01/04/10 - Three months ago I launched a video contest
on youtube to promote awareness of the fraud that surrounds the H1N1 vaccine.
Some things go viral. Some don't. This one went nowhere.
Only one person entered the contest. In the video that you were
required to watch, an executive of a large pharmaceutical company has
his balls chopped off and mailed off to some other as a warning.
There are penalties in life when you purposely spread a disease
in order to sell a phony vaccine that does more harm than good. Anyway...
the contestant then had to answer a few questions, namely, how many "plague
of smile" candies were in the jar of balls. So Jordge Y. of San Diego,
you are the winner by default and a custom Plague of Smiles Mino HD camcorder
is being mailed off to you. Congratulations. A final look at
the short film below.
12/25/09 - Merry Christmas all and a Happy 2010! I just finished
posting the pics from our corporate retreat at
The Moon River Ranch. What
a place to be! The main building is four stories tall, all built in
log cabin style with custom furniture and decorations. Originally owned
by a rich dentist who reinvested his earnings into cattle, buffalo, and exotic
animals, the Moon River Ranch then became a retreat for the ultra wealthy
and corporate CEO's. Click the picture below to see all the pics from
our 2009 party. Exquisitely beautiful!
10/11/09 - I just finished my first short film
(H1N1BS) and now
that I've got the film bug I have to start another project. This one
is going to be mostly animation and just a little bit of film. In order
to create this music video I am
going to have to first create seven rooms filled
with amusing little things that have stuck in my noodle over the years.
I made a test run last night and animated 2 seconds of animation. It
took about 24 hours for my computer to render the artwork. I am going
to cut my time in half by loading up Carrara on both of my computers and
getting everything perfect in the production stages. Six months, maybe
less, I should have a really cool animated cartoon all my own, complete with
music. I leave you with a small taster, a still image of what the first
room is like. Below that you will find a stereoscopic image. Look
at it with your eyes crossed to see my pyramid room in 3D. Stay tuned
for progress.
09/20/09 - Rendering and production work is done. I have my first
VERY short video in the can now although I am NOT happy with youtube and
their HD system. They seem to make everything a bit darker. Still,
I have learned some leasons and will tweak my films in the future to bring
them in line with my vision.
09/18/09 - I started rendering in Carrara on monday. I am still in
the rendering process! Remember, fifteen seconds of animation requires
the computer to "draw" 1500 individual pictures, in HD nonetheless. The
rest of the first video is finished and sitting in Ableton Live waiting for
animation. I will not have another chance to get on the computer saturday
so let's shoot for say... Sunday? Modern Technology, sometimes it's
great and sometimes it's great a few days later.
07/19/09 - Check the Plague of Smiles website.
I just added song number 4 entitled "Get those kittens OFF my screen
door!" I would like to say that no cute and cuddly little
kittens were hurt during the recording of this song.
In addition to song number 4, I have also added some plague merch to the
site. Now you can drink the plague of your choice in our stylish coffee
cup. Don't let the stare of the horse drive you insane. Support
the cause and help us spread some smiles!
07/11/09 - Since being
laid off I have been busy. 32 weeks of unemployment is not a lot of
time so I thought now would be the perfect time to start my musical career.
The name of the band is Plague of Smiles.
I have released two songs to date,
Rolling Off The
Guillotine and Wipe That Smile
Right Off Your Face. Click the smiling horse at right to
visit my music myspace page and have a listen. Your comments would
be most appreciated.
I don't know exactly what kind of music you'd call it. It has certain
elements of rock and is a bit jazzy at times, maybe experimental or electronica.
I am using a program called Ableton Live 7.0 as the center of my studio.
I got the initial idea from artists Jesse Reno and Edward B. Gordon.
I have since learned of Jonathan Coulton.
Right now the songs are free. Once I figure out how to add the shopping
cart then I'll start selling downloads. The new website for the band is:
http://www.kendwebber.com/plague.html and
I am going to try and add, on average, a song a week. Something to
keep you smiling!
The above image is entitled "Crazy Man" copyrighted
by artist Ken D. Webber; All rights reserved.
06/11/09 - A bad economy and only a trickle of purchase orders, what
you gonna do? Season of the ax! But I left on a really great
note and Global Rail Systems
is a pretty competitive company so I see them bouncing back soon. In
the meantime, I am a professional artist with plenty of time on his hands
and maybe you know someone who needs graphic design/illustration work?
Rock bands needing CD art, graphics, etc.? Maybe you need
someone with HTML, Javascript, CSS knowledge? Now would be the time
to shoot me an email and give a shout out to all your friends.
05/25/09 - If you do not have a dream, a plan, something that you and spirit
can work on together, then your WILL on
the material plane is devoid of power. Ok, yes I have had a few beers
but tinfoil hat? Nay I say! Nay!
