To my dear American friends raging about healthcare. I will not lecture you, I will not tell you what you should or should not do, I will however leave you with one simple quote that really explains things wonderfully

"Anyone who'd vote for someone who wont give you health care, over someone who will give you health care, should have their head examined...except they wont be able to afford to have their head examined...cause they wont have health care" (Bill Maher)



real journal coming soon to a msg centre near you.

yeah, this image pretty much sums up today....



In case you've been living under a rock, Disney has bought Marvel Comics.

Now I've got mixed feelings about this. The economics guy in me says this is awesome, Disney brings a wealth of money into marketing, and propping up Marvel and it's wealth of 5000+ characters. And if the Disney/Pixar relationship is what they are basing this acquisition on is to be believed, then Marvel is in great hands. I mean Disney Channel already airs 20% marvel properties like Wolverine and the X-Men and Sensational Spider-Man. If anything this is going to make Warner Bros. actually give a shit about their DC Comics properties and make some good movies for a change..yeah I said it, Dark Knight was shit and don't get me started on Superman..one can only hope that Green Lantern is going to be ok, I mean, how can't it with Ryan Reynolds.


The comics geek in me is going HOOOOOOOOOOSHIIIIIIIIIIT! This is only going to end badly. Disney has a history of ruining every property they get their hands on, uhm the Rocketeer anyone? Yes, the likelihood of Goofy meets the Punisher is slim, but then again, the Punisher did go up against Archie once..I'm waiting for Howard the Duck VS Donald Duck personally Disney has said that all existing contracts will be honoured, meaning that Spider-Man 4,5,6 will still be released by Sony, all X-Men stuff is still with FOX and the upcoming Iron Man, Thor, Avengers properties will still be distributed by Paramount via Marvel Films...but what about after that. Disney has already stated that the ultimate goal is to bring things home..so it's only a matter of Time before Tim Allen and the Rock make their way into the 616 universe.

The gang at Marvel say that it's all status quo as far as the books themselves go, but really, is Disney going to allow Bendis to have characters raped? Or let Warren Ellis have free reign? I dunno. For the next year or so, probably, but I can't help but see a tightening of the noose so to speak.

At least MIchael Eisner isn't in charge anymore otherwise this would spell doom on a Galacticus scale.

I do find it strange that there was ZERO mention of anything this past weekend at Toronto Fan Expo, (Comic-Con in Toronto for you yanks). I mean with something this big, you think that some word would have leaked a bit....

Speaking of Fan Expo, I have to say, I was really impressed. WITH THE FUCKING CROWD. I waited 2 hrs to get in on Sat. and only then I got in because I had a friend working there sneak me in! INSANE I TELLS YA!!! But that's good, it means people are interested! I just wish I grabbed a pic of me and Dan Didio, the head of DC after he snapped a pic of my Bizzarro tattoo. I managed to get out of there with spending a record low..$65 in total!!!! I picked up a Black Lantern T Shirt and The DC Comics Encyclopedia. BOOYAA!

ps..the cast from True Blood are douchbags

oh and I scored a Watchmen condom from Warner Bros...IT'S BLUE!!!!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


in other news: "Lake Ontario is now following you on Twitter!"

bahahahahahahahahaha

This sure as shit doesn't look like Kansas to me, SO WHY THE FUCK ARE WE GETTING TORNADO'S IN TORONTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously wtf. We had two touch down to fucking close for comfort here last night and several more throughout the city. Mind you I really wish I was out in the thick of it, soooo many wicked pictures are being posted up... like this one by Janine Massey



and none of them mine , but then again, I am just a rookie bwahahahahahaha

more pics of the storm and the GORGEOUS sky after can be found here

anyways, yeah, Mother Nature was pissed off last night heh.

In other news, only 1 week left to go before Fan Expo 2009! I haven't decided which day I'm going to go, may actually do all three, buy myself some cool shit yo. And hang with Bruce Mother fucking Campbell!!!!!

Ok, so I've been sitting back and holding off on commenting on the whole debacle regarding the share feature. Really? You're worried about people stealing your work? ON THE INTERNET???!!??? OHMAI!

This is one hundred percent free publicity folks, linked DIRECTLY to your art, not the image src. So really all these people leaving dA or putting their stuff in storage over something that will only help to further YOUR exposure as an artist, you're only hurting yourself. that said there were two comments in particular that I read in all this that stuck out, mainly as complete bullshit.


"First off, nobody who sees a picture on Facebook/Twitter, etc. is likely to follow up by commissioning art or buying a print"

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

that may be the case for the person that made the comment, but don't generalize. Every single job I've received in the last year and a half, has been as a direct result of someone seeing my work on Facebook and Twitter. Every. Single. One.

I've done absolutely ZERO marketing of myself and the Pin Up Parlour. None. It's all been viral from FB and Twitter., It's because of FB that I received 3 newspaper articles promoting my workshops. If you're not getting attention/sales/work from them, well you're not doing it right. Or you're simply not as good as you think you are.


"it's the Terms of Service that people agree to at those other sites. Pretty much whatever art is posted there becomes the property of those sites no matter who posted it"

Again incorrect. Facebooks terms of service explicitly state that anything posted on their site remains the property of the copyright holder, and you're simply granting FB the right to distribute it, which kind of helps otherwise well, it wouldn't appear anywhere across their site, none of your friends would receive it, wouldn't show up in various feeds etc. You are simply sharing a link to your art, here on dA. The same as copying the link from the address bar. plain and simple. You're not posting the art itself, you're linking to it, the same as one would link to a news article etc.


So really, this is a great thing..really anyone can "steal" your work at anytime, but by providing a true link to your page, this helps diminish the chances...

So what's shakin kids?

Me? I'm enjoying my final week of holidays for the summer, getting caught up a BUTTLOAD of editing, hence the daily submissions, not that you're complaining about getting to see my most awesome artwork, and if you are complaining then why the fuck are you watching me?

Life without the ^ is going well, mind you, I logged in not too long ago and tried to move images heh...^cosfrog is taking great care of the pin up gallery in my absence..BUUUT I notice no DD's yet ...scratch that I just noticed that an image I recommended to him was chosen today lol.

Amanda and I had our joint bday party back on the 8th, was great to see $Moonbeam13, *gimp and =mombeam out as well as a surprise visit by `neo-the-foxycoon as well as my buddy Phil that runs the studio I shoot out of. Got a cool Bettie Page business card holder! A few weeks back I got myself an early birthday present, fresh ink! Chest piece at that!



It was nowhere near the pain I thought it was going to be, not a cake walk, but some of the stuff on my arm was more painful than they were.

My actual birthday is tomorrow, turning 36..jeebus...well at least I'm not as old as $Tachy-on ha!

fuck I really need to get my passport, especially if Amanda and I plan to actually get out of this stink town city..which really doesn't stink cause the garbage strike is over heh. Actually I never felt that it did stink during the strike mind you

I had a whole lot more to write, but for the life of me I can't remember right now..so peace out mofo