This took an absurdly LONG time to happen, but this is just "the nature of the beast" so to speak. Much changes, trends, transitions, and changes in media have come, gone, experimented, reworked, and refined, and I am VERY CERTAIN that my distributor (FilmHub) was highly likely to be using my films shorts specifically as tester films for various platforms, data tracking, trends, and so on. Since 2022, my 3 films have been licensed to so many streaming platforms, as much of the media due to COVID lockdown, then back-to-work trends set it, stagflation, fuel costs, terrifs, NFTS & crypto currency trends & crashes, n a lot more, have come and gone.
Well my 1st film "Succor Forlorn" which got so many frickin awards at Film Festivals globally, including in Hollywood, and many others, that I lost count, plus I STILL get begged to submit this experimental animated short film, is always in & out of several platforms, with licensing, including in Eurasia, Brazil, North America, (and who even knows where else?) is always in syndication on streaming platforms, and has been on Roku for years. By-the-way YOU CAN WATCH IT FOR FREE on Roku!
Well, my other 2 films, which also have awards, tho' not as many, were also created as Short Films, for the purposes of EDUCATION in Film Studies. Based on the time period when I re-cut these films from their original versions in 2017, which were performing at a VERY POPULAR RATE in short-form-content, hence SHORTS, by the time I passed quality control inspection in 2023 for distribution, all the trends that rose to popularity & trended from 2021-2022 CRASHED HARD in 2023. So, Shorts whcih were VERY POPULAR and in HIGH VOLUME now crashed, and lost that luster for advertisers, whom THEN abruptly shitted to long form content, as Podcasts made the leap from a more audio/talk-show/talk-radio style to a VISUAL BASED long-form video content.
Same thing with other forms of long-form content, of whcih I have multiple projects stuck in limbo for, for what is called "slow content" despite it being actually more popular now than ever, audio is a whole new world of liars claiming copyrights on stuff they don;t even own from either public domain, Creative Commons, and so on. So, that content is currently stuck.
However, my content is now available for SEARCH & Viewership on Roku! I would check to find these 2 movies both at the beginning & end of every month since I kept getting this shorts licensed.
or, you could just go to your Roku Device or Roku Smart TV and just type in the title and it WILL SHOW in the searches!
Both of these films were re-cuts of films I'd created in 2017 specifically to teach techniques in filmmaking whcih had originated in the Experimental Film Genre for the purposes of EDUCATIONAL CONTENT. By simply watching the film, i cut them so that you will learn these terms, terminology, vocabulary, and understand these techniques, as well as Film History, Art History, BUT it's NOT AN INFO DUMP!
I'm VERY MUCH a "Feynman Technique" style of teacher, and these films make use of both the visuals, the audio, and various elements within the film to demonstrate these ideas, concepts, and techniques.
These 2 Educational Films have started to gain more tracking data this year, and finally gaining small revenue, even tho' they were fully licensed for distribution in 2023.
I used to check at the beginning of every month, and the end of every month, plus each season, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, to see if it was live. But, it was just never showing in the system. meanwhile my film "Succor Forlorn" Only took about a month to show in the system, and the searches, and got licensed to multiple platforms, immediately. Many have tanked since lockdown, but not all of them. I got on this train when everything was being reworked, built, rebuilt, refined, streamlined, etc.
Here we are heading closer & closer into 2027, and the systems as the are NOW are stabilized a lot starting in 2025, but things are still in flux, tho' NOTHING like the volatility of the 1st half of this decade.
You can find ALL THE LINKS to the IMDb listings, and other stuff HERE.
So, The 400 Particles Max Mondays non-stop back-to-back PLUS a GMAX Weekend DID NOT HELP me with getting my Max Battles done in time!
And Dynamax Magikarp is WAY OVER PRICED!
250 particles??? Get serious! it SHOULD be like 50-100 Particles!
Shiny odd blew chunks, too!
I decided to don my Cynthia Duster Jacket & Flare Pants. Basically THE ENTIRE OUTFIT! Too bad the HAIR can't be styled like Cynthia, the ultimate top Boss from Sinnoh Region, and THE MOST DIFFICULT BOSS to beat of ANY TEAM LEADER in ANY POKEMON GO! I beat Leo in Pokemon Sword BECAUSE I had Dialga... 1 of the Sinnoh Lords! Sinnoh, Kanto, and Hoenntend to have my favorite Legendaries, and Pokemon.
Blast from the Past from when I beat Cynthia in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond on Nintendo Switch:
So, since everything seems to ENJOY screwing me over, I suppose it's not a shock that Pokemon Go does also. So, i hit level 76, JUST BEFORE Go Fest, way behind schedule, because mayhem, injuries, n health problems just LOVE popping up, when i REALLY DON'T HAVE TIME FOR IT.
