Favorite Places & Manga Faces
Ello Ello Ello
(Cockney accent)
Happy Friday everyone and for my fellow Hawaii geeks happy first day of Kawaii Kon. Kaci sure is excited & who could blame her since this year she gets to sit at the Hachi Maru Hachi table because she contributed her own original manga story "Death in Numbers" and the cover art for the latest issue. This issue is being released today at Kawaii Kon
 |
| Issue for sale today |
I know I know she's awesome....you don't have to tell me, but feel free to tell her cause all artist love oodles and oodles of praise. In fact go check out her latest original manga "Secret" here on her Facebook page.
and now that I'm finished shamelessly plugging my daughter.......
wait that sounds really bad.....ewwww
plugging my daughter's work......
pheww that's better....
man now I feel creepy.
If you would like to know more about Kawaii Kon (Hawaii's closest thing to Comic Con) click the link below.
Anywho this week's theme is Favorite Places and is proving harder than I thought to come up with an idea today. These first four were no brainers for me. The first one being very very special to me.
 |
| 090/365 Theme: Favorite Places Title: The Happiest Place on Earth |
Cheesy....? Mabye. Too Old....? Never. I first visited Disneyland in 2005 with my wife and daughter Kaci who was 5 at the time. I'd never been as little kid but lucky for me and especially my wife I've never really grown up so I was just as excited as Kaci was and then even more so when we went again for Connor's 6th birthday in 2012. I love Disneyland so much I've been known to say things like I'd be a freaking janitor there if I could support my family off the wages just to be a part of the place and all of its magic.
A magic that started for me with Movies like the Aristocats, 101 Dalmatians, & and The Little Mermaid... I really thought Sebastian was the shizzz and must have sang "Under the Sea" so many times my Dad wanted to pull his ears off.
All these years later I still feel the pull of that magic and have hopes and dreams of one day having the chance to audition for a Disney movie or a Disney Channel show. Bottom line is that this is my #1 most favorite place and I hope to one day help Disney make magic for a new generation of fans. You know if I don't get to old and ugly first....just being silly not Emo people relax.
 |
| 091/365 Theme: Favorite Places Title: Land of the Rising Sun |
As most of my friends and family know my wife is of Japanese decent. But don't let that confuse you she's lived here in Hawaii her whole life and doesn't speak much Japanese....no more than I know very much about Italian even though I have a bunch of the chromosomes in my DNA. I find it so funny how many people make these ethnic distinctions when describing people. No race based description ever ignites the same thing in everyone's heads so why do we use them. Even more to the point so few people really know enough about any culture other than their own that all pointing them out ever does is cloud our image of them with a bunch of crap we've seen on television or movies which I hope we can all agree are rarely if ever accurate. I only point it out at all here to help explain the strong pull my small family and I have to visit the amazing country of Japan. 126 million people with such a rich culture, history, and beauty all crammed into less than 150,000 square miles much of it forested. I mean who wouldn't want to check that out. Shoot I'd move there if it wasn't already hard enough to make a living here. One day though, mark my words we'll spend a nice long vacation there and soak up as much of it as is possible.
 |
| 092/365 Theme: Favorite Places Title: Feels Like Home |
Ahhh Broadway. For an aspiring actor like myself there are few places that pull at my heart and soul as New York City does. True there is always Hollywood or if you're really motivated England and Piccadilly Circus Where the real Shakespearean actors are taught. For me though Broadway is the place. If the fates shine on me I'll have the chance to perform on a Broadway stage at least once before I die. No clue if I'm talented enough to warrant that dream but really...if you're gonna dream....dream big. I'm so proud of all of our friends that have already made the move and are living in the Big Apple happily chasing their dreams. Levi, Gerald, Greg, Drew, Andrew, Autumn, Eunice, & Mikey I live vicariously through you all.
 |
| 093/365 Theme: Favorite Places Title: The Boot |
I don't think this one needs much explanation. Italy has as much of an amazing culture and history as Japan and with a last name like Gritti I think I do my anceistors a disservice if I never visit. The food, the sights, the food, the history, THE FOOOOOD. Crap now I'm hungry and I'm on a diet.....sheesh.
Well that's it for now if you've made it to the end of this blog I thank you since, in classic Chris fashion, I've been a bit long winded.
Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world? I'd love to know.
Until next time
Happy Doodling
Chris.
No comments:
Post a Comment