Late night post about anime
Mar. 9th, 2007 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusI really should be reading Moby Dick. I'm fairly prepared for my exam next Friday -- I was already prepared the first time around -- but more material would always help.
Still, there's only so much I can read about the differences between methods of rope-tying between British and American whaling ships before I flee to YouTube and anime.
*Vaguely wondering how many people clicked on the lj-cut because they were curious about the severe psychological trauma*
I've been poking around YouTube, looking at Fullmetal Alchemist anime music videos. I like AMVs -- I even made one, once, though of very poor quality. They're one of these neat hybrid art forms that have appeared in the electronic age, where art is fashioned from two pre-existing art objects.
Some of them are quite beautiful. Two I found that go in for sad/beautiful:
Done to the instrumental piece Requiem for a Dream
Far more beautiful, though, is this one, done to a song called Field of Innocence
Then there's this one, which puts the series to Evangelion's theme song Zankoku na Tenshi no Teze. It sort of illustrates the effect Evengelion is still having on anime, more than a decade later:
Cruel Angel's Thesis
Then there's the comedy -- and just like the comic relief in Fullmetal Alchemist, this comedy is more traumatic than the horror. I pruned the examples that ought best not to be seen by eyes of mortal men. But these two were too well-done to leave them out -- right down to good lip-synching, which most don't even bother with:
Jerry Springer by Weird Al
The Cellblock Tango from Chicago, which had me in stitches when they got to Wrath. Probably funnier if you've seen Chicago, but what do I know. It's scary how well this one works.
Still, there's only so much I can read about the differences between methods of rope-tying between British and American whaling ships before I flee to YouTube and anime.
*Vaguely wondering how many people clicked on the lj-cut because they were curious about the severe psychological trauma*
I've been poking around YouTube, looking at Fullmetal Alchemist anime music videos. I like AMVs -- I even made one, once, though of very poor quality. They're one of these neat hybrid art forms that have appeared in the electronic age, where art is fashioned from two pre-existing art objects.
Some of them are quite beautiful. Two I found that go in for sad/beautiful:
Done to the instrumental piece Requiem for a Dream
Far more beautiful, though, is this one, done to a song called Field of Innocence
Then there's this one, which puts the series to Evangelion's theme song Zankoku na Tenshi no Teze. It sort of illustrates the effect Evengelion is still having on anime, more than a decade later:
Cruel Angel's Thesis
Then there's the comedy -- and just like the comic relief in Fullmetal Alchemist, this comedy is more traumatic than the horror. I pruned the examples that ought best not to be seen by eyes of mortal men. But these two were too well-done to leave them out -- right down to good lip-synching, which most don't even bother with:
Jerry Springer by Weird Al
The Cellblock Tango from Chicago, which had me in stitches when they got to Wrath. Probably funnier if you've seen Chicago, but what do I know. It's scary how well this one works.