Starting to Take Shape (from my Patreon page)

Well, I am just so getting into the alien design that I had to start working on it.  Here is the under painting I have done so far.  I think there will be two versions of this, one as the alien and another as the damaged terminator version.

Yuk (from my Patreon page)

 

Boy oh boy, looking up lots of bug pictures to get a look at eyes, necks, and heads for the Termanicz project.  Have yet to look at busted bugs for the broken shell effect.  I want to have goo running down like blood.  Also want to improve the shape of the shoulder and neck areas to be more realistic.

Surprise Coming Tomorrow

As I said last week I had two suprises for you.  The first was the free downloadable copy of my story “The Fall of Blessing and Prosperity”.  Tomorrow, I will be uploading the second surprise.

Free E-Book from Tor

I just wanted to pass along a great free E-book that Tor.com is offering. In preparation for Brandon Sanderson’s third book in the Stormlight Archives series, Tor is giving away e-copies of The Way of Kings today and tomorrow.  I have been looking forward to reading this series but wanted to wait until he had more books written, but I couldn’t pass up a free copy.  I hope you won’t either.

The Best War Movies

I wanted to give you an update on my listing  of what I consider to be very good movies about war.  My original post is here War and Peace and other Rubbish, so I don’t have to rewrite.

The movie I want to add is The Railway Man starring Colin  Firth and Nicole Kidman.  The Railway Man is the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Military engineer captured in the fall of Singapore at the beginning of WWII.  The story deals with healing of the wounds that war causes for all who pursue it.  Lomax is taken to help build the infamous Thai-Burmese railroad of which the bridge over the river Kwai is part.  He and is fellow soldiers are terribly mistreated, but the worst is yet to come for Lomax.  When a radio he used to get information from the outside world is found, Eric is severely beaten and subject to repeated torture including waterboarding.

The trauma of his wartime life leaves him scarred and unable to return to a normal living until he meets his wife on a train trip.  The struggles Eric and Patti Lomax have trying to create a home lead Eric to a confrontation with the Japanese interpreter who was present through his torture sessions.  I don’t want to give away ending, but it is, in my earnest opinion, one of the most important truths to learn about war.  People let be done or do the most despicable things in the name of causes espoused by others.  Movies like this should be required as part of world history in every country.

Pillars of Heaven

Well, if you have been coming to this blog for a while, you will know that I am not an atheist.  Yes, I beleive in God, but that does not mean I hate atheists or Jews.  This life is tough and there are no clear answers.   Everyone has to find their own way.

What I don’t beleive in is organized religion.  As far as I see it, every one of todays religions has fallen from the path of God.  When you side with forces that are bent upon harming others or destroying nature, which God made for us, then you are against God.  Allowing Priests to corrupt minors to save face, fail.  Killing thousands in plane attacks, fail.  Promoting hate crimes against other races, fail (when you don’t denounce this, you show your true color).

I see more hate and evil being ignored or supported by so called Chritians than avowed atheists.   Attacking science because it makes people doubt your God is a sin.  You are saying God is too weak to defend himself and that only you know the truth, epic fail.  God does not make it easy to understand him.  He will challenge you all the way to the grave.  The only true way to live a Christian life is by example not by decree.  Quit telling everyone else how to live, that is God’s choice to make.  Placing men in power who treat women like property instead of the gift God gave them,you know what I think.  Blaming and punishing only women about abortion, not only hypocritical but sinful.  Abortion will not stop until you start punishing men as much as women.  If you truly love your daughters, you would demand this.

Stop spouting the words and start living the life.  This blog is full of attempts to see the world as it is, the science and the religion.  Attempts to look beyond the illusionary words to the truthful actions.  I very much want your support for my artwork but not by becomming something else.   This is who I am and it is part of my creative nature.  Please come with an open mind.

Coping

I have decided on two ways for me to cope with what America has become.  One, I am going to disengage myself as much as possible from this monstrosity of an economic system that truely feeds only the elite.  I am going to live as simple as possible and focus on getting debt free (one of the real causes of our misery).  Just remember, every dollar you spend on stuff you don’t really need, feeds their machine.  Just think of the effect on Trump’s presidency of a big drop in spending.  Yes, that could hurt people’s jobs but are they any more safe now.
Second, I plan to practice civil obedience.  If they are so big about the law, I figure they will be totally happy that I obey every speed limit, come to complete stops at stop signs, and always slow to a stop at yellow lights.  Lets make their lives as miserable as they made ours for the next 4 years.  Come 99%, rise up and follow the law.