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Burn! Hollywood! Burn!

2008-06-08T23:09:00.000-07:00

This is an Adobe Illustrator created poster. Created as a fictional call for a gathering of concerned citizens to petition congress to convene congressional hearings to force the Motion Picture Industry to follow the Hay's Code of Conduct when it comes to motion pictures and television programming.

Time's Up

2008-06-05T22:15:00.000-07:00

The time is now for people living in the most powerful country in the world to start a movement that creates an implosion of the moral degeneracy happening in Hollywood. There is no more time to waste. If the Motion Picture Industry will not use the art form to advance human development then it is time that Americans become the catalyst for this massive eruption so that a new and better Hollywood can spring forth from the ashes.

This graphic image was created in Illustrator using and ellipse, lines, the rotate tool and the text tool. The nuclear implosion was a photo that I live traced and inserted.

Logo's

2008-06-04T14:30:00.000-07:00

The concept behind this logo is to pay homage to this beautiful creation of the Edison Laboratories. This documenter of history through images is not an accomplice in Hollywood's attack upon the masses. This inanimate object when in the hands of the moral stalwarts of the arts has performed admirably. To that end this is my tribute to the motion picture camera.

There are 4 basic shapes used to create this in Adobe Illustrator 1)Ellipse 2)Square 3)Rounded Rectangle 4)Line segment and Text.

If the motion picture camera is the body this logo pays homage to the brain. There could be no pictorial record without Film. Apart from the beauty of the science involved when light is captured on this magnetic frame film represents where man has been, but more importantly where man is going. Even as new technologies attempt to replace it all other attempts have been labeled with a similar moniker "film like" in their attempts to duplicate it.

2 basic shapes used 1)Square 2)Rectangle and text.

Throughout this blog I've railed against Hollywood and it's pervasive hold on the world. But this is the studio execs. who hide in plush lavish offices and live in gated communities who make the decisions to bring forward through this wonderful art form degradation, filth, and indecency. This logo represents the players, the actors and actresses who have honed their craft and bring forth a rich tapestry of characters that inspire those who will one day aspire to reach for their dreams.

2 basic shapes used 1)The star shape 2)line segment and text.

This logo represents what is not only the problem in Hollywood but the problem in the world. These towering edifices represent "big brother" that ever present watchful eye that sets the agenda for the "dumbing down" of the world's masses through the smut and filth shown on small and large screens throughout the world. They are the "money manipulators," the international bankers who will never show up on a top ten personal wealth list but is estimated to have wealth in the trillions of dollars. To quote one of these men I speak of Mayer Amschel Rothschild who said "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." This logo represents those towering entities, those wizards behind the curtain in Oz that need to be exposed with the motion picture camera loaded with film.

This was created using a brush in a photoshop to create the buildings brought over to illustrator 2)Rectangle with a black border and text.

Hollywood! On Sale Now.

2008-05-21T13:41:00.000-07:00

This is my photo shop created interpretation of Hollywood aka the Motion Picture Industry. As you can see the arch deceiver has the world in his hands as he takes us on a magic carpet ride. In this case the magic carpet is the U.S. flag. My feelings on the modus operandi of this sinister behemoth of an industry is detailed in my blog entries. Kindly submitted for your perusal. But as previously stated in an earlier blog, all of this dumbing and numbing down of the world's populace is done at a price. Hence the sale price at the top left corner. That my friends is the genius of it all.

All of the source images were snatched from google images except the work I did myself using photo shop as I mentioned before.

This is the first google image I used and it can be found here.

This is the second and it can be found here.

And finally I got this picture here.

The Motion Picture Industry: A Perspective

2008-05-14T18:30:00.000-07:00

By now you've read my maniacal rants about Hollywood and the motion picture industry especially when it comes to the colossal damage it has done to the image of African-Americans. I contend that Hollywood is no more than a propaganda machine that the elite of the world use in there war against everyday jack and jill.

No we are not the only race of people that have been shamefully maligned and denigrated. The Russians during the so-called "cold war," The Italians and La Cosa Nostra, and most recently Arabs and "radical Islam." Have all felt the wrath of the power elite in their attempts to shape America's perspective and make a hefty profit while doing it. That my friends is the beauty of it all. How brilliant that a vehicle like motion pictures can completely make young black men in urban centers throughout America look like undeserving of life savages, in a movie like "Menace to Society." Yet have the film rake in millions of dollars while doing it. Genius or maniacal?

I heard it once said that most geniuses are maniacs. But hate it or love it you have to respect the hustle. Because at the end of the day it's all a matter of perspective.

Hollywood And A Question Of Morality

2008-05-14T16:51:00.000-07:00

Take a look at this picture. An extremely sexy and scantily clad sexpot like Jessica Alba stands in front of a host of Catholic Hierarchy. These men have dedicated their lives to no more a nobler purpose than to be ambassadors of the Christ and to try and steer man in a righteous direction. Even as some try to remain ambivalent a few can't resist the temptation but to look. Even if the look does not appear to show interest nor disinterest.(images were photo shopped)

To me this is the perfect metaphor for Hollywood and the motion picture industry. As I have previously written Hollywood (studio execs) itself recognized the enormous responsibility it had in trying to put forth an entertaining product while adhering to the principles set forth by an emerging Christian nation. The Hays Code was to address this need. Of course all that one has to do is take a look at the code to see that Hollywood has fallen woefully short of living up to the code. In fact it has completely shredded it asunder.

