Good News For You, My Beloved Worldwide Audience of Males AND Females! Today is JM Posts His Online Art Day!

Here's A LINK to MY COLLECTION OF ART I'VE DRAWN AND DESIGNED AVAILABLE TO LOOK AT FOR FREE ON GOOGLE DOCS.

My Vast Worldwide Audience...

Blogger and YouTube: International Audience Status! My International Penpals

Here are the countries that read my blog and watch my videos, internationally speaking.

JM's Blog - Most Popular In:

United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, China, Germany, Latvia, Canada, France, Japan, Chile, 

YouTube: SplitAtomBoom - Most Popular In:

United States, Germany, Mexico, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Columbia, Italy, Argentina, Poland, Serbia, France, Greece, Spain, The Netherlands, Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Taiwan, Singapore, Kazakhastan, South Korea, Israel, Georgia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, Armenia, Kuwait, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venzuela, Ecuador, Uruguay, South Africa, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya

My online audience is comprised of at least 40 different countries in 6 continents or so...

Apparently, my art, words, and filmmaker videos travel really well, and have a genius for traveling the globe. Just like me!

My Adsense Earnings Still Aren't Technically A Lot, However...

By my financial standards 2 months ago, in the last 2 months, my Adsense Earnings shot up by 100%.

Finally, $$$

After a lot (and I mean a LOT) of Google-pestering (and later, silently waiting), I'm finally starting to earn again.

And it only took me a mere 2 months.

And well, P.S.

Ladies with tattoos all over their upper and/or lower body are VERY....SEXY. Kinda turns me on a bit.

Well,

At least the Goths, Punkers, Literary, and Emo....people....seem to like my company...

What? You don't understand?

No, I mean that in a totally platonic non-opposite-gender-based way. Honest! Would I lie to you?? Well, yeah,  but just that one time...

There are advantages to being unpopular in comics.....

• You're not under as much scrutiny or spotlight.
• No one forces you to attend chaotic conventions.
• No hate mail from disgruntled fans
• No superficial asshole fashionista and otaku teenage hangers on name dropping you every two seconds and trying to PAL AROUND with you every 3 seconds. 

I don't know about you, but I find shit like that kinda ANNOYING!

International Competitions

There are 2 main ways different countries of the world are widely known to compete among each other in terms of diplomacy, world culture, sportsmanship,and goodwill.

There's A:

The Olympics

And B: 

Entertainment. 

Literature, film, television, comics, novels, anime, animation, comics, manga. 

Hollywood, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, Britain, France

So Sports and Entertainment are the most international worldwide categories of competition, and in many instances the latter form of mainstream competing can happen purely through technology (internet content websites like YouTube and DeviantART)

I AM NOT, I REPEAT, NOT, QUITTING ON MY CAREER JUST BECAUSE I'M NOT DRAWING CURRENTLY

I'm very exhausted from working in the public eye for the last decade nonstop, under much scrutiny and attack, and I need the rest. I need a break.

This is a break. NOT a retirement. I repeat, I'M NOT RETIRING

In a couple months or so, I'll probably be good as new Just need some meditation, sleep, and I'll be buying some stuff with my ss payments.

Honestly?

I don't think I ever really desired to dominate or profit from my creativity, so much as I wanted to live in a liberal environment that harbors and fosters creativity from open minded people in a creative community and local culture. Be it an art college, convention, The Googleplex, or an animation studio, any place or laid back, quiet, friendly environment where I can relax, hang out, and draw around other artists is really all I've ever wanted to do and where I've always wanted to be. It just feels right. I just like being there. I don't have that environment in my life now, but I miss the time when I actually did and had that privilege.

I went to art school in Ft. Lauderdale temporarily, where I lived quite comfortably in a dormitory, and have fond memories of that environment, but it was short lived when I was forced to drop out for having a nervous breakdown, due to my inability at the time to figure out how to deal with the stress of a rapidly changing lifestyle. Well, that and I had just broken up with my newly discovered first real girlfriend who I met there. I mean, really. I'm not one to brag, but while I WAS in a Ft. Lauderdale Art School, for the year of 2002, for a short time I was KIND OF the most popular student in the entire school...It didn't last though.

I've always wished I could do it all over, but my drawing skills were never good enough to get me into the famous schools.

Because I am ALL ABOUT the REAL creative community (NOT the fake one).

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Autobiography

I'm reading the Autobiography of Martin Luther King.

Now there was a bold man like myself with an impossible dream. A man who dreamt of change and revolution on an obsessive and infinite basis with limitless devotion.

He wanted Social Change and Studied Revolutionaries Before Him (Mohandas Gandhi)

I Desire Creative and Economic Change and am Studying Revolutionaries Before Me (MLK)

I have a dream, that one day co-productions and anime is ALL we'll ever see on TV.

NICE ARTICLE NPR!

I especially liked the paragraph about the pedophile rapists, pornographers, and serial murderers who steal names.

Using Technology is So Annoying and Frustrating Lately Nowadays

I can’t do ANYthing on a TV or computer anymore without changing EVERYTHING.

The Pathway to Less Profit, er, I mean NO PROFIT.

