Things to do...

I'm going to start updating the site this week with the new logo and the new sans serif font

OBAMA IS PRESIDENT!!!!

I WISH CAZ CELEBRATED LIKE THIS!!!

(Vid from my little sister's college)

I was just getting out of a meeting when I got a phone call from the other sister screaming "293, 293! OBAMA IS PRESIDENT WITH 293 VOTES" and in the time it took me to get to a TV it was more solidly in the 300.

Too many posters, not enough wall...

So it's official. I have too many posters and not enough wall...

When I finally get a place of my own and start investing in my slowly growing poster collection....it's going to be interesting as to how I'm going to store and protect them all... Right now the fact my biggest and rarest posters are simply taped to a wall scare the living hell out of me...

The current gem of my collection...

I refuse to put up my Hellboy Special Ed. poster by Drew Struzan (a.k.a. THE POSTER GOD) until my next pay check and I by the 20 dollar frame for it. Excessive yes...but I spent WAY too much money to get that poster to expose it to...of all things...adhesive of any kind let alone the elements...and gravity.

At least in a frame and covered in plastic, though gravity is greater it will not suffer as much damage as the Esacflowne and Stargate SG1 posters did last year.

This poster was one hell of a find my second year of Upward Bound (was it my second? We went to New York City) and by freaking chance I found three copies of this poster at Beyond the Wall. This poster may be what started me down the slippery slope. Following that I discovered Drew Struzan...who's work has been staring us in the face for YEARS...and by chance nabbed a very nice Blade Runner poster at the Syracuse Hero Expo. Though, I would probably donate a pint of blood to have the sister poster to go with it...but I guess I will have to deal with it being the cover art to my Blade Runner's Final Director's Cut DVD.

It's the blue one. I want that one very much.

I love Drew's work. I have a list of 30 posters I want to get (and the original theater poster is the equivalent of finding oil in my back yard...) about half of them were drawn or created by Drew...half of them have...of all people....Harrison Ford in them (LOL....no seriously, I'm not kidding...it's like Ford's movies just have REALLY good posters...and I swear my bias for how extremely AWESOME Ford has no affect on my choice of posters...)

As of today I have four Struzan posters, one is a smaller copy...and two Struzan poster prints (they are little 18 by 13 things cover in plastic)....of those posters Ford is on 5 of them. Yep. Five. Wasn't kidding about the whole Ford thing. I have yet to tell Joel that I have the teaser poster for Crystal Skull (pulling from a theater window in Potsdam! YEAH, THAT ONE) and no I'm not giving it up. The last time I saw this poster it was going to cost me as much as the Hellboy poster to get it.

I have one Stargate SG1 poster, from season four, which I fought a grabby 40 something woman for. She like flew at me, grabbing the poster while it was in my hands (I had been oogling it for a good 15 minutes and had already put it in the pile of stuff I was going to buy at this point) and demanded to know if I was really going to take it.

No, I'm holding it for you. Here, take it. I don't have a Stargate uniform in my closet. No. Oh no. I'm too freaking young to be THAT dedicated to the show.

Whether I was going to buy it or not I probably would have done it just to justify how RUDE it was of her to invade my space like that. I finally go to a convention that doesn't focus on Japanese cartoons and I have to fight people 20 years older than me for my little corner of the fandom.

Did I mention that I was really the youngest person at I-con's Star Trek panels? Yeah. And the panelists had to point that out along with the fact I showed up to a Trek panel in a Stargate uniform. Utter EPIC Fail right there.

Sorry to get off the topic of posters. I am pretty much done with that.

Oh and I love my mac to death but it really....REALLY bites when Stargate Worlds currently has no mac based system yet. >:(


I have a review to post of the two Stargate movies by the way. I'll do that some other time I feel like procrastinating from RA related duties...

MY ART AT SDCC!!!!!!!

So I heard about it at the last minute, started drawing for it two days before the contest ended and fought Nick.com's membership registration for two hours to enter the Avatar: The Last Airbender Sozin's Comet movie poster contest.

And after waiting up half the night....I JUST FOUND OUT!!!!



I PLACED 3RD!!!! OH MY GOD.

Just being in the top ten would have been enough.....BEING IN THE TOP 3?!

OH MY GOD.

AND BRYKE LIKED THE FIGHT SCENE ON THE BOTTOM WITH ALL THE FLAMES!!!!! (the font by the is Perpetua Titling MT)

My art work made it to International San Diego Comic Con!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD.

Review of The Dark Knight

I just got back from The Dark Knight. Here is the low down. This review is going to be choking on spoilers. Watch out. Read at your own risk.



First off...let me begin by saying this is the most EPIC poster ever made. I wish I could afford to go out and fetch one of the double sided ones...but I will have to make due with my shrunken down version from Spencer's instead.

When I heard that Heath Ledger had been given the role of the Joker over Paul Bettany, I was a little more than stunned and let down. I in fact own the Wizard Magazine that sung his praises just days before Ledger was announced to the be Batman's arch enemy.

