Why is that exactly? Are you shamed by being Associated With Me Officially? Seems kind of silly to me.

Why ARE you afraid of publicly admitting all your work is inspired by my own exactly anyway? Shy? Wary of my "bad rep"? C'mon, you can tell me. No one's listening. Just look at the comments on my blog! Of COURSE I'm talking to myself!

Todd McFarlane RAWKS!!!! But shhhhh! Don't tell anybody!!!!11111 lulz...

CD Players Are Almost As Obsolete as Cassette Tape Players Now!

Few exceptions aside, I haven't used a CD player in, like, a million years!

The Blessed Value of Animation and Comic Book Mentorship, but especially Animation

http://www.paperwingspodcast.com/

I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see professionally based animation mentor-based programs like this.

There is so much value in animators with real industry experience as professionals helping out younger, aspiring artists who hope to one day work professionally. It's SO MUCH MORE CONVENIENT than going to college, which is infinitely more expensive and less individualized. 

If I didn't have MY mentor, Phil, in high school, who at the time even back then had a winning track record in TV animation with shows like DOUG and Beavis & Butt-Head, I don't know if I'd have turned out the same way, if I didn't HAVE a mentor back in the day. Someone to answer your questions and critique your work, and encourage you like a father or mother-figure. This kind of thing is sacred to me.

Now that I'm more on my own, I can really appreciate that time in my life.

How's Everybody on the East Coast holding up. It's Hell right now....

Sandy is one angry bitch. CNN and twitter are all over that sucker. Least someone is.....

Vote Black, 2012

2012. A great year.

EEEEEEEEK!!!!! A RAT!!!

GET IT GET IT GET IT!!!! DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE WITH IT!!!! IT'S SO SCARY. TAKE MY MONEY RAT, TAKE EVERYTHING!!!! JUST DON'T HURT ME!!!!!

heh heh. Them rats are creepy.

People don't seem to realize it mostly, but, when you're really, really famous....

Your career isn't just your career. 

Your life, lifestyle, and the actions you take both conscious and unconscious IS your career.

When your at the topic, your  being, your existence, IS your career. Not just your work but how you're branded and perceived. It can be the difference between calling the shots, landing that job, and getting type-casted, over, and over again

From the internet to the tabloids. 

A recent vision of the future of anime appeared to me, of the future of popular anime production

First there was DeviantART

Then there was Pixiv and webcomics

Now there's the next big thing. Anime crowdfunding.

This style of co-production will open doors for a LOT of artists. I just know it will

It isn't going to be Easy Starting a Kickstarter Project

You need a bank account and an I.D. before you can do ANYthing.

So I'm off to do that.

I'll be back......Eventually.

Face It, Joe

You will NEVER achieve your life spiritual ambition of being the next Steven Spielberg, Dave Sim, or the Last of the Unicorns.

NEVER!!!!

[to be continued....]

YouTube Issues: Video Upload Length

For as long as YouTube has been around, much as I love short 1 minute or 10-40 second clips with comedy or amazing action scene value, I've always been a big promoter of YouTube potential general upload file video length expansion. I've got like a million 22 minute episodes I'd like to upload, but can't because their length policy is such a shady one, where they don't let you upload longer videos if they don't approve of your account. Should YouTube HAVE this type of control and power over shotening video length to begin with? No, I do not think so.

Financial Site List

Financial Site List

• ·       Adsense
• ·       YouTube
• ·       Blogger
• ·       E*Trade
• ·       Kickstarter
• ·       Amazon
• ·       CreateSpace
• ·       Lulu
• ·       Webcomics Nation
• ·       BookTango

Japon and France, Best International Friends FOREVER, and the African-World Equation...

Here's a little known factoid about international culture......

Did you know that France and Japan are socio-cultural allies. They even have Treaties Written for this kind of thing.

Japan and France are connected in many ways, on MANY levels. 

But as much as I love Japan, historically speaking, there's no denying that there's one area Japan and France Have Aggressively Differed in. Do you know what that is? The treatment of those with African descent. While both cultures and countries strive for peace and tolerance, there's no denying that, other than foreigners in general, black people and foreigners in Japan were discriminated against by the Japanese at least 10 to 50 times more and have a historic track record of treating black people and especially "black foreigners" 50 times WORSE (yes, I'm talking about nationalism and racism against foreigners) than the French have EVER people of African descent. In that sense, culturally and racially speaking, in terms of historic cultural treatment Japan is way more discriminatory of blacks than France ever was.

