Archive for June, 2011
Posted on June 28, 2011. Filed under: anime, events, history, Japan, manga | Tags: anime, Archie, Astro Boy, Belgian comics, Calvin & Hobbes, Captain Canuck, comicbook heroes, Doraemon, Fleur de Lys, Hello Kitty, Japan, Japan Post, manga, Michael Bay, PhilaNippon, philately, Pikachu, stamp collecting, Superman, Yokohama |
There are major stamp exhibitions every year, all over the world, but unless you’re a stamp collector they probably pass you by unnoticed. In Japan, World Stamp Expo has been held every ten years since 1971: PhilaNippon 2011 is in Yokohama from 28th July to 2nd August. It’s nowhere near as big as Comiket – the [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2011. Filed under: anime, Creating, events, workshops | Tags: animation, anime, Balenciaga, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Cinema, Basho, Chinese animation, Fan Ming, Hayao Miyazaki, Helen McCarthy workshops, Ippei Okamoto, Osamu Tezuka, Princess Iron Fan, Reza Ben Gajra, Tadahito Mochinaga |
I spend a generous proportion of my time with some of the greatest creative intelligences the world has ever known (definitely more than I spend on housework, admin, and the perpetual hunt for that missing sock.) It’s a never-failing source of delight and energy to explore the worlds of people like Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2011. Filed under: events, needlework, travel | Tags: A-Kon 22, Art, Charging Bull, Dallas, knit graffiti, Knitting, Mexico City, Olek, Street art, Wall Street, Yarn bombing, yart |
“You like crafts” said my friend Marc. “We must take you by some yarn bombing sites.” Marc lives in a quiet Dallas suburb, not the kind of place you would normally expect to find the world’s newest, and cuddliest, street art movement. But it turned out I’d timed my visit perfectly. The weekend of A-Kon 22 [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2011. Filed under: anime, manga, Japan, appearances, events, history, workshops, haiku, pictures | Tags: Gloria Oliver, Lee Martindale, Peter S. Beagle, United States, Anime North, Jana Oliver, Esther Friesner, Lynn Abbey, Elizabeth Moon, Project A-Kon, Laura J. Underwood, Terrance Griep, The Ladies of Trade Town, Project: A-Kon 22, anime convention |
Another weekend, another huge convention. It’s 100ºF in Dallas and the aircon is struggling to cope with A-Kon.
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Posted on June 4, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, costume, events, Japan, manga, needlework, pictures, writing | Tags: anime, Anime Hell, Anime North, Anime UK, Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Canada, Carl Macek, Claude Pelletier, Corinne Orr, cosplay, Doctor Who, Ed Miliband, Frank Miller, Fred Ladd, Go Nagai, Hayao Miyazaki, iPad, Jan Howard Finder, manga, Manga Cross Stitch, Momiji Award, Peter Fernandez, Pokemon, Takayuki Matsutani, The Beguiling |
Anime North was my first visit to Canada, and it was a blast. They gave me an award, but that was only the beginning.
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