Archive for the 'Anime, Manga, Games' Category

David Mamet’s New Film, RedBelt, Reworks the Jiu-Jitsu Legend

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating interview with David Mamet about his new martial arts film, RedBelt. Unlike some other American directors who have little first hand knowledge of martial arts, yet insist on directing martial arts films, Mamet has trained in the art of jiu-jitsu as well as traditional Western-style boxing and […]

Space Girl & Friendly Robot in
Yuck-a Mucca Mountain

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Japan’s Whaling Disgrace

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Seen @ Murray Library — the Great Blue … CAT?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

MyG-Life, a teach-yourself game design site

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

MyG-Life, established by American-Israeli entrepreneur Idit Caperton, is aimed at teaching children how to build their own computer games online - and then give them the chance to share and assess each others’ work.
The project has been rolled out initially in West Virginia, but is set to go global later this year.
“We send you to […]

Words To Live By from Mamoru Oshii, anime sensei

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Japanese feel free and creative within the confines of a controlled environment. For hundreds of years we painted and mass-printed images, but we always drew the lines first and then colored between them, which is exactly how animation is made in this country. Japan is the world leader in manga and anime because we love […]

Manga, Manga …

Friday, October 5th, 2007

“Mangiare” in Italian means “to eat”. The imperative, meaning what you have to do, is “Mangia!,” “Eat!”. When spoken it sounds a lot like the Japanese word for comics: manga. I often feel like a person at a banquet when presented with the world of manga!

On my recent stay in San Francisco I was privileged […]