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About Yom Tov
When I was 13 years old I gave all my Gi Joe toys to my house keeper "Willie". She was a huge fat black woman, who loved me like one of her own children. She raised me almost from birth. She also took care of homeless kids with no family, and i donated my entire collection of Gi Joe toys to them. I kept my Gi Joe toys in perfect condition, and it was as if the kids were getting hundreds of dollars of brand new Gi Joe toys. It took me a long time to collect them and it was incredibly hard to let them go. I regretted giving them up because i loved them so much, but was still happy for what i did for her kids. When i was 29 years old, i missed my old Gi Joes, so I went on ebay and bought a bunch of classic Gi Joes for quadruple the price! I had them for about one year, got my "fix, and sold them to a local comic shop.
But unfortunately you really do not want to hear the positive stories. What you do what to hear is all the life drama about all the mental hospitals i have been in, my attempted suicide, my psychologic brain trauma from birth, getting expelled from kindergarden, setting fire to my entire art portfolio, slaughtering my Tefillin and destroying my Chumash, what tattoos i unfortunately have, my vasectomy, my vasectomy reversal, and of course the black tar infested demon that cut open my head and laid its eggs inside my brain when i was just a child!
Honestly I would prefer NOT to share my past with the world, but people keep pushing me to tell my story. My full story will take some time to write, and I suppose i eventually will write a book about the first 35 years of my life before i moved to Israel. But for now below is a few short stories about my life. Enjoy!
Quick story about my name
Yes my name is actually Yom Tov! Some people would say I had 35 years of "bad days". At 35 I decided to start my life over and move to Israel. On that day, about January 1, 2010, I asked my father if he knew my Hebrew name. He did not remember it but he said, "I may have your Bris Milla certificate in my closet". He found my certificate and it said "Your name is Yom Tov!" (see bris milla image). For those of you who do not know, Yom Tov is Hebrew for "good day". So after 35 years of a somewhat out of control psychological nightmare, I find out my name is "Good Day". How ironic!
Since learning my Hebrew name, I have been having many good days! I have a great deal of healing to do, but I finally feel that I am on a solid path to becoming the person I have always dreamed of becoming and G-d willing, I can help others who have a different and unique way of seeing the world the way I do.
The Hyper Activator
Well, I might as well start from the beginning. I was just a small child in the bank with my mother. I was running around the bank practically jumping off the walls. A woman came up to my mother and said, "Is his name Michael". My mother was quite surprised and responded with, "Yes, how do you know"? The woman said, "You should of never of named him Michael. All Michael's are like this".
These are stories that my mother has told me over and over just about my whole life.
When i was a child we were in McDonalds with my Aunt. I mother asked me if she could have a sip of my milk shake. So i threw it in her face! Why i did this, i do not know, and i do not remember doing it. I think i was just too creative for my own brain.
We were all over my Aunts house one day (the same one from McDolnalds). I ran into the kitchen where everyone was hanging out, with a big smile across my face, saying, "Come look it is snowing in the living room"! When they came into the living room, they saw that i had dumped powdered laundry detergent all over the furniture, and all over everything! This too i don't remember doing.
My mother one day asked me to go out side and water all the plants in our backyard. So…I de-rooted all the plants and threw them into the swimming pool. I didn't stop until the pool looked like a swamp! This i also do not remember.
And finally (for now), When i was 12, i saw an old friend of mine who i went to kindergarten with. He asked if i remembered what i did to get expelled from kindergarten. But of course i did not remember. He said, i would flip tables over and throw chairs!
Life is weird! I am not sure what G-d was thinking when he made my brain way too creative for my body! Supposably I have a watered down case of autism called Ass-Burgers (with a side of fries and a milk shake). But who knows! I have been diagnosed for every possible brain disorder on the planet by several different professionals across the globe, and was given almost every different type of brain medication to suppress it all.
Portfolio
My portfolio is art from 5770 (2010) until now. All the portfolio art is art that i did after finding out my name was Yom Tov! Some of the art in this category is digitally redesigned art from the vault.
The Vault
The vault consists of all the (surviving) art i made before the year 5770 (2010). As mentioned above, in 2001 ninety percent of my portfolio was burned and destroyed. Perhaps you can still find some of it buried in the Los Angeles Tar Pits, or burnt to a crisp behind the dumpster at Starbucks on Sunset Boulevard. The Vault has art dating from 1993-2009. It is only a small parentage of what i could get my hands on, but what is there still packs quite a punch!