Look of my previous post's link to the Wiki article on Josephine Baker for proof of this historical contradiction. 

Here's Another List: ROLE MODELS, PIONEERS, AND REVOLUTIONARIES IN DIVERSITY

Men and Women, Role Models, of Color

Michael Jordan
Martin Luther King
Michael Jackson
Joseph Prince
Bruce Lee
Jimi Hendrix
Chang Cheh
John Woo
Akira Kurosawa
Osamu Tezuka
Akio Morita
Seal
Katsuhiro Otomo
Hayao Miyazaki
Barack Obama
Rosa Parks
Whoopi Goldberg
Michelle Obama
Aaron McGruder
Regina King
HH The 14th Dalai Lama
The Unknown Rebel
The Buddha
Lao-Tzu
Geronimo 
Steve Chen
Maharishi  Mahesh Yogi
Oprah Winfrey
Deepak Chopra
Tuskegee Airmen
George Washington Carver
Pablo Picasso
Christopher Columbus
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Josephine Baker

I admire all of these people. They're ALL Pioneers of Diversity

You don't have to be white or part white just to achieve Greatness.

All you have to do is believe in yourself, believe you can regardless of your age or race...

And one day, you will too...

[links included for your convenience]

Champs, NOT CHUMPS. How to Win Friends and Influence People, and be as Popular as Me (Flies and Honey)

What you project to the world affects how people judge you and form opinions about you.

Through much trial and error and interacting with many different people, there are ways to make people like you and not speak of you cynically for the most part.

There is one secret not everyone gets.

What's the difference between a Terrorist and the President of the United States?

Think about it. What's the difference between the Most Popular Man in the World (The Prez), and the Least Popular Person in the World (A Terrorist)?

Give up?

I'll tell you.

One person (the commander in chief) approaches every social interaction with THIS mindset, the mindset of the non-sociopath and non-bully.

The Subtext to a Truly Popular Person's Speech Patterns and Socializing is this, with EVERYONE.

"We Are More Friends Than Enemies"

If you are approached by someone who you sense wants to be a friend instead of an enemy, you instantly like that person more. That is why bullies and sociopaths, and sociopathic bullies are so unpopular. There's a certain shame and fear in their eyes, that only comes from true hatred and antagonism, which drives people away.

If you want to make enemies and only think in terms of enemies and adversaries, you WILL make enemies.

If you want to make friends you will if you think of ANYONE and EVERYONE as a potential friend.

Antagonism leads to unpopularity.

Acceptance of Everyone Else Makes People MORE Popular.

Advice to Other Online Entrepreneurial Business Newbs On How To Make Money With Online Content and Adsense

Tip No. 1: Be Patient, and Don't Expect to "Get Rich Quick". The first one is necessary. The second won't happen.

• Don't panic if you don't make money fast or right away. Earning on Adsense is a slow, drawn out, monthly, and Yearly process. Way more than a Daily One.

• As a matter of fact I've been on Adsense for 6 years now, and in the beginning it was all zeros. I still don't make a ton or even a lot, but I am making a bit more than nothing nowadays. It's gotten better. But I've had an account since 2006, and it didn't start turning a profit until the fifth or sixth year, when I got my first paycheck in 2012.

Mentor is M.I.A. [Offline Writing Archive]

My 1 supporter in my private life, Phil, is now officially out of my life. So without him, and no friends, it's back to being Me vs. The World again. Going back to the old way of doing things. I have no friends, and plenty of enemies, now that I think about it. Not that I'm mean or a  villain. Being a Nice Hero won't always make The World consider you its friend either. This is a the life of a Loner. I live my life as a Reclusive Loner. I like it that way. I like being neurotic. And manic. What does the class clown do after he graduates and drops out of school. Nothing, probably. 

Jim Henson and his parody-inspiring influence on YOUR 80s Childhood

Even though Henson Productions got sold to the "devil" (i.e. Disney), back in the day, even a kid as cool as me knew that Jim Henson puppets were the shit. They had a certain magic about them when Henson contributed to the show. And dare I say they still do? Jim Henson is to puppets what Burton or Jhonen were to goth...

As a Proud Literary and Art Self-Publisher....This Makes Me Very Happy

I'm very happy to read about the current explosion in self-publishing.

