Illustrated doodles from a coach/couch-sona within the furry/oc fandom. Along with WIP sketches and updates.
Neurodivergent memoirs included.
Story sketches, drafts, and captioned cartooning are covered.
The erotized wish fulfilment has its limits, it's all part of understanding it for better taste.
Now for a book, Chuck Palahniuks Snuff. A story of a porn actress doing with a ending that feels like an in-joke of anybody into adult entertainment will get. Postmodern in its naughtiness. Its ending is an incomprehensible explosion that I won't spoil.
I'll devise the burlesque as the opposite of the slice of life. It's a non-genre of content that's more a style rather than a thing of itself. Its non-narrative touch means it can only attach to other plots in hope of supporting.
Its theme could only function as a support, yet it can't really support itself. It's simply explicit material on the contrary. We return to the intensity as a means to pulling attention and keeping it captivated.
Once could try to do a scene-to-scene analysis of Kim Kardashian's Selfie book, It's pretty much not what's intended though, ain't it?
A grade of progressive complications.
Slice of life non-genre marketing genre as been a marketing gimmick as a backlash of the 90s entertainment, it can only attach to romances and other non-violent genres of stories. It is the middle is what Alfred Hitchcock's 'Slice of cake' something the respects the entertainments' genre, it does its own thing though. The burlesque, could leak into dopamine culture with bad taste, the explicit could try to claim it's tastefully literate, yet lying about it could be a mere indulgent tease.
Several minutes of what not to do with a fetish/sex scene. Several years ago.
Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman, Another iconoclastic book
That essay from Huxley, from Neil postman along with entertainment as epistemology are to be ringing today.
Not with social media to this day. Some lessons are to be made with how this new technology batters show-business products for the advertiser to reach with a direct response measurement.
I look at all the streams and long tail of live-streaming, and it's all goes down to a slurry of what we would like to call entertainment. Go to apparently reach the top of more amusing than interesting. That is the trouble, boring entertainment, however paradoxical, is laid before us. Where celebrity has overtaken authority on absurd claims.
This has to be the best argument for the age of scepticism for copywriters. Especially the politics chapter. The amusing veil places growing mistrust on the public. Because entertainment is being putting over truth, epistemology, and justice. Such scepticism is used with healthy scepticism. With the internet today, designed for free use and not made for commercial speech.
The excavation of art into a show-business product continues.
Hank Bordowitz on the publishing industry's vices within the media.
Payola into a videogenic, toyetic entities. This is the industry of the attempt to reverse engineer a hit and the unpredictable venture of it.
What does it mean to be popular now with gameable first pages, to the moment where campaigning dishonesty to court the mass streams of attention are made to serve a chicken or egg situation, the audience or the commercial appetites?
Public interaction aligns with it, not with the same intention. The average demand of the product will be drawn with each business attempt to sell. Remarkability being a choice for the herd of mass entertainment, a beckoning to separate serving the people they seek to lead.
With the commercial Zeitgeist of the sentiment of "Nobody want's to read your S**" or, "Nobody wants to give you traction." It's no wonder Google blew up, along with how integrity in the record industry was redefined today.
Trying to compartmentalize the feelings of the creeping forbidden lusts of love hidden and locked away within this book may require a rereading of such a work.
Love prevails, at what cost? What end? What obsession can it bring us, this is an exploration of the themes of such a work. It has to cross boundary, with Vladimir creating a impression that may be considered a masterwork amongst those literary types. This had a difficulty being marketed with such troublesome subject. My own experiences which resonate.
Amongst the literary examples, this is way ahead of its time of art. Showing what the medium of writing that can show of the limits of love and the sexual passions, of it conquering encroach on the darkest of places.
Will audio listen and read again.
There's a trouble with marketing a literary success,
Two sides of the same coin, one of animosity and another of grace. One of exploration of the themes and fairytales along with their roles within the culture. This does not only cover the beast and the blonde.
Marina Warners work is a complete track within the groves of fae lore and mischief. Interlaced with romantic notions. Being many a story and their tellers to the front, dancing here mysteriously into the night.
I was on a carpet of petals as to a journey of otherworlds. Of how history and themes are reused and manipulated, that story of Bluebeard was one that startled me, they are more to the dangers of lechery?
2nd Chapter of this book's with the tales of distribution got me thinking. Thinking about there being a fantasy even within the niche networking.
This book is on the grizzly reality of the harder job of marketing the profession.
As I read within the Kevin Kelly's 1000 true fans. Small tail thinking can be alluded to that there is an American dream in it, or a mirage. It's as if it detects some form of wish fulfilment detected.
