Saturday, March 23, 2013

A message from Nick to present and future generations

This is a message (see title if you really didn't pay attention) to no one in particular: It's tiring to be so amazed by stuff in life, from the cool new trailers for this summer, to the scale of nature, only to have it all messed up by some idiots you stumble your way into. Don't know what I was trying to say there, but the message is this: When it comes to comics, movie reviewers, snarky people who love proving their superiority, or even define, then ignore or question them and their authority on such matters. if someone says that something amazing is "absurd popcorn fun", question them upfront, or ignore, imagine yourself deep in cinema itself, or something, let the work speak for itself and/or don't even define or downsize it into words and connotations, or care about it, have a fresh slate and an open mind, something.

I really wish I wasn't writing this, but it gets annoying when the world keeps boiling down, things stop being amazing or anything, and all that's left is the white noise of people on the internet, on comics blogs and new sites and so on, not being concerned with a bigger world, instead complaining out loud about how some film will be a trainwreck for them to mock, or do reviews as they are self-proclaimed experts, I don't know I've run out of things to say.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Warped News of the Day

From the Warped Twisted newsroom in beautiful smoggy Los Angeles.
  •  Anonymous bemoans verdict of Ohio football player rape case, stating "What will we do, now that there's a case of justice working?"
  • Mitt Romney appears at CPAC, is immediately torn limb from limb by attendees to prevent further embarrassment.
  • Sarah Palin gets applause, diabetes from drinking 300 oz. Big Gulp at conference podium
  • Stalker who shot baseball player in 1949 dead
  • You're not high (or you probably are), there are people who still believe in colonialism out there, and they want to bring it back after all these years.
  • In general, the world is still getting screwed over, economics all over hitting lows, the environment destroyed for short-term gratification, jerks in school still existing, and reading news such as this that make you want to drink booze and smoke weed until your brain cells start shooting each other for fun.
Have a nice day!

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Random free-floating ideas for a proposal for a graphic arts conference

A Proposal for a Conference on Graphic Arts and Storytelling (and comic books and strips, too) (This is all just rnadom now, brainstorming basically)
-Notable figures interviewed and given a Q&A by audience members (there's so many who could possibly attend, but my hope is Bill Watterson ,and Gilbert Shelton, and Daniel Clowes, and any survivng artists from the Golden Age)
-Exhibitions and discussions on comics from outside the United States
--India
--China
--France
--Brazil
--Anywhere else
-The Art of Black and White
The Effect and Legacy of the Cold War on Comics
-The Effect of the Bush years on the comcis world
-Will Eisner Retrospective
-Tables for freeform talking amongst professionsal,s attendees, and any dreamers otu there without experience but with ideas
-Noir comics
-The age of technology we live in, and future speculations on how it could change the field, such as in publishing and editing
-A room for trading and selling volumes of material and art supplies
 Commericalization and corporations
-Several conference long marathons of screening movies and TV shows based on comics and such.
--DCAU series
--Old serials
--The Incredible Hulk TV series from the 70s
--Dark Knight Trilogy
-Setting up local presses in your home town
-Explore new areas of subject matter
-Debate: Watchmen: Boon or hindrance to comics? (Or maybe, to go along with it, is it good or overrated, you decide while our panelists go at it)
-MIT
-Mathematics
-Learn art techniques
-An all-digital world
-History
-Public perceptions
-Perceptions of the makers
-Symposia on fandom
-Have the Ohio State University Billy ireland Library send reps (if they want)
-Symposium: SHould we make softcore porno comcis? (This should attract a large number of people, since sex sells after all)
-A discussion with Mad Magazine staffers and veterans, to go over the history and future of the publication)
-Sympoium: Starting a comics revolution in analogy to the microcmputer rwevolution of the 1970s?
-Alternative comics
-3-D printing
-New forms of graphic novels

This can be useful for anyone who, like me, will not be going to COmic-Con or its other conventions this year, and whatever else reason you might have.

If you read this, please, please put your own ideas below and I'll see what is appropriate and such. I'll be back in a few days to put up more refined draft, and anyone who comments might get their idea up here.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Thoughts on lifeforms

I'm still thinking that there once was a spark of potential in the life on Earth, a planet where a small species could eventually grow, mature, into a species capable of great things. But before that happened, humans came along and basically made a toilet all over the chances for any species to do that. And if you think that's unfounded, go on a My Little Pony fanfic forum, and remember that you share nearly 100% genetic material with those guys.
(If you're wondering why I keep putting My Little Pony fanfic jokes in, it's because it's like searching for mud in a comedy riverbed and finding gold nuggets.)