Silran's Playground

Monday, November 30, 2009

Impossible Box update

Well here is an Impossible Box Studios update.
It is quite possible Impossible Box Studios has lost an artist. Darkwingpsycho our team member, and for whom we took a break from her project because standards were slipping, personal differences, and an overall communications breakdown with the team. It seems, since that last meeting, that she has become unresponsive and seems to have decided to take her concept and do it on her own. If that is what she want's to do then more power to her I guess, it is unfortunate, but these things happen.

Lance has already publicly requested that she delete any software that was loaded on her computer, and return some books and pay for some items that he was kind enough to help her out with.

On my end I have no ties to this artist other than time spent working with her, I believe she is talented and with the proper circumstances could take her idea far, perhaps working with us was not the venue for that to occur and maybe doing this solo will be more conducive to her needs. I wish her the best of luck and hope that in the future we can sit down and discuss how things could have been done differently between us. I guess this is my public way of saying, I am still open to discussion but good luck if we never meet again.

In the mean time, Lance and I have been working on the web comic idea I came up with back in junior high. We have a lot of work finished (3 pages and a cover) and will be posting my stuff on a new web site called Burning Phoenix Comics. We're still designing the artwork for the website so it will be a while before we get everything up and ready to roll (that phoenix I keep talking about).

Lance also found a new artist that has some brilliant ideas of his own for a web comic, plus he has dozens of ideas for some kids books. A, B, C's, and 1, 2, 3's kind of stuff. We're seriously thinking about changing the venue of Impossible Box in such a way as to showcase these books and sell them as books and not display them as web comics. Should be fun to work on these book ideas with someone as passionate about the books as he is about his own children.

Exciting things in the works and this whole project has had it's ups and downs and surprises but it's the nature of the beast and it keeps things interesting.

Until the next dimension!

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Dumb people who make fun of others

Overall a good night tonight, except for the dumbass who thought it would be funny to make fun of people downstairs and did leaping pirouettes and crashed into me! I asked him to be careful and kept dancing and they sent their girlfriends to then harass me but pushing and shoving on me. I told them to drop it and they did the we don't want any of you hand signal. Sad thing was the girls had more balls than the guys and tried to do something to me and in the end I didn't do anything but ask them to watch it! Sigh...people. That's what's wrong them, THEY do something wrong and when someone has the balls to just say, hey watch it...directly, evenly and with authority, not yelling just evenly, I AM in the wrong because I ruined their fun of making fun of people by having him run into me, I'm such a bad person! So obviously the girls take it upon themselves to invade my dancing space and shove up on me to teach me...what....a lesson? It boggles the mind that people are not willing to admit the culpability in their own actions and instead feel put upon because somebody says something to them DESPITE the fact they are in the wrong. Lose the false sense of entitlement and realize the world wasn't created for you, you were created for the world like all of us and when you leave mommy's house you have to own up and be an adult.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Comic Book progress

I have to say that I am not certain what Amanda's issue was, yes I am more experienced but it still boggles the mind that I can churn out work faster than she can. In two weeks I've turned in three pages and a cover for the comic book that replaces Amanda's for now and in 4 months we barely got one fully drawn layout for one page.
I just have to vent is all.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

New comic book plan moving forward

So in lieu of what happened yesterday with our Impossible Box meeting and since we're putting our other project on hold, Lance and I decided to resurrect my comic book idea. We had brought it up, but there seemed to be no enthusiasm from our other partner and we shelved it. Given that we have NO projects going on, the decision was made to press forward with this project.
To that end I've completed the first three pages of my comic book idea to have Lance look over, he is basically going to be the editor-in-chief so to speak.
I feel good about this, I was worried with what happened yesterday but I think we can resurrect this entire project of Impossible Box.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A not so pleasant Impossible Box meeting

