I'ma tell you about Japanese "ukiyo-e" ('Floating World') prints.

Everybody who knows anything about Japanese art knows (and usually loves) Hokusai Katsushika. That's as incontravertable a fact as "If you know anything about cars, you know Ford." You know Hokusai, in fact. He did the woodblock ukiyo-e print The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, which you ( Read more... )

New Vox Absconditus up, part of which mirrors this, most of which does not ( Read more... )

...スローモーションで

I discovered the new single by The Pillows by accident today. It's called Ladybird Girl, and is stupid addictive in that it's their style of stuff similar to One Life and reminds me of Weezer. Consequently, is good.

Sono Mirai Wa Ima is also awesome. It's also hard to go wrong with the message and the video ( Read more... )

1 part Heian era imperial court clothing ( Read more... )

So recently I started watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig. In plain english, that's "The Ghost in the Shell series, season 2." Now, they kept 99% of the voices from the English dub of the original film, and 100% of the Japanese voices, and that makes me happy, because the Japanese voices were very spot-on for the kinds of ( Read more... )

Media
If you value anything that's cool at all, you will do yourself a favor and check out Samurai 7.

In a nutshell, Samurai 7 is an anime re-telling of The Seven Samurai, set in a high-tech yet steampunkish world where the bandits are full borgs - and not human looking, either. Their bodies are huge battle drones. Kikuchiyo is a steam-powered ( Read more... )

First and foremost...
Many years ago - 1996 or so - a computer supply store in Rohnert Park, California was having a sale on surplus VR screens that had never been put into headsets. They were high-color backlit LCD screens with a resolution of about 340 by 260 or so. You could get a power unit and two of them for 25 bucks. At the time, this was a ( Read more... )

I was about to bitch about work, but I shan't do it today. My icon says it all. Suffice to say the following:
My abject disgust at the dedication to duty some state and federally funded employees have is near its limit. Its 'boiling point', to key into the selfsame icon.

Let's talk about chivalry, shall we?

I got to thinking about this when ( Read more... )