Acephalous - Teaching basic film theory through Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2010/10/hayao-miyazaki-nausic aa-valley-of-the-wind-visual-rhetoric-film-theory.html
December 2012
Respectful Distance: The Telephoto Lens in Japanese Cinema http://colorfulanimationexpressions.blogspot.fi/2012/10/respectful-dis tance-telephoto-lens-in.html (via http://www.metafilter.com/122987/Such-animated-colors-you-have )
November 2012
Studio Ghibli meets Where The Wild Things Are: http://i.imgur.com/o0BA4.jpg (by Justin Hill http://impsandmonsters.com/ , via http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/13ljz0/studio_ghibli_meets_wher e_the_wild_things_are/ )
March 2007
November 2006
September 2006
July 2006
March 2006
October 2005
September 2005
anime listing
An attempt at listing and rating all anime series I've ever seen:
read more »August 2005
May 2005
April 2005
January 2005
Also, the best anime series I saw in 2004:
A lot easier to rank than the movies below, so this gets an
<ol> instead of <ul>... ^_^
December 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
anime update
Shows I'm following (or trying to follow) at the moment; favourites marked with *:
- Aishiteru ze Baby
- Gantz
- Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig
- Gokusen *
- Hi no Tori
- Kino no Tabi *
- Koi Kaze
- Last Exile *
- Maico 2010
- Mama wa Shoukagu 4 Nensei
- Mermaid Forest
- Midori no Hibi
- Monster
- Paranoia Agent
- Sakigake!! Cromartie High
- Samurai 7
- Samurai Champloo *
- Sensei no Ojikan
- Twin Spica * (rapidly catching up to the first 12 episodes)
- Uninhabited Planet Survive *
(Some almost finished, some just starting out, some may have been cancelled already.)
May 2004
October 2003
stokje
Heb weer eens een stokje (zie 607) aangereikt gekregen, van Niels ditmaal. I'm supposed to talk about the most recent dvd I watched. Which is, not surprisingly, one of the Cowboy Bebop dvds, specifically episode #9 on disc 2, 'Jamming With Edward'.
read more »February 2003
Some interesting/fun animes I have been discovering lately:
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex: series of 22-minute episodes based on the movie. Action is sparse but very slick.
Hellsing: royal vampire hunters. A bit heavy on the gothic imagery...
Hoshi No Koe: beautiful short story, apparently a one-man project.
Read or Die: superhero librarian girl saves the world!
Wolf's Rain: wolves with attitude disguised as humans in an undetermined futuristic city. Also some mythological stuff going on.
January 2003
pointBLANK Anime Reviews - HIHO!
"Outstanding is the only word that comes to mind... to create something truly so great, perfection had to be found, and more so, reached. Panasonic truly knew what they were doing, and it shows with every scene."
"What can be added that hasn´t already been said about one of the most profound animes of our time? ... One doesn´t watch HIHO!, one experiences it."
To experience HIHO! yourself, click the links below the 'Is it available?' header...
April 2002
Whoa... I'm watching Cowboy Bebop, episode 20 ('Pierrot le Fou'), and for a fraction of a second, I think I notice a Dutch street sign for the city of The Hague (aka Den Haag) scrolling in view during a cyberspace sequence. Rewind: yep, it's actually there. How cool is that?!
Also, sorta related: during a recent BBC documentary on the computer game industry, they showed a filler scene of a busy Japanese street where a girl walked by who just happened to wear what I'm sure was a t-shirt emblazoned with the logo of Van Vliet, a local waste disposal company. And I mean *really* local - a short walk from here! Coincidences, hmm...
December 2001
Cowboy Bebop is amazing...
July 2001
Japanese Anime smilies - b ^_^ [via Field Notes]
September 2000
Nice combination of technologies: Scorched Earth, the old tank game, rewritten in PHP3/DHTML. (part of bodytag.org)
Fisticuffs, cool flash manga animation.
March 2000
Check out this nicely done site about anime and anime-techniques, with several beautiful Flash-animations that actually qualify as functional additions to the content rather than annoying space-fillers.
Cool... I just noticed that alt0169, my favorite Dutch weblog (uit het Rotterdamse stadje R.), has once again linked to one of my i.am/bald-pages. New stuff to be added soon, really!
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