some Arab World news footage guy and a Chinese guy minus the narrow eyes. Berber, Moroccan, and Mongolian, to be specific. If you know what someone (a late 20's young MAN with facial hair) living in Berber, Morocco, and Mongolia (China) looks like, you know what I Look Like. Minus the stiff personality and accent. TV Lies. I have the black frizzy unruly hair, glasses, the copper skin tone, and the facial structure to verify this.

And also, I'm a descendant from an ancient Mystical, Regal, and Eurasian Warrior Class on my Biological Father's Side.

STILL wanna "date me", puny little teenage high school white girl?

Didn't think so.

But yes, my existence is the result of an interracial biological American parental relationship, a closed American adoption, a white birth mother with a high I.Q., a multiracial father with diverse Eurasian heritage, and a white American adoptive family with no interest or regard for my racial identity or the status of my birth family ("We ADOPTED YOU. That's ALL that should MATTER."). Just lots of geographical and racially statistical information and data that's been kept and concealed from me, purely because I grew up in a closed adoption.