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LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA (Eng Sub/Dub) [animation]

•March 20, 2014 • Leave a Comment

I love the colour work in LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA. It not only complements the cute art style but adds a certain charm to the overall world, plus the story is interesting enough not to put me to sleep. The premise is basically written in the main title — girls learning the art of witchcraft — and you can watch the entire pilot episode below:

Trigger Inc., also known as Studio Trigger, is a Japanese animation studio founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ohtsuka in August 2011. Gainax have been behind some of Japan’s most loved and commercially successful animes to date (NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, FLCL, GURREN LAGANN to name a few) and their new project looks to be heading in that same direction of critical acclaim status, especially considering that LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA is being crowdsourced (the public pledge their own money to any cause of their choosing if they believe in the idea), so you know people want to see more.

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Here’s one of the rarest hardcopy pieces of anime on the planet — DAICON III and DAICON IV Opening Animations (1981/1983) — created by the founding members of Gainax for a popular science fiction convention in Japan (Nihon SF Taikai), which includes numerous celebratory references to otaku culture:

Unfortunately, those trailers cannot be copyrighted and distributed due to the appearance of so many scifi and comic book characters, hence their rarity (thanks a lot Playboy). Today, the original laser-disc copies of those trailers easily sell for over $1,000.

In conclusion, LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA, the coming-soon series, is sure to impress.

Kickstarter — Little Witch Academia 2

Cheers P.C. for the head’s up 😀

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Tags: Anime Gifs PART I, リトルウィッチアカデミア Little Witch Academia 2, Cheers PC for the head's up, Coming Soon, Daicon III and Daicon IV Opening Animations, Electric Light Orchestra, Evangelion 1.01: Watch First 8 Minutes!!!, LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA (Eng Sub) [animation], Not such a bad premise for a series don't you think?, The Mastery of Anime Backgrounds [new site], Witches - What is it about a girl with magical powers huh?

Tesla Boy “Dream Machine” [♬]

•March 19, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Tesla Boy’s highly anticipated second album ‘The Universe Made Of Darkness‘ was released last year, but the music video for track 1, “Dream Machine” was released only yesterday — A young, wide-eyed explorer wanders an abandoned landscape riddled with inexplicable anomalies:

To me, this music video is definitely channeling a few touchstone pieces of work. It reminds me of Andrei Tarkovsky‘s 1979 film, STALKER. “Dream Machine” could also be seen as a modern take on the short science fiction novel ‘Roadside Picnic‘ written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1971. ‘Roadside Picnic‘ takes place during the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation. Each of the six Visitation Zones exhibit strange and dangerous phenomena not understood by humans, and contain artifacts with inexplicable, seemingly supernatural properties. Coincidence? I for one hope not. Either way, this is a great music video — Album available on iTunes:

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Black Knight — The Unidentified Satellite Orbiting Earth

•March 19, 2014 • 1 Comment

The Black Knight is the oldest and oddest dark object circulating our Planet as of this moment. It’s hard to find but every now and again someone spots it, orbiting East to West, counterclockwise to the earth’s natural gravitational rotation. What makes it particularly strange is that knowledge of its existence was made public in the early 1940′s before mankind had truly mastered spaceflight capabilities and Russia had yet to deploy Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite in space (which orbits West to East using Earth’s natural rotation to maintain orbit). The only question is; what is it?

Since the 1930′s Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals, and although the story of the Black Knight made its media debut in the 1940′s, many argue that this object was actually first discovered by Nikola Tesla who intercepted a signal in 1899, after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs.

Supposedly (going on what I’ve dug up online, and how trustworthy is online information really?) a Ham Radio operator decoded a series of signals received from the UFO Satellite and interpreted it as a star-chart centered on the Epsilon Boötis Star System (Izar and Pulcherrima), where it may have originated from over 13,000 years ago! …Some time during the Knights of the Old Republic then…

Star-chart huh? I don’t believe in split second UFO sightings captured on either over or under exposed shitty cameras, or irregular crop circles or any of that crap, but when NASA takes official photographs of an orbiting object even they can’t positively identify, that is not only interesting, mysterious and beautiful, it’s a true if not the only qualified definition of an unidentified flying object. Of course any and everything available on this object on any website is pure conjecture, this artifact warrants a scientific investigation — Strange how no one else seems to think so.

To this day, the Black Knight has yet to be confirmed as a piece of man-made debris, or as anything originating from Earth. Of course it could just turn out to be some volcanic chunk of rock, a stray meteor, or even a rigor mortis roast duck covered in blackened ice crystals. The point is, no one knows. Maybe it is better this way?