It wasn't until the release of the first trailer featuring the Joker in any way that I stopped doubting. Granted I have always been a fan of Ledger (He stars in the only chick flick I admit to liking in public) and of course...insanely hot. But I worried about his accent, how he would look, if he could even pull off being better than (and let's face it....I hated the Jack Nicholson Joker) Jack.

I wanted to see a Joker that was more rooted to his sickening comic book origins and the manic glee that only Mark Hamill could ever give that character.

I got both. And I am totally at peace with it. I saw a character that looked, felt, and sounded nothing...absolutely nothing like the actor who played him.

And laugh...oh my god did I laugh. The whole freaking theater roared with laughter.

Onto other things though...

The Dark Knight had three plots, all twisting in and out and around each other, which I thought was cool and eventually all three came together in the gut wrenching end. I was a little sad to see were Harvey Dent's ended. But his make up was stunning. Oh was it ever so awesome. You should have seen the look on people's faces as he turned his head towards us for the first time and we saw...even better than Tommy-Lee's Two-Face. A new Two-Face without all the camp.

Rachel has always been a sore spot with me. I would cheer for her death if the new actress hadn't done such a good job for making up all the bull shit we had to endure with Katie Holmes. I still say that Batman Begins needed to feature or at least elude to the stunning daughter of Ra's...the beautiful Talia...but alas....I will accept that at least my favorite Batman villain appeared in the first movie to begin with. (If I could go back in time, I would be fist pumping out of my seat in pure glee at the Birthday Party scene all over again)

Jim Gordan and family. Okay, Nolan...what the hell. Two Batman movies, each with little Barbra mentioned but not seen? I wanted Dent to drag her out of her mother's arms just so I could see the future Batgirl. What gives man. Gordan's fake was awesome, and would have been even more awesome had I not known about it. (I had a break of will power and read a spoiler page. The second I saw that I clicked off)

Batman, Bruce, and Alfred. So...what is a Batman movie without Batman and company? I don't know, but Dark Knight did a good job not always focusing on Bats and his trusty butler. I'm not too keen on Fox knowing Bruce is Batman...but what ever. Morgan Freeman has been the president and god. If anyone besides Alfred would know the identity of Batman, it would be Morgan Freeman. LOL.

The movie was shot well, though some scenes I found the camera just a tad to jumpy. I would like to see Batman kicking the living snot out of the Joker, not just fragments of it.

And cheers to the third and forth successfully played Batman villains. I wish I had the quote the Joker said in the end...because Nolan hit the nail on the head the true essence of Batman and the Joker's relationship. How one won't kill the other and they will continue their deadly dance until one of them is bent too far the wrong way.

Its a fucking shame that there will probably be no one good enough to take Ledger's place.

OOOHHHH.....and what is better than a good Batman movie? A Batman movie sequel that was better than the first....

Ice Road Truckers

Okay, so my favorite time of the year is here, and Ice Road Truckers is playing again. (Yes, that's right, I watch Ice Road Truckers and LOVE IT) And I have to say that I am sad that Jay didn't crossover, but it wouldn't be fair to his family to remove him from Yellowknife. I hope that the mining company gets a grip and realize that it wasn't all that bad and no, the road was not protrayed in a negative light.

So now I have to find a new favorite driver to watch and I can't help but feel just a little bit for Drew Sherwood. I was like, wow, that guy has balls coming back to the Ice Road. And I really did, for a minute, think he was going to bail on the first episode.

Then Hugh and Rick opened their mouths and spoke. And for the first time I acutually found a reason to really hate these guys. What a bunch of creeps, who arn't even friends any more, just ripping on Drew. You guys got nothing better to do than run your mouths? Jesus.

I really, really hope Drew makes it through season two (I've been googling for the answer and yeilded little results) just so Hugh and Rick will shut the hell up. It be nice to see Hugh get the wind kicked out from under him.

NASA is run by Morons.

I'm over due for a rant. This one happens to be the flavor of the month following an episode of The Universe: Colonizing Space on The History Channel. (I'm a HC whore. If it's not on HC, the remote usually has it as the Previous Channel option!)

So yeah. They talked about Carl Sagan's idea that the human species is a 'two planet race'. Meaning we need to have another planet to survive and hopefully turn into another Earth. Which at the rate we are going, we have been doing a fairly good job at depleting the resources of the only planet we can currently have access too.

They talked about the planned mission to Mars, which isn't expected until some time after 2020 to 2040 (more like 2040 by the sounds of things.) This is what NASA and their overpriced experts have said.

As I said, NASA is run by morons. Why? Because so far, their plan to getting us to Mars is going to a) take too long...losing public interest in the mission b) depend on us getting back to the moon before 2020 (LOL WHUT?) and c)NOT GOING TO WORK.

Before I state my reasons that it is so painfully obvious that we are never getting to Mars at this rate...let me express my deep frustration in the idea that we, the United States primarily, will not be able to put a man on the moon for another 12 years.

What? Wait. You're telling me, USA, that it will take longer for us to put a man on the moon after 40 some years than it did the first time!? No. That fucking can't happen. That shouldn't even be happening. Are we building the next Saturn rocket out of foam-core and fueling it with hot air?