It has become a run away locomotive spewing poisonous venom in every direction. Every "ism" in the English language paraded before the stalwarts of faith, spiritual awakenings, and reconciliation and yet there is no outcry. Just like the Catholic hierarchy in the picture above all but a few seem not to even notice.

Blacks in Hollywood

2008-05-07T14:48:00.000-07:00

From it's inception early Hollywood movies (also known as peep shows) presented Blacks in an unfavorable light. No one movie more exemplified this than the film version of Thomas Dixon's pro-South, Ku Klux Klan, novel, The Clansman. than the 1915 release of D.W.Griffith's "The Birth of A Nation." Most seem to be in agreement that in terms of "artistic and technical outlook, it was a masterpiece of conception and structure and gave rise to today's narrative film. But it also gave rise to a prevalent racist attitude and exploitative theme in motion pictures when it came to the image of Blacks.

In the film Blacks who were elected to office were portrayed as arrogant, lustful, and are shown as drunkards on the house floor. The Nation Magazine declared it "improper, immoral, and injurious and a deliberate attempt to humiliate ten million American citizens." But this film was just the beginning, a blueprint for how Hollywood would mold an image of Blacks in films as well as America's image of Blacks as depicted in film. Subordinate, dim-witted, and subservient to there white counterparts. In my estimation a deliberate and concerted effort by movie studio Execs to cause damage and injury to the black psyche.

The Origins of Hollywood

2008-05-07T14:14:00.000-07:00

When you hear the word Hollywood first thoughts are about your favorite movie actor or actress. Bright lights fancy cars and movie stars. Lifestyles of the rich and famous with their VH1 shopping sprees and million dollar homes in the California Hills. But this is far from the truth about Hollywood's birth. In fact the first American motion pictures were made in the early 1890's, by employees of Thomas Edison's Laboratories in New Jersey. And for the first 15 years of movie-making history the New York/New Jersey area dominated the industry."

"What was to become Hollywood was a relatively small farming town northwest of a relatively small city (Los Angeles) in a relatively new state (California joined the union in 1850)" In 1853 a Kansas prohibitionist names Horace Wilcox and his wife Daeida were the first developers of the area and gave it the name "Hollywood" named after a friends home who lived in Chicago.

The area became a thriving development that was "short-lived" due to a lack of "adequate water supply" an effect of the average "320 days of sunshine per year." Eventually this brought about the complete annexation to the city of Los Angeles in 1910. In 1893 the birth of the Edison patented "Kinetograph" produced the first "movie."

The invention was quickly improved upon and in 1894 the first "Kinetoscope" parlor opened in New York City. This was a time when movies could only be made by natural light. So Hollywood with it's 320 days of sunshine and attractive terrain became an attractive place. So in 1911 the first studio was built and the rest is as they say history.

Source:
By Steve Sampson, Managing Editor
KnowledgeNews;

The Hays Code

2008-05-07T13:40:00.000-07:00

The Hays Code

William Harrison Hays, Sr. the once chairman of the Republican National Committee (1918-1921), U.S. Postmaster General (1921-1922), and Campaign Manager for former President Warren G. Harding. Become the first president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.

He was hired in an attempt to clean up the image of the industry in the wake of the Rosco "Fatty" Arbuckle rape and murder scandal. He was given the arduous task of keeping films financially viable by keeping state censor boards from banning specific films outright due to content. In essence his task was two fold reduce studios cost and improve the industry's image.

So Hays was forced to try to understand the minds of the men/women on state boards in terms of what would and would not be permitted when it came to the release of motion pictures. Needless to say his first attempt aptly named "The Formula" failed. As did his second attempt "The Don'ts and Be Carefuls." His third attempt had him work with a group of catholic bishops to come up with what would come to be called "The Hays Code" in 1930.

This became the standard by which the studios would conduct business. I leave it up to you to inspect the code to see if Hollywood has lived up to it.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikisource-logo.svg

Adobe CS3

2008-04-23T18:41:00.000-07:00

My interest in Adobe software actually started with the Windows paintbrush application. I had all these crazy ideas about what I wanted to do with images and text and became frustrated with how limited paintbrush was. So of course using a search engine I began scouring the Internet and low and behold I came across an Adobe trial application. My prayers had been answered http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Of course I am now an Adobe junkie, getting my fix everyday, as I try to increase my knowledge of a seemingly limitless software. I really believe the team over there at Adobe are other worldly, as they have surely brought a superior knowledge that has greatly benefited we mere mortals here on earth. That would probably explain the hundreds of UFO sightings but that's neither here nor there and you haven't heard that from me. Okay the finger tips are going cold and I feel a slight twitch. Now I usually don't do this but I'm in a generous mood so if you too are a Adobe fiend get your fix here www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/.