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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 
HACK/SLASH #23 Publisher: Devil's Due Diamond order code: FEB094181 This issue contains the 2-page creator-owned story "Mimetic Kinetic" by myself, Russ Manning nominated artist Budi Setiawan, Eisner nominated colorist Ronda Pattison and letterer Patrick Foster. Here's a preview: (Click to enlarge)

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Monday, June 08, 2009 
This entry is cross-posted from my home blog at CalebMonroe.com.

I turn 30 in about a month and it's gotten me thinking about change. Which got me thinking about things like presuppositions and habits. Which made me realize how many of those I have in my life, and how many of them I take as givens. I'm no longer willing to let faulty presuppositions and bad habits dictate the terms of my life to me. How about you? So I'm going to spend this year dismantling them and replacing them with better motivations, better approaches and better use of my time. It's My Breakout Year because I intend to spend it breaking free of calcified poor practices and creative inefficiencies. If the breaking free works, I will be writing more effectively and more creatively, which will also hopefully lead to a breakout project. The project has two distinct phases. Phase 1: Find my best practices (or Simplify, Organize, Produce, Improve). Using found materials whenever possible. The goal is not to buy or buy into a bunch of new "systems" or "organizers" or "production tools", but to develop a personal system so simple that it organizes and produces without them. The focus here is on creative productivity: writing more and writing better. So much written about productivity seems to be about better ways of finishing busywork. I want to find better ways to finish better creations. Phase 2: Find my audience (or Brand, Publicize, Network, Market). The next step is to then find homes out in the world for the things I'm making. Goals: It's important for projects to have goals, so here are mine for the year:
  1. To finish the bulk of Phase 1 by SDCC. The con inevitably adds a ton of stuff to my plate, so I want to have my plate clean by then and have methodologies in place for quickly tearing through the new additions.
  2. To establish a 4-hour writing workday, 5-days a week.
  3. To have 4 new comic projects in print or scheduled for publication. Short stories don't count. Projects must be 22 pages in length or more.
  4. To finish my screenplay.
  5. To finish a puke draft of my unbook.
These go in rough order. #1 allows #2, which in turn should lead to #s 3-5. I'm telling you right now: as the year progresses, these goals will probably shift, change, slide or morph. Because the nature of this project (especially Phase 1) is that every day of the process should change my outlook on the end result. That's what happens when you ferret out preconceived notions and rebuild without them. Here's a handy little table of contents for keeping track of blog posts about My Breakout Year:
  1. Phase 1
  2. Phase 2
  3. Project Graveyard (learning what to leave behind)
  4. Miscellaneous
My Breakout Year officially began on June 1, 2009 and will end on May 31, 2010. Wish me luck. I'm especially interested to hear from you in the comments about the successes and failures of your own efforts to change habits.
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Friday, May 29, 2009 
Looking back, I can't believe I haven't put Kaki King here before, since I mostly use this blog to post videos of music I like.

Anyway, here she is performing live at TED2008. She opens with her first hit, "Playing With Pink Noise", and I don't know the names of the other two songs.

She starts out with a strange little speech. I imagine it's because there's this pressure at TED for every presenter to share something profound, since that's the intended experience. But in King's case, it's not her words that are profound, but her music. Music starts at the 1:00 mark:

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Thursday, May 28, 2009 
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 

From Playing For Change. Watch it all the way through. So very worth it.


Playing For Change | Song Around The World "Stand By Me" from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.


Discovered through the always entertaining, always interesting John Rogers

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 
Been a while since I've done one of these. So you get two videos.

First up, Kutiman, who remixes YouTube videos into something new. And ultimately much cooler. This is "The Mother of All funk Chords":



Next is DJ Earworm's "The United States of Pop 2008", wherein he creates a mashup of the top 25 Billboard songs of 2008. He did the same thing for 2007; you can find it on his site.



I wonder what else we'll start seeing remixes of? Can a coherent story be made from remixing prose stories? Comics? What about more abstract concepts, like places?
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 
First of all, if you haven't been reading Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips's CRIMINAL, you're missing out on one of the best comics being produced. Go get all four volumes now. I'll still be here.

Secondly, the only thing that bums me out about Brubaker and Phillips current (and excellent) INCOGNITO is that CRIMINAL is on hold while they do it.

But now I can both have my cake and eat it too because the latest CRIMINAL tale is a live-action film titled ANGEL OF DEATH, starring Zoe Bell, and it's being serialized for free on Crackle. A new episode every weekday for the next two weeks! Go watch:

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 
Hosted By:
Caleb Monroe

When:
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Where:
Meltdown Comics
7522 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
90048

Description:
Come join me Wednesday night for the first West Coast signing of my new comic book THE REMNANT. Help me make it a huge turnout! I will be signing alongside fellow BOOM! Studios writer Michael Alan Nelson (HEXED, FALL OF CTHULHU). Full details here: http://calebmonroe.com/?p=133 Feel free to spread the word to anyone you know in LA.

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 
The Remnant #2 hits stores today.

And for anyone who's in NYC (or will be this weekend), come find me at NYCC. I'll be signing at the BOOM! Studios booth (#1313) at some point in the proceedings. You'll have to check the booth for a schedule...

UPDATE: I now have the details. Creator Stephen Baldwin and I will be signing Fri 2/6 from 5 to 6 PM and Sat 2/7 from 5 to 7 PM.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 
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