1. Quantum Mechanix collectibles are buy 1 item, get a 2nd at 40% off until April 18th at Entertainment Earth. (That includes Battlestar Galactica Propaganda Posters, and Battlestar Galactica Evolution of the Cylon Poster.)
2. Elderly Japanese commonly store their money in home safes, and recently hundreds of safes swept away by the tsunami have come back ashore.
3. If you missed the announcement, this month's art contest is creating a 404 error page for the Nintendo 3DS.
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Showing posts with label japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label japan. Show all posts
Heroes print by Alex Pardee
Alex Pardee created this print to honor the engineers trying to get the Fukushima reactor under control Proceeds will go to the engineers' families.
Link roundup
1. Tremendous news - - ESPN is bringing back Jon Gruden's quarterback camp:
3. Katy Perry's cat is named Kitty Purry.
Gruden will conduct film sessions with Ryan Mallett of Arkansas, Jake Locker of Washington, Andy Dalton of TCU, Cam Newton of Auburn and Blaine Gabbert of Missouri as part of an hour-long special that will air Thursday, April 21.2. Supposedly, foreigners in Japan who left after the tsunami are being called "fly-jin."
3. Katy Perry's cat is named Kitty Purry.
Illustration roundup
Illustration by Thomas Allen for Newsweek.
Zombie hunting bride and groom wedding invitations. Via.
T-shirt by The Beast Brothers to benefit Japan. Via.
Machine Man by Farel Dalrymple.
New Yorker cover by Christopher Niemann.
*Buy Machine Man toys at eBay.
Tsunami art project
Just a small selection of the already enormous amount of art contributed to the Tsunami project. It'll be auctioned off to benefit Japan and also sold as a book. You can participate here.
Mathieu Forichon.
Olivier Ferra.
Mara.
Éléonore Della Malva.
Labourot & Lerolle.
David Revoy.
Giovanni Rigano.
Menzan.
Alödâh.
Xavier Colette.
Aurélien Morinière.
GrivetArt.
Rémi Maynègre.
Krystel.
Kuru.
Quibe.
Clément Lefèvre.
Hk.
Mathieu Forichon.
Olivier Ferra.
Mara.
Éléonore Della Malva.
Labourot & Lerolle.
David Revoy.
Giovanni Rigano.
Menzan.
Alödâh.
Xavier Colette.
Aurélien Morinière.
GrivetArt.
Rémi Maynègre.
Krystel.
Kuru.
Quibe.
Clément Lefèvre.
Hk.
Happy Atom Statue at the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant
Apparently this statue is at the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant. (I couldn't find mention of it anywhere else.) Via.
Link roundup
1. "Family firms" (firms where one relative takes control of a business when another relative steps down) do far better in Japan than the rest of the world. Why? Because Japanese families adopt an adult to run the family firm.
2. Jim Shooter started writing The Legion of Super Heroes when he was in high school, and based the characters on kids he knew:
2. Jim Shooter started writing The Legion of Super Heroes when he was in high school, and based the characters on kids he knew:
With Mort's blessing I struggled to find raison d'etre for a character called Bouncing Boy, who previously had been offered up at face value, and played straight and serious. I found my Bouncing Boy among my Bethel Park Senior High classmates, in the person of a friend whose initials, T.K., and slightly rotund body had earned him the nickname "Teakettle." Going through high school coping with a weight problem and the name Teakettle is not a whole lot different, I think, than being Bouncing Boy in the Legion of Super-Heroes. Thus, in my mind, they became one, and BB grew into a bright-but-insecure, self-effacing, lovable guy who was resigned to the role of comic relief and once described himself as the Legion's "...self-appointed chief of morale."3. "An NFL lockout could have dire snack food consequences, and the chicken wing industry is bracing itself for the worst."
Link roundup
1. More fascinating predictions about what Japan's nuclear future will look like.
2. Don't forget to participate in the X-Men poster design contest where the prize is four t-shirts from Last Exit to Nowhere. I've heard the movie described as a James Bond movie with Magento as Bond. And the trailer looks like the X-Men with a Mad Men-style makeover. You're in no way limited to using only Xavier and Magneto in your poster designs.
3. There's still art available from the Super Punch tarot at Bear and Bird.
2. Don't forget to participate in the X-Men poster design contest where the prize is four t-shirts from Last Exit to Nowhere. I've heard the movie described as a James Bond movie with Magento as Bond. And the trailer looks like the X-Men with a Mad Men-style makeover. You're in no way limited to using only Xavier and Magneto in your poster designs.
3. There's still art available from the Super Punch tarot at Bear and Bird.
Link roundup
1. Absolutely fascinating educated guess as to what's going on with the failed nuclear plant in Japan.
2. Destructoid gave the Dead Space 2 add on "Severed" a 6 out of 10.
3. A detailed look at how the Haunted Mansion's stretching portraits have changed over time. Via.
*Buy Disneyland collectibles at eBay.
2. Destructoid gave the Dead Space 2 add on "Severed" a 6 out of 10.
3. A detailed look at how the Haunted Mansion's stretching portraits have changed over time. Via.
*Buy Disneyland collectibles at eBay.
Fuzz and Fur: Japan's Costumed Characters
Fuzz and Fur: Japan's Costumed Characters:
While adoration for mythical creatures and popular anime characters is nothing new in Japan, this pastime has spurred a new marketing took utilized by local government institutions: yuru-kyara. Roughly translated as "amateur characters" these costumes are based on local attractions and points of interest that help define any given area. The municipalities take advantage of their citizens' willingness to create these characters in a strange amalgam of hometown pride and cost-saving measures on the part of the city councils. These civic mascots brought to life in floppy, fury, fuzzy and homemade costumes. Citizens convene conventions of their very own, demonstrating how yuru-kyara devotees represent another enigmatic, yet utterly captivating, aspect of contemporary Japanese visual culture.$11 at Amazon. Via.
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