wow, i haven't updated my myspace blog for awhile. i feel like i have multiple internet personalities.
i have to admit, i spend more time now in - yep, you guessed it - in front of the drawing board. if i have time, i hang out on facebook now. i really like the user interface and even made a page for my work at http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=21241617803/pages/Mollycules/21241617803.
comic con was AWESOME! for a recap click here. Here's a video of a dance party my friends and i had:
Apologies for not responding quickly to messages ~ been prepping for the comic con...also, myspace is just getting crazier and crazier...facebook is where i seem to be gravitating towards lately...
Occasionally I experience these periods in my life where I doubt my career direction. It's easy to get wrapped up in doubt, especially when your profession is in the arts. As I wrap up doing the graphics for Mason Jennings' website, I am now presented with a unique situation ~ for the first time in my life I have the time to just take the comic torch and run.
This is daunting ~ part of me doesn't want to think about it too much and another wants to question every little facet. Is this what I'm truly meant to do with my life? Shouldn't I be a personal trainer or a yoga instructor instead? Or maybe I should take a break from comics and start a band or be an actress. Gad!
The need to specifically label my career path is somewhat of an obsessive habit of mine. When I was little, overachieving in school was a major security blanket. I spent so much time in my room the first 18 years of my life studying, drawing, dancing, making music, thinking, and worst of all - suffering.
The pain I was handed as a child is over NOW and I am making significant progress in my personal life. I am blessed to have some friends that truly know the struggle I have been presented with and have been with me during the triumphant moments, the terrible waves of depression or anger, and the moments of intense confusion and doubt.
I have decided to take the torch and will gracefully run with it day by day. There will be days of doubt, triumph, confusion, frustration, excitement ~ as with everything in life ~ but I've decided to give it a real go.
Embarrassingly, I still owned the domain name...and just had to do a little electronic paper work after holding for 40 minutes for the Yahoo Small Business Tech Support.
So, bear with me hear while I reorganize myself...most of my attention is ..ing up a website for an amazing musician.
My athletic regime is becoming much more intense and I have recently integrated Yoga into my routine. It is seriously changing my life. I recommend Yoga to any one that may be struggling with anxiety, depression, eating issues, or is having difficulties staying present.
I am also working on my auto bio project regularly and am giving it a lot of space to grow organically. I have a lot of content and am excited to start editing things when the time is right. I have never done anything like this before and I know it sounds vague but I'll start posting snippits soon~
I recently joined a drum ensemble! I will be performing in a concert tomorrow night and then again for the Summer Solstice Parade. I am playing African, Caribbean, and Funk rhythms on a djembe drum. It's been a ton of fun and I can't help but dance while I'm playing!!! I still have to finish my costume for tomorrow nights show...
I am producing new Claretoonz and am really excited about these new stories. I am developing a lot more confidence in my characters and the writing is becoming easier. I also feel like I'm spending less time with the drawing ~ this may be partly due to time constraints?
I am still on the waiting list for a table for the San Diego Comic Con ~ regardless of what happens with that, I will be going...
Apologies on not responding to messages right away, I have been creating new comics and wrapping up a big project! Furthermore, my internet has been down and well, its kinda been sorta nice! It's kinda like when the electricity goes out and you find yourself reading Calvin and Hobbes by the candle light or making shadow puppets while your last rechargeable batteries die in the bathroom...a fading orange light...soon we will all return back to civilization...
So, two years ago I registered Mollycules.com with a company I no longer can remember...I remembered to pay for the web space, but failed to renew the actual name. Someone jumped on the name already and there is a nifty run-of-the-mill site up that is accruing funds no doubt from mindless clicking to other sites such as "mollyculeseatscheese.com" or "mollyculesgoestospace.org" - you know, a very necessary placeholder during this economic crisis.
Which, I haven't been paying much attention to, the apparent recession that is. Or a pending one? Is it not true that humans were not designed to absorb the media's malaise? Creatively speaking ~ or dare I say "spiritually" ~ I find it healthier to hear these things word of mouth and then gently carry on.
Alas, I have purchased "MollyHahn.com", a blessing in disguise. I will rest mollycules' restless electrons to sleep, please spread the word and my most compassionate apologies. Believe me, I already went through an identity crisis, had to talk about it therapy, fasted, had a day of silence, did yoga, and ran about thirty miles.
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