We're all Imagineers now...

OK, this was posted on White Chapel and I just can not resist. For those of you who do not know, Disney bought Marvel Comics today. My favorite author/writer is Warren Ellis. Warren is currently writing Astonishing X-Men as well as Anime for Marvel. It all boils down to this and I give credit @cornelius.urquhart a fellow White Chapel-er; and the future looks like this:

To my Grandchildren:

 

Never forget to stop and look around your world. Soak in in. Peek around any corner you desire. Sneak into the crevices and touch. Partake in your desires no matter where they lead you. If you step up to a mountain, climb it. If you stumble into the crest of a wave lapping onto the sand at you feet, wade in, jump in; do not be afraid to get wet. If you lay upon a bed of grass, smell it. Both giant trees and small flowers have no scale or distain to be a part of your reality. Open your eyes and never close you heart to discovery. Never let the bitter angels of mans inability to properly grow up stagnate your ability to observe, touch, hold, consume and indulge your wants and desires to learn. There is much out there. Do not let anyone tell you any location or knowledge is prohibited to you. Take hold of your mind, hold on and press the button. Steer it with cheer as it is your vehicle to everywhere. Enjoy the trip children, your world is so much bigger than mine. Do not be afraid, embrace it. Make it yours. Hold it in your hands, pull it, squish it and fashion it into any shape you can conceive.  Pass it along to your grandchildren as a more better place that I was able to leave for you.

 

My cool new shirts from Avatar

Friday is FA’s day and this afternoon, this package got dropped off at my door. It just doesn’t get any better.

 

Opening the package is always a blast.

Shirts and a notebook……..Yessssss!

It is so cool to get sh*t from Avatar Press.

This caused so much fun on ‘WhiteChapel’ everyone just went anti-chikkinz for the whole week.

This just may be my favorite shirt of all time. {WE is so frappin cool and I love the international orange color.

Good stuff.

And, there is that new notebook in my ‘White Chapel’ man purse.

Life is good today. I just love getting crap from Avatar.

sometimes you just have to laugh

this is what you find when you get up at 2:50 am and decide to take a run around the internet.

Walt on What’s My Line

This is the Nov. 11th 1956 appearance of Walt Disney on What’s My Line. What is interesting to see is the famous eyebrow raising of Walt’s. Also of interest is his ‘down beat’ almost secretive attitude of what he was planning for Disneyland. Also, the money plug by J. Lewis is funny especially today. For fans of older TV game shows and of Walt Disney, enjoy this look into the past. It was a different time when TV was new. 

 

 

I am reminded of the time Walt was asked about running for political office to which he responded…

"Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?"

“your not the public, your developers.”

Most of you will not watch this to the end.

Every day almost everyone of us wakes up and would like to be somewhere else. Not all, but most everyone. The reasons are varied. The desire of the ‘need’ is either real or preserved to be.

I often wonder out loud about the world of my grand-children. I feel I have missed the question. I should be wondering out loud about this afternoon! Our world is changing. Bruce Sterling offers sage advice not only for the developer but advice for us all.

Do yourself a favor and watch this. You may even want to take notes. Tomorrow is here, it is no longer the world I grew up in. I, we; need to accept this fact. It will all be different yet again by the time I wake up tomorrow.

Augmented Reality- ha! not new. It happened the first morning of my life. Now, it can happen over your lunch break. How to make it? Do not be afraid. Accept, adapt and embrace.

 

 

Video: Bruce Sterling's Keynote - At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry from Maarten Lens-FitzGerald on Vimeo.

some days mark raw emotion as just perfect

I must tell you that deep down in the bottom of my heart; I understand and agree.

My usual plug for WE/Avatar Press

Check out this wonderful cover variant for Doktor Sleepless #13 out this Wednesday.

Ladies and Gentlemen; Boys and Girls!

An inside look at the Disneyland fireworks show. Two things to look for in this, one is the control area from above Main Street. (I believe that’s atop the Plaza Inn?) The other is the amazing historical footage of fireworks being set off backstage in years past.

