Japanese animation and movie industry has lost one of its giants. Satoshi Kon, director of Paprika and creator of Paranoia Agent, died today at age 47. Gainax employee Takeda Yasuhiro tweeted the news a short time ago, and it was confirmed by Madhouse’s Masao Maruyama via the Otakon committee.
Kon’s work was pretty fantastic, and I’m definitely sad there won’t be more of it. The work of Kon (and of course Miyazaki) is one of the few who still manages to convey the freshness, strangeness, and wonder that I used to get when I first watched, say, Akira and felt like my eyes were going to pop out of their sockets.
Her signature detailed style reflects a refined monochrome pallette with her name ‘Nanami’ (meaning ‘Seven Seas’ in Japanese ) stamped in red. Fluid line-work, watery creatures and Goldfish are some of her favourite subjects, and distinctive forms which are featured in her artworks.
After a really great performance in 2006, the Bloodhound Gang returns to Bucharest on the 15th of March, at the Silver Church. Wonderful news! Will YOU be there?
One of the most amazing girls I know started drawing on vinyls with bedtime stories and 80’s Romanian music. “I recycle my childhood’s records and imagination”, she sais.
PS: Paul McCartney got two gems in (“Hello, I’m Paul McCartney, or as I’m now known, ‘that guy from Rock Band’” and “Animation is not just for children. It’s also for adults who take drugs”) before presenting the Best Animated Feature Film award to Up.
PS: Paul McCartney got two gems in (“Hello, I’m Paul McCartney, or as I’m now known, ‘that guy from Rock Band’” and “Animation is not just for children. It’s also for adults who take drugs”) before presenting the Best Animated Feature Film award to Up.
Four years ago, Petrucciani sealed a beautiful yet painful relationship between two people who could’ve moved mountains if only they wanted to. But they didn’t. With a gun barrel between his teeth he only spoke in vowels. That’s all I remember. Drowned in his own stupidity he continues to ruin his life with a fake smile on his face. Desperately trying to be happy. Just being a copy of a copy. Of a copy. Never really alive, never really dead [...] I guess he never got it. Good bye, Bob!
(Michel Petrucciani’s last concert was in Bucharest, december 1998, just one week before he passed away)
Some say that this $400-million, 162-minute mega movie was like staring at the world’s most expensive screensaver. I’d tell them to shut the **** up! Avatar is pure Hollywood entertainment at it’s best. See it at the cinema and see it in 3D. This is, after all, what cinema was made for. All Cameron asks is that you open your eyes.
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