I love rain, everyone I've ever known hates it or feels ambivalently. Is this animosity cross-cultural ?? Am I doomed to be forever alone in prancing in puddles, in turning my face to the sky and enjoying the feeling of fresh rivulets of rain tracing gentle pathways down my face?
Butterflies shy away from the rain, and hide to protect their delicate wings. Now I'm thinking about butterflies again. Is scattered, rambling thought cross-cultural lol?
Recently watched a "science" show. Now I wonder if Stephen Hawking was really bullying/making fun of those people by giving them idiotic tasks to reach a scientifically wrong conclusion, or if he was just used for advertisement...and maybe there were some sadists that love making nonsensical close-up on his face (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) Well, I'm gonna try more shows of the same series, I guess I will get a better idea about it eventually.
Xico's Journey looks pretty good with its mixed use of handrawn and 3D animations. Story is just good enough. I guess the target audience is kids and their family after all. Unlike Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, evil spirits took a secondary role and humans (in this case, some CEOs of a mining company) are the main antagonists.
Cemeteries are oddly soothing for me, in a way which I have no way to adequately express and very few individuals around me have ever shared - I suppose I'm more at home amongst the departed than the living, prefer quietude to quarrels. Despite being culturally castigated as something to fear - or categorized as macabre ventures if one spends time there apart from the usual rituals of burial, mourning, or leaving tokens of remembrance for the deceased - I find myself wandering time and again into my local one. Not every grave is evenly remembered. Visiting recently made me profoundly sad for the graves that have grown barren - no flowers, no shrines, no candles, no silent vigil kept by objects of personal meaning. I can't help but wonder if this has always been the way of things, and if it shall always remain so. I gathered some nearby flowers and left them for a girl I don't know, who passed away in 1807. At least her grave will not be cold tonight.
I speculated after the end of Rise of TMNT Season 2 that Season 3 would feature Krang in some capacity. I was half right. Nickelodeon cancelled Season 3, but it was revived as a movie instead by Netflix with the Krang being the main antagonist.
It's surreal to unearth old news articles and literature with such a triumphalist, optimistic, confident outlook for the dawn of the 21st century. 20+ years onward and there is a paucity of such thought.
Early Japanese VNs/Eroge are probably some of the first examples of a videogame scene/genre embracing sexuality, and at the very least some of the most vibrant and unabashed about it for their respective time period. Some of the same things lauded decades later in other countries as representing sexuality have still not been surpassed by the willingness to fully explore and commit found on aging Japanese floppy disks...
In Season 1 Episode 1, Trash Truck after learning to fly, flew through the sky briefly accompanied by 2 fighter jets in his flanks. This is repeated again in the last episode of Season 2. I guess this is a sort of goodbye gesture to the viewers since no new season had been announced by Netflix after a year had passed since Season 2's debut.
Any forum that persists for long enough becomes a repository of thought - and arguably a valuable cultural artifact - each post contained therein acting as a crystallized sliver of the respective time periods during which they were crafted. A window into this-or-that, the mundane and the meaningful.
One can track the progress of their own self and friends, if they exist for long enough on a forum - perhaps being privy to various points in their life, and the life of those around them, permanently embedded in one archaic post or another.
Modern platforms for socialization discard this for fleeting exchanges - easily buried and often ill-preserved.
Despite its colorful world and some humorous and goofy moments, A Tale of Dark and Grimm is atually dark. Gore and violence are often "censored" by depicting them using stylized shadow play-like animated sequence. A refreshing change from Disney-style fairy tales.
Let's just return to the days of ARPANET or CYCLADES - ahhhhh those sweet, sweet halcyon days of...uh, an extremely limited iteration of the internet mainly accessible through university campuses and government installations (...on second thought, maybe early Usenet is/was better)
Watched Pachamama on Netflix just now. For the characters, the animators appear to be using the same 2D-3D hybrid technique similar to that in Justin Time (an unrelated series). However the art style is still unique. The world looked as if drawn out by chalk or crayon. The overall aesthetic definitely screams "South American culture".
What is the last thing you thought?, Culture Edition
Aug 18 2022, 08:30
