Gave into a Meme
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my LJ.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Pierce interviewed me.
Who are you and what are you recently producing with such vigor? Not many of my other friends know you :)
They should! ;) My name's Michael Peterson. I'm currently changing residence from MA suburbs to downtown Chicago.
As for my "Current Works," there's my graphic novel series, "Lazy Metaphors," which is approved for publication by Cellar Door Publishing... but the artist had to bail, so it's kinda circling right now. It's a book about a young guy who has to reconcile his plans for making up for a cruddy past with the fact that there might be a collapsed multiverse in his head.
The book's part of pronged attack, of sorts, much of it relating to this concept of "Patchwork Earth"--which I have YOU to blame for. Bastard. Aside from some prose fiction and a simpler comic project and some other stuff I've got going on in the background, I've got a more interesting project underway in the next couple months, which I'll get into below.
Why do you like Evangelion so damn much? What's its lure for you?
I, er. Really, it's what I'm liking right NOW. I'll phase out of it soon enough, likely not long after I've grabbed up the last of the re-mastered discs. I tend to do that with whatever's got an engaging story that appeals to something in what I'm doing at the time.
I love that it's unapologetic. I love that virtually no character in it's an unbroken individual. I love that it so deftly subverts its genre, which is often a pretty trite one. I love that it asks questions you're still trying to answer long after. And I love that it's got the biggest gender issues this side of Cerebus.
Plus, the penguin's cute.
What do you think of your time at X-Wars? How do you feel about it now that you've been gone for so long?
*Snerk* This one was inevitable.
I think it was a valuable experience. I'd not go back there, but I got a lot of my writing style from there. I'm not exactly the biggest fan of my own work, but I do know how terrible I was at it when I arrived there, and I know how much closer to good I was when I left. During much of the time I was there, it was a great place to cut your teeth, as it were.
And, at the risk of sounding trite considering, I've gained friends from there that mean a great deal with me, friendships that have endured for an awfully long time since I left, many of whom I've met (and THEN some) in person.
And anyone who knows me and my history at all knows that without certain people I met from there, I'd likely not be around at all anymore.
What is Creative Commons and what does that have to do with your community.. hell introduce that too! ;)
http://www.creativecommons.org/ explains it far better than I can... but basically, it's a legal agreement designed to offer much greater freedom to people who want to play with your work. Copyright is becoming outmoded, and this is a way to lift some of those shackles.
This is kinda the framework behind my Oneironet project--basically, offering up ideas and story segments in all media up under CC in a large database. It's an experiment I'll be undertaking hopefully not longer after my move. It's going to be interesting to see if people take anything from there and use it to build stuff of their own. It would be gratifying if they did. There'll be more details when it goes up.
As a test run, to see if people would be able to build on the idea of the world, I established an RP community here to test the waters, and to offer a working example on the site when the time came. While a lot of the work on there has been mine so far, it's often been by suggestion (the laundromat, for instance, was conceived in a chat room), and some people have already begun exploring what's possible within the concept. And people are having fun, which makes the time spent worthwhile.
And where will I find Michael ten years from now and what sort of person will he be? I like that question :)
Ugh, I don't... God willing, you mean? He'll have a steady job and place to live. A couple volumes of his book would actually be in print. He'd still be trying to come up with crazy ideas, and still trying to actually do them.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my LJ.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Pierce interviewed me.
Who are you and what are you recently producing with such vigor? Not many of my other friends know you :)
They should! ;) My name's Michael Peterson. I'm currently changing residence from MA suburbs to downtown Chicago.
As for my "Current Works," there's my graphic novel series, "Lazy Metaphors," which is approved for publication by Cellar Door Publishing... but the artist had to bail, so it's kinda circling right now. It's a book about a young guy who has to reconcile his plans for making up for a cruddy past with the fact that there might be a collapsed multiverse in his head.
The book's part of pronged attack, of sorts, much of it relating to this concept of "Patchwork Earth"--which I have YOU to blame for. Bastard. Aside from some prose fiction and a simpler comic project and some other stuff I've got going on in the background, I've got a more interesting project underway in the next couple months, which I'll get into below.
Why do you like Evangelion so damn much? What's its lure for you?
I, er. Really, it's what I'm liking right NOW. I'll phase out of it soon enough, likely not long after I've grabbed up the last of the re-mastered discs. I tend to do that with whatever's got an engaging story that appeals to something in what I'm doing at the time.
I love that it's unapologetic. I love that virtually no character in it's an unbroken individual. I love that it so deftly subverts its genre, which is often a pretty trite one. I love that it asks questions you're still trying to answer long after. And I love that it's got the biggest gender issues this side of Cerebus.
Plus, the penguin's cute.
What do you think of your time at X-Wars? How do you feel about it now that you've been gone for so long?
*Snerk* This one was inevitable.
I think it was a valuable experience. I'd not go back there, but I got a lot of my writing style from there. I'm not exactly the biggest fan of my own work, but I do know how terrible I was at it when I arrived there, and I know how much closer to good I was when I left. During much of the time I was there, it was a great place to cut your teeth, as it were.
And, at the risk of sounding trite considering, I've gained friends from there that mean a great deal with me, friendships that have endured for an awfully long time since I left, many of whom I've met (and THEN some) in person.
And anyone who knows me and my history at all knows that without certain people I met from there, I'd likely not be around at all anymore.
What is Creative Commons and what does that have to do with your community.. hell introduce that too! ;)
http://www.creativecommons.org/ explains it far better than I can... but basically, it's a legal agreement designed to offer much greater freedom to people who want to play with your work. Copyright is becoming outmoded, and this is a way to lift some of those shackles.
This is kinda the framework behind my Oneironet project--basically, offering up ideas and story segments in all media up under CC in a large database. It's an experiment I'll be undertaking hopefully not longer after my move. It's going to be interesting to see if people take anything from there and use it to build stuff of their own. It would be gratifying if they did. There'll be more details when it goes up.
As a test run, to see if people would be able to build on the idea of the world, I established an RP community here to test the waters, and to offer a working example on the site when the time came. While a lot of the work on there has been mine so far, it's often been by suggestion (the laundromat, for instance, was conceived in a chat room), and some people have already begun exploring what's possible within the concept. And people are having fun, which makes the time spent worthwhile.
And where will I find Michael ten years from now and what sort of person will he be? I like that question :)
Ugh, I don't... God willing, you mean? He'll have a steady job and place to live. A couple volumes of his book would actually be in print. He'd still be trying to come up with crazy ideas, and still trying to actually do them.