Tripping the Dark Fantastic: ''Belladonna of Sadness''
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Believe me when I say this is one of the cleanest screen grabs available in the film.
What can I say about Belladonna of Sadness (no link since the film is NSFW as all get out) that hasn't been said already? The brainchild of legendary animator Osamu Tezuka's first studio, Mushi Productions and based on the book Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet, it's legendary and breathtaking. The art is very much inspired by Gustav Klimt, and makes excellent work of such styles as limited animation, while switching to a psychedelic fluidity rarely seen in animation of that period (there's no way that I can call this an anime, not as experimental as it is.) The voice acting is far above what you would expect for the time, as they used well-known actors for the roles (back then, the seiyu industry was not as big or glamorous as is it is now.)
I also found out it influenced one of my favorite anime of all time, Revolutionary Girl Utena (which in and of itself is a masterpiece of WTFery.)
I had the chance to watch it in preparation for Halloween. And Halloween really doesn't cut it. I'm not sure there's a holiday that does.
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Bungie Bungles
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I stared at this entirely too long.
I decided to fire up Destiny 2 (the sequel to one of my most favorite games as of recent) and even took a day off just to play it.
That...was a mistake.
Add a commentThe Last Mechanical Monster
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Panels from Brian Fies' The Last Mechanical Monster.(img: Brian Fies)
The purpose of the public domain is to hold the intellectual property that belongs to the public. From gods and myths to the forgotten and the intentionally created, the public domain serves as a vital fount, a gateway from the past to the future, and without it, some works would not exist. We have the public domain to thank for countless Disney films. We have the public domain to thank for all the recent Sherlock Holmes adaptations. We have the public to thank for certain versions of characters (Popeye, for example), even as other versions o the character remains in ownership of its creator.
It goes without saying that it's responsible for webcomic creator Brian Fies' outstanding Eisner-nominated work The Last Mechanical Monster, a work so acclaimed that it has grown from its original release on Blogspot to an expanded edition published by Andrews McMeel Universal.
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Remember when this used to stand for something? Apparently Youtube doesn't
There comes a point in every company's life where they forget where they came from. In that moment, they forget who they are an they become irrelevant.
The graveyard of failed corporations, from SCO to the original Atari, from Osborne to Dumont, are all companies that forgot where they started, lost the faith of those who had been there from the start, and turned towards what they thought were greener pastures but instead were toxic cesspools that spelled the companies' doom. And it's happening again.
And this time, it's happening to a company we all thought we loved.
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