A not so pleasant Impossible Box meeting
Well today Lance and I had to do a most unpleasant thing, unpleasant but necessary.
As you may or may not know, I'm currently working on a project under the moniker of Impossible Box Studios, well today we had to confront our lead artist and tell her we were shelving the project for an in determinant amount of time, citing professional differences.
In no way was it an attack upon her personally, it was strictly business, certain things had occurred that had left a bad taste in our mouths, and we had previously tried to address it, but this person did not want to do that. Individually, Lance and I tried to deal with this person to determine what had caused her to basically accuse us of nefarious deeds, but individually she had told us she had no problem with us, but instead had a problem with the other person.
To us this was dishonest, and with the previous accusations took the thunder out of our momentum and the desire out of finishing this project. It is our belief that you need trust and honesty to run a business, and we felt we could no longer trust her or believe her and felt that her feelings were reciprocated.
Given that, tonight we notified her of our decision, explained our reasons and gave her a chance to vent.
She took it personally as we felt she would and explained as best we could this was not personal at all and that we would pick this back up in mid January and come to the table with all our cards exposed and hash out our differences. We were clear that we would waste no more time on this if that was immediately not the case and take it as a lack of desire and committment on her part to see this project through.
The meeting lasted about a half hour and both of us were clear about our decision, were clear about it not being personal and gave her a chance to speak up.
While she did speak up, it was not to explain herself clearly I thought.
We were accused of blaming her, of attacking her, of finding her mean, and bitchy and not giving her a chance to voice her opinion.
We responded that we had given her four times to express her opinion (of which she dismissed and wanted to just ignore), that her feelings of us finding her mean and bitchy were internal to herself, that our comments were never stated as attacks and in fact clearly stated to not be attacks, that all of us were to blame on this outcome, with us just as much as she.
In the end we have agreed to shelve OOF and Impossible Box as it is right now and revisit it when we have calmed down and have written down our grievances to bring to the table and discuss.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Practical Immortality As I See It

I haven't written on here in a while so I thought I would restart with a subject near and dear to me.
Immortality.
I want it. Really I do, and the arguments about doesn't life suck enough as it is to keep going forever doesn't work with me. Despite my situation, my life does NOT suck and I want to see it all and there isn't enough time to enjoy it.
Now I'm talking about a very practical immortality.
Not Highlander immortality-impotence and the ability to die if you lose your head is lame.
Not Vampire immortality-reliance on an organic substance to keep you going and the those pesky weaknesses that vampires have does not a true immortal make.

No, this kind involves an advancement in human evolution and condition.
No more reliance on food or sleep, you are sustained by the energy of the cosmos, why is that cool? Well if you don't eat (unless for pleasure) then you don't have to perform bodily functions, I really hate bodily functions. Even if you do eat though, your body runs so efficiently that you use and consume everything you eat, you don't need to sweat because your body isn't bothered by heat or cold, you see where I am getting at?
The energy of the cosmos binds your cellular structure and advances your mind to see it's totality, because of it your smart very smart, because of it, your able to control the density of your cellular structure. Things just don't hurt you because you don't let it hurt you. You don't age because your cells constantly regenerate, and consequently you don't get sick either, cool eh?
Because the energy that keeps you alive is around and plentiful you don't need to sleep either (again unless you really want to) and you never tire or fatigue (the poisons that affect your muscles just get eliminated) and your like the energizer bunny.
We're not talking superman here like in the comics, there is not ability to fly, there is no ability to shoot beams of heat or possess super powers other than immortality like I've described above. No aging, no eating, no sleeping, no sickness or disease, regeneration, intelligence oh and strength, nothing superhuman but definitely superior to the limits of human ability.
What would I do with said immortality? The part that get's people.
I would travel the world, live where I chose as long as I wanted, leanr the languages and customs and move on. I would learn multiple professions, a doctor, an engineer, a scientist, whatever but with time why not challenge yourself to learn all you could possibly learn? Money? What about money? Do you need money right away? You could build a cabin in the woods and just live there. You could invest in something that takes a long time to build because you have the time to wait.
The only downfall is watching all those around you die as they grow old, that would be the true test of surviving immortality, but the escape is always there.
You want to die then you die you cease your hold on this world and go, your not cursed to stay here against your will, it's your will that holds your hear and allows you to be connected to the universe at large and absorb it's energy. Just stop it when you tire of it, and will your end.
Anyway that's my little aside and rant for today.