Putting a "The" on everything..

Hey everybody!

Blogging time again, Oscar night has passed, and all I can think of is there are a lot of movies with The in the title.  The Help, The Artist, The Iron Lady, A Separation didn't have a chance, there was no The!
Even announcing presenters were with a The, The Angelina Jolie, which she certainly looked like a The, the thing!  She needs to eat something badly!  Showing off leg with the dress she was wearing did not help her case!  Brad Pitt made a bad choice, at least Jennifer Anniston looks healthy!  The Brad Pitt, and The Jennifer Anniston, I mean.  But it was great seeing Billy Crystal up there again, took me back when I watched the awards with my mom and dad, ahh, good times.  People can complain all they want on his performance, but he is a showman.  Compared to last year's abomination with Ann Hathaway and James Franco, who looked like he was on a high the whole time, give me Billy!  I enjoy the movie shorts, and the subliminal inserts of the Princess Bride strewn about the awards show.  Billy Crystal, THE Oscar Host!  As for the movies nominated, I will watch them eventually, but nothing really grabbed me.  The Help I did, see, and enjoyed thoroughly, Hugo I wanted to see, and Warhorse. As for the other nominations, that is where they create the ploy, to get to go see the movie, because The Iron Lady just came out, or was in select theaters to where not everyone can go see it.  The Academy, all the actors, have access in seeing these movies, not the general public.  It is this, that I am not keen about.  It used to be that everyone saw these movies, and everyone knew what was good enough to get an Oscar,(American Beauty, surely was not one of them, but what do I know).  NOw, when they make the announcements of Oscar nominations, you are like, "Huh?  I have never heard of that movie!"  But once it has won Best picture, and Best actor, Best actress, then you HAVE to see it, to see what all the hubbub is about!  That is just my opinion on the whole thing, do what you like. Opinions are like armpits, you usually have two of them,(unless there was a freak accident, and you only have one arm),  there is one of that might be ok, but the other one probably stinks more.

I have been a bit busy with applying to jobs this past week that I didn't really have the chance to post a blog until now.  Applying to jobs is a job in itself!  I think it takes at least 45 minutes to apply to each one!  Having to go through page after page of personal information as well as regurgitate your resume and cover letter is quite the chore.  But I have gotten the hang of it now, hopefully will hear back soon.  I hate the feeling of not having work to do except adding to the portfolio.  But it is the journey I have decided to take for my unborn child and I WILL succeed as I did in my comics career.  With hard work and perseverance I shall overcome with God willing.

My Wolverine pose!  hehehe

Another milestone in my life was taking the plunge, Baptism that is!  I had decided to take the next step in my path with God by getting baptized with my wife.  I had grown up Christian all my life, but never was baptized, by choice, only as a baby.  I had decided to change that with everything that has been happening in our lives that God has done, and he has definitely made a grand appearance there!  I wanted to reaffirm my faith in him and show him that I was giving myself to him.  And it was a celebratory day to do it, since it fell on my Dad's birthday.  I wore my Windmill shirt that my wife Cyndi gave me in remembrance of him.  I truly did and still do feel different when I came out of the water like Wolverine did in Origins.   But it wasn't adamantium coarsing through every fiber of my being, but the Holy Spirit, and I welcomed it!  We do love the church that we are in, they accept all who are there, and they are people like me, creatives!  I just feel at home with them, and I thank them for letting us be a part of them.   It's funny, I have had friends of mine ask me if they are supposed to act different around me now that I have been baptized, I say no, act how you want, I wouldn't put myself around people who are of bad influence if they did.  But it has opened up to conversations that I never really talked about in the past, religion, faith and the belief in God.  I think that is a win for God, and for myself, and I am thankful.

Samson kicks ass!  Literally! Click to Enlarge

Who knew this was going to get religious on you guys, but hey, I'm not shy about it anymore, God is there for me, and He is there for you, you just have to take that first step!  Now, since I have brought up religion on an art blog, I sketched out a piece yesterday after the message at church, and got inspired to do a digital painting of Samson!  I love that story, superhuman to the max, who wouldn't?!  But I had this image stuck in my head after listening to it, and I had to put it down on paper first.  So here is the rough sketch to jot the idea down, before I go digital on it!  I will hope to post the final image next blog, it should be a lot of fun!

I will also post the commission I did a little while ago of my interpretation of Isaiah 6:

Isaiah 6:3  They were calling out to each other, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven's Armies!  The whole earth is filled with his glory!"
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I wanted to show you guys also, this past Sunday we showed a video for the intro to the sermon called Leverage.  I was asked to concept a Rube Goldberg Machine for this said video.  Who knew I could blueprint something like this and actually see it work!  So for those who missed it, here is the blueprint, and the video!

RGM
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I am going to leave you now after giving you the lowdown of my goings on with an Alien attack on a space station!  I know right, you were all, Whoa!  I didn't even see that coming from all the Baptism and Angels and God business!  So here it is!  Enjoy!

"I said Thai food, not Tie Fighter!"
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