I helped revitalize that trend, just as I did anime, manga, and online video.

I don't normally admit to being such a trendsetter. But I noticed that too.

Ever since I started self-publishing online, the number of self-published books and comics on the market has shot up into the massive numbers. Some of these books even have TV commercials and press coverage. It's not small deal. While my books themselves don't sell tons of copies in and of themselves, there's no denying I've helped popularize it. My persona online and on TV in and of itself has helped sell almost any cause I choose to promote. And I've decided to promote my self-publishing efforts. It worked on SOME level. Self-publishing is more mainstream now than ever before.

I can't speak for profits,  but I can DEFINITELY speak for popularization of the medium.

Okay, I've prayed for Japan...And Egypt, and the Arab Spring, and the Death of Bin Laden and the end of Terrorism

Now I can't vote because I don't have a license, so y'know, I'm just kinda praying Obama wins so the balance can remain intact and not  be corrupted.

It's something worth praying for.

Honestly, as long as the 2012 Debate, Election, and Politics remain civil, I'll continue to pay attention to them. Watching part of the debate on YouTube right now. Watching stuff like that on Live TV nowadays is just a little too nervewracking for me, so I watch the internet streaming video of it. Well, part of it anyway.

And those are my two cents...

The Revolution: It's Coming! The Future of Video Formats: The Honest Truth (A Visionary Vision)

In The Future (and now to a degree as well), TV shows, anime, commercials, music videos, and films (both Hollywood and international) on file formats such as Windows Media Video, VLC, Real Player, and QuickTime will evolve to be used differently by the average viewer than how they have been in the past. 

Video viewing will go from being immobile, stationary, and passive, to being mobile, portable, and active.

Video files for videos from DVDs and internet video that have been ripped and downloaded to one's computer will used in a fashion more and more like music and mp3 files. I know, AWESOME isn't it? People will be able to watch anything they want in portable or stationary video form, any time they want anywhere, in the form of playlists and "video mixes and edits" they created themselves. And there will be even newer YouTube Follow Up Websites to coincide with these new innovations in media video evolution, which will turn quite the profit by broadcasting and distributing these videos (ones that are popular or rare and hard to find).

Some people, both corporations and proprietary prosumers online, will get very rich off of this new technology. But Hollywood and Japan will both fear and condemn this new evolution just as they did the DVR and ripping technology when it first came out. Why? Simple, because it makes them that much LESS powerful and rich, and it will make the average consumer that much MORE powerful and rich. 

Yes, I'm an AUTHOR....

But I'm NOT dead and I was NEVER abused as a child....

So stop pestering me with inquiries, goddammit. I don't endorse or talk about either of those things.

BECAUSE I have no experience with them, idiots.

If I ever get really, really, REALLY rich....

I'ma buy a European Refurbished Castle for tens of millions of dollars. That would be AWESOME.

Hi! I'm Mr. Japan Rich Manga Dude!

I'm all mysterious and stuff. And I get paid a dollar per page as a yearly copyright income, plus merchandising rights. But that's okay. I've written and drawn 1.4 BILLION PAGES at the age of 35!

Ahhhhh, manga.

YO YO YO, HOMIE

Rockin the Pee Wee Herman Style up in dis BITCH!

HA HA BITCH!

Aspiring to Feedback. Feedback is Enjoyable. More So Than Popularity....

I enjoy a private audience of 1 or a few friends and family and a few individual fans/supporters/sympathizers online, as opposed to a whole national or international bestselling audience of thousands of people. 

Yes when I was young, say 13 or so, (as opposed to the age of 29), sure, I could have told you I wanted to hit the big time and have an audience of a million or more. Now that size of an audience just feels like one big headache and hassle to me. 

As long as my audience is loyal, it can be the smallest audience in the world, and I'll still be proud to call those people (i.e. YOU) MY AUDIENCE.

I like having family, friends, lovers, and relatives to share my art and writing with. I don't need an arena of screaming fans to feel vindicated, or even the approval of the media. It's the Power of a Few Loyal People, as opposed to many hangers on. 

Looking At The Bigger Picture: Rules and Secrets of Web Traffic

Don't go onto unpopular sites thinking you'll have an easy time being the "exception to the rule" and being a popular online personality on an unpopular site. Ain't happening.

The popularity of any given websites users is susceptible, vulnerable to, and reliant on the general popularity or unpopularity of the general site itself.

