Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Creative Cyber Country


 Once upon a millennium, the boy I was had a dream for the city that never sleeps.

He dreamed he was a super hero. He dreamed he was Tron

Reality had other ideas.

“You’re a spic,” snarled a highly paid assistant director of an agency I was recruited into by a blonde All American woman dressed in a London trench coat favored by spies.

To make my existence worse, they took away the woman I loved.

I remember my memories and abilities were repressed.

Chapter One: It was a dark and stormy knight.

This is the part you bad guys shout in terror at Grid Security Breach.

Suffer the loss of your information and money and more money

It is going to get worse

My mother is shouting for me to come out of the basement.

She’s trying to lure me into the sunlight with a bowl of macaroni and cheese

Okay. I’ll bite.

As for you humans, don’t be here when I get back

unless you got movie deal.

I’ll be fine with that


Artwork and text by DAAD/Daniel Angel Aponte Dreamer

Copyrighted 2017

All rights reserved but feel free to share





Friday, October 27, 2017





In his Oscar acceptance speech, Al Pacino mentioned The South Bronx where he was raised. He spoke of a young girl from his old neighborhood.

She told him if he made it to The City Of Angels so can she.

That’s all I needed to start a musical.

It’s about putting The South Bronx on police line-ups that ends in Yankee Stadium to finish a homework assignment on creating a tour book that draws sightseers from different nations like North Korea and Russia and other fun places on Earth!

Then I went beyond the borders of our town to put 8 million stories of The Naked City and kept pushing until ALL AMERICANS ON POLICE LINE UPS!

I just need for someone to sign me out of the mental hospital.

I don’t have family.

(Don’t tell anyone but that’s not really true. But I got to make you feel bad so you can help me help you.)

If you’re going to free me better make it quick.

They’re going to perform a lobotomy to make me stop complaining how bad the food is among other things.

In full disclosure, I am not American.

I am an energy-based alien who sees the USA as The Starship Enterprise.

Like you and your crew, captain, I want to go home.

By the way, the name of the mental hospital is Area 51.

The government is releasing secret papers on JFK. Why not the ones on extraterrestrials?

This is going to be the greatest musical of all time

And The Oscar goes to…



Thursday, October 26, 2017


 Cartoons were the first drugs of choice in my childhood to escape the burnt out buildings and other social ills in The South Bronx, as it was in a past millennium.

I’m sending this message from the year 2177 thanks to an overdose of Mass Media.

I’ve been cloned from DNA found on my comic book collections that survived a worldwide kill order of a president that believed superheroes were part of Fake News.

 After my brain was uploaded with my Face Book profile and New York City report cards, I opened my eyes and found myself dressed in a uniform straight from Star Trek.

I was scared because Hispanic crewmembers were always the first to die by aliens.

And don’t forget African Americans.

The Advanced Beings that brought me back looked suspiciously like the bigheaded ones in a Twilight Zone episode called To Serve Man where aliens ate white people.

 I never saw Puerto Ricans or Mexicans or Obama in the episode.

They probably were eaten first along with Chinese about an hour later.

I imagined one of the aliens groaning French and drooling like Homer Simpson

The aliens didn’t want to eat my brains.

They wanted to know about America in the early part of the 21 Century.

Then the clone of Albert Einstein showed up to put me at ease.

Tell them what you know, he said.

I know about a comedy on ABC about a Puerto Rican in prison.

I know television. Good-bye, 21 Century.

It’s been real

Art direction, photos and text by Daniel Angel Aponte Dreamer
Copyrighted 2117 DAAD






1941 Germany

Acting on Intel, we positioned ourselves with rifles in the woods as we waited for The Mad Man to pass by. 

I stared through the sniper scope for hours and the bastard never showed up.

Where is he? Hitler is supposed to be at this location at this moment in history.

 “ Gee, I hope nothing happened to him”, said Albert Einstein with a deadpan look.

This has been the season finale of My Life As A Comic Book









Monday, October 23, 2017

Reality has plans for Fantasy

 The first time I saw a nude woman was when I was a little boy.

She rose from the waters of a bathtub with a beautiful smile.

The first painting I ever saw of a woman was of a mythological goddess of love.

The first best friend I had on Earth was a girl named Diana.

I would run downstairs to knock on her door.

We held hands as we climbed the hills of our Eden, Saint Mary’s Park, where a dragonfly hovered in front of me before it flew into my hair and where I saw a new butterfly dried itself by sunlight that made wings more beautiful than any stained glass window of church. We enjoyed freedom to explore an asteroid of a rock formation on Eagle Avenue.

