Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera
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Today I've officially become Etcetera. NOT Core Dimension anymore, though I doubt it'll catch on very quickly.
Why the change? What was ever wrong with Core Dimension?
Well, when I first signed on to BZP, I used Core Dimension as my name for every account. It was the stage of developement of a story of mine, no, not a story. More like, an in-depth universe. No, not a universe either, because the whole idea is that universes are just a small part of the whole of Reality.
Here's how it worked - I loved making stories and worlds, but always had the problem of never being able to stick to something I started, because I'd get a new idea for something else. It began as a comic book art project where I used my 5 signature characters - Glitch, Slug, Kihlok, Mal, and Thielan. I started working on a storyworld where those guys actually made sense being in the same place at the same time.
The story was there are different realms in the universe, seven to be exact. Each guy came from a different realm and teamed up together. The story was called the 7th Dimension. But, working on a logo, I like the idea of having it be an oblong circle that resembled a 7-D. But I couldn't get the 7 to look right, so I stuck a C there as temporary. Suddenly, thinking of what C would stand for if it was there, the name Core Dimension hit me. And that's where I changed the story - there are 7 realms, but there is a central realm that was created as a capital-of-the-universe sort of deal. That was Phyrast, the Core Dimension.
But I grew older, and everything in it starting seeming more and more kiddish. I decided to maybe keep the kiddish line going, but have a more in-depth and mature version of the Core Dimenison. Over time, things developed, and more and more I starting honing down just what the whol situation was and how things worked. I dropped the seven realms idea - there are millions and millions of realms, nearly all of which are unlinked. Phyrast is sort of an artifical realm, created to unite all the realms and end the multi-dimensional Gate War. But then I started developing something I hadn't before - a story. And more and more, I was leaning to using Biblical inspiration as the heart and soul of my story, like C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. I can't go in-depth about that on BZP, of course, but that changed my story to have thought-compelling meaning, messages, and go deeper, deeper, deeper. The name Core Dimension always stuck with me as just not working anymore - it seemed to fit great for the cartoony version, but not fot the deep version. I wanted a name that was one word, and English word, that was simple, had a perfectly fitting meaning, yes sounded really cool just as a word. And what came up was Parable - the perfectly perfect word. The whole story has indeed become a Parable, and using that inspiration that's what I want to make the foundation of the whole thing. Everything is symbolic. Core Dimension no longer was a perfect name.
Then there's the whole deal that originally, Core Dimension covered everyting I created. This included drawings of the cartoony world that Slug lives in, to the futuristic fantastical drawings of Tempest, a Gatekeeper. But with Parable, things took a different turn, not to mention the fact that I'd started developing something that had nothing to do with Core Dimension in any form at all. I love to draw, love to compose, love to gamemake, love to write, love to photograph, love to do nearly everything that involves creativity. But it didn't all relate - not everything was from the same story or in the same style. I was stuck calling things "made by Core Dimension" that didn't make sense being in the Core Dimension. Things just weren't working.
Then I made a blog entry about the word Etcetera - my favorite word, more so than "crunchy", which I don't use enough nowadays. Then, sketching out ideas of my future website, I was slowly leaning on the fact that it couldn't be called Core Dimension anymore. I wrote down Etcetera. And I realized how perfect it was. Etcetera doesn't mean anything, it just means "And On". I would've liked to use a word like "Imagination Works" or "Creative" but those things just seemed to over used and were really just iffy. Etcetera fit perfectly because it covers EVERYTHING without ever being specific.
And there you have it, all my creative works were created by the guy who goes by the moniker Etcetera. Of course, I realized I had to change my name after I said goodbye to the Core Dimension. I may as well change my e-mail address and everything else, but some account names are permanent. I'm fine with Core Dimension, but Etcetera.. it just fits me better. It's inspecific, and limitless, and multi-purposeful, and.. well, etc.
