Thursday, May 31, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
More Star Wars Fan Cartoon News
Well, here are my wonderful students working hard on my Star Wars fan cartoon. They're doing it all on a volunteer basses, using their valuable class time to work on the movie when they could be working on their own stuff, and have (through their own stylings and designs) made the project as much their own as it is mine, so from here on out, I shall refer to it as our cartoon.
For more on the project, we now have our own blog for it, called Star Wars Is Our Passion.
This last shot is of our animation table, where all the stop motion footage is shot. All of the above photos were taken at Art Is Our Passion.
For more on the project, we now have our own blog for it, called Star Wars Is Our Passion.
This last shot is of our animation table, where all the stop motion footage is shot. All of the above photos were taken at Art Is Our Passion.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Another Black Lipstick Curse Story For You: The Vampire Cat
Because one free Black Lipstick story isn't enough, here's another. Sorry for the copyright notice this time, but I've got a book to sell. This is the chapter where we pay tribute to one of my favorite writers, Anne Rice while also showing the demise of Wendell's preconceived ideas.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Another Update, Date to the Up, Yo!
Our Star Wars project is coming along quite nicely, (at Art Is Our Passion) where I teach. We've started officially shooting as of two weeks ago, and the students are loving it. So am I for that matter. All involved have exceeded my expectations. Below we see one of them, hard at work, making a stop motion model of a droid of his (2nd place winning in our last art show) design.
It may only look like a Dr. Pepper can, and some wire right now, but soon...
...it will look like this.
Here is a photo of some of the other 2D, stop motion figures, by other students.
I would also, at this time, like to thank Megan Culver of Gencon, for sending us passes (for Star Wars Celebration 4) to raffle off to the the students. As you can see in the next photo, we're very excited about the upcoming event. Oh, and we have our own STAR WARS BLOG now, documenting our work as we go along. Go check it out.
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In other news, interest is steadily growing in my prints, which is making me feel good. Here we can see an order, matted and ready to go out the door.
It may only look like a Dr. Pepper can, and some wire right now, but soon...
...it will look like this.
Here is a photo of some of the other 2D, stop motion figures, by other students.
I would also, at this time, like to thank Megan Culver of Gencon, for sending us passes (for Star Wars Celebration 4) to raffle off to the the students. As you can see in the next photo, we're very excited about the upcoming event. Oh, and we have our own STAR WARS BLOG now, documenting our work as we go along. Go check it out.
************************************************************************************In other news, interest is steadily growing in my prints, which is making me feel good. Here we can see an order, matted and ready to go out the door.
Don't Ever Let Them Tell You You're Stoopid!
There are people out there who would find some small flaw in you, and pull it out like a thread, to unravel your self esteem, self worth, and confidence. They would then pick up the unraveled fabric and weave it into all sorts of new shapes, making a tapestry, that showed a story of some sad, pathetic, moronic person that is not you. Pointing at it, they would say to people around you, "Look at this! This person is not our equal. How could this person be worth anything compared to me? I tell you that this is the slime under our shoes, and you should not give him/her your time."
"Why would anyone do this?" you ask. Because in doing this, to the people around them, they can feel less threatened. They fear that if someone around them might appear smart at anytime, it might make them less of a human. In short, they would call you stupid, to make themselves look smart.
Always be on guard for this. It's hard to know what to look for, sometimes. Only today, I had a very cranky, bitter, insecure individual latch onto the fact that I was a poor speller, to take away credibility to some very strong arguments, I made against his bullying of others. I'll tell you right now that I have never been good at spelling. You may even find some errors in this post. The fact is, that I am dyslexic, which has made more trouble for me on this subject then I would like. Does this make my wit any less sharp? No. Some people don't do well in math. Some very smart people can only burn food. Albert Einstein couldn't change a tire, and his taxes were a complete mystery to him. My point is, that the thoughts that run through my head are none the duller, or tainted for my lack of nimble letter arraigning, so don't fall for that trick. I haven't.
Another sure sign of a bully is when they tell you it's us (the smart ones for example) against (the dullards) them. The fatal flaw in that statement is, who has the right to determine who is intelligent and who is not. Why, they are, of course. What are their determining factors? Whatever suits them, I can assure you. They'll attack what you watch, read, dress as, like in art; anything to make you loose your confidence, so that they can move in for the kill. Let's take a look at what us against them, can really turn into. The Nazis said it was the jews; the KKK, black people; Bin Laden, us.
So, how do you fight this? By being happy with who you are. By always improving yourself, but never letting yourself be shaped by what others might think of you. True, they may be smart, talented people themselves (in fact you have to be to make those kinds of surgical strikes against ones person) but they don't make the rules as to what is intellect or talent. They just want to think they do, so that they can recreate the world around them in their image. Do you want to live in their world? I don't. I feel really good about who I am, these days. I've worked hard and gone far to see life, and reality the way I do today, and I never, EVER let others tell me I was StOopid for it.
"Why would anyone do this?" you ask. Because in doing this, to the people around them, they can feel less threatened. They fear that if someone around them might appear smart at anytime, it might make them less of a human. In short, they would call you stupid, to make themselves look smart.
Always be on guard for this. It's hard to know what to look for, sometimes. Only today, I had a very cranky, bitter, insecure individual latch onto the fact that I was a poor speller, to take away credibility to some very strong arguments, I made against his bullying of others. I'll tell you right now that I have never been good at spelling. You may even find some errors in this post. The fact is, that I am dyslexic, which has made more trouble for me on this subject then I would like. Does this make my wit any less sharp? No. Some people don't do well in math. Some very smart people can only burn food. Albert Einstein couldn't change a tire, and his taxes were a complete mystery to him. My point is, that the thoughts that run through my head are none the duller, or tainted for my lack of nimble letter arraigning, so don't fall for that trick. I haven't.
Another sure sign of a bully is when they tell you it's us (the smart ones for example) against (the dullards) them. The fatal flaw in that statement is, who has the right to determine who is intelligent and who is not. Why, they are, of course. What are their determining factors? Whatever suits them, I can assure you. They'll attack what you watch, read, dress as, like in art; anything to make you loose your confidence, so that they can move in for the kill. Let's take a look at what us against them, can really turn into. The Nazis said it was the jews; the KKK, black people; Bin Laden, us.
So, how do you fight this? By being happy with who you are. By always improving yourself, but never letting yourself be shaped by what others might think of you. True, they may be smart, talented people themselves (in fact you have to be to make those kinds of surgical strikes against ones person) but they don't make the rules as to what is intellect or talent. They just want to think they do, so that they can recreate the world around them in their image. Do you want to live in their world? I don't. I feel really good about who I am, these days. I've worked hard and gone far to see life, and reality the way I do today, and I never, EVER let others tell me I was StOopid for it.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
A Free Black Lipstick Curse Story For You.
Recently I have gathered all of my Black Lipstick Curse stories together, scanned them, corrected the spelling, and retouched the art. I'll be putting them out this summer, in a collection called The Black Lipstick Curse Classics. I'm rather happy with the way that they turned out, and thought I'd share one of the earlier stories for free. I should note that the original stories (like this one) started out rather silly, but as they go along they get more mature and engrossing. This will all lead to a new issue of BLC which will hopefully lead to an ongoing series. Enjoy!
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