Genetic Predisposition Towards Obesity? - Yes.

Obesity doesn't run in my adoptive family, which is why my adoptive family is skinny. But obesity runs in my genes, and family history, and goes back into history all the way to my ancestors.

I've ALWAYS had a genetic predisposition towards obesity doctors didn't want to acknowledge. They kept attempting to irresponsibly convince me I was "choosing to be fat". I accept a physical appearance as it is,  be it good or bad. Nothing really shocks me. You can't just choose your body structure or how you look. You can't just "choose to be handsome, pretty, or generally beautiful" You don't CHOOSE to be fat most of the time. Being fat is in fact a genetic predisposition MOST of the time. If your fat you shouldn't blame yourself just because some health psychos tell you you should. FUCK them. Know your family history. Your REAL family history, not your adoptive one.

It's not just being fat that makes you fat. Other physical characteristics factor in:

Hunger, chemicals, predisposition to be physically active, fatigue, energy level, laziness, physical power, natural body structure. Some people live lives that keep them active, which leads to them staying in shape. Some people lead lives that don't involve much physical activity, allowing fat cells to accumulate. 

But yes. Fat runs in the family. You can ATTEMPT to diet, but if dieting were the answer for everyone. If exercise made everyone skinny just by people attempt it, the fat epidemic would already be solved.

It was actually kind of....ODD Seeing people react to me in the media. Nearly everyone who mocked me mocked "the odd peculiarities of my face". But even the ones who mocked my face, and voice never actually seemed to notice my actual fatness, or obesity itself. I've never seen so many twigboy impersonators in my life. Seriously. I know my face looks bad, but the really weird thing and part about it was that no one seemed to realize I weigh over 344 lbs. I guess my weight problem isn't as noticeable as I used to think. Better news for me I guess. The guys trying to steal my identity are all twigboys, yet I weigh 344 lbs. in reality. Like i said. Odd. 

Growing as an artist and the art of Redrawing Older Drawings

While studying the work of other artists and copying from other artists is an important requirement to teach yourself how to draw from scratch. It's important to appreciate the of your own work. Understand what makes your drawings and artwork work or fail, and don't be shy about redrawing and reinterpreting your own drawings. Not just recreating good elements, but improving upon the ones that didn't work as well early on.

Getting a little fabric sketching (based on an older work) in before bed....

Things Time Warner Has Brought Us

Blade Runner
Cartoon Network
Toonami
CNN
Adult Swim
Cowboy Bebop
Dragonball Z
Modern Anime
Anime In General
Time Magazine
The Matrix
Bruce Lee
Enter the Dragon
Man of Action
Ben 10
Ted Turner
Steve Blum
The Lord of the Rings feature film
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Dexter's Laboratory
Warner Brothers
DC
Batman
Superman
Teen Titans
DC Animated
IGPX
Big O II
William Street Animation Studios
Boomerang
Hanna Barbera
Cartoon Network Studios
Regular show
Generator Rex
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Sailor Moon
Family Guy
Robot Chicken
The Boondocks

My Favorite Disney Movie?

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Tarzan
Mulan
Hercules
Toy Story Trilogy
The Sixth Sense
Pulp Fiction (kidding! Sort of!)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
The Black Cauldron
The Sword in the Stone

Indie Anime Drawing: HAND STATUS

HAND STATUS: ACTIVE

Didn't I tell you? I'm creatively braindead 13 now?

Here is a character design. Randomly designed.

Never bet against a Robot or an Alien.....Don't rely on them for real creativity or imagination, either

As far as I'm concerned, as  an artist, you need not concern yourself on what's being drawn and manufactured at DeviantART. It is the car factory of websites. No soul, just efficiency.

To put it in an analogy. Competing against DeviantART, no matter HOW good of an artist you are, is a lot like being a person playing chess on your PC with the computer itself as an opponent. The computer knows how to beat you logistically and tactically, but it doesn't know how to do much else. It's a manufactured win. Not a real one. It's not a fair fight. You're competing against robots who only know how to imitate and never show signs of actually being a real human on the other end of that computer. No real world presence, no soul.