Whether I publish it 2 years from now or 20 years, lets' face it, Parallax wasn't destined to be profitable. It's fate doesn't relate to money. Because the internet steals all the money, just like comic books and anime, I'll lose money. If anime and comics have lost money, there's no reason to expect anything different from the e-retailer direct-path DIY route.

"Why can't North America and Japan Be The Same Thing??" - An American and Japanese Animation Industry Analysis

They CAN'T be the same industry, purely because their natures, intentions, and structures are very different. 

Here's a rundown.

North American Animation Industry

The American Animation Industry contains both males and females, is tied closely to the Hollywood system ever since Disney, is run primarily by older people, but watched mostly  by 2 to 12 year olds during the daytime, has no clear internet subculture the way anime does, is the most profitable and mainstream animation industry by business standards, and is primarily more profitable than cinematic or cultural.

Japan Animation Industry

Japanese Animation Industry is populated by both male and female fans, has a very visible internet and convention based "otaku" subculture, is linked to international culture and is primarily Japanese. It is more cinematic and cultural than profitable.

Caution, Road Work Ahead: Lyricist @ Work

This is my freestyle verse. I’m the greatest lyricist in the history of the World. I gots a rhyme sheet longa than the Great Wall ah China. 

Recent Biographical Information

Here's some stuff I've done recently that my audience may or may NOT know about me:

2012, Age: 28:

• ·        Published 2012 Book, Art Manifested, My Artbook, Available In Amazon's Worldwide
• ·        Got a Press Release for Art Manifested, Which Was Published Nationwide
• ·        Compiled 2 Months Worth of 2 Scrapbook Art Journals
• ·        Participated In Animation Magazine's Creator Pitch Party 2012, "Parallax"
• ·        Got a Portfolio Review From A Calarts Administrator, Renowned Filmmaker Andrew Ahn
• ·        Published An E-Book of My First Volume of Journals, The "Imaginomicon" Online in Late 2012

I Want Candy

Too much ATHF will do that to ya!

It's True. I'm definitely NOT an ONLY child. Far From it.

People think I'm an only child due to how much of a "freak" I am. Ehhhhhh!!! WRONGO BUCKO!

As a matter of fact, when I spoke to my biological mother, she confirmed the fact that I DO have siblings in my family tree.

As a matter of fact, I've got around 8 siblings, various brothers and sisters, all older than me by at LEAST 7 to 8 years. "Jennifer was attending business school", or so I'm told.

Shambhala publishing COMICS NOW! YEH-HEH-HEH-HESS!!!!

Article

I've been reading Shambhala's spiritual books since I first started reading Ken Wilber at the age of 17 when I first started pursuing Buddhism, Transcendental Meditation, Taoism, Pantheism, Mysticism, Existentialism, Ontology, Phenomenology, and general spirituality. I've read my share of advanced philosophy and spirituality books, from Jean-Paul Sartre to Immanuel Kant and Descartes / Nietzsche. I'm also a fan of all the mystical writings they publish. They were a big influence on my philosophy in general. The fact that they're publishing comics about Miyamoto Musashi too is icing on the cake. 

The Night, It Is Wonderful.

I'm here to say, Wake Up America! You've Been Sleeping Too Much! You're Losing You're Weirdness and Creativity by Sleeping Through the Night!

I'm Here To Say: It's Okay to Stay Up Late. It's OKAY to be an insomniac who likes to stay up and watch weird TV shows all night long. There's NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. You do not have mental illness. You just like weird late night TV. Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy.

As a matter of fact, contemporary broadcasting, ever since MTV in the 90s started it (believe it or not) there's been a long proud tradition of broadcasting weird intelligent creative shit in the middle of the night that's been known to raise IQs and make you think more creatively. From Adult Swim and Gundam, to anime, to MTV's The Maxx and Beavis & Butthead.

Matter of fact, if it's pitch black outside, you're that much more likely to see something creative on TV.

That's a known fact about the TV industry. There's NOTHING WRONG with participating in this.

Sometimes the conservative parents of the world don't understand it's OKAY to let your kids stay up. It will probably raise their creativity levels.

Time for Fall! Yay! And With Fall Comes Change! Shift: The Late Shift

I seem to have ended up working much of this blog during the overnights.

Here's my schedule at night.

7:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.  - TV
11:00 P.M. - 1 A.M. -Sleep
1 A.M. - 12 P.M. Overnights TV, Computer, and Work. Let Everyone Else Sleep.

Daytime is still undecided. I kind of hate and resent the day much of the time, so I quit on it, and became a loyal insomniac. A Creature of the Night Who Comes Out To Play In the Darkness...Like SPAWN!

FLORIDA

I don't HATE everything about Florida. That's a myth. I don't know why some of my neighbors assumed that (without speaking to me of course). But everyone seems to talk about sports and nothing else. WHY?

I like the beach, I like church, I like the airports, I like downtown Orlando, I like the book stores and libraries, I like the animals, birds, and lizards, I like going to college (Valencia and the Art Institute), and I REALLY like museums and nature. Hell, man, even when you have a nervous breakdown like I did in the past, the psyche wards in Florida are like a second home. Long story.

When the weather is nice, Florida is picture-esque.

