Anyone out there interested in selling your artwork? You might want to take a look at
this. Adam, yes the same one who founded this site, has released a free "lite" version of his e-book
Artpreneurship. I've had the opportunity to read that book, and it's very well put together. The business sense it offers can be applied to other areas like photography, music, even writing for publication. It's not something a person who's wanting to go commerical with their art should avoid reading. For the record, part of my comments on the book are quoted on the Artpreneurship website. I stand behind that quote 100%.
Once again, I don't have that picture to post, I'll get it taken tomorrow, so I can have it up next week. Also, I didn't get around to too many sites lately, I apologize for that, I'll get around to them in the next few days to cover my weeks of not doing it. And finally, I promised a treat for you all this time around, well, that's the whoe reason I'm posting this a couple days early.
Anniversary Commemorative
Another year, and many more possibilities. Looking back at this past year here on MyOtaku, I can say it was pretty rough for me, it still is in some respects, but I made it, and I look forward to many more years to come here. A couple weeks ago, I asked for some ideas on an event to commemorate my fourth year anniversary. After giving it some thought myself, and looking over the feedback I got in relation to that question, I have come up with something that I hope is different enough to spark your interest.
I have decided to immortalize a character on wood. I'll be burning a fanart piece onto a wood plaque, the thing is, I don't really know which character to burn. So I'm turning to you guys, name your favorite anime characters (three at the most please), what series, movie, or OVA they come, and tell me something about them in a short paragraph (a short paragraph for each character). I'll look over every submission I get, and the three I like the most will be burned onto wood plaques.
What I do with the plaques when they are done will be up to you guys. The options will be:
- Give them to the first three readers who ask for them.
- Give them to the member who's post inspired the piece.
- Hold some sort of raffle type give-away for them here on my page.
- Donate them to TheOtaku for potential future give-away.
- Donate them to an anime convention's charity auction (if any will take them).
I'll take submissions up till September 29, and I'll post my decision on October 13 (can't do it October 6, I'll be at Tsubasacon). The actual plaques probably won't be done for a couple weeks after I post my decision. I'll have a sample of my work with the burning iron up here in a couple days.
Tag
In keeping with the spirit of thetagging game, I found myself on the receiving end yet again. That's quite all right, I kind of like this sort of thing once in a while. This one is different from my last one technically, but the basics never change.
The rules are:
- Post these rules.
- Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves.
- Tags should write a journal/ blog of these facts.
- At the end of the post 8 more people are tagged and named.
- Go to their page and leave a message telling them they're tagged
Facts:
- I can narrate Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart convincingly.
- I've seen every episode of Star Trek The Next Generation, 99% on the original air dates.
- I've been bitten by Fire ants (you people in the south know what I mean).
- My favorite flavor ice cream is Ben & Jerry's "Chunky Monkey".
- Sapporo (Japanese beer) is the only alcohol that's come close to giving me a hangover.
- In High School, I tried smoking once - Never again will I do that.
- I once put 16 Altoids in my mouth at one time - All I tasted for 2 days was peppermint.
- The sound of a light rain inspires me to create more than any other sound.
Now, like before, I'm too much of a free spirit to stick to all the rules, so I'm cutting out the last two, I never tag anyone when I do these things. Anyone who's interested in doing this can feel free to make a post on their page with this info and say George Spelvin tagged you. Only theatre geeks with get that reference, but whatever works. Now I have two data sets to reference when I get tagged in the future.
Feature Article Clarifications and Updates:
Clarifications:
Due to an oversight on my part, I omitted the complete list of states that would not have any theaters running the Anime Bento Festival event. At my last check, the list of states was as follows: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia.
Also omitted were appropriate source links to relevant information. The Anime Bento Festival can be located on the Fathom Events website. FUNimation Films has two films in the event, and Manga Entertainment has two films in the event.
Updates:
In their response to my e-mail, Manga Entertainment indicated that they ". . .feel they(NCM) have done a solid job." distributing their content. I don't consider that a positive response.
None of the other entities have answered my messages yet.
Comments:
I'm skipping the comments today, but a lot of you brought up the convention, so I will cover that. Part of the promise I made that's helping me get me to the convention this year is to provide as detailed a report as I can. If I have internet access in my hotel there, I'll try to have detailed nightly updates for the whole weekend. This being my first convention, I can guarantee that I'll be overwhelmed, but I'll do my best to cover the event as best I can anyway.
Hopefully I can get back on my game again next week, I hate making a regular habit of not visiting sites and skipping comment repsonses.
