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The Media Mapping Guy™ now presents another hair-pulling, narrow-minded point of view only he could provide: The Baddest Bad Guy. Disclaimer: All this is just my opinion. A follow up article may be made with more research. A story is only as good as its villain With bland-ish heroes currently occupying the nooks and cranny of popular modern visual culture, only a really “colorful” and “interesting” villain can really save the day. (Bad...

We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behavior. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behavior among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are now being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power. – Frank HerbertNote that this quotation above has no bearing to what...

During the lifetime of this blog, I’m pretty sure I’ve blabbed about the so-called “Science-Fiction Troopers” phenomena for a while now. Its enduring status throughout the decades reached a fever pitch with (at the time of this writing) the release of videogames based on original properties like Halo, Killzone, Starcraft, Doom, Mass Effect, Armies of the Southern Cross, Gears of War, Quake, Crysis and Unreal, and popular licensed franchises...

There was a time when I never cared for comic books. I somehow felt the whole comic book thing was a lowly kind of art form, not worthy of mainstream attention. I also never understood the whole Marvel and DC superhero culture and stuff. That perspective changed as time went by…In 2005, curiosity got the better of me and I started sifting through a bunch of old comic books. I ended up buying a couple of issue. What’s odd was that I didn’t...

I have never enrolled to any licensed ‘Art School’. That short weekly class during high school doesn't count. I honestly haven’t the slightest clue how to teach myself art – properly.I've composed a short list of books that I’ve bought over the years that I’ve used in my so-called 'Art Education':Material I’ve read so far:D’artisteBasic CompositionDrawing Realistic FiguresImagineFX magazinesVarious “Learn How To Draw” booksInspirational...

Beginning today, I’m going to jumpstart a short series of posts based on the life, art, and philosophies of the infamous ‘Visual Futurist’ – Syd Mead.And here I thought the “Peter Chung Special” series of posts was tough to write due to the wealth of material written about him! It would appear that writing about Syd Mead would be a much more difficult challenge. Why? Because possessing a much larger body of work, it’s hard to actually talk...