This is creative magic when it comes with projects, not hackneyed products that always work to meet specifications. So expect some bumps on the way, Shaky collaborations.
This is Bryan's take on the master detective Genre, with subplots such as thrillers, action and romance explored.
Bryan's body of work has culminated into a love letter to the anthro community at large, with his setting exploring them as the dominant race.
His does not stray away from class tensions from his entertainment, with his own little points of view being shown in the footnotes at the back of this omnibus. From violence to love, the film scenes are played out without onomatopoeia effects, focusing on the photographic. Quite a steampunk sensual flavour.
With the homage seen through as background flourishes, his own Sherlock remix is the action here we did not expect, which he brings to and front.
Did admire the hero/villain designs along with those campy kick the dog moments at the end. Yet, he does his best to make them relatable.
Hits close to the heart and home of gusto, so recommended.
"Bed rotting" Will mean an entirely new as these moments of meditate peace bring another aspect to life, let is all pass.
It's nice to see different perspectives on productivity and what it means. That those who overcommit or work, cannot change the interoperability of our systems of publishing.
Despite my own takes of fat positivity and others, it's refreshing what is brought to the table with laziness does not exist. Limiting social media use and using blockers is standard advice.
Understanding the backlash of relationships of our work and life really helps, to its Calvinist roots and carried flag to this day.
As we define what it means through what is mechanical terms of productivity, effective usage of the time for a life well lived will be understood ongoing. Slack will be utilized to own personalized ways to help our own lives.
Reminds me of the 100% effort fitness myth. Of scalable difficulty. 17 min.
A look it as a face, to a way of a hero's journey.
Some meanings are glossed over, I managed to get through it though.
It's a book, one diving into what is seen as cosmological yearnings, diving into the subconscious and making it all weaves together with tales of going out.
This mythopoetic take on what it means to tell a story. With a nuclear unit, that passes to the teleology of genre storytelling. Surpassing all literature and commercial endeavours, to the big unknowing and the beyond. It's been, what is to say, spiritual. Codified into a praxis for other writers and storytellers.
It's got mythological, mythical literature up the wazoo. Am I consciously hitting these cosmic keys. The key to unlock all storytelling greats yet not so.
Directly and at the moment, no, our in-the-moment minds are taken aback. Making bold claims to our specie's intent and desire to write and create.
It's something that's been constantly recommended by editors and entertainment storytellers, I now get it. In a basic, rudimentary sense, as a means of motivation.
Many an artist have not followed it tough, and still became successful. It's a got anthropological samples of stories all around the world. Particularly the chapters on sex could be questioned.
Of Odysseus from Aristotle, it reflects ultimately from the western view of storytelling.
Not so sure if I'd recommend this on storytelling, as much as I do on the story grid. It's one of those backlog books which has its information/cheat sheets provided online. Useful if you want it to be.
Books that form coherent meaning of knowledge, that fill up empty gaps.
Books on my scruffy couch.
My study on reverse engineering books continues. Connections of themes and concepts begin to come together and correct new meanings from the ideas.
Direct mail copy that sells! Herschell Gorden Lewis
"I follow a different cry, sales are all that count, any other scorekeeping technique is Ego-driven." - Lewis quote of the Machiavellian transactional world view of the direct marketer. All that hustle to make a number go up.
What a world-view of direct response and sales. Of what was once, a bally.
Where did direct marketing come from? I've got a hunch it came from this definition of the word Bally in this dictionary. Capture the attention, respect it, then get the sale.
The most business blatant commercial propaganda book I've read, completely shameless in the craft of making one click. There's something to learn when it comes to force communication that is contrasted with the literary communication means such Gabrielle's writing the natural way.
Forget teaching the western way and the flag to the youngsters, the teachers of the school will have to give their students, and it will cut through all that business obscurantism that is within the modern world. Including how dysfunctional business models laid bare with their instructions laid out.
Interruption and direct advertising follow this, it's nice to see it, of how to write a direct ad, as compared to the mysticism of brand marketing.
There was an art form to this. Being direct, especially with a difficult conversation. To speak with authority.
Chapter four in nobody wants to read your Sh*t in concerns of writing advertisements reiterates the same theme of force communication with Lewis's.
A counterbalance to all of this is Gabriela Rico's writing, the natural way for a more literary, magical means of creation.
Direct communication and direct response writing has some remarkable craft that is to be respected, that ID-driven impulse marketing that's becoming less popular now on the internet. Handling the Limbic impulses of attention as with the more sustained attention impulses.
