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nobody@vox.com(tv god comix) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:46:29 -0500

i always have a desire to create something. a question i seem to always ask myself is, what i want to create, is there any point to it? am i just fulfilling this creative impulse inside me, scratching an itch so to speak, or is there something meaningful and with purpose to my ideas? i never have an answer. i'm at peace with that

speaking of being at peace, drawing has always been like a drug for me. the focus on line and shape and pulling something from nothing and giving birth to an image. it gives me calm. i've always wrestled with demons of anxiety in social situations. in high school it focused me down to my desk on to any scrap paper to doodle. all my school notes were adorned with a column of words and a column of images. maybe a precursor to my affair with the field of comics.

words and pictures.

writing has always been my distant cousin. a well versed student in the gift of words an phrases i am not. but i like my ideas. if only they were more linear and defined. or maybe i dont wish that. i recall an interview i read with david lynch. if you write 300 scenes on 300 index cards, you have a movie.

i string these thoughts into a blog entry. i string my ideas into a story. scratch. scratch.

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Blog as writing tool

nobody@vox.com(tv god comix) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:33:24 -0500

So on my home machine I used XAMPP to install a local server so I could setup a wordpress blog behind my firewall. I am going to experiment with using the blog as my writing tool for TV GOD. This is an idea that entered my mine from my friend fyshmom. Most of my ideas come in small bits and scenes so using wordpress i can just make a blog entry of these little ideas and organize it with categories. Hopefully all these little bits will form into a nice little necklace of a story. I can also use it as a way of cataloging links to websites for references. We will see how it goes.

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So I'm rewriting a story...

nobody@vox.com(tv god comix) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:54:10 -0500

I tend to have a habit of revisiting stories of mine and wanting to retell them. My main creative focus now is rewriting my Experiencing Technical Difficulties comic book, an unfinished tale I started way back in 1990, into a new tale that I am entitling TV GOD. This new title is partly a pun based on TV Guide, but it also is a more appropriate title thematically. Basically the theme being how does one find an authentic spiritual and emotional well being, when our American reality seems to be a fictional work written by the greed and desires of our corporate overlords.

I wasn't intending to do this story, but on my hour plus daily commute to work, while my left brain was asleep, the creative ideas started pouring in. I would arrive at work and hastily scribble notes into a yellow notepad, trying to recall the imaginings of my commute, as if i was journaling dreams from the night before. What started developing was the framework of a new approach to my basic story. One I am very happy with and one I want to drive myself into completing.

Heres a digital painting I did with the goal of trying to capture the mood of the first Book of my story.

tvGod_gates

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