I have had this house in my head for about six years now, the plan moving
at a snail's pace. I have finally put it down on paper, er digital...
paper. If you've ever wondered, "Ken, where is your money going
to go?" Now you know. The house I dream of is to be underground.
Above ground are going to be row after row of solar cells and wind
turbines so that all my energy is free. There will also be fruit trees,
a garden, and black walnut trees (investment wood). Add to this a car
that operates using compressed air for fuel or water, I have yet to decide.
To get a sense of scale, the movie room is going to be about 33 feet
across. I want this underground house to be tornado proof, fire proof,
and built far away from water so that I won't have to worry about flooding.
I want this house built to last, oh, about a thousand years. It
would be nice to share this house with women who can put up with me.
1.618... is my dream and if you know the significance of that then
good for you fellow seer.
05/03/09 - The story begins about two years ago and was posted
here
in a blog that all fledgling musicians should read. Just reading
it may save you vast amounts of time and money.
After getting suckered by Native Instrument's huge lemon of a product
- Battery 3 - I got tired of dealing with all the amateur systems and decided
to step up to the professional level and buy Ableton Live, a complete recording,
mixing, and beat-making monster of a program. Ableton Live however,
needed more than my small-time computer would provide and thus began the
quest to build a better computer.
The parts came in week after week as I could afford them. I stored
them away until ready to tackle the beast. My room looked like it had
been hit by the perfect geek storm of a hurricane.
Some of the more geekish details include a Noctua CPU heatsink with not one,
but two fans and a keyboard with red LED's so that I can compose music in
a darkened room and still see what I'm typing on.
Music for me is all about mood and atmosphere.
I was able to put most of the system together but still had to call on my
brother Mike (happy guy, happy finger, picture at left) for some tech support.
I wanted to take a baseball bat to the damn
thing but his cooler head prevailed - no pun intended (okay...
maybe just a little pun).
And finally, the screenshot at left of Ableton Live, fully configured and
ready to go. So in the weeks ahead, should I disappear for weeks on
end, you'll know that I am hard at play creating songs and music. The
dream at last!
04/28/09 - Take a look. This is my third ad (March issue of
Railway Age Magazine) for
www.globalrailsystems.com,
two quarter page B/W ads and a full page color back cover ad. Just
finished a fourth ad for the upcoming issue of
Progressive Railroading,
a full color quarter page ad that's going to look absolutely killer in my
Illustration/Graphic Design portfolio! I worked with the client to
come up with some really great concepts and was aided by the work of photographer
Michael Minor.
03/26/09 - I just finished my first design for the
HORUS system. I went with a very cool stylized
comic book approach that will be silkscreened onto a thin flat piece of wood
then cut out with a band saw and finished. As many of you already know,
I am slowly creating my prototype TRUTH guitar (click Master Volume above).
The first model is a death model guitar and I would like to ship it
with the following attachable headstock design (click on the thumbs at left).
The name of the first guitar is "CLOUD" as in poisonous cloud of
nerve and hallucinogenic gas.
My art goals with HORUS are to create a good many headstocks, maybe even
license out the images when HORUS gets rolling. Should speedloader
type trems take hold then I should have a great side business. To learn
more about this amazing new system for speedloader guitars just click the
HORUS knob above and enjoy my new art. Imagine Cloud as a headstock on a
TRUTH guitar of your own.
Cloud is copyright 2009 by Ken D. Webber; All Rights Reserved
TRUTH Stickers arrive, Sticker Robot Rocks!
02/12/09 - HIGHLY Recommended screenprinters deliver the goods. Got
my stickers in today from Sticker Robot. Take a look.
They are screenprinted on VERY durable white vinyl. This is the second
sticker I've ordered from these guys and I am extremely pleased with their
quality and speed. One of the best companies on the Internet! The
guitar pictured in the sticker is slowly coming together piece by piece.
Clear acrylic, multi-colored LED's, DiMarzio pickups, so freakin' hot!
Read more about it by clicking my Master Volume knob above.
01/29/09 - Check the Master Volume knob above. I just posted two
pics of the new jack plate. It is a custom design I created on my computer
and uploaded to the www.ponoko.com website to have them machine the part
out of stainless steel. VERY PLEASED with the results.
01/07/09 - I have taken positive steps this month towards work on
"Burundanga Becomes You." I have
had this screenplay in the back of my mind for about four years or so and
after reading Robert McKee's book "STORY" I believe I now possess all the
necessary writer's tools (Knowledge + Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000 software
+ My Canon printer + Time ) to create what is sure to be a compelling and
powerful work of cinematic art. In addition to completing the screenplay
I am also taking time to document the process of putting together the story
according to how it emerges as one beat follows the next and each scene turns
on it's character's beginning values. It is one thing to hear Mr. McKee
talk of these things but quite another for you, the reader, to see how a
writer uses that instruction to create their story.
