| 4:14pm | I Have Survived Comic Con 2008! | | | | Just got back from this years San Diego Comic Con and I am completely wiped out! I have managed to survive another year of extreme nerdation and heavy alcohol consumption. Made a lot of new comrades this year but bought fewer things. I’ll post a full review in the next couple of days while I try... |
| 7:46pm | Comic Con 2008! | | | | Like the beautiful and majestic migrant monarch butterfly, once every year we nerds flock down to the San Diego Comic con to blow wads of cash and for the extremely rare, mate. I’ll be taking off tomorrow morning and thanks to the Wordpress app on the Iphone, it means that immediate miniblogging... |
| 4:20pm | Being Ginko Part 2: Kibako | | | | Ah, another step into darkness. Continuing with my Ginko costume from Mushishi, the biggest and most challenging element of getting the Ginko costume together is the wooden box or kibako. I had a couple of preliminary ideas of using alternative materials instead of wood. This was based on the idea of... | | |
| 4:49am | なんだこれ!Stop-motion Plamo | | | | The other night while having our weekly meeting Kyohei introduced me to these stop-motion shorts of plamos or plastic models. Going by the moniker Plamoo, these little stop-motion segments are pretty awesome. Here’s a couple of them to give you a taste of the crack I’ve been smoking: ... |
| 5:46pm | Wordpress 2.6 Anyone? | | | | I should stop being so eager to upgrade..why do I have so much problems when I upgrade? |
| 8:10pm | Sword of the Stranger in LA! | | | | For those of you who missed the showing of BONES’s Sword of the Stranger at Anime Expo, the Imaginasian Theater in Downtown LA will be screen it starting July 18th! No word of times right now and how long it plans to be there. If you haven’t seen if yet, it’s definitely a solid piece... |
| 3:48pm | Being Ginko Part 1: The Eye | | | | So I’ve decided to cosplay for the first time in my life! As I constantly shake my head in disbelief while I write this article, I will try to document my process of making the costume while preparing for this year Comic-con 2008. The character that I will dress up as will be Ginko from Mushishi.... | | |
| 3:56pm | A/X 2008 | | | | Ugh, nerd season is upon us. The most financial draining month of the year. Starting with Anime Expo and bookending it with Comic-con, I look forward and dread both. Is anyone out there going and what are your impressions? Has anyone heard of a anime blogger meet-up? |
| 3:00pm | Gurren Lagann Parallel Works 3 | | | | Here’s the latest GL Parallel Works that hit the internet. The director this time is Hirokazu Kojima and the composer is Iwasaki Taku. The song is called “Boing vs. Boing” Online Videos by Veoh.com | | |
| 3:31pm | Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea Trailer | | | | ANN, reported the new Miyazaki film Gake no Ue no Ponyo trailer was previewed on Japanese TV as of late. The film will be released on July 19. I wonder what Yankumi thinks of Ponyo? |
| 2:22am | Lego Death Star | | | | The ultimate lego set has arrived everyone. And it has been brought to you by the Empire. Yes! For only $399.99USD you can buy this legofied sphere of destruction. The Death Star comes with 3,800 pieces. It will also be packaged with 7 new and exclusive figures. Can Christmas come soon enough? The answer:... |
| 3:00pm | World of Warcraft-Blood Elf | | | | Another illustration by Sung-jin. This time by request of a friend of his. All of us in CM! don’t play WoW, so we’re not sure what the armor is and why ice is being thrown at here. The only thing we do know is that it’s blood elf. Anyone want to explain to us what Sung-jin has created?... | | |
| 8:22am | Chun-Li | | | | Thunder thighs! Here is an illustration by Sung-jin. Click to enlarge. |
| 8:29am | Star Wars Dance Off | | | | Kenny Loggins+Chewbacca= Yachtbacca. (via Super Punch via Star Wars Blog) |
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