OK, here's the breakdown.
In the beginning of February, this month, I self-published my first book, an art book, Art: Manifested by J.M. Matthews. Published through Greater Amazons and Barnes & Noble online outlets everywhere.
Here's the Official Press Release
So far the book has been in various news write ups 16 times, at least according to my co-publisher.
Anyone can buy a copy of the book. I'm happy if anyone owns my publishing work.
Available now.
Enjoy!
-J.M. Matthews
Monday, February 27, 2012
BOOM! BOOM!
Oh no! Giant footsteps! The GIANT found me!!!
fwup fwup fwup fwup fwup ccrrrrUMM EEEEERRRRRRRRR CRASH!
Oh no, he just destroyed the ghetto copter that was flying over my house. Not GIANTS! I HATE GIANTS! I'm scared of GIANTS! I'm allergic to them!
fwup fwup fwup fwup fwup ccrrrrUMM EEEEERRRRRRRRR CRASH!
Oh no, he just destroyed the ghetto copter that was flying over my house. Not GIANTS! I HATE GIANTS! I'm scared of GIANTS! I'm allergic to them!
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Ladies and Gentlemen! And a lot more Gentlemen than Ladies!
They respond to you, and therefore you have power over them. You forced their hand to speak and announce things, without even having to really even try very hard. They have no power. Not when they're the ones scurrying around like roaches and rats exposed to light, to react to what you say and not the other way around.
Pig
Chinese Pig Zodiac “people need to focus on their daily work and do not make any unforgivable mistakes, otherwise (or else) your competitors will take advantage to ruin your reputation.”
—Chinese Horoscope
This is Japan kid. We don't know how to do Black Goth here...
You could never do a Jhonen Vasquez or Ted Naifeh comic book in Japan. Not like how you could in America. Black will always be considered villainous in Japan. In the 90s, half the countercoulter was goths who listened to metal music about murder, violence, and suicide. The anti-hero is a Western hero. The Japanese know NOTHING of real anti-heroes. In Japan they have a belief-Fail in terms of realizing Black is Good.
Pure-heartedness is not the only element of aesthetics that matters, and I say this as one of the more pure-hearted. In my earlier years, my life and heart were so incredibly pure and white at the beginning of my life that during my adolescence, I found myself very in love with the dark-hearted Black Noir Goth aesthetic side of life. When I was a child, everyone, my parents, family, teachers, classmates, and friends, couldn't stop talking to me about how pure, innocent, kind, happy and light I was. They all admired the innocence and purity they perceived in my heart, because I never got in trouble for anything. It got kind of boring to me after a while, always being viewed by others as innocent, justified, and good, "Are you an angel?" one frightened old woman in a hospital once asked me, when I was staying at a hospital once and had been singing to myself in the other room when she overheard me, apparently mistaking me for a real life angel. Made me yearn for something a bit darker and more macabre and especially black. Something that wasn't really what I was in real life, but that I found cool, and stylish anyway.
Then again, maybe it's the difference between the collective psyches of the United States and Japan. I guess the world's "perennial hero" (America) simply reacts differently to power colors than the world's "perennial victim" (Japan). Or SOMETHING like that, I guess.
Pure-heartedness is not the only element of aesthetics that matters, and I say this as one of the more pure-hearted. In my earlier years, my life and heart were so incredibly pure and white at the beginning of my life that during my adolescence, I found myself very in love with the dark-hearted Black Noir Goth aesthetic side of life. When I was a child, everyone, my parents, family, teachers, classmates, and friends, couldn't stop talking to me about how pure, innocent, kind, happy and light I was. They all admired the innocence and purity they perceived in my heart, because I never got in trouble for anything. It got kind of boring to me after a while, always being viewed by others as innocent, justified, and good, "Are you an angel?" one frightened old woman in a hospital once asked me, when I was staying at a hospital once and had been singing to myself in the other room when she overheard me, apparently mistaking me for a real life angel. Made me yearn for something a bit darker and more macabre and especially black. Something that wasn't really what I was in real life, but that I found cool, and stylish anyway.
Then again, maybe it's the difference between the collective psyches of the United States and Japan. I guess the world's "perennial hero" (America) simply reacts differently to power colors than the world's "perennial victim" (Japan). Or SOMETHING like that, I guess.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Anime and Art
The best example I can think of that reminds me of how people react to anime and manga now in the art world, would be Cubism. Cubism is Western. Anime (&) Manga are Eastern. But location matters very little. Key point is, they're both art. Both made a lot of money in the same time they were appreciated and known about in.
The biggest criticism both schools of art faced (aesthetics aside) is that they both had many detractors that said they weren't "real art". BUT, the same thing was said about Walt Disney's work in his early cartooning and animation career, and look how that worked out. Manga is cartooning. Anime is both design-based animation and filmmaking.
I gotta hand it to LucasFilm. At least they're actually honest, and not LIARS like some people in art....
At least LUCASFILM isn't running around trying to convince the world they came up with MY OWN DESIGN(S) before I MYSELF DID, unlike SOME anime artists...
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