News Briefs 12-09-2012
Posted by Rick MG at 11:28, 12 Sep 2012Got the cold/flu/allergies from hell, but Opium helps.
- Study suggests the intense emotions of 9/11 affected our dreams.
- Remember your trip to Mars? Scientists put those memories in your brain.
- Curiosity could be carrying Earth bacteria, complicating search for Martian life.
- Watch a meteor slam into Jupiter. Taking a bullet for the team!
- Maya murals discovered in family kitchen during renovations.
- Gallery of fractal patterns in landscapes via Google Earth.
- Interview with visionary artist Alex Grey (Amazon US, UK).
- Magic Mushrooms & the evolution of human consciousness.
- Researchers seek new drugs through evolution & local plant lore.
- Sacred Voices: custodians of sacred sites share their stories.
- Social networks & mythology: why The Iliad & Beowulf may have traces of reality.
- Is Burning Man modern myth making, or just a very dusty rave?
- The Country of Wolves: Inuit mythology gets animated.
- The Ainu & shamanism in Japan: a forbidden path to universal knowledge.
YokelYokai Attack!, survival guide for Japan's supernatural (Amazon US, UK).- The Edo-period Bakemono Zukushi scroll depicts 24 traditional monsters to avoid.
- Yonaguni's underwater rock formations, remnants of a lost civilisation?
- All aboard the whale-bus! 19th century postcards imagining the year 2000.
Quote of the Day:
In dreams begin responsibilities...
W.B. Yeats
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6 April 2010
14 hours 37 min
have a lot of loose skin O_O
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
1 May 2004
19 hours 6 min
Those are some freaky images. Japanese monsters are a seriously untapped gold mine for the screen, small or large.
6 April 2010
14 hours 37 min
i imagine that's where we get a lot of the "things" we see coming out of anime and manga. Not so many hags though :P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
2 May 2004
4 hours 39 min
Yeah the evolution of Japan's manga, and the Japanese imagination itself, is fascinating. Illustrations from several centuries ago look right at home in a Studio Ghibli blockbuster. The Japanese embrace their historical art and do new things with it, evolve and adapt and experiment. It's why I'm such a huge fan of The Secret of Kells for doing likewise, a recent animated movie stylistically based on Ireland's Book of Kells.
Hayao Miyazaki's brilliant Spirited Away has a fresh take on the 'old hag', albeit more Baba Yaga of Russian folklore. Lots of yokai too!
There's also The Great Yokai War movie, but it's nowhere near the same league as Studio Ghibli (think Neverending Story at its most 1980s camp). And yes, that's the Iron Chef host, Chairman Kaga!
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@levitatingcat
6 April 2010
14 hours 37 min
are the greatest movies ever made. I can't cound how many time's I've watched My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away--to name a few :D
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
6 April 2010
14 hours 37 min
actually a lot of these postcards aren't too far off, airplanes, gliders, roller skates, automatic farm machinery, and hearing the news broadcast in your house, all luxuries of the year 2000 and the year 1960, 70s, 80s, etc.
I would like to ride on a whale bus :P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................