Wednesday, December 22, 2010
I have the ingredients, Now to Cook
Bought an A3 art folder yesterday and some A3 pad, will start the drawing for the comic this afternoon. Also plan to take a lot more pictures from here on out so every blog i can put a picture and something funny too maybe, was sposed to start yesterday but busing everywhere with bags of christmas shopping for the wife and house meant i had little energy or time left at the end of the day to do anything constructive, so just enjoyed Tea and watched the last 4 episodes of Entourage to finish off a pretty much productive day. See you tomorrow :)
Sunday, December 19, 2010
My Life story as a Comic Book
I have decided to write my life story, a prologue to the Auckland Saga if you will (coming soon), And since the store has been empty from 5pm (its now 7pm) I had time to update my deviant art details (which you can see at the bottom of this page) and write this short script - all true by the way.
Enjoy it til i have the accompanying Art uploaded and printed off at book form at my local shop while i try to big up my name and personal website (money should come in soon financing that site, i cant wait :) it will hopefully give me a good rep and a site to go to for those curious to see what I'm up to)
But without furthur Ado. My script i will start drawing for tomorrow :)
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I wasn't born a fighter but still i had ambitions
Kindergarten life taught me right from wrong
Primary school taught me friends are more important than what you learn
High school taught me what you learn is more important than who you hang out with
and Being a good student never made me the cool student
But comparing grades to the real world is like comparing apples to oranges, which i ended up doing at the local produce distribution center, started at 15 years old, $8.50 an hour
for years.
I wanted to quit. they transferred me. It was mutual.
But again, i stayed at the centers little brother company, for years.
I left my $17 dollar an hour job to be free. what a fail.
Most of the time at work, I dreamed of being a famous rapper. I still do.
I took a Audio engineering course which i failed, not cos of my grades, but cos i left after the first term after realizing it was the wrong course for me.
Ever since my Maui days at Hornby primary I've enjoyed being on stage
Rapping for 3 people on a late weekday night and stuffing up my 16 lines was a new low,
But nothing to dropping a whole song claiming its an instrumental at battle of the bands a year later with a Dysfunctional band i liked to call home.
I got Married. No kids, we decided to wait while our careers blossom. Only now am i seeing what a co-worker said about the joys of marriage. That's when i discovered Sarcasm.
My Job selling Karate changed from me selling classes to me selling my stuff and moving back in with my parents.
I was Josh Kirwin (the face for depression here in NZ) and ended up applying for a telemarketing job that offered a morning or afternoon shift at 14 dollars an hour plus bonuses if you made over 5 sales selling hotel packages.
which sucked, i was used to selling a memorized page, now i had to sell a 4 page pitch in a 2 minute phone call with basically no rapport, i left mutually with no records broken, or sales made. and my self esteem jumped off the nearest bridge.
I decided i would work where i would enjoy the work rather than be tied down in a place i couldn't leave. Result? Now i work hard at a video store, for $13.50 an hour
The Boss is great (the best I've ever had), but with no raise prospects or future i sign up for a course in Auckland for film making, hoping for dreams to come true.
And My Real life Story is To be continued.
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you like? comment below otherwise keep checking here for updates, thanks, have a good one!
Enjoy it til i have the accompanying Art uploaded and printed off at book form at my local shop while i try to big up my name and personal website (money should come in soon financing that site, i cant wait :) it will hopefully give me a good rep and a site to go to for those curious to see what I'm up to)
But without furthur Ado. My script i will start drawing for tomorrow :)
____
I wasn't born a fighter but still i had ambitions
Kindergarten life taught me right from wrong
Primary school taught me friends are more important than what you learn
High school taught me what you learn is more important than who you hang out with
and Being a good student never made me the cool student
But comparing grades to the real world is like comparing apples to oranges, which i ended up doing at the local produce distribution center, started at 15 years old, $8.50 an hour
for years.
I wanted to quit. they transferred me. It was mutual.
But again, i stayed at the centers little brother company, for years.
I left my $17 dollar an hour job to be free. what a fail.
Most of the time at work, I dreamed of being a famous rapper. I still do.
I took a Audio engineering course which i failed, not cos of my grades, but cos i left after the first term after realizing it was the wrong course for me.
Ever since my Maui days at Hornby primary I've enjoyed being on stage
Rapping for 3 people on a late weekday night and stuffing up my 16 lines was a new low,
But nothing to dropping a whole song claiming its an instrumental at battle of the bands a year later with a Dysfunctional band i liked to call home.
I got Married. No kids, we decided to wait while our careers blossom. Only now am i seeing what a co-worker said about the joys of marriage. That's when i discovered Sarcasm.
My Job selling Karate changed from me selling classes to me selling my stuff and moving back in with my parents.
