Eastfist

I’ve only ever learned to draw by imitating comic book artist’s rendition of things, mainly buff dudes. I never focused too much on females, but I still do study from the best. When you draw women, your lines have to be all that better more curves more sensual. Harder to do. You also have to make sure their faces don’t look masculine. At least when you draw men, you can clump on the muscles, much like sculpting, and make their faces as neanderthal as you want, and it’ll still be bad-ass. But with women, you have to take more care to make it look feminine. It’s harder.

I know he kinda looks like Starscream, but he’s suppose to look like an eagle, not a garbled mess of metal or car wreck. I think I need to look at more machines or industrial design. I can’t get away from making him look humanoid, which isn’t what I intend.

My lines are still loose, but my industrial design isn’t that credible. It almost looks like graffiti. Oh well. I suppose if you can draw industrial objects really well, it’s because you’re around a lot of mechanical stuff, car parts and factory machines.

I’m not necessarily making fun of hardcore Bitcoiners, but this was something I drew up quick for practice drawing and Photoshopping. Serious is serious.

Daredevil is so easy to draw. Don’t like the new NetFlix armor suit, so I did some quick sketches. I think it does look better if it’s more formfitting. He is an acrobat and martial artist after all. Not a soldier.

As of April 8, 2015, this is what Lulu.com’s Create A Book Page looks like. It’s very helpful in setting up your book before you piece it together and send it to them. You can view the page at http://www.lulu.com/create/books. I think this will be more useful because the Lulu.com forums and help pages tend to be out-of-date and there is a lot of inconsistent advice. (more…)

Bitcoin relies heavily on the Internet. And right now, the strength of Bitcoin is dependent on the number of miners and the Internet they are paying for. Therefore, if Bitcoin is to become self sufficient, it needs its own Internet Service Provider that accepts Bitcoin. It would fuel itself.

From there, you can sell Bitcoin-based phone and Internet services. See where I’m going? Then you can start doing Bitcoin payments that are guaranteed to be secured because no can can infiltrate exclusive Bitcoin Internet Service Provider. If anything bad happens, then you’ll know it’s an inside job.

So, once Bitcoin has its own Internet Service Provider, that’s good and all, but it still doesn’t have too much value.

That’s where natural resources come in. Bitcoin needs to get a food supply and be backed by cattle, pork, chicken, etc. Or it needs oil or pharmaceutical backing. Obviously, the druggies are putting their money in. It’s a grand experiment to observe. It’s clear that shit won’t last, even if Feds think Bitcoin is a good honeypot tool.

The reason you need an exclusive Bitcoin natural resource like a cattle farm or whatever is that’s REAL value. When someone pays in Bitcoin for a hamburger or pizza, they need to know they are giving that non-tangible object for something tangible: food in the belly. Same could be for oil. You need that shit to drive your car.

Unfortunately, this could lead to some real cult-like shit. You can get some farmers to start living off solely Bitcoin, but eventually they’d realize they can’t live alone. And the current money system is needed to do business with people outside of the Bitcoin micro-economy.

Ideally, though, if all those things were in place, I’d consider Bitcoin a success. You can use it as a currency, you can use it to chat with friends, you can use it for titles to your house or car, you can use it as a cloud service, etc. The more you use it, the more valuable it becomes. The more valuable it is, the more you’ll likely use it.