You won't become popular on ANY site that's genuinely unpopular in and of itself, but if you're on a site with billions of views and/or millions of users, your chances of shining are that much greater. 

When considering you're own objective popularity and influence online, you have to also take into account the popularity of those "hosting" you. If the site itself is popular, chances are so are you. And if the site itself is unpopular, chances are so to will you be. It's more statistics than "magnetism and charisma".

How to Reach the Cloud

I reached my Cloud today.

I'm happy as a clam.

I'm the happiest guy I know currently.

What's my secret to being happy, and at Peace with Myself and My Life.

The Secret is: I've Done Enough Work. I've Done More Work Than I Ever Needed To For This Particular Day.

Doing Enough Work For This Particular Day has Made Me Incredibly Happy.

It's Put Me At Ease and At Peace For The Day. I have no complaints, Mentally, Emotionally, Psychologically, or Otherwise.

I feel Like I've Made the Right Choices With my career, I'm Old Enough (Almost 30).

I Already Got Started on my own projects a While Ago.

And I'm on the Right Path. Not Easy to Explain,  but I can Kind of Sense It.

I Needed Very Little To No Input From Others At All To Achieve This Spiritual State

Doing Enough Work In My Self-Made, Self-Motivated, and Self-Assigned Career Makes Me Happy.

Why? Because I'm Answering to Me. And For Once I'm Happy With The Progress I'm Seeing.

"The End"

Also, to go further explore this topic:

How'd I get so happy, you ask?

I took a page out of The Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra's playbooks. I focused on the Power of Now.

Probably one of my greatest Achilles-Heels in my entire career was when my social phobia/anxiety crossed paths with my work ethic. My thoughts in terms of dealing with the future conflicted with my isolationist work ethic. Because cons get so crowded and chaotic and full of people from all walks of life, I kept picturing myself living my greatest fear: Signing autographs for a long line of people. To me it seemed an inevitable element of crossing over to the mainstream. Well, that and being photographed. Seeing as in a way I'm VERY photogenic, but also very NOT. "Will they think I'm fat?" "Will they judge me by my skin color" "Will they judge my character in general merely by how I look"

But recently I learned that that those kind of things are a bridge you cross AFTER you finish your body of work. There's no rhyme or reason to fretting about how you'll be perceived at an overcrowded nerd convention unless you've got the work ethic to attain any sort of following to begin with, let alone get on "the map".

Worrying about anonymity or how others will perceive you in the future is no different than fretting over making a living at your work to begin with. It's all considerably easier to deal with if you've done the hundreds upon hundreds of FINISHED artwork and writing it takes to finish a book. If you're worrying about you're public perception here and now, WHOSE DOING YOUR JOB OF PRODUCING THE PAGES HERE AND NOW. Don't get ahead of yourself, even when you "know" your going to be the most famous and influential person in the entire world one day, I repeat, DON'T GET A HEAD OF YOURSELF by not DOING THE WORK. Put all your power into NOW and DOING THE WORK OF THE NOW, because that is what your LIFE is now. THE WORK. NOT THE PUBLICITY. It's just PR. That PR stuff is mostly just superficial anyway in one sense, even in comics and animation. 

Comics: How to Design a Lot of Comic Book Pages in a Day

Simple, or perhaps NOT. 

Thumbnails.

One artist can place up to 8 layout thumbs or more on 1 piece of paper.

Generally how many thumbs and page layout thumbs on a page is in fact a pretty big indicator of how productive you probably are or at the very least, WANT TO be as a comic book artist.

Normally art teachers will tell you the size of your drawings indicates how hard you work as an artist.

Well I was looking at Akira Club by Katsuhiro Otomo, and on one or 2 pages alone, he draws up to 14 comic book layout thumbs on one page, and normally his work is very thick and big. The layouts Otomo starts off with a tiny and many of them can fit on one page. But that makes a ton of sense when you think about it, seeing as he makes each first draft thumbnail of each page layout so simple and small because he has an enormous amount of them to draw. It's one of the greatest techniques for raising comic book page layout productivity I've ever seen. Big drawings are for designing the moment. Many small, simple sketches on one page are for establishing the flow. 

My Schedule.....

I pretty much only work on weekdays, just like most other jobs.

My prime work time is weekday afternoons Monday - Friday.