So, i had to take this screen shot of hitting Level 76 IN THE MIDDLE of also Screen recording it, because: SCREW KANDICE! Right?
Well, whatever. I did it,. and way behind scheduled... so, what else is new? NOT THIS!
I can show u the crappy imaged that the NEW OWNER of Pokemon GO, Scopely, did to WHAT SHOULD'VE BEEN A MAJOR TRIUMPHANT VICTORY! Plus recovering from a major leg injury and returning to be able to walk again, while ALSO trying to loose weight, and letting my lungs adjust to BREATHING WHILE WALKING, because I ALSO HAVE ASTHMA, which usually isn't a major issue, UNLESS u haven;t been walking for months because ur leg is busted!!!
But, I did it! I hit Level 76!
I SHOULD be at Level 77 now, but Scopeley is like: NO! 400 Particles ONLY MAX BATTLES FOR YOU! I gott do 100 Max Battles, whcih are normally about 200-250 Max Particles, but NO, NOW THEY're ONLY the 400 PARTICLES ONES since I hit Level 76 last month! OH! And the Gigantamax ones which are 1000 particles IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY BEAT THEM! (We did beat them, actually. So that's good)
HERE'S THE HORRID Screen captures WHICH U CAN ONLY GET AFTER u post to X/Twitter, because it WON'T let u capture the photo otherwise:
See how bad these are???
It's NOT just Niantic, it's NOT just Scopley, it's Pokemon Go.
SO, THESE are what I was working on BEFORE I took on the DRAGON MAP project:
And, this one was just a Mock-up Conceptual one, to sort of test out the layout, of the characters. I really wanna get back into Life Drawings again, with Chroquis gestures:
The heat waves have been too great, so my computer keeps overheating, and I don't want to destroy it. I just got this new Video card about a year ago.
These were the Rough Sketches for the Character Design, because I thought Djehkäujaa was too detailed, and too much, but the dragon kept turning into Djehkäujaa anyway. SO I guess she's still in my Muscle Memory, deeply embedded there.
I plan to shoot some better photos & footage on my DSLR camera. But, for now, here's some further photos of this wand project. The May Pollen & June Humidity of New England is making it soft, because there's so many layer of medium on this thing.
It has real jade on it, also. And the Tassel has a White Jade Pixiu which is a kind of unicorn, but there's more to it.
It's supposed to be a hybrid of a Ruyi and a Wand from the Wizarding World. I blogged about it further in my 1st blog on this topic.
— 任思麒 Kandice Z. ☮️✌🏽🕊✊🏽 (@BlackUniGryphon) May 4, 2026
The General theme of this custom made DIY wand whcih I hand sculpted using armature wire & Supersculpy was to resemble my sketches of my wand I scripted in to my D.R. Shifting Script at my Hogwarts D.R. (Desired Reality) if you are familiar with "Reality Shifting".
The design blends concepts from Chinese Taoism and also some vague ideas from "Fantastic Beasts" which is a spinoff of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter franchise.
Whenever I get around to scanning my sketches, I will. I just didn't get to it yet since I started a M.A.P. W.I.P. (animation project).
This involved a lot of painting, patience for the layers of paint to set, and also the use of antiquing medium, metallics, and layering of pigments with glazing medium and even mother-of-pearl.
It's based on a fusion of a Rúyì如意, and NO THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY TRANSLATE to "Scepter". It translates to "As You Wish" or "As You Will", and has a massive meaning. The Monkey King, Sun Wukong's Jing Gu Bang was ACTUALLY a Ruyi Jing Gu Bang which he could WILL to to become something else, and transform, just by willing it with his mind, thoughts, desires, and feelings.
A Ruyi usually resembles the shapes & swirls of the Lingzhi mushroom (reishi mushroom) which tends to have heavenly cloud swirls on it, naturally. This motif is also found in various other designs such as ancient Chinese locks, jade pendants, and various other design motifs.
Gifting someone a Ruyi speaks volumes o meaning which it DOES NOT express in Western Languages, so it's easier to just smile & nod at the ignorant foreigner and just say "it's a scepter" even tho' IT'S NOT! Why, because it would take a long time to explain it, the meanings, the words, the customs, the culture.
It Taoism it has a VERY CLEAR magical meaning, and the power of WILL over matter.
If you want to find other examples of Ruyi, you can run a search in Etsy and see what shows up, because it's a lot of interesting stuff at any given time. Highly creative artisans 7 collectors have various Ruyi, including Sun Wukong's Jing Gu Bang.
