Testing Testing
This is a test. this is only a test. For your trouble, here is a pretty picture:
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Camera Goes Click
This past weekend we went out to the DIA yet again, wherein I took lots of pictures. It was actually my first time taking the shiny new camera, and I got a number of nice pictures of things I had attempted with a point and shoot and failed miserably at. Like this detail of Mary Magdalene:
This is from a Netherlandish painting done about 1500 by someone known only as “Master of the Embroidered Foliage“, for what should be obvious reasons in this detail. Most likely this was actually a group of painters operating in a studio from a sort of template, producing very similar paintings around the same time.
Something else I did differently this time around was to take pictures of all the museum cards for the pieces I liked, allowing me to annotate everything better. That way it sounds like I know what I’m talking about here.
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Ghost in the Shell
I know I already did Intron Depot, but I think Ghost in the Shell is awesome enough to deserve its own entry. This is the English version of the graphic novel, I also have a bunch of the individual issues packed away in comic boxes as well as a japanese version. There is also a movie and more than one miniseries out there, so it’s probably safe to say that this is Shirow’s most successful creation.
The story digs pretty deep, drawing heavily from western philosophy to discuss the nature of consciousness, humanity, evolution and the interface between human and machine.
Frank 10:39 pm on July 14, 2009 Permalink
here’s another test