Picture Collection

Permalink Reply by Sean Clark on July 18, 2009 at 11:14am

I just thought I'd add that the first picture was taken at a bowling alley in May of 2006 for my 26th birthday, while the second was taken back in our indy wrestling days in April 2002. I'll be adding more photos hopefully over the days via my page in the photo section.

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Permalink Reply by james_uk on July 18, 2009 at 11:26am

Thank you for sharing these. I have to say he looks far more alive and healthier in those. (shows in his skin tone too)

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Permalink Reply by DeusEx on July 18, 2009 at 12:46pm

Wow! Thanks for posting these pics. Maybe Brad will see them and think back to these days and how happy he was. He looks like one of the guys. This is what life should be about, not what he's made it into now.

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Permalink Reply by ilikepies on July 18, 2009 at 12:54pm

very true... and if sean or Brads sister feel like responding in some way i'd like to know...what happened??

When Brad first came out as mr new age know it all he said he was just on a break from working for a computer company, yet then we found out he was spending most of his time on planet x fiction and cloverfield and making websites and trying all these different things to get money online. It seemed like he was lying when he said he worked for a computer company so I'm wondering if you have some sort of definitive knowledge of what exactley this guy was doing with his life for so long. Did he simply have his heart set of fame and fortune and thus couldn't keep his life steady? was his wife really so demanding and annoying? did he just never want to work? What drove Brad Johnson to the basement of his house where his life became acting like a big man on the internet, making fake accounts on youtube and calling himself a genius, treating people HUMAN BEINGS like garbage, calling us "unevolved" because we don't follow along with his nonsenscial ever changing fantasy view of the world. How do you think this all happened?

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Permalink Reply by Sean Clark on July 18, 2009 at 2:01pm

You know everybody, it's really hard for me to pinpoint a time or place when these changes began. As you may recall in Part One of my post, I mentioned how I had not really spoken much to Brad in a while before I got his message this past March. Before that, it would be once every few months; i'd mostly be the one calling him to see what was happening. As i mentioned as well, I knew nothing of SOE or any of his other garbage before that time. The Cloverfield stuff, Planet X, that stuff I knew but had no problem with because that was typical Brad at the time; always fiming short movies on sci-fi and comedy but fairly normal from what I could see.

One thing I do recall though is; I had a friend mention to me a few times nearly a year or so ago that when she ran into Brad, he really didn't give her the light of day. When he did speak to her, I was told he really didn't care much for me anymore. I don't know the validility of it because when I would see him or speak to him, he would seem like old Brad to me. Then again, this could have been the beginning of his split transformation. Outside of that, something had to have happened between mid-2007 and mid-2008, (the start of his Cloverfield obsession to the start of SOE.) What triggered it is a mystery.

On the subject of him working for a computer company or whatever he's doing now, that is accurate as far as I am aware. Cara told me yesterday that her lawyer served him at his work recently. I do know that he's had a number of jobs of varying types over the last 8 years, ranging from janitorial, to hawking health products door to door, to working as a busser at a restuarant, to house painting, to his web design & computer repair business, to apparently working in a computer store now. I'd estimate he's had at least a dozen different jobs in that time span, compared to me, (I've been at the same job for seven years, management at a department store.) He's never really liked doing, 'actual work,' as in the 9-5 Monday to Friday stuff at an actual place. He's been more content to just sit at home and work from there.

I remember him telling me once a few years ago while at the 'height' of his web design business that he was getting lots of jobs and was pulling in really good money. The funny thing is, i never saw any evidence of it. When i would go to his apartment or where he was with Cara, a house they were renting, I would see many of the same items he had from his bachelor days living with me. Some other things he had as well were hand-me-downs from other people, (family I guess,) or were second-hand from Sally Ann or something. I never saw any 'new' stuff, stuff that looked like they bought it together. They never did anything together that couples would normally do, (travelling for example.) My wife and I, in the same span of seven years, have gone on nurmerous trips, have bought many new possessions together, and are very close to getting a place of our own. I own very little from my single days, mainly because most of it was nearing it's end anyways.

In closing, I hope that covers most of your question pies. Honestly, writing these posts is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I get so pissed off putting these words here, but it has to be done. I have to tell all of you everything, even if I have to squeeze every bit of knowledge from me. I hope sooner rather than later that it will be worth it.

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Permalink Reply by james_uk on July 18, 2009 at 3:22pm

Like I said before many thanks for being so open on this.

http://www2.userful.com/company/news-and-reviews/blog/blogger/bjohn...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im9qbHmMmqA&feature=channel_page

Userful would be one of the computer firms that Brad would have worked for. From what I've seen he appeared to write articles for them and as seen in the youtube link he promoted them by making a video using the same art direction as his Spritesapiens series. Co-incidentally userful has an office in Victoria.
http://www2.userful.com/company/contact-us

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Permalink Reply by ilikepies on July 18, 2009 at 3:43pm

I don't see why Brad can't simply focus his energy on these computer related jobs that he has had success with and instead of being all "I am the chosen medium of the earth" just get back to his interests in creating sci fi stories. He should channel all these ideas of aliens and channels and dimensions and shit into some work of fiction, thats really all hes doing now. Making up stories and worlds to bring some excitement and meaning or whatever into his life. The problem is that he tells people this stuff is the truth when he knows it isnt, the problem is that he dabbles in all this egotistical megalomaniacal cult leader stuff.

Brad just needs to realize that while it's ok for him to be an individual, to be interested in these kinds of things, to want his life to go a certain way, if he keeps searching for this impossible holy grail pedastool of greatness he's gonna end up realizing he screwed his whole life up, not everyone can be the famous chosen one beloved by all but if your lucky enough to have friends and family then your still damn lucky and you should realize thats where your priorities should be

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Permalink Reply by Sean Clark on July 18, 2009 at 3:44pm

Thanks for passing along the name of his job james_uk. I knew it it was Userful, but couldn't remember the name off the top of my head.

