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i want to see this movie so badly… must come out on dvd soon because i don’t think it’s going to show up in the boston area.

So, aside from having made myself some stuff from off of knitty, there’s also some great classical patterns floating out there (though check out the vagueries of the pattern instructions!), and also these really funky leg warmers.

There’s a great piece about knitting and the work that goes into it that Hapto pointed me to, and the message is a great one: take some pride in the value of the hard work that you put into something.

This is the first design that got me to sign up for a threadless account so I could vote. It’s a T-shirt. It’s brilliant. It’s silly for me, because I can use chopsticks… but I am furiously thinking of any friends I know that can’t.

i get excited by pretty renewable materials and manpowered gear. of late there has been some information floating around about bike frames made with an interesting assortment of renewables:

beautiful wood frames (Cell is my fav)
Biomega’s biolove (though for the life of me I can’t find it on biomega’s site)
sandwich bikes the idea is you buy one, they export one to folks in need
Brano Meres homemade bamboo bike frame too hot!
Calfee Design’s bamboo bike pricey, but pretty. nothing like a bike that has to be wiped down with furniture polish.

Just think of various images we all have about evil. Now think that at one point, even evil was a cute little baby. That’s what endears me to the “Satan’s Little Helper” shirt.

Sometimes it really is worth it to blow some time playing some pretty games. This morning I was pointed to Quest for the Rest, which is beautiful and well worth checking out. It actually reminds me of a lot of stuff that Ben likes to do.

It also brought up memories of a link Scott sent me back in the days when I was in Shanghai, Orisinal, which has moved from the address i remembered. Thankfully I was able to track it down, as it’s a really fun site with pretty games that are… cute and extremely well built.

Joe pointed out a great site to me this week. I seriously want to get some prints of this artwork to hang around my room, I like it that much. Please, if you want to see some neat stuff or at least put some neat new desktop images on your machine, go check out David Lanham’s artwork.

I finished reading Flight Volume One. I really like the book and the organization of the collection. The theme was vague enough to give the artists an amazing range of freedom, yet gives a strong cohesion to the book. I first heard about the book back when it was published because Vera Brosgol was involved and she mentioned it on her site.

I liked Vera’s piece, it’s very different from rts, and to me that is a bit of a hats off anyway. Of the 24 pieces, Jake Parker, Vera Brosgol, Jen Wang, Khang Le, Rad Sechrist, and Clio Chiang are particularly worth checking out.

If this type of stuff floats your boat, Flight Volume 2 is due out March 23 (yay!) and Jeff Smith is one of the contributors on the list.

Last night I watched the last DVD in the Samurai X collection, titled Reflections.

All I can say is that the writing was good, it was a romance that was utterly tragic yet beautiful, and the artwork was great. One of the things I’ve really appreciated about the whole OVA/movie thing is that there’s a different artistic approach in each of them, a different style with the same characters, so a different visual exploration in each piece.

This last one was particulary neat because there are flashbacks to stories that take place in the original series (which I realized is airing Saturday nights on Cartoon Network at 10:30PM). The flashback is all reanimated using the style in Reflections, so it has a new feel, a new perspective.

Reflections is certainly more serious than the original series, as is the whole OVA collection, and I think it’s a fantastic set. The start with the history of Kenshin, and then an exploration of the final redemption of the character.