If there's one thing I love as much as comics, TV, film, and animation, it's MUSIC!

Yes, I still love music.

As a matter of fact I accidentally spent over $700 exclusively on MP3 albums from Amazon.com's MP3 section! Yeah baby!

Fuck yeah I still love music. Good music, not that modern music video radio pop shit though. Metal, techno, alternative, ska, etc. Anything with an intensive, vibrant, and energetic sound really. 

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say I'll be writing musical album / song reviews.

But I WILL at least do more writing about what I'm listening to at the moment. 

One of the most addictive albums I've come across recently, that's metal, was the first Metalocalypse Dethklok album. It's not just a TV show tie-in, contrary to popular believe. It's a carefully crafted music ALBUM. Dethklok, the fictional world dominating metal band makes GOOD "fictional music"! Just like Gorillaz!

I AM considering subscribing to Rhapsody. I can AFFORD $10 a month. Afterall their slogan IS "All the music you want, just $10 a month". I saw that commercial. After much searching for good music for free online, speaking from music shopping experience, $10 a month is around $2 less than what a single 10-12 song album would have costed in 1995.

That deal's good enough to at least CONSIDER purchasing...

Genre-types Who Have the Best Understanding of My Creative Vision of an Apocalypse Mythology...

Metal Bands of All Varieties
Goths
Science Fiction Fantasy Authors, Filmmakers, and Illustrators

These people somehow seem to have understood from day one that Parallax was not actually literally about God OR the Bible, but instead about Heroes, Darkness, and Action. Among OTHER things.

New Comic Book Art: UP

New Comic Book Art is Up at my Creator Profile Page in the Link To A Website.

HERE

Is it really MY fault?

Is it really my fault I have psychic powers that tip me off to what the public truly wants on a daily/weekly basis? Yep, I know...

Not as worried about "the state of daytime television" anymore......

I do sleep through most of that "daylight torture" anyway. I really had no choice but to forgo the day and become more of a night owl as of late.

Drawing Takes a lot of Chakra (real concept, not just Naruto) out of a guy. I've used a LOT of Chakra...Chi.

Drawing and writing fiction and publishing books and comics and other forms of creative labor takes a lot of Chi out of a guy.

I did a TON of creative work during the last 11 years.

I know exactly why my creative performance is "suffering".

It's because I'm tired, fatigued, and exhausted from overwork, and doing a thankless job.

I used up my energy, and never took time to revitalize and rehabilitate myself. I'll continue to deal with the fatigue brought on by the last 11 years.

Many artists fail to realize real creative genius has a limit. No one can draw every day for an entire lifetime. There will be breaks.

I might have a high power level compared to certain others, but even if that's true, which it might be......

I still know one thing remains constant.

Superheroes and Manga God Heroes AREN'T REAL. This goes for AMERICA AND JAPAN, 2 of the hardest working countries, if not THE HARDEST WORKING COUNTRIES.

There's no such thing as an unlimited energy and power supply, even for people like Dave Sim  or Katsuhiro Otomo. Even the most powerful of us need rest and need to crash (aka sleep). We'll die WITHOUT sleep, so we really have no choice but to rest every once in a while.

Energy is not limitless unless we're talking about the energies and chi of the cosmos.

But HUMAN energy and Chi. DEFINITELY NOT LIMITLESS.

The most productive writers and artists like myself have LIMITS to their energy and power.

The trick is making work that merely APPEARS LIMITLESS and INFINITE in real life.

Not that it actually "really is" it isn't.

ALL ARTISTS will recharge their batteries and energy levels at some point.

The usual: R&R. Rest and Relaxation. I find meditation helps.

Speaking of energy. In terms of my own personal preference, (in terms of recent creative activity), I tend to only pick up paper, pencils, pens and sketch in my sketchbook when my energy levels are at their highest. This tends to be in beginning of a weekday afternoon, when most people are busy having LIVES with school and work. I don't have such things to worry about other than my drawing work, so I get the most creative work done when I notice not much is going on. Quiet times of silence and sunshine is what I feed off of in terms of when I sketch, write, and draw. I hardly EVER draw in the middle of the night. Not a vampire.

Art and Trenchcoats

I used to think everyone was simply imitating ME. But then I realized it's the opposite. That's just my psychic telepathic abilities. I know what certain people will do and say, moments before they do and say it. I know when someone's about to do something good, or positive. And I know when someone, someones, or something is about to do something evil, or negative.

Duster

Got my first duster today. Looks really good on me.

The best comic book drawing teacher is your pen and pencil..

The best teacher of how to draw comic pages is the act of drawing comic book pages. 

Only by taking action and committing lines to paper will you learn how to draw comics. 

Practice is the best teacher of How To Draw Comics (of ANY sort)

Sitting around writing, reading, or studying comics in your head will only get you so far.

You need to take action....Eventually. Sooner or later.

I accept payments of money of course. A job well done is NOT it's own reward. Money is.

Figuring out how I want to be compensated for my contributions to humanity, culture, entertainment, the internet, showbiz, and the media is easy. I want money. I want money and ONLY money, and lots of it. The only thing I want IS money. Fuck you if you make it more complicated than that. Pay me and I'll take your side and help you out like I helped out all the rest. You want to reward me, PAY ME MONEY. I accept money payments in cash, credit-card, paypal, and paycheck.

