Akira is just one of those films that I hope the new school of anime fans appreciates. By the time ghost in the shell came out they were already compositing 3d/cgi into the animation. Akira however, is completely (painstakingly) hand drawn. That means everything. Effects, perfect machine drawing, organics all hand drawn and animated. This feat will not be accomplished again. For good reason I suppose — it is cheaper and faster and doesn’t produce all that paper and celluloid waste to do it on the computer.
They argue that the bureaucracy behind intellectual property – license fees, regulations and patents – are now so misused that they drive up the cost of creation and slow down the rate of diffusion of new ideas. They also point out that intellectual monopoly (patents) are much like medieval trade monopolies which were proven to be economically detrimental.
And they push that patents only be approved under this criteria:
their invention has social value
a patent is not likely to block even more valuable innovations
the innovation would not be cost-effective absent a patent
god dammit when does the hurting stop. i thought we were trying to get someone in office with some semblance of consciousness. but nope. just pull either of these idiots’ strings and hear ‘em talk. “The cow goes moooooooooooo.”
In the summer of 2007, an enormous spider web was found in East Texas. It caused scientist to ponder its existence and visitors to gasp at its profound beauty.
Ok, ok, Texas. I guess you can be pretty sweet at times. The idea of all these different species of spiders working together to make a football field sized web is a pretty good metaphor for what humans are incapable of doing. Humans are a little too enthnocentric and in need of borders. I can’t tell if the inability too see beyond one’s own tiny little made-up world is sheer laziness mixed with generally being dumb, or if it’s because there are people who have large monetary investments and therefore a great stake in keeping peoples’ worlds small — like if there were no borders defined then they would not be able to logistically maintain control and subsequently profit. How ironic that this happened in Texas, a place that I stereotypically think of as culturally intolerant and as a place where ignorance is virtually encouraged. You guys should thank those spiders for a little positive PR, Tejas. Suriously.
This guy dave on livejournal drew the teen version of himself and then a bunch of other people decided to submit drawings of themselves as teens (and some drew a comparison with themselves now). I guess that makes it a meme. Woo! Teen meme stampede!
There are sooooooo many. Here are some of my faves (click through to the original posts if some of the writing is too small to read here):
There is so much cool art out there by so many unknown underground snarling sparkling artists, I keep this thing as a sort of inspiration diary of all the amazing creative noise going on off the mainstream. Visit my artfolio at http://rishisatsangi.com.
