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When making the bed or sitting in hours of traffic, something I have done way too much of this past week, I am acutely aware that I will not be getting those wasted minutes back. Hope you don’t feel the same way after watching ‘Cat’s Guy, parody and satirical comedy are worth something, sitting in a car and folding sheets neatly, in my opinion, aren’t.

Unfortunately the original title sequence of ‘Cat’s Eye’ is ‘no longer available’ on Youtube so you’ll just have to trust me that this is an excellent take off.

I used to love watching this show when I lived in Japan, I am pretty sure it was on every year over the New Year break. I shudder to think how many hours go into preparing for most of the performances but the winner gets a big novelty cheque at the end, so it must be worth it. Some of them are so incredibly ingenius… there are plenty more here too if you want to check them out!

Little Red Riding Hood - Anabuki Construction

The title of this post comes via the local newspaper in my area, one whole page of articles with that exact headline. Obviously they ran out of time before going to print…. as have I recently…..

::Kimono Hime::

My creative life of late has been eclectic, explorative, fickle, haphazard but most of all frustrating. Fear not dear reader, as I do know that some hidden progress is being made, but I seem to have lost my way somewhat due to an overall need to re-organize and evaluate. Seems I have also spread myself so very thinly professionally that nothing I produce has been given the right amount of ‘baking time’ … under and over-cooked images proliferate. The four works I have added here were all created this weekend. Haven’t even had time to evaluate them myself but am just happy I took the time to just sit and draw and think.

::Character Fever::

::A little Salaryman told me::

::Chinese Whispers::

Wish I could define the droolworthy goodness this film oozes and the effect it has on me everytime I see it… all I can link to the reason for my fascination with it is that it makes me want to watch, and leaves me with memories of, ‘Mononoke Hime’ every time I see it.

… but then I realized that doesn’t matter … just as the artist David O’Reilly himself points out in his blog;

“What matters to me is that the feeling excited by my films should be universal. An artistic image is capable of arousing identical feelings in viewers, while the thoughts that come later may be very different. If you try to search for a meaning during the film you will miss everything that happens. The ideal viewer is somone who watches a film like a traveler watching the country he is passing though: because the effect of an artistic image is an extra-mental type of communication. There are some artists who attach symbolic meaning to their images, but that is not possible for me. Zen poets have a good way of dealing with this: they work to eliminate the possiblity of interpretation, and in the process a parallel arises between the real world and what the artist creates in his work.”

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Ever since watching ‘Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings’ as a teeny girl (I was teeny btw) I have dreamed my drawings could come alive one day, and not just in my imagination, maybe it will soon come true. Now they only need add some AI along with the physics and we may just be able to chat to our creations too, just like Simon.

I also started a new series I have been walking around with in my head for some time, it finally got a chance to come out this week so I could enter it in this.

“Folklore in Ehime prefecture, Shikoku, Japan tells of a female ghoul, who has on her head a huge and terrible
mass of mobile hair, each serpentine strand tipped with a sharp, barbed hook. She is fond of tormenting and preying
upon young men.
Appearing on roads as a beautiful woman, she laughs derisively at whoever strikes her fancy, and if he makes the
mistake of laughing back, she lets down her deadly hair and gives chase”. (Text from www.obakemono.com).

The rich history of Japanese folklore is littered with ghost tales just like these … begging me to illustrate them … a close friend of mine has also been begging me to illustrate them so consider it a beginning D!

I also managed to dress myself in yukata and head on down to the ‘Osaka Twilight Festival’ where I met my neices, that’s AI2, Arare and me all matching on a rug:

BTW you can download a clunkier prototype of the game above here.