Kill Bill

July 31st, 2013

Kill Bill yellow poster

Why have I not seen this movie up until now? Its a Quentin Tarantino movie, yet I have just watched it last week! Well, to be honest, I haven’t seen any of his other movies, but I have heard very good things about them and some people even say that he is a genius when it comes to film making. There is no reason why it took me so long to watch Kill Bill, but I am grateful to German for making me watch it (just like that: “we are watching this movie now, no buts!”). I will just give a brief overview of the show and wont get into much detail, so there will be no spoilers.

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I’m coming home

July 25th, 2013

Path

My holiday is over, its time to go back to Sydney, my current home, where my friends and loved ones are eagerly awaiting my return. It was fun, this month flew by very quickly. I got to see my parents and meet some of my high school friends as well as my best friend German (Herman – Гера). He left for Austria, I left for Australia.

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Super Hexagon Cleared!

July 23rd, 2013

Super Hexagon game

 I was introduced to this game by my friend Patrick. I remember that day well, it was before one of our club karaoke sessions, Pat came over and said something along these lines: “Hey Vadim, I know you love juBeat, here is a game that will test your skills even more. Its called Super Hexagon.”

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What am I watching? – Summer 2013 edition

July 19th, 2013

watamote

The summer 2013 anime season is already in week 3 so I might as well say what I am watching and give some recommendations, just like I did in 2012.

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The Pixar Theory – They Are All Connected!

July 16th, 2013

Pixar

 I went to my good friend Clara’s blog and saw an article about Pixar. Well Pixar being my favorite western animation studio (Shaft, KyoAni, Ghibli are still my top3 in japan) I just had to read it. It is a interesting theory by this guy – Jon Negoroni but its so crazy that it might even be true! Hey they even mention time travel to fit in Monsters Inc and Brave.

As Clara put it, she was:

blindmown.

I concur! After reading this theory I have the sudden urge to to rewatch all the Pixar movies in the chronological order that he made as if they were connected.

Inspiring quote

July 14th, 2013

Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

Antichamber

July 13th, 2013

antichamber level

Today I finally finished this great game. Wow, just wow. I really love puzzle games and I can say this is a very high quality puzzle game. It makes you think out of the box (or should I say cube XD). I am talking of course about Antichamber.

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既存メディアに影響したソーシャルメディア

July 12th, 2013

SocMedia

UTS日本語授業の自由研究レポート:

既存メディアに影響したソーシャルメディア

– 序論

ティモシー・ジョン・バーナーズ=リーは1990年にWold Wide Web (WWW)を考案し、ハイパーテキストシステムを実装・開発した人物である(ウィキペディア、2013)。 インターネットが普及する前はテレビや新聞やラジオのようなメディアからのみ最近のニュースや情報を得る事ができた。そしてインターネットが広がると同時に、情報を手に入れる方法も増加した。 その方法の一つはソーシャルメディアである。 現代社会では、人々は完全にインターネットに夢中になっている。

しかし、インターネットの開発とともにテレビやラジオや新聞などの既存メディアに対する興味が徐々に減少しており、若者層にFacebookやTwitterやブログのようなソーシャルメディアが流行っている。なぜなら、天気、スポーツ、ニュースなど、ありとあらゆる情報がインターネットでいつでも手に入れられるからである。その上ニュースサイトでは記事に対する自分の意見をコメントできるため、人々はこのような自分自身も意見を投稿できるウェブサイトを好むのではないだろうか。そのことを検証するためインタビューを行った。

本稿では、インタビューの結果によって得たデータを集め、他の研究者の記事を分析し私が予想する現象が起こっているかどうかを検証する。

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Little Witch Academia 2 Kickstarter

July 10th, 2013

Little witch academia OVA

Kickstarter, kickstarter, kickstarter… This service is changing they way the world works – games, movies, tech and now even anime is using Kickstarter to gather funds for creating their projects. This time around we have Studio Trigger who brought us Inferno Cop and Little Witch Academia and coming out with Kill la Kill in Fall has decided to use kickstarter as a platform to aquire funds for creating a sequel to Little Witch Academia.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Today

July 9th, 2013

Dash IT! from Alexandr Tanana on Vimeo.