Bad Food

Following Forte

I'm thinking about doing more of these black and white digital comics. Actually, I really just want to get back into digital art in general. I'm starting to miss the art classes I was taking. Not good to get out of practice so I hastily threw this together for my own benefit. More to come soon, hopefully. 

Entire Team Is Babies!

Humanity is still in its infancy.

I do a lot of thinking when I'm alone. When I'm practicing with my nunchaku there is this strange, almost meditative state that I slip into. Maybe it's the endorphins. I don't know.
I do think a lot about the state of the world, and government, and religion and I've come to the conclusion that everyone is wrong. First and foremost people as a majority are under the opinion that with age comes wisdom. Not so. Wisdom comes with experience and knowledge. Just because you're a fifty-something year old red neck with a ton of money (which incidentally only has value because the ignorant place value on it) does not mean you're fit to run a country. Religion is flawed as well. It always will be. I love that it groups people together and those groups do a lot of good things for their communities but I hate that they have to call everyone else wrong and try and drag them into their religious beliefs. Science, is in a way, also a religion. They try almost as hard as other religious factions to convince people that they are right. I tend to side more with science than religion because they have more evidence to back their theories but they can be just as close minded as everyone else. For instance: who are they to say there isn't a divine being? I'm not saying there is or isn't a "God" but shouldn't part of one's quest for self and personal truth be the ability to make that choice on their own?

I am very cautious about what I choose to believe when people try and tell me things. It's why I don't vote or go to church. I'm in this life to learn and make decisions on my own and too often the rest of the world is trying to control and alter what it is that I'm doing. Do I want to go to school? Yes. The pursuit of truth is partly through knowledge and what better place to gain knowledge than a classroom or a library? Once again, however, the matter of money comes into play. You see- the people of this world have decided that a fictional value should be placed upon everything and so I can't afford to go to school and have to find other means of educating myself until I can find a "job" with which I can pay for schooling with. Humanity is obsessed with rules and systems to the point of self enslavement. The word "freedom" is meaningless now because no matter what you do someone will want to control you. I'm told that if I vote it will help change things. Yet, every time an election passes and new people are put into power; nothing changes. Sure the economy shifts one way or another and laws are passed that help or discriminate any particular group but we don't really get any sort of actual freedom. We still have to get up, go to work (those of us that do have jobs), and slave away for hours all because the man (starting to sound like a hippie) needs green pieces of paper to keep us in check.

Is humanity inherently good or evil? I try and think back to times when mankind first started thinking for itself. Cave man days, you know? And I would like to think the world could operate in a simpler state. I've been told that the only reason anything progresses forward is because of the promise of wealth. Money. I would like to think that human kind progresses forward on an alternate plane without material wealth. What really created all this current computer and pharmaceutical technology? It wasn't money. It was a select group of individuals who used their brains because they wanted to better the world and make things simpler for their race. Sure, some of them probably did it for the money but that thought is so narrow and weak that I refuse to believe it. I would like to believe that if we were to revert back to a government-less state and the money all became without value that we would progress forward and make advances anyway just because it is the human drive to do so.

Or maybe I'm just insane.

What I'm about.

I want to start blogging more. A lot more. I want to become a better writer and I want people to read what I have to say. So I thought I'd start by introducing myself and giving a little bit of information on who I am and what kind of things I'll be talking about on this blog.

My name is Hayden Wiseman and I am 20 years old. I'm really into video games and Japanese culture. Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking,"oh great. Another nerd ranting about things that no one cares about." That's not entirely the case. While I will be writing a bit about video games and the nerdier side of my life, I'll also be writing about trying to find enlightenment.

My interest's in Asian culture expand beyond video games, anime and manga. I've read the Hagakure, Go Rin No Sho (the Book of Five Rings), Sun Tsu's Art of War and countless haiku among other pieces of literature. I love Chinese and Japanese history but I'm a bit biased towards Japan because of their samurai. The samurai have been an interest of mine since I was very young and for a good part of my life Miyamoto Musashi has been one of my personal heroes. So, the point of this blog will mainly be a way for me to express my feelings on a number of pieces of Japanese literature and how they have influenced my life and secondly to geek out and have a good time.

More about me: I'm into martial arts and have practiced them most of my life (tae kwan do, karate, jiu jitsu, kajukenbo, etc) but I am currently out of practice (and shape) because I don't have the money to attend classes. As far as oriental weaponry goes I've always preferred the katana but I frequently practice with my nunchaku. I want to learn how to use a three sectional staff and tonfa.

I've said already that I'm into video games but to get more into that I prefer action titles. Two of my favorite game franchises are the Metal Gear Solid series and the Yakuza (know as Ryu ga Gotoku in Japan) series. I also read a number of comics which I won't get into just yet.

I'm in a relationship with a wonderful girl and I'm looking for work.

Any questions or comments just say anything I suppose.

P.S. I'm going to try and attach a bit of artwork that I've done to all of these posts if I can. That's what the guy up in the corner is.

P.P.S. I'm not going to end all of these with "P.S."

Samurai Culture

I have a thing for Japanese culture. In particular the samurai, ronin, and yakuza. This drawing is actually unfinished. I'm leaving it that way because I realized recently that apart from a few notable titles there hasn't been any kind of samurai movie, book, or video game released within the past few years. It's a bit sloppy in spots but I think it's an alright piece.

Got a scanner. Here's the better version. :D Still bad but oh well.

Low Res Removal.

I don't have a scanner yet but I still want to start posting random bits of artwork. I'm working towards my eventual web comic idea but for now it's just going to be a ton of really bad low res sketches and concept art.