I was Josh Kirwin (the face for depression here in NZ) and ended up applying for a telemarketing job that offered a morning or afternoon shift at 14 dollars an hour plus bonuses if you made over 5 sales selling hotel packages.
which sucked, i was used to selling a memorized page, now i had to sell a 4 page pitch in a 2 minute phone call with basically no rapport, i left mutually with no records broken, or sales made. and my self esteem jumped off the nearest bridge.
I decided i would work where i would enjoy the work rather than be tied down in a place i couldn't leave. Result? Now i work hard at a video store, for $13.50 an hour
The Boss is great (the best I've ever had), but with no raise prospects or future i sign up for a course in Auckland for film making, hoping for dreams to come true.
And My Real life Story is To be continued.
_____
you like? comment below otherwise keep checking here for updates, thanks, have a good one!
Buses, Flies and Uncomfortable Silences
The past month has been bittersweet. With the summer its brought beautiful days here in Christchurch so had to have the store doors open so we don't spend a fortune on air-con, which leads to bugs of the flying recovery attacking the ceiling lights, grrr, i don't like killing em since i was young when as kids you killed them just because. For example, they say if you squish a red spider it will rain tomorrow and stuff like that, then somebody once told me they have feelings too and since then Ive tried like hell not to kill bugs unless i absolutely cant catch it and throw it outside where it belongs...
With my car out of action im catching the bus everywhere. It sucks. it wastes like 3-4 hours of my day that i can use for my constructive things then running to meet times and waiting round for them. Plus with all this extra time i'm losing sleep as i get home most nights 11.20pm after finishing work at 10 so not much time for tea/shower/recreation before sleeping and getting up and walking/busing my wife to work where she starts at 8 so having to wake at 7 to get to the bus in time, then walking back from her work and getting home at 9. def 1 hr 40 mins longer than the usual trip.
Auckland is getting closer. no geographically but my 'Hall-pass' year like is, I am going to study film-making for a year there then after that shoot my debut feature and hopefully get it on screens and in video stores come 2012/13. But in the meantime til March, i have 2 months and half to close some chapters on my life.
My wife thinks I'm a dreamer, its only now it really sinks in how much she believes it and that its up to me (i cant wait to make my speeches when i make it), while her career takes off and she has her own posh circle of friends, god bless her , but now she talks down to me worse than ever. This is my chance to get 'my' degree if you will. It sucks when you're wife becomes the breadwinner but ever since the GKR karate job blew up in my face this video low wage earner is what I've become, but we ARE paying off the debts and improving the quality of our lives little by little.
I will finish and release my album before March 2011, That's the plan then release a couple music videos and see where it takes me, realistically, no one will care OR pay attention, but i will have flushed my music dreams from my system happily. I always said i would release an album, it wont sell a thousand copies but in the future it will be remembered i released one, So for now my heart and soul goes in to releasing a record I can be proud of.
Anyway, until i launch my personal website where i will blog every day on my Auckland mission, martial arts, films, and art and all the it entails, take care and have a great christmas :)
with love
Matt.
With my car out of action im catching the bus everywhere. It sucks. it wastes like 3-4 hours of my day that i can use for my constructive things then running to meet times and waiting round for them. Plus with all this extra time i'm losing sleep as i get home most nights 11.20pm after finishing work at 10 so not much time for tea/shower/recreation before sleeping and getting up and walking/busing my wife to work where she starts at 8 so having to wake at 7 to get to the bus in time, then walking back from her work and getting home at 9. def 1 hr 40 mins longer than the usual trip.
Auckland is getting closer. no geographically but my 'Hall-pass' year like is, I am going to study film-making for a year there then after that shoot my debut feature and hopefully get it on screens and in video stores come 2012/13. But in the meantime til March, i have 2 months and half to close some chapters on my life.
My wife thinks I'm a dreamer, its only now it really sinks in how much she believes it and that its up to me (i cant wait to make my speeches when i make it), while her career takes off and she has her own posh circle of friends, god bless her , but now she talks down to me worse than ever. This is my chance to get 'my' degree if you will. It sucks when you're wife becomes the breadwinner but ever since the GKR karate job blew up in my face this video low wage earner is what I've become, but we ARE paying off the debts and improving the quality of our lives little by little.
I will finish and release my album before March 2011, That's the plan then release a couple music videos and see where it takes me, realistically, no one will care OR pay attention, but i will have flushed my music dreams from my system happily. I always said i would release an album, it wont sell a thousand copies but in the future it will be remembered i released one, So for now my heart and soul goes in to releasing a record I can be proud of.
Anyway, until i launch my personal website where i will blog every day on my Auckland mission, martial arts, films, and art and all the it entails, take care and have a great christmas :)
with love
Matt.
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