Could be argued to be too simplistic, it's done right though with respect. Force communication gives an important lesson to the artist even when he does not want to use it, to respect the time and attention of the audience. Well, well crafted direction, that is.
Attention/interruption>Purchase/education/permission>word of mouth>sale =Direct marketing. Magic = Brand Marketing.
20 Master plots by Ronald B Tobias
One that goes with the story grid with regard to patterns within storytelling, character driven and plot driven. Giving some basic structures and plot for a writer to place his knowledge within a coherent structure, can be read after the story grid. These storytelling patterns will show up and be seen, and emphasizes predetermined casual relationships of narrative elements. All to make a thematic point.
These plots, with different with the author wrestling with what makes a plot and what it does not, go to the heart with the conversation of what makes a story. With the categorization being ever-shifting.
Did not agree with the example of between a rock and a hard place, yet that's here and there.
Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Up-to-date reverse engineering of scientific management. For freelance and entrepreneurship.
This self-help book (i mean in a positive sense here of generalised advice). A coffee shop tidbit of blogposts in the typical variety. Not any, though, it's of business.
Not the worst of professional pursuit advice out there. Rather decent in fact. Continuously, we apply measurable productivity to our priceless, decommaditized gifts.
I tend to be within the “Watch your living, or somebody else will” camp, I know it's not for everybody. Even if approached from a hobby, learning the business mindset of the bosses of advertisers has its uses; it allows one to see their manipulation.
The one on rejecting workaholism resonates, along with the hiring advice.
Other than these twoblog posts of what does it mean to work for attention. There's an entire book demolishes it with the art of publicity.
This has been a complete study ( for now) through the study of attention mercantilism. Thanks to Tim Wu, with his honest reporting respected. From the advertising auction of google, to the silly antics to trolls.
Taken aback for the last month with all others failing in comparison.
What's makes the topic of exposure so tempting to others? This is a deep, literary challenge of this phenomenon. The commercial phenomenon.
I enjoyed the chapters, especially the ones that covered the Internet, clickbait and mirror of narcissus, the check-in habit being noted. The last chapter when commentary on the presidential campaign though, it's where it falted and where it was strongest. Referencing books I did not like, yet the theme of reclaiming our attention reserves standing strong.
He comments on Trump, Only noting one quote he did on publicity that was his strategy. My summary is what somegreybloke video did wayback.
Soapboxy as it was at the end, it ended with a recommendation with the article about "If you want my attention, pay me." Then yeah, with the refection of the meal strum of the dilemma of being the customer and the product using media here. It's refreshing to use this medium for free and to post with no strings attached.
Is this really the forced vernacular that businesses treat us?
Well, we are playing in their arena the moment we participate within their platforms. So it's important to see it.
The point of contest of ideas and a-priori contest of attention beforehand. Of what differentiates the direct attention approach and the brand idea approach. Something that can be expanded as a lesson of publicity.
Recommended for anybody to keep up to date with the latest design trends for capturing the eyeballs.
A follow-up to understanding the phenomenon further is understanding Ad-creep, as argued with Mark Bartholomew, Still a bit wordy at the themes. It is created with the idea of the fresh of a typical progressive mindset coming to terms with the creep that comes with modern marketing.
(Cw: literacy on environmentalism and society. Literacy is toxic to the mass market entertainer. )
You'd be wondering why I'd be reading outside myself. With me seing the temptation of being a agnostic entertainer. I'd have to say, with my own view to show with a blog with such low stakes, I'd think it'd be fitting to show that to establish myself as an iconoclast 'bara' artist. Then I may as well.
It does not feel like I'm throwing a tantrum when I write this. So I'll give my way, i don't expect any of this to be brought up in my streams.
Wheres the fear? These books or being a faceless mass entertainer with no authorship? I take the former.
A History of the the world of seven cheap things. Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore
This book accounts the drive of industrialisation, from an ecological point of view. Things are moved cheaper and faster.
Snowball's Chance John Reed
A fictional book on society, most likely in response to another books which was stolen from another. A fitting response from a point of view thats rarely displayed here.
Yet these are the point of views that make an artist, not a hack.
They made it for somebody specific.
Speaking of hacks, here's a parody of one.
Garth Merenghi's Terrortome
Now this is a unique parody on the hack, one with a brilliantly written sex scene that sent me in a laughing fit.
The hack does not have a point of view, a theme.
Wait, is this a hack-work? Doing sequels is a very commercial thing to do. Oh, well. Still recommended. It's so bad that it's an art. All over what not to do, yet the intent redeems it.