…If you would turn your attention to the sky above Disneyland…

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Once again Terry Gilliam seems to be on the verge of movie greatness (Well, in my humble opinion anyway).  No US release date, but I hope to enjoy this little burrow into the farthest recesses of the mind, soon.

If you re not familiar with Mr. Gilliam’s work, I would encourage you to look beyond Monty Python (which I am a big fan of) and take a chance with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Brazil (which is amazingly ahead of its time), The Fisher King or 12 Monkeys. 

The cast for Imaginarium looks stellar and marks the last appearance of Keith Ledger. The visual tone and resonance is so typically the mark of this amazing movie maker. Give your eyes dessert and give your brain a reason to smile. Enjoy.

I have no words to describe this.

Will I have to take a “Voigh- Kompff”?

Sitting in my cancer support group meeting this week it became very evident that as “Cancer” patients/survivors/family members, we are feeling a need to be leery of the coming prejudice against us. Anyone remember the movie Blade Runner; which was 'loosely' based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick?

I am beginning to hear a unified concern by select groups who are becoming more and more uneasy with not being perfect. Not being perfect! Can you fathom that? My Lord, in the year 2009, it is becoming clearer with each passing day that being human is no longer accepted. Now we must be super human; without flaw or blemish. Does this sound familiar to anything we have seen not too long ago?

Persecution is as old as our species. If you believe the Bible as history and not just a bed time story book, it started with the first siblings and looks to be making its way into our lives this very second. Don't look over your shoulder. And don't think your safe because your in the United States.

Will we have to wear a scarlet ' C ' on our chest? No, that probably will not happen (ANYTIME SOON). No, the ever present THEY is too clever for that. We will have to endure insurance change prior to that. You know, insurance; the new SS !!!!!!! Hell, I thought being afraid of the IRS was the worst ‘1984-ish thingy’ possible. Now; well, I think you follow me here.

We are not perfect; and society has no room for the blemish of Cancer (and all the other abnormalities humans get) any more. If you are sick or old; beware! Overpopulation compounded by a world wide recession which teeters on the brink of total social collapse is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It is the reality of today. Will there be Cancer colonies? Will there be the passing of humane elderly termination laws? How do you think this new world will look back on Dr. Kevorkian? I guess that health care will mean 'crib' selection and pre-natal societal 'Norms' committees.

We, us, you and I are becoming the “skin jobs” of a Blade Runner world and it is happening now. Right now. And, chances are pretty good that you believe in God. Oh no, you have a disease and you believe? Wake up. History does repeat itself.

I am not trying to scare you. That has more than likely been done already. I want to encourage you to find out what is happening right now, right here in your country. Please inform yourself and become involved. You (we) do not have the privilege to just sit back and think we are watching a summer mega block buster. I would never insult any of you and tell you which side of the current Health Care debate to be on. I will ask that you do look at the issue and do what you think is best. There are plenty of resources out there to help with this. You (we) just have to take the time and do it. Call, maybe write your government officials and let them know where you stand. If you can, maybe give of either your time or money to a cause specific group. Be a part of the solution.

I do not want to live in a country or world that thinks I am no longer viable. I do not want my grand children to carry the shame of my Cancer. Damn it. I will not be a skin job and I will not run. I do not dream of electric perfect people.

Where I could spend a lot of time

There is a place I would love to spend some time. It is the

Lello Bookshop
Porto, Portugal

and thanks to Miss x Grace on flickr I have discovered this most wonderful place. I am enthralled and can smell the bindings, the pages and the very soul of this homage to the written word. I would love to just sit, right there and never blink again.

check it out at http://www.pbase.com/m_architecture/lello

FRANKENSTEIN’S WOMB

Finally, out this week from Warren Ellis and Avatar Press.

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I can not vouch for the numbers herein; but I find them to not be out of line. Are we running headlong into becoming totally irrelevant as a species? Can we continue with this ‘quickening’ self abuse? In the game of D&D there is the ability to put the etch-a-sketch above ones head and shake it. (see Hecatoncheire in not only gaming but also Greek legend).

I have every hope and desire that we will survive ourselves, I just hope the cost of doing so will not be so high that what comes out on the other end will still be recognizable.