The Future of Creative Media Distribution - I have a DREAM!!!!

Mediums and the Old Utilitarian Distribution

Movies: Theatrical, Home Box Office, VHS, DVD (Amazon), Cable TV, Best Buy,  Borders

Books: Amazon, Borders, Bookstores

Comics, Comic Books: Comic Book Shop, Bookstores, Amazon, Borders

TV: Television Set

Anime: TV, Bookstores,  Borders, Cons, Best Buy

Music: Radio, Record Stores, Concerts, CD Players, Walkmans-Discmans, MP3s

New Utilitarianism Distribution

·       Google

·       YouTube

·       Pandora

·       Netflix

·       Amazon

·       Kindle

·       Amazon Studios

·       Hulu

·       Cartoon Network

·       Roku

·       Scribd

·       DVR

·       My inventions

My manuscripts, comics, Books, Journals, video files and DVDs

One day a profitable outlet of distribution will emerge in the next 50-70 years for people like me, and submitting your work to millions will be as easy as making one single upload, or uploading a single PDF manuscript document, or uploading one video file. Like what YouTube, Kindle, Scribd, and Amazon Studios are doing now. Only the next generation of websites will be on an even grander, more monetization-savvy scale.

The key words to look out for in terms of content are:

·       Internationally Distributed Content

·       Uploaded Content

·       Monetized Content

·       Pay Per Click Advertising (Banner Ads and Adsense, etc.)

I have a big stack of projects in my house. One big pile of projects: Comics, Short Stories, Daily Logs, Essays, Art Books, Scripts. DVDs, and PDF documents.

I have faith that one day in the near future there will be international uploading sites with international audience. You know, YouTubes for each of those manuscript, file, and project genres, where I can get millions upon billions of hits for one manuscript or comic, or a lot more, and yet still be able to monetize my original content with ads, or license it to Hollywood and L.A., and let other people in six continents have user access to it as an audience with low subscription fees.

I have a Dream! That I can Monetize the Content I Have Lying Around My House!

Millennials and the Internet as it relates to Professional Success

Older generations grew up in a different atmosphere than we millennials do and did. Baby Boomer and Gen X generation artists and storytellers who have made  brands out of their names and works say your Jhonen Vasquezes, Todd McFarlanes, Stan Lees, Jim Lees, George Lucases, and Tim Burtons, had to achieve the bulk of their success, be it animation or comic book work, the old Fashioned way, WITH NO Social media or internet technology. With mostly just word processors, art supplies, wealthy connections, and agents and producers they submitted their work to. Well that, or they snuck onto a Hollywood studio lot illegally and set up office. Looking at you Spielberg.....

One interesting development I've noticed is we're all going to get to watch how the Millennial Generation of Entertainers, Media Tycoons, Brands, Auteurs, and Creator Writers and Artists, and filmmakers and broadcasters, ultimately achieve social, financial, and material success WITH the aid of the internet, but ALSO starting with what is often nothing and no money. It's going to be interesting to see how the power of the internet generation both helps, aids, hassles, and hinders the millennial generation of storytellers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, designers, and artists. This generation will have to work hard too, just like previous ones if they want to really get anywhere in this world, but in many ways my generation has more utilitarian based resources that can aid young people pathway to a career, money, status, and success.

THIS generation of young adults, the current one, is growing up in a different world, with different challenges and advantages than their predecessors, and will be inheriting this world within the worldwide shadow of the Internet and social media.

It will be interesting to watch this generational, social, economical, and technological shift and seeing the hypothetical torch passed to the first major generation of young adults of THIS Century and Millennium. The Millennials of the 21st Century and early 2000s.

How to Draw Comics-&-Manga Fighting.....

There are many tricks and techniques to drawing fighting, such as compositing, choreography, action poses, foreshortening, speed lines, and layering.

But here's a trick I picked up with OUT the aid of tutorials are books, a trick that will make drawing action in a sequence that much easier:

All motion in comic books is freeze frame static motion. That means, its not animation. Nothing moves. The point is to create the ILLUSION OF MOTION with static and motionless, or to put it in a more obvious way, movie paused and frozen in place static imagery.