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Tags: Astronomers and Scientists calculated the objects weight to be over 10 tons, Black Knight -- The Unidentified Satellite Orbiting Earth, phenomenon, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, SuitSat, The True Science of Parallel Universes by Minute Physics, The USAF Aircraft Identification Chart, transmitting signal

Stars of Pasifika Poetry Tonight

•March 17, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Chela “ZERO” [music video]

•March 16, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Australian cool kid Chela is back with a new EP “Zero” out now on Kitsuné:

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Tags: Australien-born Chelsea May aka Chela, Chela "Romanticise" & "Plastic Gun" [music video], pop artist glammed out in retro 90s neon colors and lights, soundcloud, Try Your Talent and Remix Chela's "Romanticise" Music Video

Greatest Home Run Call Ever

•March 16, 2014 • Leave a Comment

I love this commentator’s enthusiasm! Good analogy too:

enthusiasm

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Tags: "This ball is long gone just like the ex-girlfriend that will never return!", 20 Funny Moments of True Love in Sports, Ex-Girlfriend, Greatest Home Run Call Ever, I love this commentator's enthusiasm!, People Doing Awesome Things Compilation = WIN, suspenseful commentary, Taiwanese Announcer Makes Hilarious Manny Ramirez Home Run Call, Taiwanese Boy (Lin Yu Chun) Sings Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" ...Here's The Kicker; He Sounds EXACTLY Like Her

The Science of Kissing

•March 15, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: About Love, First Timers, Kissing, Scent of a Woman [F], The Science of Kissing

First Timers

•March 15, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Well that escalated quickly. The ad for Wren Studio, “20 Strangers Kissing Each Other For The First Time” has gone viral, and like all things that go viral, you know the drill. This parody is slightly more believable for me — it’s like foreplay before that enchanted first kiss:

Here’s another:

And another:

Here’s the sweet original:

And here’s one for the road:

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Tags: blowguard, Commercial, First Blowjob (First Kiss Parody), First Timers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx-pM44VTKA, It was awkward at first but then pretty magical, Kissing, The Harlem Shake - Shortland Street Style, The Science of Kissing, viral videos, We asked twenty strangers to give each other "raspberries" for the first time...

7 Superhero Facts To Stump The Biggest Fans!

•March 14, 2014 • Leave a Comment

…Spiderman was molested as a child? Well that sucks.

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Captain America Fuck Yeah!

•March 14, 2014 • Leave a Comment

I wasn’t a huge fan of the antagonist in the first Capt. movie — Red Skull wasn’t much of a threat to our hero boy at all. All he did was flee and even kill his own Hydra high-ranking officers. What I did/do like however is Chris Evans as an actor. This film could be good, not as promising as this parody trailer, but good:

And FYI fangirls & boys, Chris Evans has a 6 film contract so you can count on the Capt. reprising his hero status on-screen again and again and again. Geeks.

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Tags: 28 Drinks Later, America Fuck Yeah (2004) by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Captain America Fuck Yeah, Chris Evans, New Zealand WHAKA YEAH!, Superhero Parody, Team America: World Police

…I may be reading my poem to an audience… [F]

•March 13, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Second tutorial of the semester was today. Students introduced one another to the rest of the class. The dude next to me introduced me as “Fin, with one N” and how I was taking another paper with the same lecturer in it. That’s when the tutor’s eyes — Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh, who also happens to be the lecturer — widened and asked if I could read my poem at an upcoming poetry function she was attending soon at a gallery or something. I wasn’t listening. Not use to being the focus of attention so I said yes simply to move on. Yup. Isn’t that funny? My first open reading of poetry will not only be outside of the university curriculum in front of non-students but it will be about that damn whiteboard!

I am excited. I am afraid. I will never look at a whiteboard again the same way.

my name is earl - karma

I’m pretty sure Selina mentioned there will be alcohol, so this might work.

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Tags: ...I may be reading my poem to an audience... [F], I had to write a poem about the 'whiteboard' in class today... Yes the whiteboard [F], Poetry, Serendipity, Whiteboard PONG

Mediocracy on Campus (me venting) [F]

•March 12, 2014 • Leave a Comment

*Sigh* I have to write this off because I don’t know what just happened. I applied to enroll in a course I could not get in simply because I didn’t meet the stage one prerequisites for it. Fine. I applied online for an enrollment concession to take that course and stated my claim in writing. That request was denied. Fine. So I then enrolled in the prerequisite course just so I could get into the actual course I wanted from the start. I went to the student services centre and a girl behind the desk handed me a form to fill out called a ‘concession decision reconsideration’ request form, which meant I could reprieve the department’s decision of denial. I took that form straight to the department of the course I wanted and it was approved and signed by the department’s own HOD, Tim Dare right there and then. Awesome. I took that form back to the student services centre where a different girl behind the desk refused to process my approved application into the fucking course I spent all my energy and time trying to get into FUCK!!!

Just like that, a “no sorry can’t help you” and that was her job, done. Effortless. She was obviously advised by her superiors to decline student concessions at that time, which is funny because the 14th is the official enrollment closing date for this semester. That is two days away, and not ‘that time.’ She consorted with my academic records to double-check I had already applied for a concession. By that point I thought everything would be fine, but she ultimately deduced the workload involved in processing my future with a simple no and a fakeass smile. Moments like these, I really hate conformity.

I have a few images in mind that would go well with this post, but I’ll just embed the music video to the song that was playing on the radio in the student services centre while HOD authority was being discharged by this one hard to please desk biatch.