Hawaii Vacation 2010: Blue, blue, ocean
Another picture for your PC desktop. I’m not sure what this one will invoke. Perhaps the turquoise will make you feel calm.
Link of the Day [1.22.11]
As of this moment, I was reading my archives trying to gauge how well I wrote. I also followed a few links from these old posts just to see if they were still linking to something and if their owners were active. Unfortunately, I find out #!usr/bin/girl has stopped writing since 2009. She’s probably switched platforms and URL. On her front page, we find today’s link.
It goes to some dude giving tips to taking pictures of cute, small, plastic figures. Hey, I do that, too! All his tips are valid, but I think I’ve already discovered them out on my own using trial and error.
I’m posting this link though to remind my readers that my hobby collecting nendoroids and anime figures is not as weird as you think. There are other peopled doing the same. Other people who are not crazy otaku.
At least this link gives me the motivation to make my shots of nendoroids better. I wish the dude had some tips on setting up a model shoot indoors. What lighting to use. What backdrops to use. I want to stage a photo shoot of each of my nendoroids and make them look awesome. Trial and error may work.
Link of the Day [1.21.11]
This looks promising. @theSeed: get on this right away.http://www.eye.fi/
Doors of Perception
As promised, here’s that nutty version of Hokago Tea Time’s (K-ON!) “Don’t Say Lazy” done by Scandal with Shoko-tan. A cover of a 2D schoolgirl band done by a live schoolgirl band. My mind asplodes thinking about how awesome this is.
Up to my neck
Super kawaii photo from Kraster with immense gratitude.
I still have a few nendoroids that are unopened, all three Love Plus girls and both of the school festival K-ON! kits. But I just love how cute they are!
More! More! More nendoroids!
Link of the Day [1.20.11]
Oh, you’re still here? I thought that you would be off following the music break video and surfing the related YouTube videos spending the hours upon hours lost in the world of anime song covers.
You didn’t? Well, good.
Let me send you on another journey into the land of the rising sun. This one is another excursion into its music scene. I wonder if this is J-POP or J-Rock? Who knows but since I wanted to see K-ON! videos. Here’s a real live all school girl band. Well, they’re not school girls anymore. They’re rockers! (In school girl outfits!! Yes!)
Diamond Cravasse Duet (with piano)
Surfing around YouTube last night because I was really, really, really wanting to hear more K-ON!. As you know how it goes, you find a video, then follow the related videos and follow and follow and follow. Next thing you know a couple of hours have gone out the window. Wait, I was looking for K-ON! covers and now I’m listening to “Diamond Cravasse” sung by Ranka and Sheryl (Megumi & May’n) accompanied by the great Yoko Kano. How’d that happen when a few videos back there was that awesome May’n cover of “God Knows?” And that SCANDAL cover of “Don’t Say You Are Lazy” with Shoko-tan? When are these going to be music breaks?
Don’t worry all in due time.
Anyhow, this is a sweet performance of “Diamond Cravasse” from Macross Frontier. Perhaps the best song from that anime. It’s usually sung by May’n but with the help of Ranka’s voice actress, Megumi-chan, a duet of great sadness. Hit me up in comments to show your appreciation. Count this song as number 7.6 in the “You Should Be Watching Anime” list.
2B || !2B
The seed wonders aloud why he blogs. He mutters something about cheese sandwiches and Mac forums, but finds that he doesn’t really have anything to add to the conversation that is on the intertubes.
I beg to differ.
Check out this simple list of reasons on why to blog. You’ll find some things there that can fit the niche the seed has carved out for himself. Why skimming that list, I know that the seed has shared his expertise on video recording and editing. He’s currently updating his list of hotties, so that puts him into engaging a debate with total strangers. And one thing, his blog will always represent him on the intertubes, facebook not withstanding. So it’s not completely worthless.
When I look at that list, my main motivation in writing the blog is to create a permanent record of things that are important to me at particular time. I’ll let the google hive mind index it which allows me to remember all of it better. Second motivation on the list is that I really enjoy leading my readers to content that I think (and hope) you would like. Why do you think that my number one tag has been the “Link of the Day?”
Not to go all meta on you, but I did start another post about those “Link of the Day” posts and why I do them, but couldn’t write about it prosaically. Thanks, seed for this opportunity to write something. Actually, that would be the third reason from that list as to why I blog. I like the art of writing, even when I am so terrible at it.
It is totally worth writing a blog. And twitter, too. But you have to be on it to understand. It ain’t 100% junk. It’s another form of conversation. Now about facebook…..
Link of the Day [1.19.11]
They should bring back the form factor of the original 7-11 Big Gulp cups, the short squat ones that looked like a mini-bucket. If they go for making it taller as the graphic suggests, then it may look like a less daunting drink. Plus, I didn't know our stomachs were so small. I guess that's why with the 24 oz soda bottles I feel full afterwards.Drink better coffee not more.http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/17/graphic-how-big-exactly-is-starbucks-new-trenta-size/
Hawaii Vacation 2010: Desktop Photo
This picture would make the perfect desktop photo. Don’t you think? Here’s how: click the picture, visit all sizes, select the largest, download. Install as per your own operating system.
I think I’ll install this at work and pretend that I am on the beach.