I used to shoot my mouth off here all the time....

Until I realized people who actually LIKED me formally were reading everything I write.

Awkwaaaaaard. Seriously though. I don't mean any offense by it. I'm ranting. I sometimes have a foul mouth.

But if my mouth really offends people that much I'll see if I can watch what I say here a bit more.

Which is weird, because no one, none of my actual fans (And I have a lot of of them in EVERY CONTINENT) never write me any comments on this blog, hence tricking me into thinking I am alone with my curse words. Weird as fuck.

Batman is Sorry.....And I was Doing So well, too

There are days I'm actually glad people think I'm Justin Bieber or something.

At least Justin Bieber is the one getting screamed at, and not me....

Questing and Finding Things: No Longer Necessary

It is no longer necessary to go out and find material possessions, people, or the world.

Seeing as all those things seek me out and find me first.

I don't even need to go looking for anything anymore, even the entire world or anyone specific.

I don't go to it. I have the luxury of it all coming to me. People keep seeking me out.

Apocalypse Storm: VOILA!

"New-Earth: Apocalypse Storms"

Adding a bit of life, oxygen, and color coordination to the production design of my own made up science-fantasy world, New-Earth. This is a conceptual color design of what the skies look like at one of the most dangerous places on New-Earth: Nicknamed "The Wastelands" as there isn't much hospitable life or good there. Just a whole lotta Hell-On Earth and Demons roaming the canyons.

Whispers: "Uh oh. Mono! I think that CLOUD's looking at me. What do I do?"

First Realistic Digital Painting

My first realistic digital painting....Sky

First Dream With a Dreamcatcher: The Anti-Bryan Johnston Anti-Stalking Dream

I had the BEST dream this morning. I was out in public, going for a walk downtown in a park, when from the bushes, Bryan Johnston jumped out from the bushes like a cartoon villain, when some little kid suddenly appeared near him, an 8 year old boy, runs up to him and kicks him in the balls really hard, then he falls down and collapses. "LEAVE HIM ALONE YOU STALKER MOTHERFUCKER!!!" The kid screams at him, as Bryan now lays on the ground holding his nuts in pain. End Dream.

HEY HEY HEY! LOOKIE WHAT I FOUND! How to know if someone with psychic abilities is attacking you...

(Source: About.com)

And yes, I've experienced nearly all of those symptoms when people WERE attacking me using their psychic mind attacks...It was mostly the work of a creepy stalker guy who was trying to kill me, but I could sense others were up to the same thing, too. Not just him. 

What is Psychic Attack?

Psychic attack is simply negative energy that someone sends with the conscious or unconscious intention to inflict harm upon you, your life or your family. Harm can be launched towards your emotional, physical, spiritual or mental state. Those negative energies can be projected in the form of thought, based mainly upon jealousy toward you. It can also happen for many reasons other than jealousy. 

My belief is that psychic attack can be influenced 98% of the time by someone in your surrounding that you already know, even friends or family members, although is not always intentional, as I said before these thought forms can be sent either sent consciously or unconsciously. When they are sent unconsciously, the person sending the thoughts are doing so without their own awareness and jealousy, envy or anger are usually the motivation behind them. A consciously attack is when someone deliberately means harm to you and can be compared to black magic, witchcraft and spell casting. 

Remember that psychic attack is less about you than it is about the weakness of your attacker. 

Reasons Why Someone Might Attack You Psychially

• They are jealous.
• Your life is progressing forward while theirs is stagnant.
• They are envious of your looks, your career, your wife or husband, your environment.
• They are living in their dark side at the moment
• Lack of self conviction.
• Fear.

If you consciously send negative energy toward someone else with the intention of inflicting harm, then what you send is exactly what you will attract upon yourself in your own life. The Universal Law of karma states that what goes around comes back around to you multiplied.