There are REASONS For These Things...I Like Veterans Better Than Manga Brats, with GOOD REASON....

Todd McFarlane's been drawing in the public spotlight for OVER 20 YEARS.

How long have these manga BRATS online been around? Less than 10. Who's to say they're not just a TREND?? A Fad.

The MANGA BRATS haven't been around longer than me, I'll say that much.

Longevity puts you in a class ABOVE the newbies. By principle alone.

My Amazon Author Page is UP

And no, I'm not "J.M. Barrie" That's a different J.M.

I am J.M. Matthews

Favorite Commercial

Can't afford medical insurance?

Appraise your 20 year old 800 issue comics collection!

Easy-breezy.

Oh, wait, I made that commercial up and wrote the script.

Denial is the First Sign of Having a "Problem". My parents deny a lot of things....

For instance, since day one of my life, they denied the fact that my first name was inspired by the name of the Father of Jesus. I was named after SAINT Joseph! They even gave me a tiny metal Saint Joseph statue (which I've always kept at my desk, and still do) and would always say "Look who you have the same name as!" That's an admission if I ever heard one.

Not that I mind.  But back to Imaginomicon

There You Have It, Yin and Yang, Words and Pictures, Literature and Art. The Two Sides of the Brain...

Book 1 / Book 2

Left Side of the Brain / Right Side of the Brain

Writing / Art
Imaginomicon / Art - MAnifested

IMAGINOMICON WILL BE AVAILABLE IN RETAILERS SOON.....

Preview it's words HERE....

IMAGINOMICON - Book Stats. Update. 9/16/12

Nothing yet. Still waiting to be notified by Book tango on my publication status.

I hate waiting around and doing nothing waiting for something I write to reach people. I'm so used to instant publication gratification. Like everyone else, the internet has spoiled me.

As an Indigo Soul, I have MANY powers....

But what does one do with all that power. The power of the Indigo Soul.

What do I DO with all this enormous supernatural power I have of new agey type stuff?

Can it earn me a living? Because it hasn't yet.

Spiritual Notations. Speaking as an Indigo Child

Some people feel drawn to some places they've either been to or have never been to in their life. If you're a mystic spiritualist, this is perfectly normal in the mystical, spiritual and religious energy world.

I feel spiritual energy every time I think of certain places. I get very strong vibes, mostly positive, spiritual energy wavelengths and signals from the following places:

• Tokyo, Japan
• Hong Kong / Mongolia, China
• Paris, France
• Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Great Britain, England
• Los Angeles, California
• Eurasia 
• Europe
• Quebec, Toronto Canada
• Illinois
• Washington, D.C., Maryland
• Phoenix, Arizona
• Nevada
• Colorado
• Egypt, Tunisia, Berber, Morocco, The Middle East

Self Vs. Self

Self: You can't fight the system. It's too powerful. Why even bothering to try fighting the Man. He holds all the cards and power. and money. He has a million and one cheat sheets, plagiarist spies, character assassin henchmen, sirens, and unfair advantages to "win a million ways to sunday"

Me: Well I CAN'T JUST SIT HERE ON MY FUCKING ASS AND DO NOTHING. I'm a hero. That means even when most people are doing nothing or giving in, I'm still making the effort, I'm still trying.

Self: But the game is RIGGED!!! By him/them! You won't win. You can't Win. Minorities and the downtrodden never win.

Me: There's got to be a way to BEAT THIS GUYS! I refuse to believe anyone's above losing.

To Be Continued: Oh the Drama!

Current Influences "of the moment"...

Jeff Smith and Windsor McCay

I kind of miss drawing actual cartoons, instead of all this pitch black Apocalypse Samurai stuff.

I love the detailed stuff I do at times, but I'll probably end up blowing my brains out if I don't draw something Disney or Warner ish once in a while. My work is rooted in that style, in reality.

Ever wonder why my sketches often look so simple?

Well, now you know the "secret". No one noticed me when I drew the old way.

EVERYONE noticed me when I drew Mono and THAT mythos. Kind of got sick of dealing with it, wanting to draw the stuff no one in the public eye ever cared about, and revitalize it, or at least just practice drawing stuff that way.

I go where the FUN is.

Also, I like McCay's philosophy of art. There's next to no artists alive like him today. Every artist nowadays is like "Oh mah gawd! Ah hope they worship me and like mah art!"

McCay was the opposite. It's a documented fact he didn't give a shit if A) Nobody liked his art or everyone hated it, and B) He didn't give a shit if he did a million bad drawings either.

The guy just liked drawing. He didn't give a shit if his style was "too simple" or "too complex". He just shut the fuck up and drew. Wow, an artist who DOESN'T ANNOY AND IRRITATE THE SHIT OUT OF ME WTIH HER INFERIORITY OR SUPERIORITY COMPLEX AND ONE UPSMANSHIP.

IMAGINE THAT! I'm gonna be more like McCay. Might as well be.

And ANOTHER THING! ONE MOH THING!

