SUPERMAN SPEED PAINTING

I haven't drawn or painted ANYTHING in 8 days. I thought maybe I'd lost my mojo, so I did a quick, ten-minute speed painting of Superman just to warm up the drawin' hands.

I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
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KRYPTONIAN SHIELD

Yes, I am MICHAEL-AK

(Pronounced "md.j.kɛ.l æk")

http://glyphcreator.manofsteel.com/

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HEROES!

...ready for action!

My brothers and I... a long, loooooong time ago. Obviously we were cosplay before cosplay was cool.

My brother Drew, Myself and my brother Dave in the cowboy hat. We were the coolest kids on the block. Actually I think we were the only kids on the block. We lived on a pretty secluded street.

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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS:How it Could have Been Made Better

 I'm not going to spoil the whole movie with this article. I'm only going to spoil the first five minutes.

If you want to see it completely fresh, then stop reading. If you're not to concerned about having what is essentially a prologue spoiled, then you can read this article and still enjoy the bulk of the movie fresh.

The movie opens in the middle of the action. It hits the ground running as all action movies seem to want to do these days. That's fine. All good action fiction should hit the ground running.

But what is essentially a prologue to the main film was, for me, a really good ending to a potentially great episode of Star Trek if it were back on TV (where it belongs). I would really like to have seen the first 40 minutes of that episode. It could easily have been more like Star Trek then the rest of the movie that comes afterwards.

The Enterprise crew has clearly chosen to break the Prime Directive by saving a planet full of white-skinned aliens. It would have been interesting to see the crew wrestle with their responsibilities not to break the Prime Directive, and their desire to save an entire species who are doomed to die. Do they break their Starfleet oaths? Or do they let an entire species die. That would have been riveting to see Kirk and Spock and McCoy wrestling with that dilemma. That would have given further gravitas to McCoy's answer to Kirk's question: "What would Spock do?"

Obviously Spock is argued into action because it is he who has to set the device in the volcano. I imagine Kirk wanting to do it himself and Spock pointing out that it should be he who sets the device as his Vulcan physiology would allow him to function long after a human would have passed out from the extreme heat. It would also have been a great opportunity for a scene between Uhura and Spock. "You may not care about your own life, but did you ever consider what your death would do to me, you selfish Vulcan?"

Why was the Enterprise hiding under the ocean? That would have been interesting to watch the decision making process that led to that development. I imagine Scotty's initial resistance at such a mad idea, then watching as he reluctantly solves the engineering problems that allow them to do just that.

Why did Kirk steal the scroll? Perhaps it was a last minute thing. Perhaps Spock determines that he cannot set the device fast enough to guarantee the safety of the temple. Kirk has to figure out a way -- fast -- to get them out of the temple without revealing who he is. It would have been entertaining to see the aliens worshiping the scroll and Kirk's spur-of-the-moment decision to steal it in order to get them out of the temple.

And what about McCoy? He obviously had to spend some time getting that beast that Kirk stuns to be cooperative enough to be their ride. Imagine The potential for a number of humorous scenes of McCoy trying to coax a recalcitrant animal into taking riders on its back. McCoy as a grumpy "alien whisperer" would have been priceless.

See? Now THAT would have been a decent episode of Star Trek if Star Trek were to return to television, like it should.It's just too bad that the rest of the movie was not quite as good. I mean, it was exciting and thrilling (and in 3d!) but it wash't really Star Trek.

Not my Star Trek, anyway.

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STAR TREK THEME... played on a HARP?

This is the craziest, geekiest and yet the cutest thing I have seen in a long time.

Or so I thought, until I saw this:

Enjoy.

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QUEEN VICTORIA WAS A BABE

This is a repeat from a Victoria Day post I did a couple of years ago. I am re-posting it with some minor revisions for anyone who may have missed it the first time around:

The Young Queen Victoria by  Franz Xavier Winterhalter

Queen Victoria was the hottest thing going when she became the monarch of Great Britain at the age of 18 in 1837. Well, maybe not by today's internet standards, but by the standards of the day she was the most desirable woman in England. She had beautiful doe eyes and a pointed nose, compact cherry lips and a gentle chin. She suffered a gloomy childhood, she was melancholy and pale as milk and a tiny little thing but she was in charge of the mightiest empire the world had ever seen.

``Why Mister Jackson, that is a rather naughty proposal! Let me dismiss the servants and we will explore it further!``

In three years she must have had many suitors. I'm certain I would have taken a run at her if I'd been in the sceptere'd Isle at that time (I was sailing with pirates in the West Indies at the time and we had a very busy schedule). In 1840 she married her first cousin from Germany, Albert.

Well, Babe, you had your chance. If only you`d been willing to wait for your Pirate King to come ashore you wouldn`t have had to settle for your German first cousin.

They had a passel of kids and ruled the empire together until Albert died and the now grey-haired and plump monarch who was "not amused" that most people know her as, went into mourning and never came out of it, despite occasional dalliances with her Scottish manservant, John Brown.

She died in 1901 but it is her birthdate that is celebrated in May here in Canada with a long weekend.

So here I am at the end of this long weekend. I spent yesterday and the day before doing absolutely nothing of any importance.

``Oh, yeah, baby. Give me that backwards glance again. You know it drives me wild!

Now, it is because the beautiful Victoria had the foresight to be born on this day, that I have enjoyed a whole and complete third day of the weekend which I spent writing a blog post for the AMAZING STORIES website in between laundry and basic "sitting around"

Thank you Victoria, for being born on this day and giving me an extra day to recover from my exertions.

Big kiss, Vicky. Love ya!

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MONDAY MISCELLANEA

Just a bunch of random images to accompany my despair and depression this Monday Morning. Enjoy.

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PORTRAIT

I did this portrait of a friend back in January. We've lost touch since then so I don't even know if she's seen it or not.

Normally I would not post something like this without getting some sort of feedback from the subject, but since the subject seems to have dropped off the face of the earth I thought I'd post it anyway.


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WHO DAT GUY?

I don't know. I just started painting and this is what happened. Why's he yellow? Again, I don't know.

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WHAT'S IT TO YA, BUDDY?

This picture perfectly captures my mood today.

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Batgirl, because... BATGIRL!

Batgirl speed painting because I just wanted to that`s why...

(Painter. 20 minutes.)

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WICKED WINONA ON STAGE

Here is my latest commission! It was done for the lovely and talented (and cute as a button) Wicked Winona. She's happy with the results and so am I!

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Betty Page, because... Betty Page!

Do I have to have a reason? It's Betty Page!

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DAVID GERROLD'S THE STAR WOLF

David Gerrold's book series THE STAR WOLF is one of my favorite series. Originally conceived as a television series, the deal never materialized, but Gerrold had so much material he wrote them as a series of books.

Now a kickstarter campaign has been launched to turn the books into a television series. Their ultimate goal is to raise $2.2 million in order to produce and entire first season.

I've long been a fan of Gerrold's work. About ten years ago I and fellow fan Frank Garcia sat down and talked with Gerrold about his work, about SF and about the Star Wolf in particular.

This has the potential to be a great series, rivaling the new Battlestar Galactica. Let's get on board and give it a chance! Forget executives and advertising agencies! Let's let the fans decide what we want to see.

You can check out the Kickstarter campaign page here.

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