Dudee, I just looked at my Calendar and it’s fucking July...JULY, YOU GUYS!!! WTF where did half of the year go??? Gawwd I have become a houseplant in term of laziness.....I mean look at this place!!! I haven’t even updated anything that worth a real shit & giggle for awhile....Why? How could this be? Well mostly because I don’t give a rat ass

Heh, last few weeks I read THIS ARTICLE about how Disney is coming out with its first major black heroine later this year in "The Frog and the Princess," but to the dismay of Disney executives (hah), the film  got so much hate from everyone and anyone...

Well, first of....I think I have 1 tip for the Disney executives.... surprise surprise..."people will never ever be happy...NEVER" they could always nit pick ANYTHING, so if you think people will give you less shiet because you create your first black princess 'cuz you actually care what the public think (the public is stupid anyway, GAH I hate the public)...then, you’re dead wrong.

Second, I have very strong opinions about the whole thing, very very strong....but I’m sure you don’t care to know, and I don’t care if you don’t care...heh so I’m not going to spend much time writing about it.

It’s hard for me to really relate to this whole situation because I have a very bias opinion. First, cuz we sort of work for Disney (my company is a licensed product-design company for them) and we’ve been preparing on lots of new designs for this new heroine (I personally think she’s adorable)


 



And then there are Lion King, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (OMG remember Gus Gus, the FAT mice??? .."Uhh uhh Gus Gus...")




AND THUMPER....dude THUMPEEERRRRR!!!


 

Also TWITTERPATED!!! I swear Twitterpated is like THE BEST SEX ED I'VE EVER HAD as a kid





And you know what else I just realized??? Without Disney there would be NO BAMBI and FÉLINE....*GASP* Fuck that shiet, if you mess with Disney, you mess with the Lo's Sisters!!! Fast forward to 2:00 mark to see how Bambi meet Féline again (or Faline in the English version) after they're all grown up.




And don't even let me BEGIN on Pixar works....Hellooooo Monster Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, RATATOUILLE, and OMG OMG... UP!!! (If you haven't seen UP, please  DO IT!!!) Ugh how can I even explain how wrong this is???

Hmm but then I can give you the last part of the article that says a whole lot (and a lot less angry) that I ever could:

“Perhaps the final word — for now — should come from somebody who is African-American and a former Disney animator.

“Overly sensitive people see racial or ethnic slights in every image,” wrote Floyd Norman, whose credits span from “Sleeping Beauty” to “Mulan,” in a 2007 essay on the Web site Jim Hill Media. “And in their zeal to sanitize and pasteurize everything, they’ve taken all the fun out of cartoon making.”

I mean it’s a lot easier to passionately HATE something, than passionately LOVE something...just like it’s much easier to destroy something than to build it. And most people enjoy hating, bringing down and destroying other people’s spirit, perhaps because they have none of their own? Methinks we live in a damn sad sad world

Personally, I think most of us artists are all in the same way...you gotta design for design’s sake, NOT for money, fame, deadline or anything else. If you don’t find joy in designing, creating...it will DEFINITELY shows in your designs. It’s that simple, please trust me on this one. Of course it’s not a good thing, it’s a horrible thing...I always admire people who can do anything on a fly in any situation. I don’t need to live in a perfect condition to work, but I do need to feel inspired by the project. There’s nothing I hate more than people giving me projects that they have absolutely zero interests in it. It’s ok if you don’t have a vision (because that my job) but it’s not ok to NOT care for your own project. If you don’t, I can't; it’s actually THAT simple.

My friends always asked me why I don't turn my blog into a food blog, make it into a professional website and actually make money off it. I mean I can actually design a good website for myself, I cook weirdass/fancy food, I try crazy things, I eat out all the time too, I even write my own recipes, and take pictures of EVERYTHING. I mean, all I need to do...REALLY is to add ads on my new website, right?....So what's stopping me???

Money!!! That's what! I just can't do these things for money. It’s for fun, for shit and giggles. If you put a price tag on it, for me, it will all go down hills from there. I can’t make ANYTHING for money. Not even at my job, I cannot think about how much money my designs will worth, how much the company will make off that order and be able to work...Everyday, I literally actually have to sit down and.....DREAM, daydream, think of something else, think that I create this for MYSELF, for my dream, for my vision only...everything else will have to come after. Lucky that what I envision, has been good for the clients so far.

I used to open a store on Etsy, and I couldn’t sell a thing, NOT even ONE, so I shut it off. All because I couldn’t be parted from my paintings/drawings/photographs....I just can’t. I can give it away FOR FREE, for people I love, because then it actually means something, and the person who receives it on the other end will hopefully care for it as much as I do.

The first drawing I did that got in the Verizon gallery in DC actually got offers from people that would like to purchase it. Even though I put underneath the drawing NFS (Not For Sale.) These were good offers, enough money to make the poor broke student in me squealed with joy and should sell it in a heartbeat. I didn’t, now it’s hanging in my parent’s basement (soon to be sent to dkny-my best friend) just as I always thought it should. This kinda thing just works itself out at the end, isn't it?

I used to write movie reviews in Vietnamese too, and boy did that screw me up. I could be a very good movie reviewer, except once I became one I could not for the life of me ever enjoy any movies again in that period. All I could see when I sat down to watch the movie were flaws!!! Or technical aspects of it, how the camera worked, how the actors ...well acted, how the music, costumes, cinematography all worked together. After 2 years, I quit, and it took me another year to recover, and actually be able to go back to just enjoy a movie, and care about absolutely nothing else.

So there,  the reason why I don't write much is just because I don't have time & I'm just plain lazy if I don't feel like it, I'm just not going to do it, that's all. I've been cooking a lot as usual but I don't feel like posting up the recipes, just because it is what it is...I cook to feed myself & people I love first not for some damn website and people I don't give 2 shits about.

Anyway, the article about Disney latest work just made me sort of sad, sort of see what I've always known....

What else that makes the whole thing even more sad is that this is possibly the LAST hand drawn animation Disney will ever made. Mostly because it has become like a lost art...hand drawn cartoon so I suggest you grab your kids, your friends, your SO to go see it in Dec...before it's too late