No matter how intense your punches and kicks, and sword swipes, and gun shots, and weapon and limb movements, no matter how you want your motion to look, there's no way to avoid making it conform to what I like to call, 

"The Pause" or "The Freeze Frame Effect". All motion in comic books is and looks frozen in time, no matter how bloody, violent, ballistic, fast, blurred, intense, speed liney, or frenetic and frantic it's conceptual motion is. The idea behind the art is moving, not the drawing and art itself. The drawing will never move itself. The drawing IS ALWAYS FREEZE FRAMED AND FROZEN! 

I think part of why I had so much trouble figuring it out was that I tended to watch a lot of animation and storyboards for animation, NOT AS MANY COMICS. Animation IS motion and timing.

Comics is static, stationary, freeze frame motion, not matter how many speed lines, special effects (like flames and smoke) or weapons it uses. The final panel still has to be a freeze framed static image with no real motion on a flat page.

Never Give Up! - About Comics and Manga Artists in America

It's always the timid ones.

EVERY TIME you're on a manga discussion forum on some website, the topic comes up, by some young middle school or high school aged kid, who obviously has good intentions, but is terrible at forseeing how haters will react to their queries online.

"I'm an artist, and I want to draw manga. How do I do this? Will the Japanese fans and pros accept me"

To which often they get a LOT of COWARDLY response from incognito, anonymous Japanese and America OEL American manga hating fans who think they're GOD'S GIFT TO American FANDOM!

"American manga sucks! They yell at you. "And you suck for attempting to draw it!" "Give up now!" "You're an imposter. You'll never draw real manga, because your not Japanese and don't speak Japanese"

And if you hang out with bottom feeder hater LOSERS online like this, they would end up  being right. If you listen to that nasty brand of prejudice, hate, racism, cynicism, and pessimism, you never WILL draw your own manga. Who knows, they might even convince you to blow your brains across your computer screen with a 45., too! I mean, who knows! All things are possible on the internet, right? Well, GIVING UP ON YOUR CAREER sure is!

Why in the WORLD would anyone talk to assholes THAT BIG for advice. It baffles me.

You don't NEED THEIR encouragement or ADVICE! Not to draw what you want.

You need to DRAW SOME Manga already. Draw some thumbnails, then keep tracing, erasing drawing over, and inking them, until you're happy with them. And keep drawing comics of manga until you're happy with your progress, then keep going. BUT if you're comic sucks, you need to realize and admit it if you're honestly not happy with your own work.  And KEEP working on it until your happy with it. 

Repeat this process and  technique until DEAD.

Never consult young teenagers online on whether you should draw manga, or HOW you should draw manga. If they had ANY sense in them and WEREN'T online hypocrites who secretly hate anyone who works up the nerve to draw things they can't (in this case, manga in Japan), of COURSE THEIR GONNA TELL YOU NEGATIVE THINGS like "GIVE UP" and "YOU'LL NEVER MAKE IT". 

Because they GAVE UP ON THEMSELVES AND THEIR CAREERS a long time ago, and they secretly hope EVERYONE ELSE, including you will do just the same. 

Never consult random people on anime websites who never actually attempt drawing comics themselves and seem like they have a serious axe to grind. They will say the most extreme, racist, and hateful anti-American sentiment, all in an elaborate effort to get in your head and keep you from doing your job.

Kindle's Comics Publisher Software is RIGHT THERE, as are Lulu and Create Space. They're WAITING for people with finished comics book and series, including manga artists from America. My manga-comic sold 64 copies there. But do you really think that would have been a possible opportunity for me if I LISTENED to the anti-OEL peanut armchair sports critic gallery, and given up. Why would I want THOSE guys to have the upper hand in the publishing industry, with their snotty culturally elitist attitude. 

I think part of the problem is, a young artists insecurities of working on a developing comic book medium, entirely by his or her self, on their own, in isolation in your parents house or wherever, you get lonely, you get insecure, you  get humbled by what other artists are doing that is vastly superior in artistic design and quality. This isn't about them. The other artists. It's about you. And one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to ask around in comments sections online for advice. You'll get a bunch of negative comments from kids mostly, who have no industry or mentorship experience with anything.

Just remember, you can always take lessons with me on how to write scripts and draw comics if you want to.

Contact me at spindack@gmail.com for details if you're interested in learning comics.

Myers Briggs Personality Analysis of Famous People I know or have heard of....

In case you didn't know, I'm a big fan of the Myers-Briggs Personality Temperament Sorter System.