People might not believe this, but there WAS a time in my life when no one knew who I was, and I literally DID NOT HAVE a CARE IN THE WORLD. I cared and thought about 2 things: Drawing and Super NES. Maybe Saturday Morning Cartoons as well, but that was as "deep" as it went. 

I'm a different person now. I've evolved. Now I'm an adult. And the world is less forgiving of adults than it is of kids. The world doesn't care about my opinion of this matter. The world's a NOISIER place now. A more chaotic place now. I don't ever remember my life being as angry, complicated, involved, tedious, and stressful 20 years ago, like it is now, in 2012. I often wonder if kids now really have the carefree lifestyle I had the privilege of leading when I was the same age as a kid. The internet throws everything together, like an evil BLENDER, so it's really hard to say. If I was a parent, I wouldn't LET my kids use the internet unless it was to play video games or watch children's shows on Netflix. Then again I'm not a parent, so oh well.

Hatredcopter

I fly a gigantic monster,I am captain, evil stomper,I get to wear big black helmet,I pilot the hatredcopter!
I fly the beast made of steel,Thick knives that cut the night,Gas tank is filled with vengeance,Machine guns shooting spite,Can't find the thing that makes this,Thing take a hard turn right,I follow where it leads me,Prepare to greet our might,
You, will most likely die,By the hands of my arm,When I come and fly,And take over your face,With the front of my hatredcopter,
[scream]
I fly a gigantic monster,I am captain, evil stomper,I get to wear big black helmet,I pilot the hatredcopter!
I fly the hatredcopter,I'm going to hunt you down,I get paid lots of money,For all the bounties found,Can't seem to find the button,That turns the radar on,Can't work the hatredcopter,The hunt for you is on,
I, am likely to find,From my failure to fly,That I will be fired for not killing you,Cause that is my job,Hatredcopter,You, will most likely die,From the hands of my arm,When I come and fly and,Take off your face,With the front of my hatredcopter.
[guitar solo]

I don't know HOW to draw windows to the soul, big titties, swimsuits, or ANYTHING like that really....

All I really know how to draw is weird shit like Zoot Suites and trenchcoats....And squash and stretch cartoons. Eh, who cares.

I'm a Trend Follower. You Drawing Sucks!

Your Drawing Sucks!

Wow, that's a lot of "sucks". Or is it "sucking"?

MORE Kred Stats on me. Best thing since Social Blade

Total Influence Points2,105

According to Kred, my "community influence" category percentage rate pans out like this on social media. Thanks Kred!

still, I scored high in the reporter online community for some reason. Sure I keep abreast with current events, and read articles about everything I'm interested in, but I AM NO JOURNALIST! I'm a Media figure. 

I don't control the news. No way.

Top Communities

Bloggers

16%

Animation

14%

Social Media

12%

Comedy

12%

Reporters

12%

Music

7%

Sports

6%

Tech

5%

Fathers

5%

Publishing
Publishing

4

So What happens when you strike it rich in Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Copycats. More like CopyCUNTS

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BIORHYTHM

I was....EPICALLY unpopular with the opposite sex growing up. Girls at my school all hated me and made fun of my looks.

Girls didn't warm up to me until I moved many cities away from home and attended art school where they were practically ripping off my clothes, to be quite blunt about the whole thing, when it was much too late to even bother with such a thing, at least in my opinion.

Pricing a Book You've Authored so that it'll sell? Yeah, that is the most DIFFICULT THING IN THE WORLD!

Get this:

I publish my first  book, Art Manifested. Cover Price: $30.

Unanimous Reaction: No one'll PAY that much for an amateur ART BOOK!!!!!

And indeed no one did.

I publish my next book, a 600 pager. For $0.99, less than $1.

The Unanimous Reaction: It's too cheap! No one's going to buy something that cheap!

I CAN'T WIN! I mean, I never have won, but when it comes to pricing my various literary projects, I REALLY CAN'T WIN!

Autumn is Here in 10 Days. Just about.

Thank GOD.

I Really Don't Know...

Though I am psychic and have written a lot online (more than most people), I've written a lot more offline, and I don't actually KNOW how people will react to my manuscript in the future. Because it's as invisibly influential on the public as it is through all it's plagiarists and rat bastard imitators who hacked into it in the media, I've decided people really need to eventually see this, because after all, the world flips out at ANYthing I say.

I have no idea how people will take my ebook. I know some will read it. It's a book series. I'm starting off with Volumes I & II. Combined they're 1,300 pages long. I didn't count the words. No reason to. NOBODY CARES! Right?

I began writing my first book (formerly referred to as "Manifesto" when I was 17. I never STOPPED writing it.

Wow, everyone's flipping out. Must be a BIG DEAL! Gotta learn to let go eventually.

My E-Book, THE IMAGINOMICON....

The 600-pg. Memoirs. Coming soon to a digital bookstore near you

ALL 600 pages, Available for $0.99. at finer online retailers almost everywhere. Probably...

Oh wow. Writing 20,000 words every 20 days is EASY! I'm a GOOD writer.

Writing that much in 2 weeks is easy as SHIT!! Especially since it seems to take an entire fucking month to write FIVE-thousand words!

You know me, I'm a friggin workaholic. You can always count on me to SAY I'll write MORE than you.

