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Hey i just found these websites and thought everyone could benefit from them so heres they are.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html
this is a quiz that helps you discover which religion aligns best to what you believe, not the other way around
also inside the same website is a comparative page on different religions.
http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_10000.html?t=1001

i found that site after robin found a site called "the experience project"
http://www.experienceproject.com/
its like facebook but you join a semi-hide your identity so you can talk about real problems and relate to similar others all with the anonymity of the internet. its like post secret but with a way for people to respond.

I also added my links onto the right side of the page and posted some of my stories on deviantart.

Friends

After making Drown with austin he got me in touch with the humboldt library and after talking over email i fiannly got to meet demi, who let me teach a class on video editing. she recently emailed me and made me think about a few of the special people in my life, past and present.


back from our big trip, to ny and colorado. vicky happened to be in ny so we went and saw her. we were so hot this was our only picture together and we were all so sweaty so i had to photoshop out all the nasty shine. and of course my fiance robin. were planning on getting married right around winter break 09/10. still think about all the things me and vicky did, even comic characters we had started working on. maybe someday - when we all have time, i might even be living back in colorado in the next few years. now she's married and so is jaimie, both i am very happy to have in my life.
i used to stand in a different place, everything and everyone has changed since then. i even lost my only dog i ever had (well we had boba for about a week). isha, i love you. "-now sit, sit."
now i have kitties, and fleas. but i love them too, not the fleas just the cats. heres my old teacher ms. mckaig, who taught graphic design 1+2 in highschool. big inspiration, made school fun - taught me everything i know in photoshop and allot of design stuff. probably i got such a big scholarship to scad.
here's me and mr. mchugh, ive since lost contact with him but he was a great guy. ran his car off of vegetable oil, showed me movies i never knew, taught me allot in just about every program but photoshop.
i also found this website through this video, amazing/real and not nearly as shallow as reality tv it really effected me. and also brought my attention to this thing i wish i had known about about a year or two ago called "the hopeline."

finally got my cover done for defiant - ill post in a few days when it goes up on the website. got my tablet working and used that for coloring it.

im also looking at doing some comics with james, something dark and fun to draw so were trying to come up with stories that would "draw" on both our strengths.

and i also got the director commentary up for Drown so check it out, "if your nerdy enough!"

Drown

Finally got "Drown" on youtube - there's something wrong with the format but you get the idea. i still need to get working on my star trek cover.
part 1

part 2

Naoh Animatic

finally animated my Noah storyboards to the skit by Bill Cosby. now i have to rip the audio out of the simpson's episode and do the same thing for them.

Comics im reading - and like

I've posted a similar article to the one I did a few posts ago on my work on Star Trek on their blog - you can see my and all the artists involved at pendant audio on their blog at http://pendantart.blogspot.com/2008/06/long-time-listener-first-time-cover.html

Been looking at allot of library books recently from ny.

way of the rat and sojourn - god I miss crossgen coloring.
I also loved “the path” by bart sears and that had a great section about how he would rough it out small in sharpie and allot of the work fell to his inker who would bow that up and finish it into final inks.

Rose and a few others by charles vess - but all I see is julie collins.

Catwoman: Selina’s big score and a few others in the same vein of the catwoman series - such as “no easy way down,” which I love. The writer and artist darwyn cook is so simple but awesome, its like toth meets bruce timm.
And the stories are so hard boiled detective with confused romance and noir that its like a good black and white movie - speaking of which I just rewatched vertigo which is awesome. Probably my favorite hitchcock. My mestake though linking it to b+w because its got a whole bunch of color things going on, in fact allot of the visual style is based around the color in that movie.

