Gephyrophillia | Page One #6

Originally Posted on 03/30/2002 by Jeff Harris

I am so scared.

For a couple of months now, I've been working on pieces for my first gallery show, 49 Freedom, which will be held next month, and I am so scared. I've never exhibited a lot of my work in one place, and I'm kind of afraid on how the public will react to it. I'm not an artist like that, and the fact that I'm doing this for a grade is enough to urk me. I mean, gads, my teacher in Senior Show is a guy that knows everything that there is to know about Rembrandt, Monet, and Maplethorpe and has no recollection of the artistic contributions of guys like Noble, Toriyama, Adams, Romita, Kubert, Tezuka, Kirby (anybody worth their salt would know the significance of my putting those names back to back), Finger, McGruder, Sendak, Kelly, Miyazaki, Timm, Perez, Cho, Tartakofsky, or Ross. Anyway, I'm hoping my show will be successful.

Speaking of galleries, I'm planning a gallery of my own work here on the site in late April. It's going to be part of another project I'm working on called Satellite. What is Satellite? It's something that should have been on the site since day one, and its something that I'm ready to have fun with. There will be a lot of original content found in that section of the site. The gallery is one thing. If I say anymore, I think I might give too much away. Just stay tuned.

Speaking of galleries again, if you haven't already, check out comic artist John Delaney's gallery in the comics section of my site's host, Toon Zone. The fans get to pick the subject matter for Mr. Delaney's newest additions in a weekly poll (yes, he does do anime subjects as well [his Spike and Faye looked lovely!]). Trust me, each illustration gets better than the next, so do your friendly neighborhood webpage a favor and vote!

On the subject of the Golden Headed Naked Baldheaded Man Awards, the winners were announced last weekend. In keeping with the annual tradition, the pretentious, overbearing, boring film, A Beautiful Mind, won the big prize. It wasn't a runaway sweep either, because that film got only the top two prizes (best picture and TV's Opie, Ron Howard, winning for best director) and four total. The Fellowship of The Ring, my personal pick, also got four awards (better luck next year for The Two Towers). Shrek won the first Best Animated Picture, and Disney still needs to get the picture and stop diluting the marketplace with "cheapquels." As for Best Actor and Actress, congrats to the lovely Halle Berry and the alright-looking Denzel Washington, though I was rooting for cousin Willard for the actor nod (at least he could forever have the title "Academy Award nominee" in everything that he does). To the winners and the non-winners (there are no losers, except those that didn't get nominated), congrats.

Did you read the Wired article where I got interviewed about Toonami? No? Me neither. I just found out that it was published online. Usually, you'd think that I'd be a little thrilled about being mentioned in a mainstreamed magazine. You don't know me very well, do you? Check out the newest CNXtra article for my reaction to the article as well as what they left out.

I'll be back next week for more rantings of a mad webmaster as well as more about the Satellite. No April Fool's joke this year (people are still scared from last year's Nick-X joke), so enjoy a smile on Monday. Toonami's getting in the mood, but you'll have to watch to see what's going to happen.

Until we are one, later.

Jeff Harris
Webmaster
March 30, 2002