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May 6, 2006
Mecha Bear
After cleaning up my "sketch area" which has been reduced to a pile of books, scratch paper, broken pencils, a light-box, and really really old marker paper on my bedroom floor, I came across a stack of sketches I can barely remember doing.
This one titled "mecha bear" brought back fond memories of my efforts to write a short story I intended to become a video game. He's supposed to be an android bear sporting a Pharaoh like chin piece with a living flower growing out of his head.
Unfortunately the story I wrote resides on my old computer which I never backed up before I threw it to the recycling bin. The gist of the story was about a bear given a special gift; a biological live flower growing out of his head. The health, color, and bloom of the flower was a reflection on how successful the bear was thru his missions - hence the video game part.
Ironically, several years later a video game called Pikmin came out for the Nintendo Gamecube. The "pikmin" characters have a very similar flower growing out of their heads. I guess it was inevitable that sooner or later somebody would make a game with heady flower growing cohorts.
Funny how life strategically places instances of events in your life and we as people consistently try to foresee the future by connecting all the dots together. I am a firm believer that you can't connect the dots going forward. You can only connect them backwards because then you can see how all the random pieces in your past fit together. The only thing they can do is to give you a clue as to what you might or should, or could do next.
A coworker of mine recently discussed the possibility of making a simple video game as a hobby. Maybe I will resurrect "mecha bear" and complete his form.
UPDATE:
I found a print out of "mecha bear" with some of his basic shape blocked out in photoshop. I guess I planned to complete his figure on the computer.
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