Elaborating on my goals for 2030

Hey guys,

yes you read that correctly. My goals for the end of this brand spanking new decade are up for discussion here.

I talk about them in this Friday Night Fun episode:

I wish I did this years ago. I keep wondering what I would have wanted to have achieved by now, but I know that it would be more than I have achieved. I disappoint myself, but the best thing to do is press on and keep working away at what you want to do.

Anyway, I said in my FNF episode that I wanted to have made some sort of organisation for my video games business, had a kid, and still be doing my hobby stuff. Well here I'm going to elaborate on the hobby stuff.



I like to make comics, magazines, films/shows, and YouTube videos.

By 2030 I want to be near the end of my Hale Kane Comics series. Over the last two years I have been chipping away at a retcon of the series because it got to a stage where it was difficult to work with. This meant that I posted no new comics with the last one being Hale Kane #17 in 2017. In 2020, and I didn't think this when I made the FNF video, I am getting really close to being able to start enjoying the comic-making process and start pumping out new comics on a regular basis. By 2030, I want to be near the end of the series' life. I made the first comic in 2007 and have made 17 comics in 12 years. It covers a period of 30-odd years from the young life of the original Hale Kane to the late 20s of his son KJ. I intend to have the series end with KJ, but I'm not 100% sure about how old he will be. I might do a few time skips, but it's a fair way away. At the very least, KJ will be in his late 50s or early 60s. By 2030, I will hopefully have made 30 comics. Perhaps I will have moved on to my next comic series, which I make a great effort in restricting how much I think about because I am proud of Hale Kane and am not finished with it. Just because something is hard to work with, it doesn't mean that you should give up on it. I don't know if I can apply the same logic to relationships.

So that's Hale Kane, now let's talk about my magazines.

I keep my personal magazine quite private and only send it to selected people who I think might be interested in reading it. The problem is that I'm not very good at gauging who to send it to. Nevertheless, it has continued to evolve and is the same age as Hale Kane comics, but went through a major change in 2014 when it was rebooted in terms of how and why I make it. I used to make it to show off my video game designs, artwork, creativity, and story ideas, but then I realised that most of that sort of thing has dried up and now I write about my real life and sometimes it gets pretty personal. I certainly hope to continue writing my personal magazine because it is a great symbol of how I'm feeling at the time, what I'm up to, and what matters to me the most at that particular point. I go through rough years with the magazine, but I usually explain why it's been many months since the last issue. I go through stuff, I'm an idiot, and other reasons/excuses. By 2030, I hope that I have made 90 issues of my personal magazine. Considering that I have made around 32 issues in the last four years, I think that I can make 58 in 10 years. It's a lighter workload. Why not aim for 100? I'm not optimistic that my life will always be smooth sailing. I'm still growing as a person and I think that the moment that I stop that will be the moment that I start hating myself. I don't want that to happen, but that is what I believe. In the last four years since I rebooted the magazine, two of those years have been rough for the magazine. I can't expect good things all of the time. 90 issues is a good target for 2030.

Currently unreleased issue #16 of the Ihasnotomato Magazine.

I also make a fan magazine for my friend Ihasnotomato in support of his artistic creations. The Ihasnotomato magazine has witnessed the transition from Edited to Kass the Psychopath and the evolution of Tomato as a writer and artist. It is a celebration of his achievements and draws attention to his favourite hobbies: drawing and writing stories. I certainly hope that by 2030 the Ihasnotomato magazine has had a few more issues and that it has witnessed the transition from Kass the Psychopath to something else.

The past five years has not been kind to my films. I have made none. Even though I wanted to, I was either busy with uni or not happy with my film idea. I've been working on the same film idea for five years, and it is now getting to a stage where I am expecting to produce it in 2020. Nevertheless, there is something slightly embarrassing about making amateur films. My friends might feel ashamed about it, but people get paid money and do film-making on a professional level as adults, so I can do it on an amateur level as an adult too. For 2030, I hope to have moved on after successfully completing this current project and make something really different to my action-packed films of the past. It's time to truly challenge that part of my artistic side. I will grow as a film-maker and learn a heap of great things about artistic work. I would like to have made a film project between 2025 and 2029. It feels weird to think that far ahead, but it is also nice to have that sort of structure thought out.

Finally I move on to my YouTube channels. This blog has documented their developments since I launched my first channel (Supercars Mabeanie) in 2010 and even a little bit before it. This blog has revolved around my YouTube efforts, but like myself has grown to open up to the things that matter to me and generally the blog is more about me than what I do. I am all about what I do, but obviously I am a human being with emotions and so sometimes I like to get philosophical and write about sad things. This April I will have been on YouTube for 10 years and by 2030 I would like to have been on YouTube for 20 years. It's crazy to think about, because the only thing that I've done for that long in any capacity is be alive. In my 10 years, a lot has happened. I did my personal channels for four years, focused on a group channel for three, and then brought my personal channels back and evolved them in the last three. I can't predict the future, but I would just like to keep doing YouTube for the rest of this new decade. In whatever form YouTube takes, I would like to be a part of it as long as it continues to be the community video platform that it has been since it was first launched in 2005.

This feels good. I'm happy that I've written this and now I've got to go back to being a man and doing dishes and stuff.

Good Night!