I will admit, that I blame the current state of affairs surrounding our government up to it's armpits in a war it's quickly loosing...but if we are already working with some dozen plus countries to make the International Space Station...it can not take us 6 more years than it did the first time to send three guys flying to the moon for a quick game of golf. No. It should take less than 3. Tops.

But...back to Mars and why we are not going to be going anywhere...anytime...soon.

The first obvious problem lies in supplying water to the minimum four member crew. Yep. Water will in fact do in the whole mission before it can even get the hell off the ground. It has been shown that an astronaut living in space will require 3 gallons of water (thats right, three. Hope you like sponge baths) to maintain a healthy and clean environment. That is for 1 astronaut.

NASA plans on sending 4 people to mars, possibly 6. Besides the fact that these 4 to 6 people must travel to Mars in six months, survive on Mars for a year and a half, and then come back...taking another six months...they have to be REALLY friendly with one another...because their living accommodations on Mars right now looks like no one is going to be able to hide away when the shit hits the fan.

He's a bright one, no?

Back to water, 4 to 6 people, each requiring 3 gallons of water. That is 18 to 24 gallons a day. Times that by the maxinum amount of time to travel to Mars...185 days (given if they land on the planet in the first place and don't orbit it for any longer than a day or two) that is 3,330 GALLONS of water required for a one way trip to Mars for a crew of four (And that does not include the amount of water required for crew while on the planet, or their trip back).

Water will stop this mission dead in it's tracks unless our rovers can find a source of it (and a lot of it) on Mars that can be drilled for under the planet's surface or we land our fire manned craft on the north pole and start melting it with our precious fuel.

If that is what is required to send water, then what is required of food? I don't need to punch numbers to know that it will take up more space than we are currently capable of providing for a long term mission into deep space (People on the ISS get monthly to bi-monthly care packages from home, okay? They don't have a endless supply of water or food out there). Food can be grown, but we don't know all the effects that zero-g has on the growth of planets. It does decrease bone density in animals, which is detrimental to it's health as well as our astronouts. Mars has more gravity than the moon. And 6 months of zero-g has caused a 14 to 16% bone density loss to astronauts on the ISS.

Further more, unless we plan on shipping all our supplies to Mars before hand...we need a means of getting our astronauts OFF the planet to return home. Because Mars is bigger than the moon, meaning it has more gravity...but only 38% of Earth's at sea level according to Space.com. Do we send a whole freaking rocket to Mars with only half the power needed to escape the planet's gravity? Because nothing like the LM is going to get anyone, much less four people, off that rock.

So thus are my reasons and understandings as to why the hell we are not going to Mars anytime soon. We earthlings have not earned the right to be a Two Planet race and by the time we do, this planet will be so far gone we will be pretty much screwed completely. Terraforming Mars will not save us in the end...and I am starting to question if we ever really went to the damn moon at all.

20 years to go to the moon my ass.

We are not going to Mars in MY life time.

OH and their spaceship designs are simply laughable...since it appears NO ONE at NASA has stopped for a second to consider the aboved mentioned problems.

.........should have just become a scientist. This is stupid.

Getting Hacked

Woke up this morning to a lovely email...someone that was not myself tried to access my Gaiaonline.com account. And I think they are still at it since I still can't login yet (or my email to the Security board has put a semi-block on my account all together so they can find the asshole who is doing this)...it says I still have to wait 15 minutes to login....so they haven't gotten it yet.

Who the hell wants to hack my account when I have absolutely nothing of value besides a friend listing of my pals and relatives? I don't even have enough gold to warrant the attention I have suddenly gotten.

Updates a coming...

Once I get a lot of work out from over my head...which will hopefully be soon as the month draws to a close. The fact I have a special college related dinner to attend almost every week from here until the end of April is throwing a wrench into getting any work done for myself personally that isn't related to school.

So what is going to be coming soon?

Aetas will be back up and running in about 2 months. Expect to see the design for the comic's IPS hub up in running by the end of May. Galleries too.

Also some enjoyable sample artwork for people to have a look at for the original projects.

Fanfictions are in need of a beta writer, but I would like to get those up and running also. They may take a little longer and I might end up outsourcing them to Fanfiction.net again.

On that note, I have some more homework to do.

Spring Break

So I did some work and cleaned up my site. I needed to restore the meta tags to the coding because I noticed that when you searched key worlds, or even the name of the site...you got the blog and not the site itself.

All fixed now! Yay.

And I found a new mac based FTP client to update my site with. It is very nice. I recommend Cyberduck, and it comes with it's own wedgit.

Galleries ARE coming. I swear. I have been working on a reasonable design layout that can be integrated with the site. And I lowered the FLASH requirements and put a nicer and much more understandable warning up about upgrading your flash to 8 or higher.

Now if only I can figure out how to make my preloader work with the site. Then I will have all the fun flash elements covered.

I think my next upgrade it to install scrollable text boxes. We'll get back on that later.

In the meantime...I'm going on vacation!

OH AND I LOVE MY RESIDENTS!