The sloth of the rest of the world kind of slows me down. Activity and business fuels me, and for the most part there isn't much activity happening during Saturday and Sunday. EXCEPT Toonami of course...

Used to Do That, but NOW....

I used to dream of drawing comics for a living, which is what I do now, but only because at the time, I thought drawing comics for a living meant you're got to live a stay-at-home lifestyle, where you're get to lay around your house eating fast food and candy all day

Nah. Not really.

Comics is WAR!

It's more like joining the Marines. Except being in the marines is less degrading, and you're opponents in the Marines have more compassion and actually WANT to see you live if they're not a terrorist son of a bitch. Nah, EVERYONE in manga is a terrorist, just about. Well, except your allies. THEY'RE not. 

GO COMICS!

Hostility Level Orange

The "rumor"? That I have the ability to sense the level of hostility, malice, and ill will in enemies? That is so very true. 

Honestly? I HATE it!

Honestly, I HATE most new comics and animation. I hate things in the media that are produced by committee without a real human sensibility or touch to them. Makes me vomit. 

Comics of recent times, with rare exception don't have that "1-creator/writer/artist" auteur appeal to them. I miss the days when most self-made comics were made by just 1 lone person, NOT by committee.

I try to give everything I write, draw, and produce an individualist sensibility to it. To me it doesn't matter if the creator is anonymous or famous, AS LONG AS there's only one main person behind the vision. Otherwise it may as well be Marvel or DC. 

Easiest Ways of Promoting Your Self-Published, Self-Produced Printed Work, Documents, and Papers?

Webcomics Nation (webcomicsnation.com)
Lulu (Lulu.com)
Amazon CreateSpace (Createspace.com)
Book Tango (Booktango.com)
Blogger (Blogspot.com)
Twitter (Twitter.com)

Did he FINALLY STOP TALKING??? REALLY?? FINALLY HE STOPPED???

Guess I'd better put my serial killing spree list on hold then.

If You're Creative, You Don't Just BENEFIT FROM Schizophrenia and manic depression...

If you want to author a Great American or Asian or European Book some day, you don't just BENEFIT FROM Schizophrenia, Manic-Depression, and Aspergers...

If you want to author a great media or literary work, you NEED paranoid schizophrenia, manic depression and Aspergers! Everybody will be making fun of you as people do with the mentally ill, but in the big picture, that doesn't mean shit because YOU'LL be the AUTHOR OF AT LEAST ONE MASTERPIECE, and THEY'LL never be able to claim that.

In the arts, film, and literature, in terms of creativity levels, mental illness is the Greatest Gift the muse and God Himself could ever give you. It's like being granted immortality, if you ask me...

Expat

If I want to live out the rest of my days as an expat thousands of miles away, like an international recluse comics creator, I can. Things have changed. Assuming I have a little bit of money saved up (which I will), being an expat is ALWAYS a possibility. This option just started becoming more viable less than 2 years ago. I kind of love the idea of quietly sitting at a drawing desk in Europe somewhere, alone in a room with lots of cool architecture and foreign books, cartooning my little brains out for the rest of my life. There's a romanticism to that kind of lifestyle in my opinion.

It's about the comics, not me, silly.

Still, there is something QUITE enticing about "pulling a Moebius on these bitches".

Seriously though, it's quite nice knowing there is a way to travel to Europe nowadays directly from my home city. Quite the convenience! There never used to be travel resources for traveling from the state I live in to Europe available with such ease and convenience and lack of hassle and stress. I'm LIKING THIS change....

Well actually....

When I am officially an expat, be it in 2 years or 10, it won't be out of anger. Angers normally only part of the equation. Part of it is, living in a different continent just feels right. What can I say, I like leaving.

Hey I know James!

Yes, he's the vice-president of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim.

Where to Find Good Japanese and Southeast Asian Art, online? Try scanlation!

There's TONS of great comics online that only exist in the United States as scanlations. It's a great way to browse and discover new art and books and browse them quickly and easily.

I tend to browse the art more than actually read the dialogue myself, with the exception of sometimes.

Newest Comic-Manga Layout, Hot Off The Press

Wanted to do "some really kick ass sword fighting panels"

So got to work on some sketches and this is the result I made in Manga Studio.

Overcomparative Culture 2.0

We live in an overcomparative culture. What's the mean, you ask?

Simple. All people want to do nowadays with innovative stuff and brand new stuff is compare it to old shit, NOT judge it on it's own merits.

