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!

Sleep...Perchance to Dream: Part 2

So early this morning I had a very quick dream (a quickie?) about being at my parent's home in Norwalk, Ca. I'm with other people but it's extremely vague as to who they are.  All I know is that someone is trying to break in and they have guns (the last dream with guns involving a break-in, I got shot in the chest), we're unarmed so we are hiding to ambush them.  Then a loud noise from the living room signals their breaking in, and I wake up.  Coincidentally, I did hear a loud noise from the living room which did actually wake me up and had gotten incorporated into my dream.
When I woke up this morning for work, lo and behold that noise is still happening, because they are doing construction again on 39th down the street, and some big digger is probably trying to break up the asphalt they just laid down.  LAST WEEK! 
Who sets up these schedules?  How is it in most jobs we cannot be inefficient, but when it comes to government at any level, inefficiency is the name of game.

Sunday-NOT just a day for rest

Great Day!  I got lots of stuff to do and it all involves sitting in front of my Mac, documents to write, responses to request to write, research, t-shirt artwork, freelance work hustling, and some personal writing to do.
Again I must make note, that it is the desire of humans beings to find a need to NOT have idle time, or perhaps it is a sign of age, a means for the mind to combat the fuzzies that come with age.
Certainly, as I've gotten older, I have found more time and desire to be personally productive than to have leisure time.
That being said, I'm Hispanic, Mexican-American, it's in my blood to be social and have fun, as my cousin's husband in Mexico put it to me once, "You Americans live to work, we Mexicans work to live."
I have to include myself in the former, and I am pretty sure he agreed as well.  It doesn't mean Mexicans are lazy, it means that they recognize that "fun" is important and without it, you have burnout.
So...I must continue to dance if at all possible, even if that means in my kitchen to music on my headset (April you know what I mean) and I must go out occasionally to be social.  It's very easy I see now to become like my father or mother, or even my grandmother.  A recluse, a being with the simple desire to be left alone to his/her own devices.  It's there, I can feel it, and a part of me wants it.
Enough rambling, get back to work!

Good "work" day now on to fun

Good times, the meeting went swimmingly, we've already had a meeting to go over legalities and functions for each of us so with that out of the way, we set out to define the project and brainstorm.
Turned out quite well, we hit one (I don't want to call it a snag) issue but we made it clear that the idea belongs to one of the team, and that me and my other partner would in NO WAY infringe upon that and do something she wasn't comfortable with.  For that matter, something that would be uncomfortable for any of us. 
But we defined the storyline, basics of the universe, who the characters are and so forth.
We're also looking at source control and file conventions and where to store it.
Overall a very productive day so far.  Now it's a little personal work of my own (I know, like what is rest right?) and then off to Miah's to watch Anime, topping off the night with some much needed dancing.  Hoping Miah will be influenced by having gone to Depeche Mode to perhaps do a set...hm, might have to talk to him about that.
More info coming soon about what I'm up to and about.