Monthly Archives: February 2013

Tonight’s Lab-Work

February 28, 2013Uncategorizedart, coaching, gaming, karma, level, life, love, magic, models, money, Music, path, prosperity, reincarnation, remedy, shaman, tarot, workgorebagg

It’s been about five hours. I’ve completed the “Fashionistas” Tarot Deck — fashionista is someone who is heavily involved in fashion in some way, either as a designer, model, red-carpet celebrity or a fashion blogger. I’m all of those and more, these days. I’ve created a small army of tarot decks related to fashion design and fashion drawing, both of which I’ve taught to professional commercial and animation artists. The technique I use, called “Mango”, is somewhat related to the 1940s-1960s TV animation techniques. This easy to master style of drawing can be used to produce storyboards, comic books, illustrations, packaging and promotion and much, much more. I’ll be teaching it at this year’s Festival of Ishtar — IshtarCon II — on Easter weekend. If you can’t attend in person, you can attend LIVE online. You can order this deck today, right now, if you like. It’s $49.95 and of course it’s in full color on coated heavy card stock. Well, enough of a drawing-break, back to the tarot-mill. I’m starting work on “Hot Lips”, which is 80 fully tarted-up “hottie” cougars on the prowl, comprising a loaded deck if ever there was one. It’s intended to serve as a model for my art classes, of course, but does double duty as a fully functioning tarot deck!

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Hitman Hilarious

February 26, 2013Uncategorizedcoaching, ejgold, funny, gaming, hilarious, humor, karma, love, magic, Music, path, prosperity, reincarnation, shaman, workgorebagg

http://youtu.be/0EG39RcLkvc

Couldn’t resist posting this piece of hysterically hilarious nonsense from several of the best. Note please the timing, simultaneity and in some cases precognition that takes place in this stunningly effective exercise. I’ve used it in workshops, and if you have instinctives doing the thing, it works amazingly well to reveal the spontaneous and the ingenious — in the old “genie” sense of the word. It takes a tremendous amount of combined skills to do what they’re doing — language, history, music, styles and a never-ending well of rhyming combinations, not to mention a staggering supply of energy and supple muscles. Enjoy. I’m going back to staging and shooting my latest, the Norton St. Tarot Deck, screenshot entirely in Norton Street Orb, coming soon to your local grocer!

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What To Do If You Wake Up

February 25, 2013Uncategorizedabd, blackberry, coaching, ejgold, gaming, level, love, magic, money, Music, orb, path, prosperity, reincarnation, remedy, shaman, workgorebagg

http://youtu.be/ghA5oOPE-xg

What happens when people just know too much and see too much to be amused by ordinary organic life? Jenna Marbles is one of my favoritest peoples on the planet; even she, with her beautiful attitude, after a while spent observing the human population, you’re bound to get cynical. Sure, you go about the usual daily business — you do what everyone seems to be doing: you survive. You endure parental control, try to learn something in a total fail school system designed to make money for the politicians and bankers. You discover sex, make out, have babies, work like hell to survive, never hear from your grandkids or get very far beyond a trip to Europe, then you get sick and die. Is this the kind of sales pitch for an amusement ride? Is this the sort of entertainment you’d expect to see billions flocking to get into? Well, apparently, it works, because there are currently 7.2 billion idiots flopping about like beached minnows on this planet. For someone who sees past the bullpuckey of organic involvements, this video will make sad and tragic sense. If you want more, you’ll have to pay with interest, attention and participation — three major obstacles for local humans, beyond which they can’t get. Want to know why?

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Dragons Just For You!!!

February 22, 2013Uncategorizedcards, coaching, deck, fortune, gaming, karma, life, love, magic, path, prognostication, prosperity, reincarnation, scrying, shaman, tarot, workgorebagg

The Moon — Gorby’s Dragon Tarot Deck — $49 — available now!

This deck is composed entirely of screenshots from Dragon 3D, my medieval dragon game which is due any day now, what with all the other stuff that’s crept into my daily routine, which is anything but routine, as you probably know. I’m very pleased with the Dragon Tarot — it’s told from the dragon’s point of view, naturally — I’m an enchanted dragon myself, and I take my virgin and treasures vigil serious. Knights and such are of course our deadliest foes. The Devil card was posed by my friend Urganth the Barbarian, a human. What else would the Devil be to us dragons? If you’re a dragon or know someone who is, this is the best dragon deck ever!!!

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Is The Internet Actually Evil???

February 20, 2013Uncategorizedcoaching, gaming, internet, karma, life, love, magic, money, Music, path, prosperity, reincarnation, shaman, workgorebagg

Is the Internet actually evil? Almost everyone you ask will tell you it is. But does that mean you shouldn’t be on it? The fact is, you already are, whether you know it or not. If you have a cell phone, smart phone, pad, any sort of device that’s connected to the internet, you’re on it. If you’ve ever downloaded a movie, music, books or spoken word recordings, you are on the internet. If you’ve ever done a bank transfer online, or shopped on a website or sold something on eBay or texted someone, you are very much on the internet. As a matter of fact, if you made a list of everything you did that required internet connection, it’d blow your mind. You are far more connected than you think. How to get totally off??? Simple. But you have to be totally off the internet, not just “a little bit pregnant”. All the way or nothing. Merely live like a House Amish. It’s possible, but quite difficult; conducting business of any kind is now impossible without the internet. You’ll be on snail-mail, you’ll use the telephone more often (it’s also evil, by the way). The Evil Guild of Evil and the Internet are both here, and they’re here to stay. If you can remain free of the internet and still do business and stay in touch with family and friends, more power to you!!!