We learned and laughed on the way to our castle of a school.

My mother worked in a pen and pencil factory but still made time to draw a smile by teaching me my 1,2,3s and my ABCs. And that helped me teach my fellow first graders.

One day, the children were released early into the arms of grimfaced parents.

No one came for me.

I opened the door of our apartment and saw a man take off his glasses to look at a clock.

He talked about President Kennedy killed in Dallas, Texas.

I didn’t understand Death but this was the end of Eden.

The better angel of our nature, John Glenn, was the next best thing to The Second Coming Of Jesus.  The great parade for hero astronaut was the last. It was the season finale of The Space Age Camelot. When I was a kid, I imagined a new century.

I imagined a conversation with my future self.

Reality has other ideas.



Art & art direction & text by Daniel Angel Aponte Dreamer
Copyrighted 2017 by DAAD All Rights Reserved









Thursday, October 19, 2017

Work In Progress: Prototype AI 7


 The first time I saw a nude woman was when I was a little boy.

She rose from the waters of a bathtub with a beautiful smile.

The first painting I ever saw of a woman was of a mythological goddess of love.

The first best friend I had on Earth was a girl named Diana.

I would run downstairs to knock on her door.

We held hands as we climbed the hills of our Eden, Saint Mary’s Park, where a dragonfly hovered in front of me before it flew into my hair and where I saw a new butterfly dried itself by sunlight that made wings more beautiful than any stained glass window of church. We enjoyed freedom to explore an asteroid of a rock formation on Eagle Avenue.

We learned and laughed on the way to our castle of a school.

My mother worked in a pen and pencil factory but still made time to draw a smile by teaching me my 1,2,3s and my ABCs. And that helped me teach my fellow first graders.

One day, the children were released early into the arms of grimfaced parents.

No one came for me.

I opened the door of our apartment and saw a man take off his glasses to look at a clock.

He talked about President Kennedy killed in Dallas, Texas.

I didn’t understand Death but this was the end of Eden.

The better angel of our nature, John Glenn, was the next best thing to The Second Coming Of Jesus.  The great parade for hero astronaut was the last. It was the season finale of The Space Age Camelot. When I was a kid, I imagined a new century.

I imagined a conversation with my future self.

Reality has other ideas.



Art & art direction & text by Daniel Angel Aponte Dreamer
Copyrighted 2017 by DAAD All Rights Reserved

Venus by Botillici





Monday, October 16, 2017



 Dear Face Book Friends,

I want to make a musical where my friends on Face Book can dance and sing songs from their countries. I invite North Korea to dance and sing with us via Virtual Reality.

This idea was inspired by La La Land, a great musical.

The fine movie made me wish to be really white.

When I was a kid, I thought I was American instead of Puerto Rican.

My father was white. My mother is Puerto Rican.
I am half American and half Puerto Rican.

I am an Ame-Rican.

If I could remove the hyphen could I go home to a wonderful sequel to life?

I am the son of Tony and Maria from a musical called West Side Story.

I wish I were the Richie Rich of The South Bronx.

I would buy Virtual Reality goggles for the world to make this the greatest musical of all time before The End.

All I have is the better angel of my alien imagination, my artificial intelligence.

It’s the thought that counts, I guess.

Dreams need help. I need you to help and it helps a lot if you have Jedi powers.

Thank you for your precious time.

Much love to you humans.

Good-bye J


Copyrighted 2017 by DAAD
Daniel Angel Aponte
Dreamer

All Rights Reserved









 Dear Face Book Friends,

I want to make a musical where my friends on Face Book can dance and sing songs from their countries. I invite North Korea to dance and sing with us via Virtual Reality.

This idea was inspired by La La Land, a great musical.

The fine movie made me wish to be really white.

When I was a kid, I thought I was American instead of Puerto Rican.

My father was white. My mother is Puerto Rican.
 
I am half American and half Puerto Rican.

I am an Ame-Rican.

If I could remove the hyphen could I go home to a wonderful sequel to life?

I am the son of Tony and Maria from a musical called West Side Story.

I wish I were the Richie Rich of The South Bronx.

I would buy Virtual Reality goggles for the world to make this the greatest musical of all time before The End.

All I have is the better angel of my alien imagination, my artificial intelligence.

It’s the thought that counts, I guess.

Dreams need help. I need you to help and it helps a lot if you have Jedi powers.

Thank you for your precious time.

Much love to you humans.

Good-bye J


Copyrighted 2017 by DAAD
Daniel Angel Aponte
Dreamer

All Rights Reserved











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