Symptoms of a Psychic Attack

Here are some examples of what you can experience whilst under a psychic attack.

• Dreaming very frightening nightmares.
• Seeing your attacker in a devilish way, either in your dreams, your meditation or in your thoughts.
• Feeling tired and depleted of energy constantly and for no reason.
• Having pains in the same place at the same time on a regular basis.
• Experiencing illness or pains in areas of weakness that your attacker is already aware of.
• Lack of concentration and feelings of laziness when it comes to completing daily tasks.
• Having unusually painful, even severe cases, headaches accompanied with vomiting or dizziness.
• Questioning or doubting your direction in life, even after having been aware of your direction beforehand.
• Depression.
• Having thoughts and images of your attacker creeping into your mind constantly.
• Feeling that you are being watched and seeing shadows around you from the corner of your eye, even when you are alone.
• The worst kind of psychic attack can inflict feelings of having a heart attack, and feelings of the desire to commit suicide.

How to Heal Psychic Attacks

• Becoming aware of the psychic attack through identification of the unusual events that are taking place in your life will help to diminish the effect of the attack by 75%.
• Ask your Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels to help you stop the attack and for protection, even if you do not know them or believe in them, asking them is enough, your faith is not required for them to do their work, although it helps.
• DO NOT SEND similar energy or thoughts to your attacker. Send only the pure white energy of light directly from the Universe, the Source or from the GOD of your own belief.
• Remember you attacker is the weaker one so instead of returning thoughts of anger, hate or fear to them try to feel compassion toward him or her and send them light, love and blessings to help them see and heal their own darkness.
• Every time your attacker comes into your mind, imagine that you are showering them with the pure light of the Universe. Always change the way you send your light by imagining it being sent in different ways and always remember to keep your protection around you.
• Work on yourself. The most important way of protecting yourself from the effect of psychic attack in the first place is to be emotionally strong and stable and do not allow others to identify with your fears because this reveals your weakness. Try to identify with your own emotional issues and fears and heal them, this way you are protecting yourself from being emotionally vulnerable, making you less likely to absorb the effects of the negative energies.

Unfortunately, not everyone is mystical or new agey enough to know how to create a reiki shield....

If that were the case, everyone would be safe and protected from harm, suffering, pain, crime, and misfortune.

But unfortunately not everyone has such healer abilities of defense and protection.

If I see more Fraud Clones and Copies on the News trying to FRAME me....

I'm gonna DRAIN their visual power with my mad Reiki Aura Skills

You want to create ENERGY out of BEING SEEN by everybody?

Then I'll simply steal your presence energy.

So I used Transcendental Meditation to create a Spiritual Protection and Defense Barrier...

You know. Around where I am. I don't trust this world. AT ALL.

I should really do something about my television sets and computers. It's much like a cockroach invasion.

Translation?

I'm gonna exorcise my Comps and TV (tai chi style!), as I sense MUCH dark and evil yet POWERFUL energy in them....

I'm ah fiah stahtah. Twisted Animator

Well, apparently, I turned into an amateur animator today, as I just created my first 3-keyframe reel of mini animation on my computer, with a trial copy of FlipBook 6 animator software. I hand drew the cells myself. I drew some fabric, waving in the breeze. Apparently I don't just know how to DRAW wild fabric. I also know how to animate wild fabric. Must've been watching too much Spawn. All those Todd McFarlane Fabric Studies paid off finally. Made it a whole lot easier to animate. It's important to consider the kinetics of it all, and the directional line under structure...and the contour of the cloth. What shape and form does it take. This is one of my best new techniques since Notan and spotting blacks. I'll eventually do a neo-noir flipbook with digital ink on the computer, but I gotta save SOMETHING for later.

Later.

So. Let us begin. First Lecture from Professor Joe - "Raw" Racism...

Racism In The First World Countries: The Most Brutal of the Brutal

And Now, a Moment of Literature:

America and Germany were not always equal opportunity and the lands of freedom and liberty we know them (mostly America) as today. Both have historic guilt to contend with.

