A certain someone for whom this website belongs to and is very giddy at the moment as he writes this blog has this thing over at the ComicsNexus that he wants to share with all of you…and the award goes to…__________
GALLERY…
The uploading process has begun for the gallery. It all is sort of random to what is going up. So this round as with the subsequent uploads will not be in any particular order. Hopefully that doesn’t annoy anyone. This time around there is all kinds of stuff. Some batman, some promethea, con sketch commissions. and various other things. I think I may have added at least 50 new images. My goal is to create something that people can come back to time and time again. To come to the gallery and view things at your leisure. I know most online artist galleries aren’t going to be as large as this as time goes by and hopefully you will come to enjoy the vastness of it as it progresses. I wish to show multiple versions of things that went through major or minor changes as the work was completed or as changes needed to be done based on editorial notes as work progressed. I’m showing these sorts of things to promote thoughts on design and process. Particularly with cover images and their relation to the logo work I had done. I know some of this will be a bit redundant but I want to create an online documentation of various aspects of every image I produce. I hope, even with the redundancy, you will find merit in this notion of a full on compendium of my work as it develops over time. Anyway, enjoy the new images for this round of uploads.
THINGS YOU SHOULD SEE…
Robotika by my friend Alex Sheikman has started up it’s second series from archaia press. Samurai sci-fi with a bit of surreal attitude. I contributed a pin-up to the first series and wanted to point you in the direction of his new material at…
Tabloia is another ongoing project from another friend, Chris Wisnia. Very fun and wild retro-cool-monster-driven stuff. I also have contributed a pin-up for his publication as well. Please explore his crazy worlds at…
These guys need support for their unique vision of independent comics. Find them, buy them, enjoy them.
We have fixed some of the bugs in the gallery. So you should be able to view things without error messages. There are still a few things we need to adjust, but at least it is viewable now. Our esteemed webmaster has set it up so you can navigate through the images using a control slideshow motif that is rather nice or you can go directly to flickr to view images from there. Hopefully next week I will be adding a lot more images to the gallery in one fell swoop. My goal for this gallery is for it to keep growing and sort of be a giant digital compendium of my work. Please enjoy.
GALLERY OF ERRORS…
We have noticed awhile back that we seem to be having problems of a technical nature with the gallery viewing and are working to rework that area of the site. So please bear with us as we remove bugs. Which will be nice so I can add lots of new images that are ready to be put into cyberspace for your viewing pleasure.
MANIFESTATION…
Recently I have been pondering the question of what makes us who we are and how we are perceived by those around us. In some ways our physical persona that is recognizable by others exists because of our desires to be recognized in a certain way. This can shape our appearances and we evolve physically to meet the demands of our imaginations. I believe we are perceived by others in ways we have subconsciously chosen for ourselves and we live out those roles as imagined. Some would say that we are perceived differently than we view ourselves, and to some extent that is true. But we always come back to what we believe ourselves to be and continue to live our lives with our self perceptions. Therefore the choices we make in life lead further toward what we imagine ourselves to be. Manifesting ego and personality. For some this happens early on and for others they constantly morph themselves as changlings. Refusing to be truly known by others. Sort of continuously redefining and therefore they take on changing physical attributes. This idea of self manifestation can be put to control over our environments, shaping our realities in little increments over time to make our lives into what we want them to be. In actuality we choose our fates, even if we don’t want to admit that. Everything we see ourselves being influences where we end up and how our lives are affected. Belief makes reality. But you have to truly believe in something for that something to come into being. If it is half hearted then it doesn’t come to pass. We define ourselves through manifestation of our soul’s desire, not by outside circumstances.
CYBER GHOSTS…
Just finished reading Ghost in the Shell: Man Machine Interface by Shirow Masanume published in america by darkhorse. An extremely challenging read full of very dense futuristic computer navigational references that can be a bit overwhelming. Entire battle sequences take place within the electric digital realm of cyber-reality. I feel if you can past all of that and allow yourself to be immersed in that form of technical thinking, the ending will become that much more satisfying. Basically the ending reveals a new form of combined life, a kind of artificial intelligence. But what I find most interesting is this new life is shown to exist in the cyber-realm, on another plane of existence if you will and is handled in such a way to be more on the metaphysical side. Cascading colors that make you feel things rather explain them. As if you would be looking into creation itself. A very interesting perspective for a story that primarily relies on pages and pages of dense technical jargon and configurations. By having to absorb such a dense and antiseptic form storytelling makes a highly charged and revelatory awakening in the final segment. It sort makes me think that author is saying that no matter how far technology moves in the future that creation is more wonderous and spiritual and metaphysical than we would like to admit. That no matter how separated man gets from unseen energies we will inevitably come back around to the metaphysical no matter how far technology takes us. Another interesting thing to note about the art is how much the author can’t help but focus on the human form, sometimes in titillating ways. Even as characters move through digital realities they are portrayed as nude human forms. This could be taken as just a story telling device, surely, but also it comments on the fact that we will always have to be physical creatures if we are to understand our world and our role in it. So at the end, this new form of life being introduced is shown as light in the eyes of one of main characters, revealing that creation is truly a metaphysical event and not just purely scientific and biologic. This entire series has been nothing really but a question of what makes us what we are. Our spirits and souls exist outside the context of our bodies but need the physical form to self manifest and affect our surroundings and to be known by others, to find some sort of fulfillment to make ourselves into something more. A lot of people have gotten caught up in the computer and technical aspects of the Shirow’s story about the future of mankind but I think they have missed a crucial point being made about humanity and our uniqueness and what is creation exactly.
MUSIQUE (you should hear)…
NFD — dead pool rising
SIOUXSIE– mantaray
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM / NEFILIM — self made collections of rarities and mixes
CHRISREEDUNIT — minimal animal
RILO KILEY — under the blacklight
!!! (aka CHK CHK CHK) — myth takes
PERRY FARREL’S SATELITE PARTY — ultra payloaded
VNV NATION — judgement
TEGAN AND SARA — the con
SEAGULL SCREAMING KISS HER KISS HER — no! no! no!
FOREIGNER (yeah i know, cheese)– self titled debut
THE HIVES — the black and white album
PINK FLOYD — wish you were here
SUITE 666 — pretty corpse
BANG SUGAR BANG — thwak thwak go crazy!
NEW YORK DOLLS — one day it will please us to remember even this