I never do though. Don't tell anyone.

Yes, indeed. I got my newest portfolio review

This time it was by Korean-American filmmaker and L.A. based film director Andrew Ahn. He definitely seemed to like my art style. Gave me some advice about how to approach future art pieces.

I'm glad he enjoyed my character design style.

Technically, Steve Blum aside, that's my first real interaction with a Hollywood filmmaker.

September 22nd. R.I.P. Birth Father - Happy Birthday.

11 Days from now, on September the 22nd, it will be my deceased father's birthday.

Happy birthday Dad

Happy Anniversary Life

Help Wanted: Want to help me with my websites?

HELP WANTED: Co-Manager of Various Websites

I manage web accounts across YouTube, Twitter, Blogger, and WCN. With an overall audience of a quarter million people if you count YouTube. But I could really use some help and communications for behind the scenes stuff I do involving these sites. Are you creative? Would you like a well known figure to promote your ideas, images, art, and writing? I'm looking for assisstants and co-producers of my web franchise. It's not a paying gig, but it is rewarding in other ways. I'm running at least 4 to 5 web accounts on incredibly popular websites entirely by myself. If you're interested in contributing or helping me, contact me, the management at spindack@gmail.com. Due to me furthering my education, my web duties seem to be getting neglected, having more than just me managing all this stuff would be quite awesome. Just email me and let me know how you would like to help me out, if you want to.

Best - JM

Writing for Animation

My aspirations to write, professionally, for animation, are not widely shared. Every kid dreams of drawing animation. Animation writing is something that not only do a lot of artists NOT ASPIRE TO DO, it's also a skill many who want to work in animation DON'T WANT TO DO.

I don't find writing for animation any harder than drawing for animation.

I had a weird dream...Prophetic? Maybe.

The dream took place in the form of a TV documentary, kind of like those Benjamin Franklin documentaries you see on National Geographic and the Biography Channel. Where they cover icons.

The documentary took place after I was dead, 50 years in the future, and was about icons of Asian Animation and Cinema.

And smack dab in the middle of the textbook photo being pictured on TV being narrated by some old white guy was a yearbook-trade magazine-esque photograph of what looked like an old bearded 50 year old version of me, with dark hair and a face that resembled Darwin. The one featured in the documentary was ME! Yikes.

The narrator kept going on and on about how "important" I "Was to the history of cinema, and especially Asian cinema".

Want to know a secret about art? That's simple Don't Be An Idealist

By idealist I don't mean mystic. That kind of idealist is perfectly okay. 

But don't be over idealistic about how you draw. NEVER FANTASIZE ABOUT SUCCESS IN JAPAN OR AMERICA WHEN THE SECRET TO ATTAINING SUCH SUCCESS IS THE WORK YOU'RE NEGLECTING TO PURSUE NOW, RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT. I fell into that same trap years ago.

Don't fix your eyes on the prize. How you draw NOW, AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME ON THE SPOT (yes, even if your work sucks) is how you WILL DRAW 10 to 20 years from now. There's no reason to think you'll ever get better at art if you don't realize how you draw now is the best you'll ever do. Sure you CAN improve, but the more you fantasize about improving at drawing a comic book page or illustration in the future, automatically means you're NOT DRAWING NOW and ACCEPTING HOW YOU REALLY DRAW NOW. I've learned people don't judge you as an artist based on how you WANT TO draw. Editors, Fans, and Other artists (automatically and unconsciously, often without knowing) will only judge you by what level your at now. Don't assume things are MAGICALLY going to rectify themselves 5 or 10 YEARS from now, "When someone hires me, when I get published" or "When I finally go to art school". 

If you really want to be a good artist, you have to accept how you draw NOW, TODAY, THIS MONTH, WEEK, DAY, HOUR, AND MINUTE Because starting now is the only thing that's going to carry you through to tomorrow.

To be Good in the future, you have to learn to accept the present, even if and when you or anyone else thinks it sucks. And even if it does suck, at least you're doing something about it now, which is more than most beginning or intermediate artists can say. 

You won't see results unless you learn to stop procrastinating today and have the patience to deal with developing your art style now.

Too many people REJECT the Present and the People, Things, Circumstances, and Resources of the present in favor of longing for or fantasizing on an ideal situation that's just out of reach. It's a Zen thing. NOW is where the real POWER OF ACTION is. NOT the FUTURE. We can of course keep the future in mind, but we're not living in the FUTURE. WE LIVE HERE AND NOW. NO OTHER TIME.

I'm a Regular Todd McFarlane...LOL

Man I love drawing flowing and wrinkly cloth and flares and folds and wrinkles in the anime style. One of the best since Trigun and Spawn if I do say so myself. I like drawing drapery and folded, flowing, and sometimes wrinkled cloth and fabric in coats, jeans, shirts, and cloaks so much, I could just lie around my house drawing cloaks all damn day. WEEEEEE!!! :D Ha ha ha! Seriously though, shit man, that stuff's FUN! To me cloth studies and costume designs are more fun than work. LOVIN IT! I take a lot of inspiration from artists like McFarlane, Frank Miller, Kazuki Takahashi, Yasuhiro Nightow, and myself of course. I've come to enjoy my own cloth studies just as much as that of the artists I've admired from afar. Is this style of cloth dominated by males? Yes. But I don't see why female artists couldn't draw that way too. I guess a lot of people associate cloth with masculinity, like being a king in a robe or something. A symbol associated historically with masculinity, much like swords.

