Tag Archives: media

Canadian DMCA Bill C-61: Letter to MP Wayne Marston

2008-05-20 –

This is the letter that I sent to my Member of Parliment (MP), Wayne Marston on May 20th 2008, prior to the tabling of bill C-61.
I am a constituent who cares about Canada’s cultural policy, and I am writing in regard to legislative proposals for “copyright reform.” During the last Parliament, Bill C-60 provided some very sensible [...]

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Anime Central 2008 Custom Convention Badges

2008-04-26 –

For each convention I attend, I usually make custom badges for the people I’m going with, since the official con badges are usually not very appealing. These are the badges for ACen 2008. If anyone’s going that wants me to make a badge for them, drop me a line (and possibly some preferred artwork), and [...]

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Finished Star Trek – The Next Generation

2008-02-21 –

Over the past few months, I sat down and watched all 176 episodes across 7 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I have recently finished watching the conclusion of the last episode.

Overall, the experience was worthwhile. I have found that episodes centered on a single character, not involving child actors, and having minimal politics, [...]

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Kataude Mashin Gâru (Machine Girl)

2007-12-10 –

Just saw this tantalizing trailer for Noboru Igushi’s in-production film “Kataude Mashin Gâru“, aka “One-Armed Machine Girl”.
A Japanese schoolgirl’s revenge against a ninja Yakuza family, responsible for cutting off her left hand. Faced with flying gillotines, a drill bra, tempura, and huge geysers of blood, she replaces her missing hand with various machines of death.

Mecha-schoolgirls [...]

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Nayuki Dropshadow

2007-11-03 –

Spent a little time in photoshop making a mask for Nayuki here. Dropshadows are fun.

Rainbows are cool too!

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Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us

2007-08-05 –

Excellent video from MediaCultures about the internet. Data is being shared, mixed, remixed, to produce something amazing. I think this is what Tim Berners-Lee meant when he conceived of hypertext.

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Engram of Gravel Road

2007-04-18 –

In a night’s passing, exploring a facet of Reki’s relationship with Kuramori.
a past painful event not normally accessible to the conscious mind
Anime: Haibane Renmei
Song: Ghost Story by Sting
Completed: April 2007
You can find a nice high-resolution version on the ORG, but here’s a youtube video.

Background: I started working on this video in November of 2006. I [...]

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MST3k for Megatokyo Chapter 8

2007-04-01 –

I had so much fun being part of this project. Thank you, Kalium, Alpicola, and VRMaster.

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BakaDeshi’s Enoz feat SOS Brigade ⎡Forever⎦

2007-03-25 –

BakaDeshi produced this awesome Haruhi AMV, premiered fall of 2006. Simply awesome use of the live band footage in episode 12.
⎡Forever⎦

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Kanon 24 – Final Episode

2007-03-17 –

After a few days of avoidance, I sat down to watch episode 24 of Kanon. I’m going to talk about it some here. So don’t read it if you don’t like the spoilers. The series was really enjoyable, but I didn’t want it to end just yet. It put too much focus on Ayu and [...]

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