Dead I Am Not

Between moving, putting my house up for sell, a newborn niece in the hospital, LOST, massive snowstorms and the usual stuff, updating the blog has been the last thing on my mind.

I stumbled across a really cool site that I just had to share though.


http://www.kickstarter.com/
Its a website designed to help creative entrepreneurs (like me) to raise funds for their projects. I know I've said a lot about brothers gotta blog and stuff but side projects are afoot and you'll be hearing a lot more about them in the coming months.

Art Gallery

The posters for the VBS Wii Room are finally done!



Here's Matthew showing us how big the posters really are.


Down the Rabbit Hole

This Pacman Poster gave us a lot of problems. It started out as a donkey kong poster but was messed up so we converted it into a Pacman Poster. It took Lots of white out and black paint but we finally finished it.


Jumpman

You can't do video game artwork without Mario. I was going to also do a Raccoon Mario Poster also but I thought it would be Mario overkill.


The Hero Returns

The Legend of Zelda is probably the greatest game series of all time. We had some issues with Link's colors. Markers are not the easiest medium to work with.


Laughter Isn't Always the Best Medicine

I decided to do a poster of the dog from duck hunt that everyone loves to hate. A fun poster of a character that Nintendo really needs to bring back.


The call to adventure

Earthbound is my favorite game ever. So what if the kids have no idea what this quirky RPG is. I'm making the posters so I'm doing an Earthbound poster. Phones play a big role in the game, hence the poster name.


Primal Rage

This was the first poster I started working on and I think it's one of the better ones.


Girl Power

I wanted to do a weird poster combining characters from different games, so I came up with the idea for the Girl Power poster. My wife is confused why Samus is on the poster. Nobody tell her, okay.


Invaders Spaced

This poster was a lot of fun. I thought a traditional shot of space invaders would be boring, so I came up with the idea of doing an Andy Warhol styled poster.


Frogger Nation

And finally we have Frogger Nation. This was the last poster I thought up. I wanted to do a classic game and Frogger just barely beat out Excitebike.

I want to thank my mom and wife for all their help coloring posters. You guys rock.

Updates and stuff

I'm trying to keep my commitment to updating the blog everyday but I am uberbusy this week and next so don't expect anything major. Overtime and VBS is a deadly combo.

I'll probably make next week a really bad poetry week and run some of the poems I had leftover from last time.

The final 3 VBS posters will be Zelda, Girl Power, and Frogger Nation. I'm rapidly running out of time so I'm hoping I can get them done in time.

VBS draws near

Next week is Vacation Bible School, so this week is prep week.


I've once again been assigned to the chaotic Wii room of doom. We usually just decorate by printing out video game art off the internet but this year I wanted to do something different.

My plan is to do my own artwork, recreating classic video game scenes.



I'm hoping to do 9 posters, so far I've got 5 started. I have until Monday to get them done.

Let me know if anyone has any suggestions on what games should appear on the last 4 posters. I'll post the finished artwork next week.

Updates Yo

GASP! Actual progress.

I actually forced myself to get up at 6 am yesterday and work on the short story. I didn't get a whole lot done on it but the fact is that something was done. That's a big victory for me. I'll keep you updated.

On the blog front, I'm trying to get some type of schedule going. Something like Really Bad Poetry Mondays, Scrooge McDuck Wednesdays, Super Happy Fun Picture Time Fridays etc.

Please post your thoughts.

BGB I haven't forgotten you... you will live again only to die another death shortly thereafter.

98...99... 100 POSTS!

Wha?

Impossible!

This blog has actually reached 100 posts?

Woo hoo! We did it!



That's amazing. I thought for sure that the blog would be dead by now. But now it survives and it thrives!



Enough dwelling on the past, lets look to the future. Some of you may be wondering what the project for this month is?

Well there's not one :o



I'm taking the month of March to work on the existing projects: the short story, the flash toon, and Brothers Gotta Blog.

Brothers Gotta Blog isn't dead, its just being retooled at the moment. I'm hoping to have it up through the end of the month.

On the Flash Toon front, I'm still in the storyboarding phase. Planning out scenes and how long they are. My wonderful brother bought me a drawpad for the computer so I'm hoping to see some real progress this month.



There hasn't been much progress on the short story. All the details are in my head, I just need to sit down and write it.

You may be asking what's the deal with all of these projects. Well for years I've been saying I'm going to write a story, I'm going to make a cartoon, I'm going to make a website, I'm going to make a movie, I'm going to make a video game, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. I have a notebook sitting at home with about 50 different ideas in it for projects.

Well I'm turning 30 on June 2nd. I've decided that if I'm not actively persuing one of these projects by the time I'm 30 then I never will. In other words, its time to get to work.

I never sat around dreaming that I would be a claims adjuster when I was a child. Its time to chase my real dreams.

I know there is going to be set backs (I'm looking at you, Brothers Gotta Blog) and even failures but I'm confident that I'm on the pathway to successs.

Here's looking to our one year anniversary in October. Hopefully we'll see quite a few projects up and off the ground by then.

Finally

www.brothersgottablog.com is up today. There are still some cosmetic changes to be made... but it looks like this month's project is well on its way. Take that naysayers.

When life gets you down, Remember, it once gave you free lemons

There have been more delays on brothers gotta blog. The first post is all done but the pics still aren't ready to go. Also there are some design issues. Life, work, and being under the weather have all gotten in the way lately.

We are now shooting for December 1st to launch Brothers Gotta Blog. The four day weekend should allow us the time we need to get the site up and running.

Again sorry for the delay, we now return you to your regularly scheduled broadcasting.

Announcing Brothers Gotta Blog!

The new web project is Brothers Gotta Blog!

Big deal, another blog you say. Well its going to be a lot different from this one. This blog will feature conversations between myself and my brother Tim covering a variety of conversations. It will be collosal. It will be weird. It will be a lot of fun.

Unlike this blog, it will be updated once a week on Mondays. A lot more work is involved with this blog so it takes longer. We are hoping to have it up and running this coming monday.

Trust me you'll like it.

Side Project a go-go

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that there were side web projects in the work. I'm happy to announce that one of those projects will be launching toward the end of next week.

More details next week.