You may not WANT to go into debt, but sometimes it can't be helped...

Like if both your parents die and you've got bills to pay.

You know, for the whole "Not wandering the streets homeless and ending up in the poorhouse" thing?

Ever think of it that way, millennials? Why does going into debt scare baby boomers so much?

Submissions Tally List, 2013

Victorian Era Fashion Design Machine Sketchbook Strikes Again

It's going well for me, pretty much....

I'm in the midst of supervising my first online company:

StreamWave Media, which is the owner of ActionToon, my broadcasting company I branched off of my SplitAtomBoom YouTube channel (500k views) with. 

I'm also in the midst of developing my first software, an application software (app as they call them) to coincide with my online brand, ActionToon.

That's all I got for now...

On inventing the first all action online animation channel:

It started off as a dream to see someone start an all action animation network.

Years ago I was always asking why no one had made one yet with stuff like Toonami and Adult Swim out there.

I never in a million years would have thought I would be the individual turning that  broadcasting dream into a reality and manifesting it myself....I couldn't be happier about it. It's a dream come true.

"Black" Comics Series, Concept Design of A Protagonist - Professor Black

Out of the sky
The Floating Eye
Will prophecy and pretend
That this is the end

The people run,
Run to the hills
Run for their lives to flle
The horrible eye

This was the dream
Don't cross the streams
Jumbo machine
Can launch a rocket punch into the eye!

The giant robot with bird-like head
The giant robot he is our friend
Some chollos want to point the gun
but we've got the 3-2-1!

Fire!
Now we're talkin'
Fire!
Now we're talkin'
Fire Now we're talkin'
It's out of hand

Oh oh
When it's in my hands
We've got missle command
Oh oh
Bird head's working now
We're gonna watch it all fall down

Kaboom! Fall down
Kaboom! Fall down
Kaboom! Fall down
Kaboom! Fall down go boom

Jumbo machine
Shiny and clean
Who else can save the people
From the megaton punch?

Invincible
The guardian
Of careless men who
Run the world like a cartoon show

Living the dream
I hear the screams
Living the dream
To build my giant robot
With giant birdhead

Living the dream
Jumbo machine
Living the dreamS0
Shiny and clean
We can face reality and fight

Hey you
With the hand-me-downs
Ripped up shoes and the Buster Browns
No tattoos, you don't stand out
It's all about the Lincolns in your bank account

What does it matter?
What does it matter?
What does it matter?
What does it matter?

High School kids do you got enough
Of all those silly monkeys who think they're tough
And teen queen babies who whine and whine
About their brand new car that works just fine

What does it matter?
It doen't matter
What does it matter?
Anti-Matter
What does it matter?
It doesn't matter
What does it matter?

Hey kid!
What do we got?
Not a lot
So what?
Look what we do got
Hey kid!
What do we got?
Not a lot
So what?
So what

What ever happened to my radio?
It must have happened a long time ago
Disc jockey dudes really make the scene
But did you spend a lot of money on those cool white jeans?

What does it matter?
It doen't matter
What does this matter?
Underwater
What does it matter?
It doesn't matter
What does this matter?

Hey kid!
What do we got?
Not a lot
So what?
Look what we do got
Hey kid!
What do we got?
Not a lot
So what?

When all those people
Try to hold us down
With what they got
I said, hey kids
What do we got?
Not a lot
So what?

You don't got nothing
You got nothing to lose
So what?
I'll tell you something
It's gonna be alright

Black - Series Development - Logo: A First Draft and a First Look

App Developer

I am now officially a web app developer, on top of everything else that I do.

I always did want to design my own software, whether it was for online or off....

Now I AM developing online web apps!

Yeeeaaah Hoooooo!!!!

I'm in the process of developing an all purpose app for both Google Droid and Apple iPhone...

To grow the brand of my websites

Valentine's Day Gibberish.....

I'm not necessarily a fan of online dating. Too me that feels too unnatural and risky. It's a little rushed, and you don't necessarily know what your getting.

But that is not  to say I won't date girls I meet online. If she's 20+ and is interested in what I have to say and like me in that way, I'd certainly consider being in a relationship with her, to say the least. I see nothing wrong with browsing pictures of my romantic partner online.

Honestly, I'd like to get to know a girl on deeper terms. I want to know more about her than just "is she interested in a romantic relationship with me". Relationships with message boards, social media, IM, email, and photosharing (on her part mostly). And then, maybe. MAYBE. If the communication in the relationship is working: Real world hookups later on, like visits, meetups, and smart phone calls.

Relationships on dating sites are a little too forward for me. I honestly like to develop organic romantic relationships with my girlfriends.

Next Up: Potential Wirecast Calibration Tutorial....

Programming Wirecast for online broadcasts is hard. It's hard work. But fortunately I've got an engineer's brain partially and have figured a little bit of it out.

So if I can figure the whole thing out, dear reader, you all might be able to expect some Wirecast-For-YouTube tutorials about how to get your broadcast feed set up! Hurray! Now how bout that??!

Sound like fun, figuring that technological mumbo jumbo stuff out?

It is!

See if I can't put that partial Stanford online class computer science and engineering education to good use.

Peace and Love,

J.M.

DeviantART used to seem SO HYPER ANIME DETAILED to me....

UnTIL I discovered the (post-Moebius/OTOMO) French science fiction, fantasy, and heroic fantastique BD TOME scene, which has cover illustrations of a much more high quality and aesthetically appealing detail. Plus, the BD scene doesn't cuss you out if you  bring up plagiarism incidents, of which it has very few. MUCH better scene..

Genuinely the two are quite different in terms of their worldview and attitude towards things like America, even if they are pretty similar in how they appreciate manga and anime...

Who are the newest players in the Online Video Industry, according to a YouTube engineer, you ask?

