burningkrome

Interesting articles. Gonna have to poke at them more in depth later.

Yeah I been trying to market my stuff. Hard to do really because I kinda have to wait for just the right project to come along. Going to make a hardcopy porfolio in the near future and ship it out see if that gets me more bites than the e-folio I had. My style unfortunatly makes classic fantasy art directors think of Anime and Anime artists think of classic fantasy. Which sucks because I never set out to do anything anime style in the first place.

I have had one bite though:

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It was a fan art contest but it neted me a new Vid card! Woot! Now if only I could get paid my life would be complete.

As far as the set thanks sweety. I may be applying soon. Keep an eye out.

PS Where the heck is comic con anyway?

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Very nice! Are you doing digital stuff for them, or is it all hard copy?

I have a friend who is a comic artist, and has done some work for Dark Horse and Marvel subsids. He does a lot of game artwork and such to supplement his income.

His site is at http://www.highanxietystudios.com. Check it out and tell him that the freak he went to college with sent you. No not Mark, the other freak. No not Morgan either...the freak in California!

ComicCon is in San Diego and I think its about 6 months out. I went for the first time last year (to meet up with Chuck from said hypertexteded link :-) . It was definitely a freak fest! Lots of interesting art, lots of costumes, and merriment and lunacy and weirdoes.

You're art would do well, I think. I saw some stuff that was selling hot that was not nearly as good or interesting. I don't know what the policy would be to try and "sell on the side" if you couldn't afford a booth...but I would guarantee some activity in your career if you just made up some business cards with a couple of your pieces on it and passed it around to everyone you saw.

Lots of gaming too! Go play test a new game, make friends with the company folks teaching it...and then give them your card and tell them if they dont hire you, youll tell everyone their game sucked! OK...maybe not the sucked thing part.

Put up a piece in the charity auction as well. Something big, like 30X40. Put it in the charity auction, and people will bid it higher for the good cause. Then you can say I sold this piece for X millions of dollars at the 2005 ComicCon or whatever :-)

I don`t believe genetic health problem will ever be a thing of the past. I mean how would you cure people with a genetic desiese? By direct injection of protein or by changing all the cells DNA, difficult. Or would we have people with genetic disorders not being born...I don`t think so.

Good thoughts...

Regarding post 1:
I think the real issue is the definition of evolution over natural selection. The initial post suggested that we are no longer subject to "natural" selection due to our own interference.

However, will we continue to evolve through a "normal" path for sentient beings? Do all sentient beings go through a destructive industrial phase, just as all teenagers go through a rebellious stage...or are we the "retards" of the galaxy?

Regarding post 2:
Both, I think.

I suspect medical science will eventually discover a way to interfere with existing genes (that research is already well under way with the treatments of MD, and MS) as well as society accepting the involvement of genetic engineering in natural birth (either pre-conception manipulation, or after using the above interference techniques on an embryo.)

And lets not discount nano-technology...although it looks like it is going to be the big loser in the next century. Too many other technologies are surpassing it.

Thanks for the heads up on the "English usage" group. I'll have to check it out...although, I was really just trying to point out that we all have our "dumbass" moments...

...that and be a provocative asshole. Yeah, that too :-)