Identity crisis - amazing art, amazing scenes by rags morales (someone I had never seen) whom I actually liked better than michael turner who did all the covers. and it looks to be amazing story after paging through it. I need to own this phone book and priced at only $15 but something like 250 pgs long its well well worth it. Plus a interview with the artist at the end and a foreword by joss whedon im definitely using my books a million card on this one. I’ve really been drawn away from dc in the last few years their batman pencilers have been so tight and stiff it just sucks and the dc universe in general never really had that much of an appeal next to their flagship characters.

Bought a whole bunch of .25 comics on my last run to fourth world comics in ny. Aerosmith was very cool, a few issues of spider man by the awesome terry dodson and his wife. Some stuff for james and some others, but the one that really struck me was elementals. I grabbed a few random issues but in one of them a female shapeshifter reveals she has been posing as the hero’s husband because she wanted her, had her and now tells her to kill herself. And she does after putting the gun in her mouth on the last page, its some powerful stuff, pretty risky and a lot more than I expected from a comico book. Inide books can go that way, their either trying to be mainstream and just suck or their using the chance to stay out of the mainstream to do stuff they couldn’t if they were. Anyway it was good.

Vol 1+2 of invincible. Awesome every time I see ryan oteley’s work. It looks so simple and yet is everything it needs. I also love the costume designs and the 20 something pages of sketches in the back. Very cool, probably expensive since its in hardcover.

Also got a book and saw extra drawings were by jen wang, I used to love her “strings of fate” webcomic, which is now gone forever - but did get me into webcomics in general. She still has a website though and I just realized she was only 2 yrs older than me. I hope I can be in her shoes if not longer than that time. Known to me she’s been in flight 1 + 2, and as I said I just saw her in agnes quill.

in other news, im on script # 8 of novus terra, thinking of calling it Vanguard adventures. Its so easy to right and fun, I just need the time.

Also james’ war comic awaits my return to ga, to ink them. Also I am to pencil the cover and have him ink that. Not to mention another star trek cover due by the 7th of July. So I should be a happy boy with plenty to do. I’ve had to write this early and post it later though because I didn’t get internet in ny.

I also watch the 1st 4 episodes of legion of superheroes which were surprisingly good even though I despise the art style of legion and titans in comparison to btas and superman. It seems like a bad attempt at american anime like all those christopher hart book, what a whore that guy is - whatever is hot he will change his style and make a book in two weeks with all the same crap as the last one but in the new style - its all just one giant bullshit money making scheme.

X-men and 3d Design Projects

i just thought id post this, not that anyone would see it but i noticed that there were 3 very very similar shots across the first three graphics of amazing x-men by cassidy/wheedon. one of them is
issue #1, pg. 5
issue #17 pg 6

and i forget what the last issue was, but it was pg 6.i didn't know if it was intentional, just taken from the same reference or if it meant something more. i didn't read all the way to three but robin did and she couldn't find anything that would ties them together except to show her progression of character considering they are all in completely different surroundings.

this is the actual cover for "Square one" done in a crossword that's filled out and has the answer to questions like - "the title of this book is" or "the writer is" - i thought it was cool, creative but not necessarily descriptive of what was inside. it made a comic about the dangers of drugs, std's and abuse, police corruption and so on - with a crossword cover. yeah, probably next to using helium for the Hindenburg on a list of history's all time bad choices.

these are pics of my hangman lamp from 3d, when the door is closed and the guy's alive it is on and when you turn the switch the man gets hanged and the light turns off.


this is a pic of my 3d comic, not only does it include panels from a 3d issue #1 of spawn but the panels themselves are set at different depths from one another so the depth really becomes deep when you wear the glasses and look at the comic.


and this is my final "kinetic sculpture" - a rotary chain rubber-band gun" thought youd never see one of those right. took me all day and i even worked on it all class it was due and she still let me turn it in. the only problem was that some of the gears would catch or miss because they were nails, and so i couldn't time the placement of the rubber bands which would have been surrounding the rotating front. the little hand would go up and down and fire the rubber bands as it rotated. so it worked just not perfectly. i only have one clothespin glued on. but i was still pretty proud.