With Europe, it was the Nazi Party, which has been "erased and obliterated" From European History Texts.

With America, it was Slavery and the KKK, and later, it's deformed cousin, segregation.

These are all rather ugly reminders of a past that was once very real, and a very real historic threat to progress.  But the truth is, for the most part, America never truly shouldered the burden of Europe's problems, and Europe never really shouldered the burden of America's problems. Each continents own brand of indignity and historical contradiction does not belong to the other one. It is not a shared hatred or racism. The flames of racism burn brightest in their native homelands, and to be truly extinguished, they need to be extinguished in their native homelands. Sure everywhere else isn't perfect, but there's few things as obviously out of sync with humanity than racism and bigotry. 

This blog of mine has ALWAYS told stories and been a form of storytelling at certain point..

But starting now it's even moreso.

My life's active and interesting enough I'm sure I'll find a few tales to tell every so often, both current and classic, much like the one I just told about my first real black friend, and our run in with the Principle and School officer "over duct tape" at the local high school....

And I like literature, so I'm going to make this blog even MORE literary and word. Food for thought. Thoughts for the mind. that sort of thing. Thematic, but not bogged down in too much topical elements, other than when I deem it suitable.

Harrowing Tales of my Brief Experience in Public High School.....

Joseph sat timidly with his new friend he had made, his first new high school friend ever, and his first black friend ever) in the principle's office at Lyman High. Standing over Joseph and his black friend menacingly was a police officer with his arms pressed together, sunglasses protecting his eyes in doors, holding up his holster  belt.

"You know, boys" the police officer lectured smugly. "Theft is a serious felony, at this school, in this state or anywhere really"

"Yeah, but you do know it's just a roll of duct tape right?" said Joseph

The boy who sat across from Joseph, this humorous, likeable new friend he made, and Joseph himself were being profiled by the Principle and a Lyman high school police officer, and they didn't even know it yet.

"But hold on a second..." I said. "All we were doing was playing with duct tape that someone left on  the set building of the school play. Why are we getting into all this trouble just because you startled us by yelling at us. Anyone would run if you saw an armed officer yelling at you for something you weren't aware of. The only reason we ran WITH the duct tape was because you teriffied us. Look at my friend! He's mortified!" I said about my new friend who was broken down into tears by now. "Why us?"

"Because you STOLE SOMETHING, the police officer said."

"Oh really," I negotiated. And this has NOTHING TO DO with the fact that one of us is BLACK, eh?"

And that's why I ended up not attending Lyman. Much Longer.

Defining Anime [Production]

As much as we perhaps WANT TO call an American or French animated show or short film an anime because it is influenced by Japanese and Japanese Production Methods, that doesn't automatically qualify it as an anime. Anime is made by Japanese, Japanese citizens and in Japan. If you really want to produce REAL anime, you will put yourself HEADS and TAILS ABOVE THE COMPETITION if you can figure out how to use Japanese-manufactured software, Programs such as RETAS STUDIO, illustStudio, ComicsStudio, Pixia, Pixiv (website), NekoPaint, Open Canvas, ArtRage, CGillust, COMICWORKS, AzPAinter, and SAI. (all of which are available for download online from Japan and imported).

Those software are designed and programmed BY and FOR the JAPANESE. By Japanese, for Japanese. If you want your work to "feel like real Japan", at the very least, use Japanese art studio software. If you're really so hell bent on competing directly with other Japanese filmmakers, at least learn to utilize the same tools they use so you can learn and use those same tools too.

Often it comes down to the software. 

Watching Japanese anime vs. watching anime influenced American animation

is a bit like 

Using Japanese art software like RETAS vs. using Toon Boom or Flash. The format of the software WILL EFFECT the vibe and feel of the finished product. To do authentic work, you need authentic tools. 

Good Digital Anime Studio Software? For those that want to produce anime animation the old fashioned way?

RETAS STUDIO PRO

Anime Production Software

Used by over 400 Studios and Colleges in Japan!

