#passive research

Asian Representation in Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021)

People liked the short design of Ricki! Started trying to do a full body turn around for Ricki at least and tried to start writing and reading up on things.

Started researching more about Zines and how individuals make them and such. Learning the start of the history behind zines and especially how the queer community utilized them during the 1980s and 90s with the HIV epidemic.

I remembered an artist I looked up to for their comic Sister Claire and numerous fanarts of Stratogirl and Elastigirl. I recalled that they made a lot of zines for their art and the story they tell through them. I reread some of them that I had bought a few years ago during this week and found the stories to still be compelling as ever. They can be found on tumblr https://yamino.tumblr.com/, for their specific tumblr for the Incredibles and other art, https://elastigale.tumblr.com/. A few of their zines can be found here https://yamino.gumroad.com/.

I asked my roommates if they would be willing to be part of my project. They said yes! All three of them! So I started designing and mapping out their counterparts in the story.

Ricki- vampire

Naruto(?)- kitsune

Ro(?)- cat individual, like Catra design

Spider and Shumai -> spirits/ghosts

Planned scenes:

-PA trip -> Leave The Road

-Remember when we were trying out a new name for two weeks? Yea, good times.

-Hallway chats at 12 am

-Cats playing and fighting over a new toy

I went to watch Venom: Let There Be Carnage with my roommates during the weekend. It held a lot of sly romanticisms of how a couple might act but between a space alien and a trying reporter. It was interesting to see and found to be amusing throughout the gore through the movie.

Just watched Train to Busan a movie that critiques capitalism.

Summary:

-This movie shows the selfishness and individualist attitude (interested in exploring this)

-See a little bit of glorification of work (in lines implying that you need to study hard and that the daughter will understand while he worked so hard and couldn't be with him)

-See the attitude that the only way you can fail at this capitalistic game is if you're lazy or stupid (the binary thinking in Capitalism I'm interested in exploring, winners or losers)

Notes:

Love of working, suggestion that failure can only come from not being smart or working hard “don’t flunk school or you’ll end up like him”

Idea that you must finish what you start and not really care about emotional feeling or what causes you not to finish

Idea that people shouldn’t protest or fight against the status quo that things would be different in the past “people riot over anything back in the old days they’d be re-educated

Government lies about pandemic, says just violent outbreak.

That idea of not working together when the daughter gave up the seat for a woman. He says she needs look out for herself.

Only thinking about yourself wanting to go to Busan alone the Dad days and a Train Car

Individualism

Selfishness

Wanting to leave the train with the people behind

Contrast with the pregnant woman’s husband who opens the door for the asshole dad who wants to bring people behind. Who tells the Dad to stick his head back in to take out some zombies and helps the jerk protagonist father get his kid back.

Working together in the fight. Character development?

Glorifying sacrifice or suffering —>she’ll understand why you worked so hard when you get older

Jerk guy CEO of something express embodiment capitalist ideology wanting to kick those others out fighting so hard to keep them out. He throws people into zombies as diversions sometimes unnecessarily. Always looking out for himself.