[news] News and notes for July 17th

[pyroyale]

Another, and possibly the last, commercial for AQUOS.

GACKT's day off

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Cinando, a database for movies shown at Cannes, has updated with an entry for ORIGAMI. It's a little light on details of the movie and actually lists it as a pilot for a TV series, although every other report on it so far has called it a short movie

Comments

[kurenai_kimitsu]

Anyone know what G is holding in his hand? The weird white thingy... is that a tail on his arm?
Japan needs to tone down the photoshopping or at least do it right

[pyroyale]

It looks like a big bird to me, like a swan or a heron. And that's the neck and beak over his arm.

I'm probably completely wrong though, heh.

[kurenai_kimitsu]

*see comment below* ( I figured you get the OGYD LJ emails too) ^^d

[osusao]

Crane perhaps? Symbol of long life. I think it would suit with the trailer.

[kurenai_kimitsu]

totally missed that. i thought maybe that white thing in his arms was a head or something... (thought goat/sheep but that wouldnt make sense unless he was doing that "year of the ram/goat" joke again). and then thought that other thing was a tail. I see the bird now. Though the beak looks like it blends in with the fog so I didn't see it.

Japan needs to stop over exposing everything on photoshop. *le sigh*

[cauliflower346]

http://www.oiseaux-birds.com/card-galapagos-hawk.html
I think it's a juvenile Galapogos Hawk ^^
Closest I can find, most hawk-like birds with white tails had a fully white under-belly, so this is most likely. But when the juvenile looks different, it makes figuring out wth they are really hard.
I struggled to identify a juvenile American robin of all things for like 40 minutes one day.

edit: a Rufous Hawk looks really close, too, but the under side of their wings have a full white patch, and this one only has it on the tips.
Finding hawk and hawk-like birds are a pain in the ass--they don't really have a lot of variety in their patterns that make searching them easy. I had forgotten why I don't bother to look up the ones I see, lol.

[kurenai_kimitsu]

actually I'm gonna have to agree with osusao. It sorta looks like a crane. Long neck. long beak.
Still over photoshopped. :/

[cauliflower346]

[kurenai_kimitsu]

Oh. Something else. The one where he is in his kimono and kenshin like wig

[cauliflower346]

I see it now! I didn't notice over the fog stuff that anything was even there

[cauliflower346]

omg I didn't even notice there was a bird in that picture O_O
Yeah, that's probably a crane.