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By OG_tomy@メ

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An amazing gift that I got from a dear friend

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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Diane Arbus (via ancientmecha)

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matt and i dropped acid together and took these pictures in my room

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Alena Aenami  -  http://vk.com/aenami_art  -  http://aenamiart.tumblr.com  -  https://www.facebook.com/aenamiart  -  https://www.instagram.com/aenami.art  -  https://www.behance.net/aenami  -  http://aenami.deviantart.com

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Inspiring words by John Free

Most people are afraid to be perceived as weird, The average photographer wants to be perceived as intelligent or a normal person.

John Free: Artist at work; don’t bother them; their creating; that kinda attitude it turns people off, HCB told us everything, your one of the people, he said you must be part of what you photograph, your one of the guys, you just got off work, its lunch time you got your camera fooling around with the rest of the guys, your everybody friend thats all; you happen to have a camera.

How do they initiate that personality if they’ve always been reserved their whole life or shy?

How do they get away from their current personality that can’t be like you’re describing?

John Free: If you really enjoy photography and you really believe in it you wanna be a service to photography, Diana Arbus; We are professional strangers, act in a professional manner act the way you think photography should be done, with dignity and respect, and try to do a good job for humanity, and try to give back to photography, think about that and the more you think about that you’ll realise how important this is, its bigger than you, you have to go with the code you think photography should represents, like my three photographers; HCB, Frank & Smith.

You get your own you combine them and if you agree with everything they say you  find that and you go that route, to me this is the most important route i can go.

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A four-page guide written by Kazuma Kaneko in the Shin Megami Tensei OST’s liner notes on how he draws pixel art during the SNES era. Reposted from my personal blog here, with the original scans by friend of the site eirikrjs.

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Tokisada (時貞), also known as Amakusa Shirō (天草四郎), was the teenage leader of the Shimabara Rebellion. Shiro led the defense of Hara Castle and died when it fell. Executed in the aftermath of the fall, his head was displayed on a pike in Nagasaki for a very long time afterward as a warning to any other potential Christian rebels. His death poem was: “Ima rōjō shiteiru mono wa, raise made tomo to naru.” (“Now, those who accompany me in being besieged in this castle, will be my friends unto the next world.”) According to some sources, Shiro may have been the illegitimate son of Toyotomi Hideyori, the son of the general who first united all of Japan.

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Beside having allusions to space craft Artemis‘ design also has a stunning similarity to Thierry Mugler’s designs from 1995.

This similarity is specifically stunning.

However there were even more similar designs by Mugler which resemble Artemis‘ design. Kaneko did allude with several Personas in P2 to fashion as well (see Eriko‘s Garbriel for example) thus it might be intentional.

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Interview: Kazuma Kaneko & Zone Of The Enders 2 Anubis

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The characters of Shin Megami Tensei II: Featuring Aleph/’Hawk’, ‘Louis Cyphre’, Hiroko, Beth, ‘Zayin’, Daleth, Gimmel, Red Bear, and both forms of Masakado.

Art by Kazuma Kaneko

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Kazuma Kaneko illustration for a new book: an educational manga with the feudal lord Oda Nobunaga. Learn more here.

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design art by Kazuma kaneko 

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KANEKO’S CRIB NOTES XLII: MASK-TEMA

Today’s crib is a short one, but it’s a face (or mask) you’re sure to remember: Mastema, adversarial Satan analogue and generally seedy customer. 

The inspiration behind Mastema’s ornate face guard appears to be a form of mask common to the burqa styles of the Minab region of Iran. His lacks the striking red palette commonly featured in such pieces, but the form and details are otherwise a 1:1 match, right down to the protruding fold that divides the eyes. It’s an ideal fashion accessory for a mysterious and shifty character like Mastema, and makes for an arresting visual, too.

Image source: Elena Senao, flickr (from 2007!)

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i will believe in myself eventually