4 posts tagged “anime”
I demand to know!
Were your holiday cards store bought, handmade, online, TBD or MIA?
For almost 6 years (I think?) I've been drawing and rendering my holiday card to meet my annual 'Slutty Holiday Anime Girl' milestone. Typically I sketch out the character by Thanksgiving and have it colored before Christmas, then I send it out via mass e-mail, twitter, facebook message, etc. Might be a bit late this year, but while you all are waiting you can take a gander at my Slutty gingerbread lady from last year.
I'm thinking these drawings are a result of all that subconscious pent-up desire to wear a sexy bee-costume for Halloween each year (</sarcasm>), but ... who knows.
This shiny shiny pertains to my interests.
This evening Chico and I went out for a 'non'-date. While the activities on the agenda were a movie followed by a few drinks, Chico has made the point that we are well beyond dating so our collective activities can no longer be considered 'dates'. Fair enough, sure, but I still think movie and drinks count as 'date'-esque activities.
We started out watching the new Anime film Paprika, which I had initially read about on Drawn!. Paprika is the cute female alias of a dream psychiatrist who helped develop a device called the DC mini, enabling people to enter other folks' dreams. While the story was a little haphazard from time to time, I was absolutely overwhelmed with the beauty of the animation. It's impressive that while American cinema has softened their interests for developing any new venues for hand drawn animation, the Japanese continue to produce groundbreaking creative styles and films unlike anything seen here in the states. Overall, it was a very enjoyable film, and I'd recommend seeing it. It does have a few strange sexual undertones however, so it's probably not an appropriate movie for young kids.
After walking a few blocks down, Chico brought me to this place called the Antique Garage. We started by each having a drink. I ordered a sour cherry martini garnished with fresh raspberries which was incredibly delicious. We had a few other snacks and ended our little soiree out with a cappuccino and some profiteroles. Chico has work tomorrow, I wonder what I'll do?
Oh! And I got a new digicam! Yup yup! Finally!
