Category: artistic things!

Reaching Autumn: A “Calvin and Hobbes” fan movie…

This is an interesting short (13 minutes) movie, “Reaching Autumn: A Calvin and Hobbes Movie”, featuring live actors portraying the characters “Calvin” and “Susie Derkins” from the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” once they’ve grown up and entered society as young adults. Calvin is portrayed as a serious businessman who’s abandoned his imaginary world, while Susie is shown as a bohemian, free-spirited artist. They meet by accident and have lunch together, while comparing notes about their childhood memories and their current lives. It’s a tender movie, with flashbacks and many scenes in the autumn woods. Some of the acting is a bit stiff, the timing is not quite right, but the heart is definitely there, and if you have fond memories of the “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, then you won’t be disappointed in this take on it, especially the end.

Enjoy!

Kenji Kawai concert: Ghost In The Shell Soundtrack

I don’t know how long this will stay up before the Copyright Commandos remove it, so watch while you can.
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Nerdtour 2012 quickie: some tilt-shift fun

I figured I’d try the “tilt-shift” action in the latest Adobe Photoshop Elements, modifying one of my Nerdtour photos.
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Music discovery: Mongol pop music!

So, pop music from Mongolia, that you can buy on iTunes, how 21st Century is that! (update, bonus video!)(another update, fixed video sizes)
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Music discovery: Alsou

I recently found a nice music video by a beautiful Russian singer named Alsou.
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Updated “Artwork” page

I finally got off my butt and fixed up the “Artwork” page so that it actually displays… my “artwork”! I had used an old plugin that just never worked, so I replaced it with actual links to the images on DeviantArt.com. I kind of got pretentious calling it “art”, I’ve never considered myself an “artist”, I’m just a “painter”. To me, an artist creates new things of beauty, whereas a painter recreates what he sees using paint. And I’m okay with that. I’d love to be able to create beauty using paint, but I don’t have the skills, nor the time to develop them, and so here are a few of the things that I’ve done down through the years.

Katsucon 2013 SuperUltraMega-Cosplay-Photo-Extravapaloozathonorama!

(Okay, it’s not THAT big, but there are a lot of pictures!)
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All Katsucon 2013 photos in one place coming soon!

I hate to do this, but I will have to take a couple of days of not posting to get all the cosplay photos cleaned up and posted to my Photography page. I really appreciate everyone who’s stopped by and seen what I’ve posted so far, and hope that those of you who’ve seen yourself here have liked my crude attempts! I promise some of them will be much improved, once I clean up the exposures and white balance settings (my camera is good, but I’m still learning, so I still have to have some Photoshop help! T.T)

To tide you over till Saturday or Sunday, here are a couple more from Day 1.

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