Here's a list of more obscure (but still nonetheless famous) personalities and their majority temperaments

Myers Briggs

Celebrity Types

NT - NF - SP - SJ

Rational - Idealist - Artisan - Guardian

Joseph M. Alberts - Rational / Idealist / Artisan
Nicole Cook (GF) - Artisan
Amanda M (other GF) - Rational / Idealist
Most of the the kids in my gifted middle school class (Rational / Artisan / Idealist)

Glendis Sorrell (father) - Idealist

Mary Gaynor (mother) - Rational

Thomas Romain - Artisan / Rational / Idealist

Steve Blum - Artisan - Guardian - Idealist

Savin Yeatman Eiffell - Rational / Idealist / Artisan

Jhonen Vasquez - Artisan / Rational, NT / SP

Osamu Tezuka - Artisan / Rational / Idealist
George Lucas - Artisan / Rational / Idealist / Guardian (little bit of all four, in his work)

Ted Turner - Artisan / Rational / Guardian NT / SP

Bill Gates - Rational

Larry Page - Rational

Mark Zuckerberg - Rational
Barack Obama - Artisan / Guardian / Idealist

Steve Jobs - Rational / Artisan

Seth MacFarlane - Artisan / Guardian / Rational

Yoshiyuki Tomino - Rational / Artisan / Idealist

Dave Sim - Artisan / Rational / Idealist / Guardian

Todd McFarlane - Artisan / Rational / Guardian

Katsuhiro Otomo - Artisan / Rational / Idealist
Leonardo Da Vinci - Artisan / Rational
Shakespeare - Artisan / Rational

Scott McCloud - Rational / Artisan

HP Lovecraft - Artisan / Rational

Edgar Allen Poe - Artisan

Aaron McGruder - Artisan / Rational / Idealist

Dave Willis - Artisan / Rational
Kurt Cobain - Artisan
Les Claypool - Artisan / Rational
Maynard James Keenan - Artisan / Rational / Idealist
Alex Grey - Rational / Artisan / Idealist
Ken Wilber - Rational / Idealist
Marilyn Manson - Artisan / Rational
Trent Reznor - Artisan / Rational / Idealist
Thom Yorke - Artisan / Idealist / Rational
Rivers Cuomo - Artisan / Rational
Tim Burton - Idealist / Artisan / Rational
John Woo - Idealist / Artisan / Rational
Quentin Tarantino - Artisan / Guardian / Rational
Cartoon Network / Adult Swim - Artisan / Rational / Idealist
Anime - Artisan / Rational / Idealist
Music - Artisan
Science - Rational
Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality, World - Idealist
Literature - Rational / Artisan (Hybrid of both)
America - Guardian / Rational
Radio - Artisan / Guardian
TV - Artisan / Guardian

Disclaimer: These are mere hypothetical psychological estimates, based on data I've gathered from studying these things, people, and names, based on behavioral and characteristic analysis. For the topics, like religion, science, or anime, etc, I based my assessment on the temperaments of the majority temperament for each category. Hardly anyone is ONLY ONE of those four temperaments, but many people do have dominant traits, as are revealed through speech, recurring elements, identifiable behavior traits. Read at your own discretion. 

To cite one example of what I'm referring to, not a lot of people associate the Guardian temperament with artistry and creativity. Many people associate it with conservative politics, incredibly tough temperaments (such as people with a Taurus Zodiac Sign, and/or artists or writers whose values are more grounded in the old fashioned way of doing things. I know some might disagree,  but the descriptions for the Guardian Myers Briggs Temperament and the Taurus Zodiac sign share many values. I should know, there are a lot of them in my own adoptive family). Etc., etc. Art and True creativity tend to come from both Artisans AND Idealists much of the time, such as entertainers like Thom Yorke and Tim Burton (NF / SP). Etc., etc.

Fun With Myers Briggs.....

As it turns out, I'm not only multiracial, mystical, and ingenious, but Half INTP / Half INFP, or as some on personality cafe call it, IN*P, meaning I'm 50% F 50% T, because my (birth) father was a multiracial Eurasian F, and my (birth) mother was an American white.

And as it turns out, I was adopted into a family made up entirely of White Caucasian American STJ's.

"Lucky" me....(sighs)

Starting this September, Appy Pie is implementing a new pay system for developers.....

Knowing my luck I'll probably get DICKED OVER by Appy Pie yet again with some B.S. cop-out curveball like "Oh, sorry this doesn't include Flash video like our previous program! So solly!"

I BET EE DO! I BET EE DO!