Creative Speculation...

I was just thinking about this coming presidential election. There's a lot of clout about Obama- how the muslims say he's one of them, how Europe loves him, and some people jokingly refer to him as 'Obamessiah'. I've never been clear why I'm against Obama I just instinctually think voting for him is not right.

So it got me thinking..

What if Obama is the one who brings peace to the world? I mean he could be the guy who the Jews AND the Muslims listen to for an actual peace process in the middle east. Two presidential terms is 8 years, so what if by the 7th year an assassination attempt is attempted on him? Since he's done so much to 'repair' the world people all over the globe fear for his death and then near the edge of his mortality he survives, and 'resurrects' as it were... He did come from humble beginnings, much like Jesus did as the son of a carpenter.

See what I'm getting at here?

What if during the last few years of his presidency he does something, by no ill will of his own, to bring about the apocolypse? Who says the final Antichrist will be so overtly evil like Hitler? Maybe he's just a good person who is taken advantage of by evil as a vessel to do things that seem good and just at first but as they develop, prove to be something diametrically opposed?

I know this is right on the edge of the most tin foil hate speculation you could get, but I've never had a good vibe for voting for him, not that I think he's 'ooo evil' but just something else. I decided to think a little creatively and apply my faith and see what happens.. you know, this next presidential term ends just a month before 12-21-12- the Mayan Apocolypse. Food for thought...

Poignancy

I thought this take on a popular commercial to make a point was pretty clever and accurate.

National Erosion

I think these quotes put things rightly..


People in the US are turning into sheep and allowing the media to spoon feed them information, however slanted, and they obey.

I am not a sheep. I am a hippo.

A pissed hippo.

EPIC FAIL

This is some commercial, from the late 90s I think, for a college that does game design- or something. Just watch...

Now, I work in the games industry. And nothing in this commercial could be further from the truth on how to make a platform or PC game. It's just so stupid in it's design as an advertisment that I just laugh.
I laugh hard.

Interesting...

I find it ironic that Christianity claims to be this tollerant, loving faith, yet it's the least tollerant on the whole chart...

Anyways, food for thought.

Quite an amazing movie.

This short movie one an Oscar for best short animation in 1990. I think it has a lot of meaning to it and definitely holds a moral at the end that can easily be applied to reality.

I think the music box represents greed or addiction. Something that upsets the balance of harmony between men and brings out the individualism in us to the point self destruction. At the end of the movie it only brings a conclusion that only greed or an addiction could lead- absolute loss.

Bullshit Plot Holes of The Matrix

Thanks to the triumph of the human will and several baffling plot contrivances, Neo sacrifices himself and convinces the machines who are enslaving humanity to stop enslaving humanity quite so much.

Over a beautiful sunset, the machines send their Colonel Sanders avatar to announce that any humans who want to be freed from the matrix will be allowed to do so. Thanks, Neo!

But wait!!

Hey, remember in the first movie where they said they don't pull adults out of the matrix? You know, because finding out that every experience they ever had was false and that the real world is a frozen wasteland destroys their mind?

Well, in this new world, the whole, "All of society, history and culture is a computer generated hoax" thing isn't going to stay a secret for long. How do you think society would react to finding that out? How do you think the major religions would react?

Why would anyone get up to go to work after that ("Build a house? Why can't the matrix just freaking generate one")? How do you think starving third-world nations would regard their machine masters, knowing that their misery is purely the invention of the machines, and that the matrix could in fact have rained food down from the sky any time it wanted, but just chose not to?

The world would descend into utter chaos. Luckily, the people can escape the madness any time they want by exiting the matrix!

Oh, wait, they can't. The one city where people can live has been devastated by the robot attack, and there is nothing close to enough housing, food, clothing, fresh water, etc to accommodate even a small country.

Fuck you, Neo!

The Societal Double Standard

If a man happens to be seen nude through his bedroom window by a woman, he's guilty of indecent exposure. If a man happens to see a woman nude in her bedroom window, he's a peeping tom.

Some Exposure

My art for Project Cosmos finally premiered on Wired.com today. It wasn't what I thought it would be. The art I gave them to replace the one they wanted to use was never posted and they added the one that I offered to replace. Plus, they didn't add the link to my Project Cosmos website, so I kinda feel like I wasted my time trying to rush that site out the door in under a week.

I was included with a group of very talented artists, and most of them had amazing illustrations. The piece of my art that was added is just a conceptual painting, no background or anything and I feel it's going to be shoved down a peg by the nicer illustrations. I don't want people to think that that is all I'm capable of. I hate when my public image is slanted and I only have a partial amount of control over it.

It must totally sound like I'm shitting all over Wired. I'm not. I'm gratefull they chose me, and an artist is their own worst critic, but I'm just irritated that I thought what was going to happen, what I was expecting, didn't materialize.

Here's the link if you want to check it out.

Hi America- this map is for you people.

Oh Goody...

Now that the House has passed the vaunted Bail Out, I'd just like to say a few things...

Congratulations Baby Boomers!!!!
You have succeeded in pushing off the inevitable to your kids and grand kids. You'll be long gone by the time we have to square our dept.

Thanks.

Regretablly,
Your Descendants.