Once complete, the screenplay and notes are going to be bundled with my book
in PDF form and sold on CD, as well as digital delivery if I can find the
appropriate vendor. Take a look at the completed artwork for the cover
HEREand
HERE (I currently use
www.clubflyers.com as my printer
of choice) and read the logline for the script. A "logline" is
Hollywoodspeak for a description that sums up your movie in 25 words or less.
If at this point you don't know what "burundanga" is I highly suggest
that you do a google search and discover what new nightmare is coming for
you just around the corner.
11/25/08 - Here's some pics of my recent brain surgery (I have a rare disease
that is known
as acromegaly)
to remind you to be thankful this thanksgiving for all that's been given
to you. You have your life, your friends, your loves, and never should
you take them for granted because everything can be taken away in an instant.
Click the thumbs below to see enlarged view.
I was released from the hospital on Sunday, went back in on Monday to have
the nasal packs removed (yes, I cried like a little girl... ouch!). I
do not know how successful the operation was since I have only talked with
the E.N.T. but let us hope they got it all. I will know more after
my followup with the neurosurgeon in December. Read all the details
in
"Here's
to Boners."
Caffeine and frustration converge upon me while sitting in a Starbucks one
day. As you probably already know, Starbucks, and other similar coffee
houses, are a great place to people watch, which as an artist I love to do.
Anything to procrastinate. There is a guessing game I like to play.
You watch the people in line and you try to guess if your knowledge
is superior to that which they have. You sip your coffee and listen
in to the conversations floating around the room to gather clues as to where
you stand up against them. Who in the crowd of people around you would
benefit from the knowledge you contain in your life experience? Whose
life would be made immensely easier if they knew what you know? Whose
life will end up like so many broken coffee cups without your knowledge?
On this particular day, I feel like a broken coffee cup myself. I feel
I should be doing something more to enlighten the public than just writing
articles for a website that no one pays attention to. So much of my
time is spent typing out answers to the questions that arrive in my inbox,
questions about secret societies, hidden knowledge, burundanga, mind control,
and the various laws of power. People have a deep need for inside
information that is accurate and free of disinformation. If you are
like most people, you like to have a little advance warning before the real
shit hits the fan, right? I sit and drink my coffee wondering
how many people around me know about 'coffee cupping.' How would people
feel if the mysteries were revealed to them?
I'm glad to tell you that I found a way to end my frustration that day, but
it took a donut or three sitting there in Starbucks before the answer arrived
at the peak of my caffeine high. Instead of typing and retyping emails
I decide to just put all the information you need inside one powerful book.
Pour my life knowledge and experiences onto the page and fill it to
the brim. You deserve to know these things.
It's not at all what you may at first be thinking.
This is one Coffee Cup you can't get at Starbucks.
I really don't like the mainstream so you may not be able to ever buy it
in mainstream stores.
Amazon? Barnes and Noble? Not yet.
No book signings or tour.
Oprah doesn't know about it yet, and she should, she really should.
If you were drinking this flavor it'd be a doubleshot espresso of the rarest
blend. It is a dark roasted blend of illuminating metaphoric mojo
if ever there was one.
COFFEE CUP: "A military psyops
term that means - the act of driving a chosen target to the point of complete
insanity with a series of ever-escalating conspiratorial actions that begin
with the movement of a single coffee cup. ...to 'coffee cup'
someone."
Click below.
"If you or I were to sit together over coffee - these
chapters in Coffee Cup are the things that we would
talk about." --- Ken D. Webber
Interested in the quality of Blurb Books? Don't
take my word for it...
"The final result of a Indigo-printed page is a
very richly colored, very finely detailed image. It looks like a page from
a color magazine." ---
Kevin
Kelly
It was recently announced that the Hadron Collider
was fully operational. Many people were worried that the machine would
create a miniature black hole and destroy our entire planet, while others
obviously had very different thoughts on their mind...
Yeah, but can it make a decent coffee?
Posted by: Nev of Here 8:57am September 10, 2008
01/04/10 - Three months ago I launched a video contest
on youtube to promote awareness of the fraud that surrounds the H1N1 vaccine.
Some things go viral. Some don't. This one went nowhere.
Only one person entered the contest. In the video that you were
required to watch, an executive of a large pharmaceutical company has
his balls chopped off and mailed off to some other as a warning.
There are penalties in life when you purposely spread a disease
in order to sell a phony vaccine that does more harm than good. Anyway...
the contestant then had to answer a few questions, namely, how many "plague
of smile" candies were in the jar of balls. So Jordge Y. of San Diego,
you are the winner by default and a custom Plague of Smiles Mino HD camcorder
is being mailed off to you. Congratulations. A final look at
the short film below.
going to have to first create seven rooms filled
with amusing little things that have stuck in my noodle over the years.
