Tag Archives: grydscaen

16 Jul

Packrat Underground – 45

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This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl, making waves and coming to you live and direct from the Lafayette stop on the subway line in the Echelons. There is an unrest here today, as it is the end of the month and you know what that means – round up. The Zone Police are going around and rounding up psychics to send them to experimentation and work camps in the kedek mines. The Packrats are out in force trying to…..

15 Jul

Making Manga – Part 6

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Today in our making manga series we are going to talk a little about creating a storyboard. This process has a few terms for it, including a “name.” I went to art school and took a storyboarding class and I write novels so I know how to write a story. When writing the dialogue and story information for the grydscaen graphic novel – volume 1, I initially did a storyboard for the first 6 chapters. I started out just sketching. Mapping…..

12 Jul

Making Manga – Part 3

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So more into our making manga series. Today we talk about Branding. Every artist, writer or creative needs a brand. This can be related to your artwork, your music, the thing you produce, your novel. But you have to have a stamp for yourself that distinguishes you from someone else. It may be your art style, your subject matter be it fiction, science fiction, paranormal, yaoi or romance. Since I started off writing cyberpunk hard science fiction with the grydscaen…..

09 Jul

Packrat Underground 44

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This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl. I am on my way to a data sale at Hack in a few minutes to check out the job board there. I need to get myself another gig. Anj lets me go out every now and then even though I am on a short leash from the Processing Centre. I wanted to describe Hack to you a little bit so you can get a feel for the place. Hack is a tech…..

16 Jun

making grydscaen anime

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Anime is one of my favorite things. I have been watching anime since I was young. The funny thing is that you can see anime when you are young and it has no effect on you or you can watch it and become an avid fan. I grew up with such shows as Akira, Robotech, Voltron, Ghost in the Shell, Gundam, Gatchaman, Transformers, Dungeons and Dragons. I like anime that is art driven and plot driven. Things like the Simpsons or…..

11 Jun

Trans-Sub-Consternation

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I was asked by a friend I used to work with in the Tech industry to write a Non Fiction novel about my story in college and beyond. At first I was thinking that no one would possibly want to read that story and how could my story help others. I had already written grydscaen: utopia which has some parallels to my experiences in college set in a fictional backdrop so why would I need to write another story. My…..

03 Jun

Digital Deflection

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The difference between a cyber activist and a cyber hacktivist is degrees, and sometimes the lines are very thin. An activist expresses his or her views maybe using social media and stays within the confines of the law. The hacktivist on the other hand has another agenda which might include illegal activity such as infiltrating systems, exposing data, and releasing this data onto the Internet for all to see. Some hacktivist groups have multiple members but others may not even…..

24 May

More than Different

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One of the things that I wanted to capture in the grydscaen series is the idea of becoming oneself through change. This can be physical change, mental change, emotional change or learning. There are many ways to grow more into your genuine self. I have been on a journey for the last 2 years after many years of self discovery to become my genuine self. 2015 started the journey that began when I was 5 and became fully realized at…..

17 May

Artist Free for All

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So, every time you have to ask someone to help you do something you end up being at the whim of that other person. Be they a writer or an artist, a chef or a teacher, having other people involved sometimes makes things difficult. For the most part this is why as the author of the grydscaen series I do my own cover art, draw my own manga and well – edit, draft, format, write, proofread and illustrate. But sometimes…..

13 May

The Dark Web

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Continuing our series on cyber security, we will feature some new articles on aspects of cyber warfare. Today we start with the Dark Web. What is anonymity? Can I find out who you are? Can I spider a site to get its content? Can I find it in a search engine? What is the cost of being virtually invisible? The US Naval Research Laboratory created Tor in 2002. Tor was originally designed to create totally anonymous communications across the Internet……

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