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Creative Forces

It's been a while (and I do mean a while)  since I've been with another creative person in person  for actual creative sessions. I'm talking about the creative process, two people figuring it out, whatever it is. This isn't to say I haven't been collaborating, it just means every other time has been done online or through proxy. I feel like a certain something is lost across the distances even if we still can engage all our other senses other than touch. It isn't a physical thing or space though, it's kind of that in between for me. I think the easiest way to explain it is that time during COVID where everyone was able to talk and see their family and friends, but unless you shared the same house, it was usually done through devices rather than in person.      I'm actually in a LYFT right now (UBER app is trash, just saying) on my way to see my friend. I wish it was under better circumstances, but I'm also excited because when we get together we just...
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Marching Along

 Greetings! We're cruising along through the first quarter of the year, and let me say, it has been a doozy for the world over. Everything that I've invested myself in as far as a career, hobby/entertainment, and any personal interests, have seemingly taken an uppercut from uncertainty and left me rudderless at sea. Do I care to explain? Sure.     Like many creative types I grew up inside of my imagination and projected what I saw in my head out into the world but either actively daydreaming or writing/videoing/capturing the stories or plots that played out uninterrupted. As a kid, I never envisioned turning my imagination into a business or monetizing it, because, well, I was a kid .  Why would I? After a series of ups and downs over the years (I.E. see life)  I've circled back to my passions and am still enjoying them as a hobby, but have been making strides to also profiting off of my unpaid work. Here's where it gets complicated: The want or need or desire t...
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New Year Updates

 Greetings readers, Happy New Year! Behind the scenes I've been steady at work finishing up a number of projects that I'll be ready to release by the middle/third quarter of this year. I'm working on a professional/personal website to merge the two sides of my life into an accessible/public forum. When it goes live you'll be able to listen to a podcast/audio diary that I've been working on for the last year. (It's out there on the internet but is currently anonymous and not being advertised. I'm up to about 50 something episodes and will link it accordingly when I'm ready as well as read/listen to a short autobiography introducing myself. On the professional side I'll have a number of my short stories uploaded, ones that have been in writing contests and a few rough drafts that I thought were fun and want to share. You'll also be able to read about current projects I'm working on like a feature length script witha writing partner of mine and ...
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Black Myth: Wukong

 Dear Reader, We're nearing the end of the year! It seems that a lot of websites and social media fronts are doing their end of the year wrap up with statistics, memories, and the like. There's also a few awards ceremonies going on to look back at some of the entertaining releases we've had in the form of books, movies, music, and video games, all of which seem designed to frustrate the masses as taste and awards generally don't seem to line up. Here's where I divert: Black Myth: Wukong. At the 2024 Video Game Awards Black Myth: Wukong was up for game of the year amonst a smattering of titles that all kind of seemed lackluster. At the time I hadn't played either Wukong or ReFantazio, but I had safely assumed that one of the other would take away the award. Astrobot won, and it has a lot of people confused and ranting about the wrong things. I had just finished Astrobot a few days before the awards, and even I was confused since the game seemed like a Super Mario...
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Art Divisive

I think the art/media community/profession is in one of it's most precarious positions ever. Every day it seems I'm reading an article that talks about how some big multi-million dollar project became a massive flop and then the artists behind it are laid off without a second chance. Video games and movies have been the biggest failures recently since they've been chasing trends rather than setting the tone. I don't think it's entirely the industry's fault: Art does have to follow the money often times because without funding, well, it's hard to live and continue your unpaid work. It looks like there is a shift back towards quality experiences versus quantity (thank Marvel and DC for the flood of mediocrity in the last few years).  But. I say "but" with a big emphasis because quality used to dictate whether or not something was successful. That is no longer the case. Look at the recent release of Dragon Age: Veilguard of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (...
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Collaboration

 Greetings!      As my posts generally run the gamut of the various arts and their myriad forms this one will be focused on writing specifically. I recently was fortunate enough to reconnect with my old friend Aaron Penney who is still pursuing their film career and is about to put out a short film that their submitting to a film festival in Georgia. Literally exciting stuff here, this is a person to watch.  https://www.instagram.com/directedbyp?igsh=MTRpcmh2YjdnN3o0Zg==      Aaron was super excited about a new project that he had been outlining and he wanted to bring me on board. Saying yes has never been so easy, especially after I got a chance to read the material (it would have been a yes anyway, but I'll let you know what I read was solid and I'm thrilled to be attached). This project is still months/a year or so away as it's in its infancy so I can't bring about any details in this particular post.... yet.   This post is focused on the ...
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Sum 41, thanks for 30 years.

Greetings reader, Born in the late 80's, I'm a 90's baby that grew up on the West coast and then moved to Hawaii. For some reason California punk rock bled over to the Canadian band Sum 41 when one of my friends introduced them to me by letting me listen to their CD playing Walkman. (Yeah, I'm that old.) It was over after that.      I've been a fan of Sum 41 for the last 30 years and was fortunate enough to see them in Vegas like 15 years ago when they played at Extreme Thing. Fast forward 13 years and I got to see them again at WWWY, and now once again for their final US performance at Planet Hollywood (where I work oddly enough, way to go full circle). I loved their latest album and like a lot of fans wish we could get another 30 years.      I get it though.      I plan on buying Deryck's (lead singer) soon to be released memoir book about all the ups and downs. I expect to be surprised by quite a few details. Check it out if you're a fan. ...
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