If you want to draw like those guys, most of the time you need to approach drawing the basic shapes of trenchcoats with a healthy eye for not just curves and wavy lines (which is  very John Buscema), but instead approach the flares of a trenchcoat in terms of basic shapes in the form of deformed mutated elongated exaggerated, flowing, and interconnected triangular, rectangular and angular shapes. You have to have a strong eye for curves and angles that can take on a life of their own in the drafting stage. 

The Internet and the Fight For Democracy and Against Censorship Worldwide

After seeing how the web (a British invention pioneered in North America), I've realize how crucial the web has been to the process and development of the evolution of Free Speech in America. In nearly every country BUT America, the social and political hierarchy reigns and persists to this day. Political figures, and people in "Supreme Authority" Kings and Prime Ministers, are freely allowed to speak out ("Within Reason" and as long as its not politically contrary), but the voice of the common people is forced into submissive silence, often by violence and brutal deadly torture and force, as has been seen in the Arab Spring as it was happening. A celebrity like myself, wouldn't even manage to survive or exist in the Middle East and other places especially. America is the one of few countries, if not the only country, where a chaste system doesn't exist, freedom of speech is test every or almost every day, and censorship AND dictatorship is constantly attacked, questioned, exposed, and scrutinized.

The internet brings democracy to places and fields of study and authority that severely need it, and it allows us to challenge those we perceive as having too much power and authority. No matter WHO they may be or how powerful and deadly they are, in almost ANY country.

It also allows us to fight censorship and state censorship when the occasion calls for it. 

22: Master Builder Writes a Script: First Screenwriter Journal Ever

Here's what I had to say in my journal 1 to 2 years ago when I first made the decision to pursue screenwriting. I'm happy showing this because it's a perfect example of how I approach (and often over-analyze) my major professional hobbies  before I ever actually attempt them. Still. The passion to write and pioneer is there in all its newly planted glory in my mind...

"I still do hold hopes of one day becoming one of the great modern day American episodic TV writers and producers, or maybe just writer. I want to script an animated series. I want to Author a TV Saga, less like Mike Judge and Matt Groening or Trey Parker – Matt Stone, and more like Yoshiyuki Tomino, of Gundam Universe fame. Now that I know he’s the mastermind and Immortal TV God behind the entire thing, and not just “Hajime Yatate”, which is nothing but a pseudonym for nameless others: “Team Spirit”.

I want to be just like a combination of Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira Toriyama, and Yoshiyuki Tomino when I’m their age.

In other words, I take this job incredibly serious. With Parallax: The Apocalypse Samurai, The Dream Lords, and Oliver-E, I planning on penning all of the initial Volumes (Sets), Seasons (TV show), Story Arcs (writing), Chapters/Episodes (scripts), and Bible Scripts that make up the heart of those three series. I sense that if I really buy some good script formatting software to get used to working on, I can take TV animation writing to absolutely new levels in the U.S., in a way that is not often seen as coming from the United States, but instead people are used to seeing it coming from Japan or Britain with such good screenwriting. But I’m a good enough linguist and general writer that if I worked hard enough at mastering the art of narrative (and write enough scripts between now and then). I might use a pseudonym for much of my work and I might not, I’ll just have to see. Up till this point TV Writing in the U.S. has been South Park, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons, and not much else, in terms of multidimensional writing. Studios are always looking for good screenwriters, and if I can prove myself as a highly literate writer of television drama, for animation no less, I could go very far, financially, intellectually, and creatively. When I’m 40 or older, I want to be a great dramatic serial animation screenwriter. I see shows like Avatar, The Boondocks, and Samurai Jack and look at their stories, and get very excited about them and my own potential to maybe be that good one day. It is possible to make up to $50 million a year screenwriting, as a screenwriter or writer, but that’s just about only for major networks like Fox. But not through writing the kinds of things I want to...

I’ll explain why I really, really like the Final Draft 8 software. That’s easy: Because it does everything for you…EXCEPT write the actual words. It formats the pages, sets up a “script writer interface” type thing. Though it is over $100, seriously! Who could ask for more than that! I love their slogan! “Just add words” So simple and brilliantly concise. I fucking love that slogan! That’s all I have to do?? Fuck I love it. It really speaks to me. It understands my situation. I do well over and more than enough words. It’s just all in the wrong format: Psychotic epistolary monologues. I’m sick of writing that way. I want to write fantasy monologues, epic storytelling narration, and great action sequences. (Later in 2011: Then this means I have to read those things by others too). Anything is possible with screenwriting. You can be as epic as you want if you’re a head writer, or at least literary bible supervisor, or even story concept man.