Merchandise
Against my personal beliefs, i have a typical Merchandise shop will a bunch of CRAP for you to consume! I have dreamed my whole life about having my own "empire" of garbage i can sell of my art, so i too can be the next George Lucas. But now the opportunity is so abundant, it just makes me want to vomit in my own mouth! I am constantly being asked and told; Do you have a Zazzle account? Are you on Facebook? Is your art on Esty? Why don't you sell on ebay? You should sell on Deviant Art. Will you sell T-shirts on cafepress. It would be so great if you showed videos of your gallery and art on youtube, you could get allot of "web hits" that way. And a myspace page would be great too! Oh, do you Twitter?!?!
Well here are my answers: I really do NOT want any of that garbage nor do i want anything to do with any of it! It drives me crazy to think of all the endless opportunity to infest the world with my art on the internet. I really do not have the time to LIVE and set up all that garbage on the World Wide Web. And right now i am not rich and famous enough to pay someone else to do it. Of course i would like lots and lots of consumerism crap like all the other jerks in the world, but i really can't focus on important things like my relationship with real people outside of the internet, and especially the study of Torah, while i blow out my artist ooze all over the internet!
So for you people that cannot cope with me not being part of your infested web circle, here is what i have for now. An online shop with CafePress & and a Facebook account. So go consume your little hearts out on my CafePress Shop, and feel free to Friend me, Like me, and Bite me, on my Facebook Friend page or Fan page
However if you are not satisfied with the CRAP i have to offer, then please go shopping on www.DisneyStore.com, and like the Garfield Facebook Page. They both seem to know what they are doing much better then i do with their consumerist zombie junk food!
Animations
There are none! Well that is not exactly the total truth. All my animations from college at The Ringling College of Art & Desing in Sarasota Florida, where i majored in Computer Animation for 5 years, are part of the 90% of killed art! I did some crazy crazy CRAZY short films and animations. Such as a virtual orgasm for my senior thesis, a cooking show staring Me as Princess Leia from Star Wars, and a short film where i got three freshmen girls to get naked in my bedroom and jump around on my bed. Fortunately they are all gone and out of harms way from poisoning the minds of millions of Jews & Gentiles! Well perhaps you can find a few if you look hard enough, but i have lost interest.
Anyway, before i moved to israel, i was attempting to create a new animation portfolio. My ex-wife who absolutely hated me because i was not a regular 9-5 working guy, threatened to divorce me if i did not go back to school for my Masters in computer animation and get a computer animation job. So for about 8 months i was a computer animator again! Then i left her and moved to israel. the experience totally sucked, but i got a decent animation reel out of the roller coaster ride. I will display it eventually (if people really bug me to see it).
Zolidian
In 2001 shortly after the Twin Tower Attacks, I met a writer in my Shule (place of prayer). He wanted to make a Jewish illustrated book of some sort. So I took my original Zolidian character and redesigned him into an orthodox jew. David Sacks (the writer) turned out to be a very well known successful Hollywood writer. Here is his personal website and Biography www.LivingWithGod.org. Anyway, we worked together on this really cool Jewish comic book about a modern day Golem that rips terrorists apart with his payas! But unfortunately after about 10 months i flipped out, got heavily involved with a non Jewish girl, destroyed ALL my Jewish artifacts along with most of my art work, and moved back to Florida, where i tormented myself in a bottomless pit for the next 8 years. Fortunately i did not destroy the computer with the Zolidian art on it, and i gave it back to David.
Close to the end of that 8 year triumph (which will be explained over time), something ignited within me and i decided to reconnect with David again. I asked him if he wants me to finish the book. Being the Holy person he is, he had no grudge and was very excited for me to finish. However he had a different Idea for the book that he insisted on. He wanted to make it a "Fine Art Book" with some story elements. That was perfect for me!
Within that book was a spark that lighted a fire that gave me the strength to move back to Israel! The concept of making a fine art graphic novel turned out to be quite confusing on how to keep a story with such strong art elements. We are still working on it to this day, trying to figure out how to finish the book. But the truth is, i really wonder if we are meant to finish it. The book already saved my life and brought me home! What else could i really ask from it?!?! I put the entire in-progress book online. View Zolidian Here
Blumentoons
In the summer of 1994 after my second year of college, i bought a huge Tony Robbins collection and became obsessed with him. I stopped taking my brain medication and spent that summer working on the Blumentoons book, along with driving my girlfriend and my parents completely crazy! I finished the book right before the next year of college started, had and emotional meltdown, got back on my medication, stopped listening to Tony Robbins and finished college forgetting about the Blumentoons book. It has been about 16 years since. I never really put much effort into getting published. but i did print about 50 copies on my own and sold them all. People love the book and it may make a good cartoon someday, but i don't have the time or patience to kiss the ass of publishers and producers until i find someone to get it out to the world. So, i put the whole book for free online. View Blumentoons Here