Tom Ray

Could be a fun illustration exercise.

On the podcast, I met with  Hessel van Oorschot from the Netherlands who's company Tribe of Noise bought the creative commons music site Free Music Archive . As we were talking he told me about the companies he's been meeting with to discuss new and streamlined ways to help artists, musicians and creators make more of a salary on the internet as a whole and how it's being backed by some of the larger internet services. What the future of art and music on the web could be. We teamed up with an organization called Grant for the Web . Not sure if you've seen that but Grant for the Web is an organization that is backed by creative commons , Mozilla and Coil .  These are organizations that are trying to find new ways, just testing dozens of models. Like if there's something on the internet and you own the intellectual property what if we can not just share it with the world but see if there is a way to monetize this?  What if that can also be like a model where you p

In the past, I would have gone to see a band play on Friday night. Also here is the video I was talking about https://www.tomrayswebsite.com/2021/01/rl-stine-wrote-this-pee-wee-herman-book.html

While going over the vintage retro items I sold online I didn't realize until after I recorded the video that this Big Top Pee-Wee storybook that I sold said the captions were by Jovial Bob Stine which is the other name used by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine . And I look at a book about Jem and the Holograms, a Curious George doll, and more. Plus, at the end of the video, I draw my daily autobiographical webcomic. More vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC This is a video of my daily life since I decided to sell collectibles and pop-culture items I collect on eBay to help support my art career instead of taking on freelance work.

In the past, I've used Flash to do my cartoons but I really want to see what I can do with Blender to animate them.

It was really odd-tasting since I thought I was going to be drinking carbonated water. I've done it the other way too from time to time, grabbing a water when I thought it was a beer.