Every time anyone comes out with something new, there's always that irritating now-mainstream attitude of "That's nice....have you heard of the other, more blatantly established OLD SHIT??" No one looking at new stuff you or anyone else makes wants to give innovation or new things the time of day.

Why ARE people so obsessed with what exists (not what just got made up by the innovators) anyway?

IT'S ANNOYING!

I suppose that's what I'm saying. Plenty of people do new things. But the media only seems to want to acknowledge what they're already familiar with, regardless of how cutting edge, beautiful, or innovative a new concept or thing is that get produced by un-established names. Part of it has to do with trust. Most people would rather trust things they know than things that don't have proven results or a track record of "proven" success. 

New is valuable and important. It drives and evolves society.  But new, innovative, and pioneering is not popular with the public. Most newly innovative, and pioneering individuals ARE treated like "The bad guys" because conservative society, the established status quo is comfortable with what's old and proven, NOT with what's new and progressive. Old shit has way TOO MUCH POWER.

Projects I'm Currently In Charge of....

SplitAtomBoom@YouTube
 JM/EndTimes@Webcomicsnation
WarriorSpirit@Twitter
www.jm-macabre.com
Blogspot Multi Accounts
e-book: Imaginomicon (syndicated)
Art Manifested @ Amazon / Amazon.co.jp
Pitch Party Entry 2012 @ Animag

Currently Listening To...My Chemical Romance: "Danger Days"

On Rhapsody....

Comics - 1 Shot Pilot

There's Power In Your Fortitude...I can wait out ANY thunderstorm

I've held my ground against a lot of bad things, a TIDAL WAVE of REALLY REALLY bad thing.

My Resistance, MY OPPOSITION IS AS FOLLOWS during the last 10 years ALONE!: A National state in a complete state of disarray and chaos, 3-4 Hurricanes of epic magnitude (I forget which), cyber hackers spying on me, a sociopathic stalker and sociopath who tried to use hacked information about me to destroy me and my life from the inside out, Sociopathic neighbors who bullied me every day in my own house and online and sold drugs and narcotics to other kids, one kid who tortured a kitten by lighting it in fire and stuffing it in a mail  box, media witch hunts targetting me, hatredcopters flying around my house, a police state, a red state, a robbed election in 2000, 9-11, anti-arab sentiment at my work place which led to me quitting my day job, long bouts of unemployment, multiple hospitalizations from nervous breakdowns, parents who don't let me live my life and be who I really am. An army of malicious clones on TV imposters trying to get on then news and ruin my reputation, or being EMPLOYED BY the news to ruin my reputation and destroy the army of online respect complete strangers feel for me, a house where I'm never alone and its never actually peaceful, tranquil, harmonious, OR quiet, 1 suicide attempt, years of ineffective therapy, the FBI on my ass because they were investigating my stalker who was trying to bury me. Constant severe thunderstorms right outside my house. Power outages. Constant screaming matches between my Dad, brother, and Mom. Financial bankruptcy. Mental illness. Roach infestations. Diarrhea with blood on the toilet paper every so often. Constant ridicule and criticism from fans and the media. Yet despite all this, I still smile nearly every day and face each day with an almost unjustifiable brand of happiness and optimism. Zen and God give me the power to survive things like this.

And I've been afraid. Oh how terrifying it all is. I can't tell you how many times I've been doing nothing but sitting there in my bedroom, lying down in the fetal position on my bed, in the evening and afternoon dark, with the blinds closed and the lights off, sometimes with covers covering my body, sometimes not covered by blankets, just trying to hide from this Big Bad Evil World, hoping no one would come for me praying I wouldn't have to interact with anyone for that particular day, just hiding in the dark like a mole, afraid to ever leave my house. Just hoping the day would pass, huddled over, hiding from my terrifying life. It made me feel so small. The Evil. I would often lie down in bed, literally hiding from my destiny to get out there in the world and see everything, which is my REAL nature deep down. But that doesn't mean it doesn't confuse me.

Point is, I've  weathered life's challenges. I've weather a LOT of challenges. Apparently I'm powerful enough to survive such socially and culturally and devastating private circumstances, so I've got the whole "Power Survivor" thing working for me. It has not been an easy ride. I just hope it gets easier at one point. You can pray for me and my success, but I don't know how much good that will do.

