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In this 7-minute video, kaptainkristian talks about the fascinating process of making Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the pre-CGI hybrid animation/live action movie from 1988: This is called “bumping the lamp” – a phrase coined by Disney...
1992-1993 NovaLogic Platform: Philips CD-i It still feels strange to imagine a traditional Super Mario platform game appearing on anything other than Nintendo hardware, but thanks to Nintendo’s short-lived agreement with Philips, that...
Back from my psychologist. We had a long discussion about me having one foot in the closet about my autism with people in my life. I try not to purposefully hide it, but I definitely talk around it sometimes, especially with...
I carved this shelf full of books back in late May, but it seemed less exciting than some of the others I was doing around the same time. I made some more impressions on the Strathmore paper, and gave them the watercolor pencil...
The Tōkyōiter discovered while wandering over the web, this website is “A faux magazine collection celebrating Tokyo & illustration’. This is the kind of poject I simply LOVE, dedicated and fully focused to a single idea … executed in...
Found this one at HMart. The Otoki variants are for the US while Ottogi ones are for the Korean market – at least that’s what it seems like, but I could be wrong on that as I don’t have any official comment from the company. What I do...
With a podcast called "On The Paper Trail," it was only a matter of time before we talked about our favorite papers and how we use them! In Episode 12, we discuss paper rulings, spacing, texture, bindings, and other factors that affect...
By Halle Butler. I am surprised that the book itself does not have a Wikipedia page. I've tried to read a bunch of books that broadly fit a certain description: A female Millennial narrator who is worried about climate change (inter...
One thing that I constantly find myself thinking when I visit larger cities than the QCA is that things are just open later.Now, that's not always true. I've visited places where the only coffee shop closes at noon, and where you'll be...
I like a picture series, and this is one I hadn’t encountered before. Dorothea Tanning’s Les 7 périls spectraux (1950) is a portfolio of seven lithograph prints with accompanying text, “Pourquoi Rester Muets?”, by André Pieyre de...
I find most people who are waiting for a bus are either relentlessly scrolling on their phones or relentlessly craning their necks to see if the bus is near. I pass by the Khyber — officially known in the historical buildings record as...
For the last two weeks I've been (very) slowly moving into a new apartment. I received the keys for New Place on the 1st, and my lease for Old Place isn't up until the end of August, so I have plenty of time to be leisurely about this....
Movies Barbie (2023) D: Greta Gerwig. S: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, John Cena, Michael Cera. Director and co-writer Gerwig takes a doll Barbie (Robbie) into the real world to find her owner, whose sadness is spreading...
There is little as an editor I dislike more than cutlists; I wish we could do away with them. No matter how many times and how many people check them, there are always cutlist errors. I always feel like a crap editor when readers point...