Well, Ustream, Livestream, and Telestream Wirecast of course.

Speaking of Wirecast, in case you haven't heard, they merged with Google and YouTube to make streaming live video on YouTube possible. This includes animation potentially. Better not let it go to waste, animetion community...Sure the setup is complicated, but that is what online instruction manuals are for.....

I don't know exactly WHEN ActionToonTV.com is going to be on air....BUT

I estimate the shows on ActionToonTV will air sometime resembling:

Fridays from 7-9 PM
Weekdays from 12/1-4 PM

If you click in, tune in, toon in or however you say that phrase, at those times, you more likely to see something broadcast live....

ActionToonTV: All Action Anime and Cartoons Broadcasted LIVE, All the time.

It's a good thing I owe NOTHING to NO ONE and NOTHING

Otherwise I'd say I was seriously slacking in my duty to keep things alive.

As My Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grand Ancestor, William The Conqueror Once Said....

Sniz Snoz. Sho Nuff. Ain't No Thang!

Handy-Dandy Ustream Producer File Broadcaasting Upload Cheat Sheet (What works and what doesn't)

Online Broadcasting – Formatting Guidelines

Ustream Producer: Compatible Formats:

.wmv (Windows Media)

The first thing you need to know about Ustream Producer with Wirecast, is, when using said software, always remember, All Video File Formats are NOT Created Equal. Some won't play on Ustream (.avi), and other file formats result in slow, choppy video (.mp4)

Windows 8 and Ustream (The Broadcast Engineer's Cheat Sheet)

Incompatible Formats:

Most downloaded Files

like:

.avi

.MPEG

.MP4 (choppy playback) (convert to wmv through wondershare converter)

Warning!:

DON'T use Windows Media Player to play WMV (Windows Media Video) files

It causes a force restart.

Play Quicktime files with quicktime player

For Quicktime (and) .wmv files, only use either:

Universal Player:

WonderShare Player (Ring avatar)

VSO Media Player

Not so Universal Video file formats:

.Quicktime

.mp4

Let Me Explain Something to all of you, about TV, Comics, and the internet: They're professional cliques, similar to high school cliques. Not based on logic, but instead pre-established status

Before you try to dive into your career and become King or Queen of all New and Old Media, you have to remember, Comics and TV are divided enough, but TV and Comics and the ONLINE WORLD. Hoo boy. What a pickle. Those two mediums are even MORE discriminatory towards people on the internet, labeling them "criminals" and "pirates" in hopes it will sabotage aspiring auteurs from crossing the wall that separates the two (cough cough Last Airbender).

Look, it's hard enough to succeed in any one industry. But here is the truth.

NO ONE has conquered both technology and entertainment, other than on a superficial namesake level that makes one look more involved in everything than he or she actually is.

You really think anyone with leverage in TV and movies has so much as a FOOTHOLD of power on a Power hub like YouTube or Twitter? Don't think so. They may be on there, but that is not the same thing as being a leader there who built his status from the ground up. You know, the way, oh, I don't know, I DID. Don't think so. 

But the other problem is, this barrier of "failure" and medium discrimination works in both directions. I know plenty of people who work in TV who wish they had popularity online but won't admit how they feel due to their high amount of professional pride. The same thing works in reverse, with people on forums and social networks, websites, and webcomics, who wish they had a career in movies and TV, but get turned down by every producer/agent/talent scout in town just for BEING young, online, and "Not Hollywood Enough".

Discrimination and lack of acceptance exists on both ends of the spectrum. One on old media, and the other on new media

Just because you HAVE a show on TV and post messages online does NOT mean you are 100% accepted there. People like that, are highly envied online as well, hence generating a certain amount of negative reactions and comments that are purely  based on status, and not the quality of output.

I've been trying to make a breakthrough from my home turf (social media, the web 2.0, new media, and online broadcasting) to old media for years, but with little progress...Not surprisingly...What with all the cross media, cross-medium discrimination out there. People just looking for an excuse NOT to hire people from the online industry. 

Cross-Medium discrimination. Expect it. It is the digital media Berlin Wall.

Let's face it, whether you succeed online or in movies, books and TV, there is one unanimous agreement between both parties. None of us like real work, or real jobs. But almost all of us want the glory of success. We just go about it in different ways. And in many ways we all want some place to fit in. We all want somewhere to go where we can meet and talk or write to other people like ourselves, who enjoy similar things. The community aspect, whether it's Hollywood, or on a TV screen, or on a website, or in a video, or an online forum. A lot of us don't get along with our neighbors, or even families, so we turn to friends and industry communities, where people actually understand us as human beings. In that sense, the new and old media communities are not so different.

In an era of profound isolation and superior technology, people still seek out understanding, status, and acceptance.

I'll say one positive thing about being recognized or contributing content to the internet, though.

Not every internet celebrity goes on to be a film director, or book author, or animator, or cartoonist. Actually, hardly any of them, if not all the famous ones pretty much never do, other than the obvious ones like Perez Hilton or Justin Bieber, who are in certain ways actual real traditional media brands now.

But some animators and cartoonists do go online to pontificate in forums and galleries and tweets and blogs. The William Streets, Cartoon Networks, Jhonen Vasquezes, Thomas Romains, Chris Prynoskis, Steve Blums, John Ks, Greg Capullos, Neil Gaimans, Scott McClouds, Dave Filonis, Todd McFarlanes and Kevin Smiths of the world do in fact sometimes take the time to interact with the online community.

I predict it is and will be these types of celebrities that I suspect and predict will be the dominant creative brands of the future. The ones who open up the public fan dialogue, reach out, not just sit back behind a curtain waiting for events to unfold and doing nothing about it. The ones who take the time to make their presence felt to people who aren't anywhere near as famous...