I really enjoy reading Japan Probe. Mostly because it has some cool observations and news about Japanese culture.
Take for instance these amazing Human Art videos.
My favorite, of course, is Goku. I can never get enough of that monkey.
I was watching TLC last night and caught the show “I’ve Got Nothing to Wear.” It uses design students who have 3 days to remake 2 outfits each for a person who has something big coming up.
It was interesting. I wonder if my younger cousin (who is attending the LA branch of that design college) would want to do that kind of show. It seems like a lot of pressure.
What really caught my attention was the open song. It sounded very much like Yoko Kanno’s TANK! from Cowboy Bebop. Whole phrases seemed to come from the song. Then again, Yoko Kanno was probably influenced by some jazz song or something, too. Right? Hmmm…
Anyway, I can’t record off my TV, but maybe someone else noticed this?
Linking to the IMDB entry for I’ve Got Nothing to Wear.
Well, you know the Transformers’ movie is coming. I hope that it’s good.
One of my friends went to the original movie with his favorite Transformers with him in action figure form. Much to his horror…. he watched as they died one by one on the screen.
That being said, I really enjoyed the movie. And Weird Al’s Dare to be Stupid.
Anyway, enjoy the video below.
Anime Expo and Comic-Con have been driving me nuts.
Actually, every year they drive me nuts. This year, however, it’s especially crazy since Broccoli and Bandai Visual have a 60 x 40 foot giant booth spread (booth 1605). I think it’s the 2nd largest booth area after Bandai Entertainment.
To tell you the truth, it is by far the largest booth spread I’ve had to help organize. Thankfully, Blaine and Anime Expo’s exhibit hall manager Lynn are easy to work with. And of course Shizuki and Bandai Visual’s Aya and Yumiko are always awesome.
As the booth is huge, we will have tons of staff this year. I hope the systems we’ve established at previous Anime Expos will hold up in the larger booth area setting.
Prepping for such a large convention means late nights for the Broccoli staff. I’ve heard that there was pizza involved though, so hopefully it was worth it for a slice of pepperoni/sausage/ham/pineapple pizza.
San Diego Comic-Con is only a few weeks after AX, so I’m also working on furniture and utilities for those conventions. The due dates for ordering all the SDCC stuff falls DURING AX, so I have to finalize all of it next week.
Thankfully, at Comic-Con, we will be in a 20 x 20 booth ( 2235) and a 20 x 10 (Booth 301/303).
I shall be at both conventions, so hopefully people who stop by my page can also stop by the booth and say, “Hi.” I’m looking at you Satsuki.
You know, after spending all that time in line to get a Wii, it makes me a little sad that I saw 3 consoles at a Target store on Thursday. I woke up really early for it.
Of course, I did that a while back, so I had the pleasure of my wiimote for a while now.
Anyway, my brother is letting me borrow Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It’s exciting and all of that, but I didn’t really want to play as a dog, so I had stopped for a bit.
Fortunately you turn back to Link’s full hawtness after completing a few tasks in canine form.
And while I fear I look a bit spastic waving my wiimote around trying to slash at things, it’s a fun game.
Like any good roleplaying game, there are puzzles and missions. Of course, it’s frustrating to not be able to figure out where to go next. That’s when I must take a deep breath, hit pause, drink a glass of water, and try again.
Oh, and the game has monkeys.
For me, monkeys = awesomeness.
At Broccoli, the president has a bit of an obsession about zombies. Well, so do Chris and Krystal who work in production.
They’ve put some serious thought about what to do if there WAS an actual zombie attack and have lengthy conversations about such a situation. Would the Broccoli office be a good place to wait out an attack? What would you do in an airport if there was a zombie attack? Who would you let into your zombie shelter?
Zombie-phile Krystal has sent me a link to t
he latest zombie delight to be offered. It does seem amusing.
Krystal doesn’t have to say it, but I know she’d let me stay in her Zombie Shelter. Of course SOME people would not be allowed in the shelter. I totally agree with the PostSecret postcard attached. Well, not about MY best friends, but that SOME people are too selfish. ^_^;;
How very sad! Although Don Herbert has not been on TV for a while, he influenced a lot of kids in the 80′s and taught us all that science was FUN.
He passed away from bone cancer at 89.
Bye Mr. Wizard. I, for one, will really miss you. I ALMOST became a scientist and shows like Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye: The Science Guy really help introduce children to the world of science.
I wish that there were more shows out there like that on network TV. MythBusters may be fun, but it’s not available to non-cable/dish subscribers.
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