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Zombieland Excellent, Fall Anime, Cupcake Prep
First, Zombieland -- absolutely as fun as the trailers look. Great comic timing, invention, AND restraint -- not something you'd expect to be able to say about a zombie* apocalypse roadtrip action comedy starring Woody Harrelson, but the creators seem to know when they need to hold back and when they can go for it, and make very few missteps. ( Read more... ) -
Surely in her part of the world it's belated by now, but...
Happy birthday, bramblyhedge! -
X TV Alternate OP AMV (please let it stay up long enough for me to post this)
Finally finished a project that's been percolating for a while -- an alternate version of the X TV OP set to Ali Project's "Ankoku Tengoku." (In my head, there's a chibified X TV series a la "Welcome to Lodoss Island," and its theme is "Peony Pink," but I just couldn't make that work.) I haven't had great luck with YouTube in the past, so I'm ( Read more... ) -
CLAMP's Official Avatar Maker Live, Available on Web for Immediate Tormenting of Beloved Characters
So we've known for a while that CLAMP was going to roll out user-generated avatars on their mobile site, and the service is now live. But as nokiirat points out in a post at clamp_now, you don't to access the site via your phone to play with the avatar maker -- just go here to get started. It's a kick, they have a great starting selection, and I've been playing ( Read more... ) -
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You know, I didn't think the title of that last post was going to be quite so prophetic. ^^; Actually, Kamui's hair didn't take two weeks although Keiichi's did, but getting my lineart cleaned up and colored had me working on my fanbook submission almost up to the deadline. I'm glad now that I was actively at it every day since about the ( Read more... ) -
This will probably take the remaining two weeks to resolve.
Wow -- I forgot the conniptions Kamui's hair used to give me. >_>;; The design sketches for the first Tsubasa OAVs are helping, kind of, since Kamui's hair DOES look kind of like hair right now -- just not particularly like Kamui's. He's somewhere between 70s shoujo sci-fi boy and Mizuki after three weeks stranded on a desert isle. Which is ( Read more... ) -
Movies: Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
M. Night Shyamalan wishes he could come up with a twist ending as brutally effective as the final ten minutes of Fat Girl (À Ma Soeur!). Except if he delivered punches to the gut like Catherine Breillat does in this film, people wouldn't leave the theater talking about his brilliant plotting -- they'd be staggering up the aisles trying to come to ( Read more... ) -
Movies: Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2007)
Cutting my thoughts on this one, because I got to rambling and it ran long.
( Is there such thing as insanity among penguins? I try to avoid a definition of insanity or derangement. I don't believe that a penguin might believe he or she is Lenin, Napoleon Bonaparte, but could they just go crazy because they had enough of their colony? ) -
Movies: Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
Things I never thought I'd see: an Ingmar Bergman comedy of manners. Smiles of a Summer Night plays a bit like A Midsummer Night's Dream, starting with three (or four) sets of mismatched partners eventually resolving into the "proper" couples over the course of a night. Even having seen something as lighthearted as The Magic Flute, I wouldn't ( Read more... ) -
This is Why We're All Here, Right? & Trigun Trailer
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