Eventually, I am planning on writing spec scripts in my spare time. I plan on writing out all episodic scripts for Parallax, which pans out to a few hundred pgs of script, or half the length of Manifesto, pagewise, because each speculative episode script of continuing sagas and narratives would be approximately 25 pages in length each, which equals 25 minutes for each 30 minute episode. Honestly, I love writing screenplays and scripts so much that I’ll even go so far as to write 100 – 200 pages if I can. (Retrospective: I really need to stop doing the “Number and quantity jumping ahead” thing. It’s crippling me. Just start) I’m not expecting all of my scripts to make it to final form. I’ll leave what actually gets sold and optioned up to my producers and agent(s), whenever I get around to getting one, if I get one that is. As of now I’m just focused on the writing. Of course I’ll do a lot of note taking, revising, and strategizing in general, by hand, but when it comes to formatting, everything (or at least most of my work) will be done through Final Cut 8 (Retrospective, what I mean to say is, CeltX). It’s just easier that way.

I love my newfound passion as an American action-drama and fantasy screenwriter."

Please note: I don't hate DeviantART. Don't know that I ever actually did in reality. [also, the POWER AND LIE OF HOW THINGS LOOK]

I did my share of ranting, but so did a lot of people.

But I can't help but notice the site's positive aspects.

Where else can one eavesdrop on some of the most amazing Asian Artists in their native habitat that's not anime. That doesn't sound prejudiced does it because it's not meant to be a negative statement.

I love Asians with all my BEING, but as a mixed blood Asian who grew up in a completely American white family only, where else do I get to hang out with Asians that isn't DeviantART the internet and ChinaTown

If some of them consider me a "rival" so be it, but I Refuse to "accept" Asians as my rival. WWII is history to me and nothing else in my opinion. They are all kindred spirits to me. There IS a spiritual connection there, not just a creative one. To me, we are one on some level. Sometimes I wish people WOULD notice I'm not just white but part Asian.

No one ever does though. To them I'm "just another white person trying to copy Asian culture". A" foreigner imposter" with my "crappy design and OEL". I'm so misunderstood. By Asians too. Not just white Americans.

French people seem to like me and take a liking to me. I just wish they weren't the only ones...Ah well.

Let's talk about the LIE that is race and racial profiling, stereotyping, and typecasting for a minute.

Probably the biggest line of bullshit reasoning and ignorance going on in America today, and pay attention now because this is important to people in America, even though it's a complete publicized LIE is the following mindset:

The ignorant and short sighted mindset that you have to look like the race, class, national heritage, or profession you are to BE the race, class, national heritage, or profession YOU ARE. This is racist  bullshit. What? You have to LOOK WHITE to BE WHITE??? You have to LOOK CHINESE to BE CHINESE??? You have to LOOK ARAB TO  BE ARAB??? You have to LOOK WHITE TO BE WHITE! And if you LOOK LIKE A CRIMINAL You ARE A CRIMINAL???

THE FUCK???

This is TV's fault entirely, for emphasizing looks over soul or heart or statistics.

What, you have to LOOK LIKE an ARTIST just to BE AN ARTIST?? You have to look like an EXECUTIVE PRODUCER to BE AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TO BE ONE???

The list of stereotypical social positions you have to look like just to "belong to in the eyes of others" goes on. Even in Asian culture looks are important, a culture that pioneered the field of invisibility.

I for one am sick of all this media and social judgement from my peers.

Looks are often bullshit, always lie, and can often be faked. Just keep that in mind when you don't believe the fact I have a dynasty of Eurasian Heritage in my Blood. Which I do.

I'm tired of ignorance based entirely on how things LOOK. Your eyes deceive you.

And they deceive everyone else as a result.

Okay?? No, it is NOT okay.

It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It's BETTER than okay.

The Past is The Past

Sometimes I used to secretly have this wish that someone out of the blue, some stranger who was familiar with me, would have pulled me aside from the crowd, sat me down in a work room and simply just said to me "You know, Joe, you matter TOO."

No one EVER did that though. Ah, who am I kidding, no one cares. No one does that STILL either.

In many ways, nothing's changed from the past.

It's FUN seeing Far Eastern Fanart

You don't get the credit, that's kind of taboo, or so it would seem.

But you do get to see the birth of beautiful re-interpretations and re-configurations. It's a profound joy.

Learning how to let go is its own reward.

First Rule of Fight Club?

Copyright, Trademark and Legal and Proprietary Ownership Standards....

Are not followed the same way in the Far East as they are in the Wild West.

No one explains this element to you.

You just kind of eventually pick it up.

I'm all for the pirates, in pretty much ANY nation. But in Japan especially copyright holds a lot of sway over the law, way more than in the United States, especially since YouTube. The legal system regarding copying of existing work for fan or commercial purposes is a slippery slope in much of the West. But American companies nowadays, ever since YouTube, aren't half as ruthless as the Japanese in terms of copyright protection. They actively persecute violators. Not fair in my eyes, but it's reality. Just another form of culture shock I guess that many Japanese businessmen are uptight about copyright. Best to look before you leap, especially in the Far East. Many don't seem to be doing that. They assume they're living in a legal climate equal to America's legal climate. Oh how I wish that was the case, and how I wish pirates did have that much freedom in Asia. They don't. Not yet anyway. Many people who copy videos in Japan would be much safer and better off drawing Dojinshi, if they're so obsessed with copying professional stuff. Honest advice.