And a year goes by so quickly...

A short note today.

I've been involved in so many different things since last I blogged here, that it doesn't really make sense to take the time updating this blog about it (especially since my other blogs cover these - see my profile for a list...).

The breakthrough today was in realizing that I may very well skip the cartoon publishing and go straight to videos. This is as I've been doing some PowerPoint-style videos and have gotten fairly conversant with Camtasia (over most my learning curve).

Today, I saw that I can simply create these cartoons in a video format through drawing, scanning, coloring and then outputting directly to video. With these images, I can also make publishable toons in the familar formats for printing - but I can take them and directly post to YouTube, which would give me more exposure.

This would also allow me to do timely comments, which are based on the silliness which is rampant in this world right now. I'd follow that YouTube video with a version for DevArt, as well as a PDF - all of which would link into this blog. This is different from my other work, which has a blog post, then an MP3 and finally a video.

Videos simply allow me to break into the news cycles and so get a greater audience than I would otherwise.

And the video is always sponsored by "Go Thunk Yourself!" book series. This way, they are all tied together.

Interestingly, this is separate from my illustrated children stories, which are then a fifth production line. (Giving me one day each to produce/market these during the week.) Whew...

But I've always wanted an interesting life.

Cheers.

PS. Have to research on how a podcatcher could download videos from YouTube...

Barnett wrong about personal limits

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Ace in the hole

Hello, world, and welcome to mine...

Hope you like cartoons. That's the way I figured is best to convey my comments, opinions, and observations. All my life I've drawn, self-trained. I've been doing caricatures the past three years, just to keep my hand in. Before that I was attending college after leaving some in-house graphic design positions in LA.

So much for my history.

I worked to reconcile some different ideas I've had, which research resulted in several books and papers. All this is on several other sites, which are linked. Other than some weekly articles and blog entries, this is the last of my writings.

Shortly, I hope to be producing a series of cartoons, which will post here on a series of five or so per week. Of course, the quality will improve as I get the production line worked out.

The reason I'm blogging these is to be able to get out the work in a simple format which is widely available to readers. As I can, I'll work at syndicating these in newspapers, etc. But the first versions will be on this blog. And of course, you can comment on what I do and also subscribe to the RSS feed.

Good luck to us all.