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Permalink Reply by Ben on July 18, 2009 at 3:54pm

Interestingly, that youtube video has a (positive) comment from user eseow2007. Eseow2007 was Brad Johnson himself and he used this account to favorite and give five star ratings to his ootwpcs videos (cloverfield, grayshot, etc) and to yell at people who didn't like the stuff. When late last year some people found out eseow2007 was Brad himself and confronted him with this, he quickly deleted the account. Sean, did you know that before Brad started Adronis.org, he, Druanna and a particularly troubled individual named Clinton Doherty ran a shortlived site called expressionofsoul? They boldy claimed they could cure cancer, autism and whatever ails you. Of course these magical cures came with a pricetag (around $100 if I recall correctly) so Brad's recent "sorry I have to start charging you"-video is really a load of bullshit because making money the easy (and probably not quite legal) way has always been one of Brad's priorities.

james_uk said:

Like I said before many thanks for being so open on this.

http://www2.userful.com/company/news-and-reviews/blog/blogger/bjohn...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im9qbHmMmqA&feature=channel_page

Userful would be one of the computer firms that Brad would have worked for. From what I've seen he appeared to write articles for them and as seen in the youtube link he promoted them by making a video using the same art direction as his Spritesapiens series. Co-incidentally userful has an office in Victoria.
http://www2.userful.com/company/contact-us

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Permalink Reply by Sean Clark on July 18, 2009 at 4:08pm

I have heard about the Expression of Soul site Ben. Another site that has ceased to exist i understand.

And, thank you for responding here. I've read your blogs and discussions here, and I find them very insightful and excellent. I welcome any further comments you may have in the future.

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Permalink Reply by Ben on July 18, 2009 at 4:52pm

I think there is a simple reason for that, pies. Brad lacks the attention span, patience, and focus one needs to muster when pursuing a career in art or showbiz. He also doesn’t have a single original idea in his head. Spritesapiens, Planet X, Cade’s War, Grayshot…all his creative projects borrowed heavily from successful cartoons, games, and films. I think Brad is more interested in the idea of success, in seeing his name on the screen and being the center of attention and admiration. The quality of his work comes second, if at all. That is why he enjoys referring to himself in the third person and called a bunch of videos of himself talking to the camera “interviews”. He started several youtube accounts to favorite and positively comment and rate his videos and thereby imply popularity. But every time real success (and revenue) doesn’t happen overnight, he quickly moves on. He has done it with, just to name a few, Grayshot, Planet X, Spritesapiens, expressionofsoul, Promotion Genesis, and Goldring. When he jumped on the 10-14 bandwagon he was ready to move on when no UFO showed up (even asking his 101408.blogspot visitors if he should call it quits) but like often happens when a prophecy fails to come true, things were shifted into another direction to deny failure and, realizing P.T. Barnum was right in saying “a sucker is born every minute”, Brad could continue enjoying the attention he got. He tried to make his popularity profitable (expressionofsoul) but when that failed he deleted the site and when more and more SOE-ers started to voice their criticism, and giving his own videos five star ratings didn’t help anymore, he packed his bags again and moved on to the startseed council. This has always been Brad’s way of dealing with things: trying to copy something successful (whether it’s a film, a game, a comic, or a psychic) with as little effort as possible and dumping it when it doesn’t bring him the popularity or success he thinks he’s entitled to. On top of that, he’s also extremely gullible and impressionable: when some shady screenplay agency told him they would review his script he was so excited and overjoyed that his imagination ran riot and he went ahead and declared on some scifi forum that his screenplay was picked up to be adapted into a major motion picture. When he gained unexpected popularity with SOE, I think his already fragile mind went to mush and he somehow convinced himself he really was the “fasted accelerated person on earth” and I doubt if he can come back from that state of mind.

ilikepies said:

I don't see why Brad can't simply focus his energy on these computer related jobs that he has had success with and instead of being all "I am the chosen medium of the earth" just get back to his interests in creating sci fi stories. He should channel all these ideas of aliens and channels and dimensions and shit into some work of fiction, thats really all hes doing now. Making up stories and worlds to bring some excitement and meaning or whatever into his life. The problem is that he tells people this stuff is the truth when he knows it isnt, the problem is that he dabbles in all this egotistical megalomaniacal cult leader stuff.
Brad just needs to realize that while it's ok for him to be an individual, to be interested in these kinds of things, to want his life to go a certain way, if he keeps searching for this impossible holy grail pedastool of greatness he's gonna end up realizing he screwed his whole life up, not everyone can be the famous chosen one beloved by all but if your lucky enough to have friends and family then your still damn lucky and you should realize thats where your priorities should be

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Permalink Reply by ilikepies on July 18, 2009 at 5:23pm

yah I agree Ben personally I'm not sure Brad has the talent needed to really succeed in those things but if he's gonna make an sort of real run at it at all he needs to actually sit down and work on something rather than coming up with the "idea" of something and instantly making websites and youtube videos about the things that he claims will eventually exist. Much like he hasnt really done any work or effort whatsoever into his "professional psychic business" just simply says hes the greatest and hes a professional, he doles out shoddy and derivative material that only slowly and slightly gets less obvious an insane as he slowly learns how these lies are generally propogated and what works and dosent work and what the go to excuses should be for questions like "can you prove this? why are you charging money when you just spent an hour telling me money is the most evil thing alive? how come every pretty girl that signs up to your site just happens to be your soul mate?"

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