Oh, and the (o) logo still applies. I like it. It doesn't have to represent a C and a D anymore.
(o)
Why the change? What was ever wrong with Core Dimension?
Well, when I first signed on to BZP, I used Core Dimension as my name for every account. It was the stage of developement of a story of mine, no, not a story. More like, an in-depth universe. No, not a universe either, because the whole idea is that universes are just a small part of the whole of Reality.
Here's how it worked - I loved making stories and worlds, but always had the problem of never being able to stick to something I started, because I'd get a new idea for something else. It began as a comic book art project where I used my 5 signature characters - Glitch, Slug, Kihlok, Mal, and Thielan. I started working on a storyworld where those guys actually made sense being in the same place at the same time.
The story was there are different realms in the universe, seven to be exact. Each guy came from a different realm and teamed up together. The story was called the 7th Dimension. But, working on a logo, I like the idea of having it be an oblong circle that resembled a 7-D. But I couldn't get the 7 to look right, so I stuck a C there as temporary. Suddenly, thinking of what C would stand for if it was there, the name Core Dimension hit me. And that's where I changed the story - there are 7 realms, but there is a central realm that was created as a capital-of-the-universe sort of deal. That was Phyrast, the Core Dimension.
But I grew older, and everything in it starting seeming more and more kiddish. I decided to maybe keep the kiddish line going, but have a more in-depth and mature version of the Core Dimenison. Over time, things developed, and more and more I starting honing down just what the whol situation was and how things worked. I dropped the seven realms idea - there are millions and millions of realms, nearly all of which are unlinked. Phyrast is sort of an artifical realm, created to unite all the realms and end the multi-dimensional Gate War. But then I started developing something I hadn't before - a story. And more and more, I was leaning to using Biblical inspiration as the heart and soul of my story, like C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. I can't go in-depth about that on BZP, of course, but that changed my story to have thought-compelling meaning, messages, and go deeper, deeper, deeper. The name Core Dimension always stuck with me as just not working anymore - it seemed to fit great for the cartoony version, but not fot the deep version. I wanted a name that was one word, and English word, that was simple, had a perfectly fitting meaning, yes sounded really cool just as a word. And what came up was Parable - the perfectly perfect word. The whole story has indeed become a Parable, and using that inspiration that's what I want to make the foundation of the whole thing. Everything is symbolic. Core Dimension no longer was a perfect name.
Then there's the whole deal that originally, Core Dimension covered everyting I created. This included drawings of the cartoony world that Slug lives in, to the futuristic fantastical drawings of Tempest, a Gatekeeper. But with Parable, things took a different turn, not to mention the fact that I'd started developing something that had nothing to do with Core Dimension in any form at all. I love to draw, love to compose, love to gamemake, love to write, love to photograph, love to do nearly everything that involves creativity. But it didn't all relate - not everything was from the same story or in the same style. I was stuck calling things "made by Core Dimension" that didn't make sense being in the Core Dimension. Things just weren't working.
Then I made a blog entry about the word Etcetera - my favorite word, more so than "crunchy", which I don't use enough nowadays. Then, sketching out ideas of my future website, I was slowly leaning on the fact that it couldn't be called Core Dimension anymore. I wrote down Etcetera. And I realized how perfect it was. Etcetera doesn't mean anything, it just means "And On". I would've liked to use a word like "Imagination Works" or "Creative" but those things just seemed to over used and were really just iffy. Etcetera fit perfectly because it covers EVERYTHING without ever being specific.
And there you have it, all my creative works were created by the guy who goes by the moniker Etcetera. Of course, I realized I had to change my name after I said goodbye to the Core Dimension. I may as well change my e-mail address and everything else, but some account names are permanent. I'm fine with Core Dimension, but Etcetera.. it just fits me better. It's inspecific, and limitless, and multi-purposeful, and.. well, etc.
Oh, and the (o) logo still applies. I like it. It doesn't have to represent a C and a D anymore.
(o)
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