14 min of the show this book is based off, explained by Patrick Willems, with its unique parody.
Understanding comic and making comics by Scott Mcloud.
Obviously, the standard for learning storytelling structure as it relates to comics.
The sequential craft was studied and taught me due, you've probably been made into the craft in the beginning. Twelve years ago, deserves a repeat-recommedation
Reinventing comics can be skipped.
The theory and craft of manga By Hirohiko Arayaki
Hirohiko craft and expertise to shonan jump, he's done more with his influential Jojo series.
Haven't read it as it gets harder and harder to find universal hits to talk about.
This reverse engineer is more relevant to an arch plot analysis of story. The way he moves and sees stylization along with other ways brings new light of the hindsight.
Also, a semi-biography, I doubt there is a way to reverse-engineer a hit these days, yet his characterization and tools could be considered.
How to read Nancy by Paul Karaksik and Mark Newgarden
This one completely analyses a nancy strip, along with the likes of Ernie Bushmiller. Along with gag-construction and what it means to understand comics today.
Of course, Ernie Busmiller did not 'dumb down' the an audience when it happened. Yet being a product of his time, he became an icon of streamlining significance.
Cartoonimals by Harry Hamernik
Wowzers! A very simple book on character design, with how to construct the side profile. Furry enthusiasts will love its simple ideas where beginners will see three-dimensional space.
Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair
Of course, the understanding of Disney Appeal with what makes them distinct, with the design little details re-envision for publication. It's best to get the old version with all them visions placed in.
The Silver way By Stephan Silver
Flat character design!
Flat character design and graphic design sensibilities! The silver way. This experimental gizmo really puts a spin and understanding of character design process.
Fully recommend this book for all skill levels, to give the full Couch Gregor experience. With handling the fundamental principles. Along with what James Gurney has written.
This is more a fundamental to the comic book inking course, with the understanding and ideas in regard to the learning it's required for a pen-and-ink illustrator.
One of the first books, I was clueless of the hours it'd take with producing these illustrations, along with the planning and ink it took to take an ancient craft into using two tones. One black, that's all it takes. The constraint is what makes it the most alluring.
The creativity is what inspired me to try to medium, planting me linear inclinations as of this day.
What Guptil has written on style and the craft is his and his alone. That's what got hi. Out of mediocre.
These are the beginnings modes of thoughts that I took to help engage and lead into the first preliminary marks of what makes. It ain't gatekeeping a method, yet it's a sign post to help with reverie and observational drawing.
If you'd like to capture all of Frank Rielly's teachings, check out this student's blog from 2011, long live the blog!
This is specific enough to learn what to see with the figure drawing, observation and readings. It's possible to find this pdf online.
It's like entering into a Victorian art school and then getting an art lesson by a spirited draughtsman. The gender stuff is outdated, yet the core lessons remain.
From the primordial ooze, there are posts of knowledge to clasp onto. So he starts his unending learning.
This is going to be my own riff from Marshall Vandruffs list (nudity in the list). They are plenty of growing resources of tutorials and references will add, to help with adding to the ideal with a creative, professional work ethic.
Do the reading. The water that feeds the garden of knowledge that will lead into the body of work.
Drawing made easy by E.G. Lutz
Recommended by James Gurney. Yep, it helps establish basic concepts such as composition and perspective. How to approach a drawing from observation, and to commence it.
Drawing on the right side of the brain By Betty Edwards.
You don't have to follow the brain stuff of this, even all the exercises. Yet, the blind contour exercise free you from making an industrialized, hackneyed product. It's pure drawing, observation that's free from idealization.
There's a writer side an editor side, here are two books that I recommend helping you switch there once all the creative writing side is done writing down the first draft.
Two sides, both that need to be separated. The creative and the analytical.
The story grid by Shawn Coyne
Wow! This methodology and taxonomy demonstrated for storytelling is the most adopted as I got in.
Seeing what good editors know, along with their stories was brilliant as he lays out his experiences, along with providing genre, category, and audience expectation to the value of the storyteller. Both of how to do a commercial and literary story, with a case for this distinction.
It ends with a sumptuous analysis of The Silence of the Lambs. Along with revealing a lot about what he knows best about the Thriller Genre.
His podcast has useful tidbits too, providing signposts.
How not to write a novel By Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark.
If you had read Stephen's King's on writing, then you'd be looking for bad examples on what not to write, this cutting room floor is a great starting point.
It's NSFW at the perennial examples at the end, the humour of it all had me a sitches at parts, especially with the Theme chapter.
