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Weirdly’s World: Spock Lives!

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on March 10, 2015 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Spock Lives This blog is a little off subject but well within the geek realm so here we go. Recently Leonard Nimoy moved past us into the great beyond. We lost an actor who infused life into one of the most recognized character icons in the world. I think that speaks to how effective of an artist Leonard Nimoy was.

Spock was put through the ringer as characters go. Mr Spock was blinded and healed, had his brain stolen and then replaced, lost loves, as well as having his home world sucked into a black hole. And not to mention dying and being reborn. I think what makes him so endearing is that he meet all this head on and wasn’t corrupted by
his troubled journey.

Fictional History

I grew up with Spock of the original series to me he’s a superhero. He is smart, superhuman and mystical as well. Spock was even cool he got along with space hippies when no one else could. I always wanted to have pointed ears and he had pointed ears whats not to like!

Losing Leonard Nimoy affected me more than I thought it would. I had a fictional history with Spock that I carried into my adult life. He became part of my tribe even one of it’s figureheads. He has been and always shall be with me.


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Weirdly’s World: the Chaos Window

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on February 9, 2015 Respond

The Chaos Window by Dave Weirdly

The Chaos WindowA new story is emerging in the ASTRO MONK saga. Involving a Thought Gel a Gun and a few A.C.K.Bots. This page is the start of that story. The AWAKENER finds a planet of abandoned buildings and inadvertently awakens a Gun and a Thought Gel which is a substance used in artificial intelligence in the ASTRO MONK universe.

This page is a favorite of mine when I look at it there is nothing I would change in it . It feels whole to me. It’s a rare thing when this happens. I remember the filmmaker Steven Spielberg once said that out of all the movies that he has made there is only one that he would not change a thing in. That movie was Raiders of the Lost Ark. The first of the Indiana Jones movies and one of my personal favorites of his. Feeling like you made a perfect thing just doesn’t happen a lot even to the most talented people.

Chaos

There is a lot of stuff that swirls around you and funnels in and out of you when you make something emotions ,influences, opinions (yourself and others) thoughts, stories how you feel that day utter chaos swirling around you till all those things converge into you and then pour out of you. It’s a birth. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. But the most important thing is that you go ahead and look into that window of chaos and open it.

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Weirdly’s World: Je Suis Charlie

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on January 13, 2015 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Je Suis Charlie In my last blog I’ve talked about perceotions of villainy and here it comes screaming into our lives with last weeks Charlie Hebdo killings of cartoonist and those that help make the magazine. The killers I imagine thought that they have done nothing wrong. To them they have committed righteous GOD anointed acts. Yelling ALLAHU AKBAR {Which means GOD is great.} while they killed. I would gather from that they believed GOD was smiling
down on them as they murdered their unsuspecting victims.

The ZEALOTS

Could these ZEALOTS have changed had they not been killed? Could they somehow have been brought to a place where they could have seen what they did in another light? Did the millions of people protesting their actions have any effect on them? Could they see that thier actions did nothing to silence but only elevated those they wanted to erase?

Somewhere and to other people these men are heroes and martyrs. This is where we stand for now vastly separated by our perceptions of villainy and righteousness. Wondering what can possibly be done.
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Weirdlys World: Mobility Ointment

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on November 25, 2014 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Dave WeirdlyPictured here are the Cyclop Scientists working on the practical application of their cosmitronically induced mobility ointment. I sort of got this idea of living things in inanimate objects when I found out that limestone is a conduit for ghosts. Once again spirits or beings infused within inanimate objects. Only in this case with cosmitronic induction a being is born within what the Cyclops Scientists made. I kind of reversed the ghosts in rocks idea. The walking chair in the first panel is a very crude prototype for the Cyclops Scientists experiment.

I designed it to be clunky and very awkward after seeing robot prototype videos on youtube. They all seemed
to have ugly wires and bulky machines attached to the robots. I found that interesting so I applied that to the chair they made.

Single Sighted

As the story progesses it may seem like I’m down on science. Im not. I think we should grow and expand what we are. Though I think we need to be wise enough to nurture and guide what we make into a healthy and harmless place. I think a lot of times commerce over takes our wisdom and we become single sighted. Like the Cyclops Scientist.

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Weirdlys World: the Awakener v Frankenstein

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on October 27, 2014 Respond

By Dave Weirdly

Frankenstein vs the Awakener

Boris Karloff

With this week being Halloween I would like to talk about Frankenstein. One of my favorite books and movies. Written by Mary Shelley between the age of 19 and 20 which is unbelievable. Later adapted to film by a not much older James Whale. Who gave Frankenstein’s Monster his flat head. An amazing design choice. Again mixing organics with a hard geometric plane makes for a striking image. Thats in part how I designed the Awakener. Both are synthetic creatures brought into existence by their creators. And both asking the question why? Why did you make me? Why do I exist? And later, No! I will not do as I’m told!

The FRANKENSTEIN Monster  vs The AWAKENER

The Frankenstien Monster made the decision to destroy those around him. The Awakener made the decision to procreate. Both decisions threatened the culture in which they were rooted. So monsters they become. The Frankenstein Monster was wronged by being made such a wretch. Making him incapable of forming relationships. Out of revenge he destroyed his creators relationships. I have nothing so shall you. The Awakener just wants something it can relate to as well. Which threatens those around it. Both are tragic. Both have our sympathies. I find that interesting because the monsters almost become the heroes.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Weirdlys World: the Awakener Continued

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on October 14, 2014 Respond

The Awakener (continued) by Dave Weirdly

So enters the AWAKENER! A multi-eyed rectangle floating through the city. The rectangle shape hopefully informs you that this is a spawn of technology. Also being called experiment X-14 is a que the it is a made thing.

The Eyes Have It

The eyes. Well…I like multi-eyed creatures. Where and when I came to like them is kind of an unknown. I suppose in writing this I may discover a partial reason. Some of the influences I can name are the creature descriptions in the book of Ezekiel as well as the wheel within a wheel the has eyes on it. If I’m remembering that right. Attaching eyes onto a hard geometric shape makes for a interesting visual contrast. Multi-eyed creatures for me also resonate with intelligence, spirituality and supernatural awareness. Many religions embrace or have
multi-eyed creatures as deities or spirit creatures. Leading me to think that this could be a collective consciousness thing. All these attributes are { I like to think} infused into the AWAKENER character. As you will see in future pages of ASTRO MONK.

My next two blogs will be focusing even more on the AWAKENER creature. Thanks for Reading!

 

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