And while I know I've had a lot of tragedy, fear, and misfortune and other forms of suffering in my life. I'd hardly call it unsuccessful. For some reason a lot of successful people gravitate to me. And let's not forget my awards and YouTube Channels and vast web social media empire. So it isn't always bad. Just on and off.

Oh well.....

Cool is lame. Lame is cool.
Evil is good. Good is evil.
Popular is pathetic. Pathetic is popular.

Noticing a pattern here?

And THAT'S how you compete with a G.I. Joe!!!

Watch an EXPERT in action!

HAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHAAHHHHAAH!!!

Clever.

2000-2012 The Definitive Pop Culture Icons List, For Better AND Worse (But Mostly Better)

    Here is a list of the Definitive Pop Culture Icons With The Current American Generation, Between the years 2000-2012

• 
  
•            Cartoon Network
• ·        Adult Swim
• ·        Star Wars Prequels
• "Anyone can be a Celebrity"
• ·        "Reality" TV
• ·        9-11
• ·        War on Terror
• ·        Internet
• ·        Tweencoms
• ·        Nerd Pop
• ·        Pornography
• ·        The Neo Jew Fro
• ·        Trial-by-Headline
• ·        Mark Zuckerberg
• ·        Facebook
• ·        YouTube
• ·        Google
• ·        Family Guy
• ·        Avatar (the film, not the show)
• ·        Avatar (the show, not the film)
• ·        Anime
• ·        Manga
• ·        Japan
• ·        Scooby-Doo
• ·        Kill Bill
• ·        Bleach
• ·        Naruto
• ·        One Piece
• ·        Pixar
• ·        Shonen Jump
• ·        Barack Obama
• ·        Twitter
• ·        Gary Busey
• ·        Charlie Sheen
• ·        Justin Bieber
• ·        Michael Jackson
• ·        My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
• ·        Social Media
• ·        The Web 2.0
• ·        Memes
• ·        Viral Video
• ·        Streaming Video
• ·        Streaming Anime
• ·        Cop Shows
• ·        The News and Pundits
• ·        Franime
• ·        Marathon Animation
• ·        Funimation Anime
• ·        Viz
• ·        Nerd Corp
• ·        Invader ZIM
• ·        Samurai Jack
• ·        Clone Wars
• ·        Ovation TV
• ·        The Hub
• ·        Toonami
• ·        Ben 10
• ·        Danny Phantom
• ·        Teen Titans
• ·        Regular  Show
• ·        DeviantART
• ·        Nicktoons Network
• ·        DirecTV
• ·        Dave Eggers
• ·        Transformers
• ·        G.I. Joe
• ·        Claymore
• ·        Cowboy Bebop
• ·        Samurai Champloo
• ·        Afro Samurai
• ·        Shonen Jump
• ·        Pixar
• ·        Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• ·        Min Woo Hyung's Priest manga
• ·        Metalocalypse
• ·        New School Gundam
• ·        Camp Lazlo
• ·        Inuyasha
• ·        Toon Disney
• ·        Disney XD
• ·        Jetix
• ·        Oban Star-Racers
• ·        Fullmetal Alchemist
• ·        Disney XD
• ·        Tarzan
• ·        Robot Chicken
• ·        I Love The 90s
• ·        Ghost in the Shell
• Eminem

Please keep in mind. I'm including icons of the 2000s. Brands and pop culture phenomena that STARTED DURING or GATHERED ITS MOST STEAM DURING first 12 years of the 2000s. I'm well aware things like South Park, Jerry Springer, and Spongebob are all icons as well to many and are still going today for the most part, but I really consider those to be more 90s than anything else. Spongebob is popular, but it already had a name for itself by 2000. Same for the 90s. 90s is a favorite time of mine, but the 90s had it's day in the sun. This blog post is paying respect to anyone who built a name for themselves in the 2000s, with the exception of the notorious people like Charlie Sheen, War on Terror, Jewfro, and "Trial by Headline"

Lesson Learned....Programming Blocks

This existed in 2009...

• Har Har Tharsdays (Thursdays)
• Ani-Mondays (Mondays)
• MTV 2 Legit (Fridays)
• Adult Swim ACTN (Saturdays)
• 4KidsTV (Saturdays)
• You Are Here (Fridays)

Networks may last forever. But most programming blocks don't. That is why we eventually need Toonami: The Network. Don't want it to vanish again in its prime.

Being a Total Pro Comics or Animation Creator, or Both?