I discovered this software by surfing Pixiv...

Official Software Website with Download HERE:

http://www.celsys.co.jp/en/products/retas/

For digital animation studios used by many pros, In the U.S. / Canada, animation studios typically use Flash and Toon Boom to animate more traditional and stylized projects. One of the best kept secrets in animation is what kind of software many Japanese anime studios use to animate and complete anime production in Japan. One of the non-photoshop programs that's most popular in Japan, and is starting to catch on in the U.S. with pioneers such as myself (as I've recently discovered online by doing some research) is RETAS PRO. The really, REALLY amazing thing about RETAS PRO is that it was specifically designed and programmed in Japan originally for anime studio production. In Japan, 2-D Animation is an illusion. The Japanese and nearly all (if not all) modern day 2-D anime studios use software to animate, and compose shots, not just to do effects animation and 3-D projects. That sort of started with Production I.G., or at the very least they were a major pioneer. RETAS PRO is not just good for digital production. It's tailor made to create a sense of anime-specific texture, shading, multiplaning, lighting, light refraction, blurring, editing, and timing. If you want to produce animation in the United States that has the look and feel of authentic anime production and style, RETAS PRO is the go-to-program. The real miracle about RETAS PRO is how formatted to anime industry standards its production style is. I foresee an increase in popularity of digital 2-D programs like that one. If you know what you're doing on RETAS PRO, and draw in an anime production style, there really isn't any kind of limit to what one can do with that powerful of an animation software. I'm going to read up on some tutorials, seeing as there are no books published on how to use that software in America yet. I'm one of the first foreigners to get to try it out apparently. So yet again I'm one of the first people in America or anywhere to try a certain anime-manga animation production technique. This is gonna be fun. 

Sorry Everyone! And Now, an Apology of Sorts....

First off, sorry my best online friends on YouTube, Twitter, Blogger, G+, and the Adult Swim Message Boards. I know a lot of you probably thinking I'm not bothering to make time for many of you, when many of you do such amazing and selfless, egoless things for me. I REALLY appreciate you guys.

BUT, as I've probably already revealed, I also realize I'm becoming a bit popular on many of these sites. And no one can be in 5 separate places at the exact same time. I move back and forth between those 5 sites, often anonymously. There are a lot of people at most of those sites. It can be hard to accommodate everyone there. So on each of those sites I kind of give off a vagrant vibe, of a man coming and going. I'm not entirely sure if everyone knows where I'm always off to in such a hurry. Rest assured, I love most of you, and please do not assume because I'm absent on four sites, but present at one other, don't think it's because I'm punishing you or "teaching you a lesson". It's because there isn't enough time in the day. 

Also, I kind of have a life and career outside the internet and computer, so my time and days are divided into segments.

Once again, sorry folks! And thank you for all your support. 

-JM

Two is Better Than 1. Well, sometimes...

At least in this opinon

Here's something

If you feel like SOCIETY is AVOIDING and NEGLECTING you, you could always BECOME SOCIETY.

Business Account and Personal Account

The difference between business and personal accounts online is night and day. Business trumps personal in terms of popularity. By a mile. I'm so jealous of me! LOL, heh. I was a LITTLE surprised by that once I found out.

I Belong to Everywhere..Local Has no Meaning to Me

I've never been just one or two races. I belong to at least 4 or 5 different ethnic backgrounds and national heritages.

So says the DNA test.

Jobs...

I'm definitely glad I HAVE a job, unlike my brother's family.

TOONAMI.COM IS REVAMPED AND NOW UP. WITH VIDEO AND EVERYTHING

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First Days of Public High School....

So I'm sitting on the middle of the football bleachers, by myself, with like 150 kids also sitting on the bleachers, when a girl walks up to me. She's considering sitting next to me when her crony walks up next to her.

"Don't sit next to him. He's GAY," she emphasizes aloud

The girl decides NOT TO sit next to me. They then turn around and wander off.

Man, what FUN memories. What a LADIES man I was!