August 2011
July 2011
It's Junji Ito's birthday today
Let’s hear it for one of the only mangaka/comic artists to truly make me feel scared.
If you’re into horror- especially about obsession, body horror, or “And I Must Scream” endings- you have to check his stuff out.
(pictures are from: Uzumaki, Voices in the Dark, Tomie, Hellstar Remina, Gyo, and the Enigmma of the Amigara Fault.)
Sadly, this is way, way more exciting to me than the fact that it is Harry Potter/J.K. Rowling’s birthday. Going to go reread Enigima of the Amigara Fault.
New Canadian $50 and $100 Bills.
Made out of plastic!
These things are rad. I am particularly fond of the little window inside the maple leaf (in the top left corner of these photos), because they’re like the final kick to the balls of counterfeiters. Like, “fuck you, try to imitate that shit”. I give them about a year to master it, mind, but still. It’ll make getting big bills from the bank all the more fun.
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All I can picture is a walnut. With Trelawney’s glasses.
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Reeeeeally? Walnut?!
It was either that, or SnitchAvis103 in terms of sensible usernames.
SEERWALNUT24 IS I.
“It is my view you can’t hold back progress. Ebooks are here, they are here to stay. Personally I love printed paper, but very very recently, later than a lot of people because I’m not very technologically adept, in fact it was this year for the first time that I downloaded ebooks. And it’s miraculous, for travel and for children particularly, to carry around a thousand books in your pocket on a small device is an extraordinary thing, so I feel great about taking Harry Potter into this new medium. But I still love a printed paper book; I think you can enjoy both.”
—J.K. Rowling (via writingadvice)
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
—Stephen Fry (via writingadvice)