Doesn't really go any higher, far as status in the industry is concerned....That's the most influential job in the entire industry. But only if you have a real franchise (which of course, I don't).

Good Times At Christmas Bringing Tears to my Eyes

The one lyric that always makes me teary eyed. There was always this one song my mom would always play aloud through a Disney Christ Cassette Tape (circa 1990 or a lot earlier) that had all these Christmas songs being sung by Disney characters, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, etc....

There was always this one or two moving lines when the chorus was repeated, which were so comforting to me growing up every Christmas, t hat every time my Mom plays it in the house now, I get a bit teary and feel like crying, the lyric sung by the narrator goes:

"Santa knows we're all God's Children

He makes Everything Right

Rest in Bed

Snuggle up your head

Cuz Santa Clause Comes Tonight"

Ahh. Poetry....

映画学校1つの-OH-ワンツー：映画制作のための新しい技術 Film School One-Oh-One-Two: New Technique For Filmmaking

Here's my own stylistic technique I invented, upon closer inspection and observation of well edited films like Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell.

"Dance of the Camera"

"Choreographing the Camera Itself"

The Greatest Animation and Live Action Filmmaking doesn't just strategically place and choreograph the actors on Camera, with various cuts and shots. The greatest on screen action (the first one being Meshes of the Afternoon) strategically places and choreographs the different types and styles of camera shots (wide, close, up down, dutch, pan, cut) and cuts ALONG SIDE the actors. This is a metaphor and analogy. One cannot just think of the characters as actors, or as the case has been, the background and production design as actors (Katsuhiro Otomo's AKIRA and other comics he's authored) as "actors" in the story. One needs to also treat the camera, editing cuts, and camera movements and montages, or the actual composition and arrangement of objects, props, backgrounds, lighting, and character poses as actors. In this sense, editing, and arrangement and sequencing of frenetic, fast, and frantic motion or sequential images on page and screen should be thought of as a school of acting and performance in and of itself. Maya Deren in "Meshes of the Afternoon", and arguably Salvador Dali and his short avant-garde film as well due to how she always referred to choreography and editing in terms of "dance" and "rhythm" and not these static, motionless, lifeless things, was one of my earliest predecessors of this philosophy.

Composition of a scene or landscape is a form of choreography, musical dance, rhythm, editing, and ballet in and of itself. The best, most vivid film scenes are like a song, poem, and ballet, at the same time. That is what "Meshes of the Afternoon" and a lot of Asian and French cinema was (and still often is)...


ここで私は私自身の発明した文体の技術は午後のマヤ徳仁のメッシュおよびシェルで押井守のゴーストのようなよく編集されたフィルムの精密検査や観察に基づいて、だ。

"カメラのダンス"

"カメラ自体を演出"

グレイアニメーションと実写映画制作は、単に戦略的に様々なカットとショットで、カメラで役者を配置して、振り付けをしていません。画面上のアクション（最初のものが午後のメッシュである）戦略的な場所や振り付けの異なるタイプやスタイルのカメラショットの（オランダ、パン、カット、上下、近い、広い）とSIDE役者に沿ってカット上で最大。これはメタファーとアナロジーである。一つは、単に役者として文字を考える、またはケースがあったように、物語の中で"俳優"として俳優としての背景や生産設計（大友克洋のAKIRA、彼が執筆している他の漫画）は使用できません。一つは、カット、カメラの動きやモンタージュ、またはオブジェクトの実際の組成と配置、小道具、背景、照明、文字は俳優としてポーズを編集し、またカメラを治療する必要があります。ページと画面上で熱狂的、高速で、必死の運動や連続画像のこの意味で、編集、および配置とシーケンシングは、演技やパフォーマンス自体にとの学校として考えられるべきです。マヤ"午後の網目"の徳仁、そして間違いなくサルバドール·ダリと、彼女はいつも"ダンス"と"リズム"の面で振り付けや編集に、これらの静的な、動かないで呼ばれる方法に起因するだけでなく、彼の短い前衛的な映画、生命のないものは、この哲学の私の最古の前任者の一人であった。

シーンや風景の組成は、振り付けの形、それ自体でのミュージカルダンス、リズム、編集、バレエです。最高の、最も鮮やかな映画のシーンは歌のようなものです。それは、アジアとフランス映画の多く"午後の網目"は（そしてまだしばしばある）だったものです...

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