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Re-Awaken Your Ancient Egyptian Memories

February 19, 2013Uncategorizedcoaching, ejgold, gaming, karma, level, life, love, magic, money, Music, orb, path, prosperity, reincarnation, remedy, shaman, tarot, workgorebagg

Egyptian Deck? Workin’ on it. I’ll need the god pantheon models, and they’re likely to take some time to build — we won’t find them on some 3D model website. I have all the architecture in already, and many of the objects of daily use, ritual items and tomb items. I’ll be working on this set for some time; in the meanwhile, I’ve completed 12 tarot decks to date, some in watercolors, some in ink & wash, some in GODD screenshots, as above. Today, I’m working specifically to shoot the lower arcana of my Dragon Deck — it takes place in a medieval setting with all new Middle Ages architecture, plus 22 new medieval character models. It’s quite spectacular. I had the thought of expanding my photo Orb so it could be traveled. Perhaps I’ll do that. The Egyptian Tarot is photographed in “Amarna”, which is intended to re-awaken buried memories of your past lives in Ancient Egypt.

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Medieval Tarot is Ready!

February 15, 2013Uncategorizedcoaching, ejgold, gaming, karma, life, love, magic, Music, orb, path, prosperity, reincarnation, remedy, shaman, workgorebagg

This is the title card for the Medieval Tarot, composed entirely in the GODD engine. There are 78 thematic cards plus a joker and the title card, for a total of 80 full-color cards in all. Claude created over 100 costume variations for these characters, and a whole slew of medieval buildings, clothing, objects of daily use such as the cart and besom broom, and of course all the rest of the textures and models you will see in the deck. Val’s engine has been modified specially for me to give me a virtual camera that is sizeable to the image I want to generate, meaning that I can change the aspect ratio to make differently shaped and sized tarot cards or dollhouse scale images. This deck is available now at $49, as long as we can hold the cost line — it may change upward really soon, to $69, if we can’t control the cutting costs. We’ll talk more about this at the workshop this morning.

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A New Kind of Tarot

February 12, 2013Uncategorizedcoaching, ejgold, gaming, karma, magic, orb, path, prosperity, reincarnation, remedy, shaman, workgorebagg

Just invented, hot off the presses! Actually, we haven’t tried printing it yet, but here’s what happened and how it happened: I asked Marvette to create a template tarot system that anyone could use; it would have the cards already identified in a box below the image area. All the artist would have to do is fill in the part where a drawing, painting or photograph should be. Suddenly, this morning, I had the idea to insert part of a screenshot from one of my favorite Orbs, and we had a brand new kind of tarot deck. We’re making a sample now to show at the workshop, starting this Thursday morning. If you want to attend online, there’s still time to arrange it.

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Good Angels, Bad Angels

February 11, 2013Uncategorizedabd, angel, bardo, coaching, cosmo, death, dying, ejgold, gamer, gaming, healing, karma, life, love, magic, money, Music, norton, norton street, orb, path, play, prosperity, reincarnation, remedy, shaman, workgorebagg

I’ve installed a PC on Norton Street. It’s equipped with a 17″ monitor and Creative speaker Bass Reflex system, along with a logitech 3 button mouse that will literally last forever. As you see, there’s also a set of crystals plugged into an experimental Model 7 SuperBeacon “Beamer”. You’ll also note a Matrix on the left wing of the desk, a bronze Buddha and ceramic candleholder on the right, and two new bookshelves offering entry into hundreds more Orbs than before, actually 1100 of them, newly made here on Urth this time around.

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It’s In The Cards

February 10, 2013Uncategorizedcoaching, ejgold, gaming, karma, level, life, love, magic, money, Music, path, prosperity, reincarnation, shaman, workgorebagg

http://youtu.be/lVvGAledjiw

It’s all in the cards. The Ancients knew that and that’s why they consulted the cards. Each of the Tarot Cards in a standard 78 card deck (plus 1 title card & 1 joker) represents something emotional, instinctive, reflexive, mental, intellectual, analytical, reactive and sometimes supernormal essential-self, but relative to each other in positions within a 10-card reading, you get variations. This is why it needs a workshop. Also, different decks have different languaging, sometimes. For instance: Wands. Could just as easily be Sticks, or Clubs, which is what it became in our standard poker decks. Wands could also be Roods, Durga, Staves, Billys, Crooks, Shafts or Blasting Rods, a la Moses and his next of kin. I’m in the middle of creating the Vampire Deck. The ICW this morning is where I’ll be.

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