This is the letter that I sent to my Member of Parliment (MP), Wayne Marston on May 20th 2008, prior to the tabling of bill C-61.
I am a constituent who cares about Canada’s cultural policy, and I am writing in regard to legislative proposals for “copyright reform.” During the last Parliament, Bill C-60 provided some very sensible [...]
Over the past few months, I sat down and watched all 176 episodes across 7 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I have recently finished watching the conclusion of the last episode.
Overall, the experience was worthwhile. I have found that episodes centered on a single character, not involving child actors, and having minimal politics, [...]
Just saw this tantalizing trailer for Noboru Igushi’s in-production film “Kataude Mashin Gâru“, aka “One-Armed Machine Girl”.
A Japanese schoolgirl’s revenge against a ninja Yakuza family, responsible for cutting off her left hand. Faced with flying gillotines, a drill bra, tempura, and huge geysers of blood, she replaces her missing hand with various machines of death.
Mecha-schoolgirls [...]
Excellent video from MediaCultures about the internet. Data is being shared, mixed, remixed, to produce something amazing. I think this is what Tim Berners-Lee meant when he conceived of hypertext.
I was really hoping that Elulū would kiss the dumb bloke already. However, someone decided that what this primitive worn-torn era (from the distant future) needed was mecha. WHY!?
And the fake raptor can’t even kick its tin ass. Sure, it’s kinda in the plot. Ave Kamuu, the extraordinary power bestowed upon the Kunnekamun by their [...]
In a night’s passing, exploring a facet of Reki’s relationship with Kuramori.
a past painful event not normally accessible to the conscious mind
Anime: Haibane Renmei
Song: Ghost Story by Sting
Completed: April 2007
You can find a nice high-resolution version on the ORG, but here’s a youtube video.
Background: I started working on this video in November of 2006. I [...]
BakaDeshi produced this awesome Haruhi AMV, premiered fall of 2006. Simply awesome use of the live band footage in episode 12.
⎡Forever⎦
After a few days of avoidance, I sat down to watch episode 24 of Kanon. I’m going to talk about it some here. So don’t read it if you don’t like the spoilers. The series was really enjoyable, but I didn’t want it to end just yet. It put too much focus on Ayu and [...]
First there was AIR
Then there was Kanon
Now there’s Clannad
Announcement page at bs-i. I’m surprised I didn’t hear about this earlier.
Under lengthy locks of golden sun, her bittersweet countenance burns.