So, anyways, you COULD say that mine is #Fanfiction or #HarryPotterFanFiction of sorts but it's for my Reality Shifting D.R. Basically, it's when you move you consciousness to another reality, which you can script & design, and you just live their for as long as you want until you come back to your body here in the C.R. (Current reality). Also known as "Localle 3" in "Gateway Process" Tapes by Robert Monroe/Monroe Institute.
I'll blog some more on this later, when I have time.
Most of the characters r people from my C.R. including people I grew up with, went to middle school, high school, college with, or former coworkers & friends of mine, including my friend, David Biedny, who died in January 2024.
Also, "Reality Shifting" is quite different from "Lucid Dreaming" and/or "Lucid Dreams" but they're related, and so is OBEs (Out-of-Body Experiences) and "Astral Travel". You CAN actually use a Lucid Dream as a platform to SHIFT to your D.R. And it's somewhat similar to "Dream Incubation" but it's not a generic dream. In a Lucid Dream YOU CAN TEST to see if you're dreaming, and the checks will prove you're dreaming, and within the dream, and you can take over. But, when you SHIFT to another reality, you can run a reality check and they will all pass. BECAUSE IT'S REAL. You're MIND either made it, or it's an actual reality of molecules that you relocated your consciousness to. There's various views & beliefs as to which thing is happening, but I've found they're all valid. There's also waking methods & sleeping methods. These can also closely resemble "Hypnotic Induction". If you're "wooshing there", this to me suggests Hypnotic Induction, but if you have a SINKING and DEEP FEELING that's Shifting. But, other experiences are more similar to OBEs, Gateway Process, and Astral Travel because there's the vibratory state, tingles, etc. A Common place people shift to is a "Waiting Room" which you can design yourself, and they hang out there, eat delicious foods, watch TV, plan things, and so on.
I've shifted several times to other realities, and was even stuck there, but I'd eventually will myself back. I just didn't know you could script this until recently, so it's an ongoing thing with me. I've mini-shifted to Hogwarts several times, in fact, I can't remember them all. Glad I wrote them down! I tend to get way to excited, and fuck it up! I've also done Lucid Dreaming several times as well, and I've screwed up 1 of those pretty bad, also. Shifting is EXHAUSTING when you do it, I just tend to go to THE WRONG LOCATIONS for some reason, and I get stuck there. I also have an issue with "Dreamwalkers" whom invade & hack into my dreams, like the film "Inception". Sometimes they're good, other times' they're bad, and then there's neutral or morally gray ones. They can also mess me up.
That's about it for now, but I'll update this project content when I get around to it. I need to shoot more footage & photos of the finished wand.
Wow! So much has occurred since I'd last blogged about Pokemon Go & Grinding to Hit Level 50!
Well, I did it, and then I did many OTHER THINGS! Now, there's 80 levels which started LAST YEAR!
Here you can see my Avatar in my Giovani Black Suit BECAUSE I beat him enough times to get his Blazer from the PLATINUM MEDAL BADGE!
Since Early December I had a major leg injury which hampered my progress, but SEVERAL OTHER MILESTONES WENT DOWN BETWEEN HITTING LEVEL 70, AND I'M CURRENTLY SITTING AT LEVEL 75. In fact, I'm close to hitting Level 76, but was set back since it requires walking 300km, but I had several medical issues, plus very bad erratic weather!
Here's my BLACK Level 50 Legacy Bomber Jacket from the ORIGINAL LEVEL 50 system! HARD CORE! I also have the army green version as well. Plus, I completed the Special Research Tasks and GOT THE POSE and my Mewtwo! And here she is when i hit Level 70 as I was an eleite level and was grandfathered into the NEW SYSTEM! So, I also have a nod to my Original legacy Level 40 System where you can see the Gyarados Hat & my 2020 glasses!:
What an ABSOLUTE GRIND!!!! Jeez!!!
I hit Level 50 in Spring of 2024, and at that point I was almost sure they'd never have more levels, because we kept hearing rumors of 60 levels. But, the bombshell came in 2025 (last year) when suddenly there were 80 levels! Leveling up now is NOT AS HARD.... unless ur injured, like I was. It SUCKED!
I have ALL the XP & ALL The Platinum Medals I could possibly need to hit Level 80 now, but they time gated this stuff! So, if all goes well, I could hit 80 this year.
But, You might ALSO wanna check out the OTHER good stuff that happened for me since I hit Level 50, then 70, and now 75, but almost at 76, probably in a few more weeks. I gotta pace myself, because I have pain management & healing to navigate, plus trying to loose weight.
