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I've been trying to get back into making pixel art while I've been frustrated with the way I make art currently

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Hey it's the 4th anniversary of Obayashi's passing. Watch one of his movies today for me.

I saw a lot of people watch House this past October. If you're one of those people reading this, hi! I'm not going to talk about House in this post because it's a movie that's very straight forward about it's themes and very easily explained by just, watching the movie. What I am going to share is, the thing I excitedly DM people when I find they've watched House for the first time. I'm going to tell you where to watch more films by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Nobuhiko Obayashi was very prolific, before I watched House I was under the impression that this was a one off and that the director never made anything since, I was very happy to find out this wasn't the case!

If you want to read something about his career, (you do! he was super interesting!) Here's this career overview that I really like, which I think works a lot better than a where-to-start-with-obayashi (some of the ones I've seen are quite odd)

If you prefer videos there's a great video that I watched just recently by Pyramid Inu about Obayashi. This ones great if you want to have a little sampler of a bunch of his movies. They watch around 26 in total and each gets a couple minutes on average. After that you might ask yourself, hey where can I watch his movies. Well,

A very kind and diligent twitter user by the name of capybaroness (shout outs) has gone to the effort of putting together a very comprehensive mega folder (which can be found here) which acts as a sort of career overview. There are some absences which are detailed in the FAQ. I downloaded basically everything from there over the course of about a month but I think you can skirt the mega download limits if you use a VPN in my understanding (i think she goes through this in the FAQ also) *the screenshots above are from Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast. That would be my personal recommendation! It's a story about rising nationalism in the months leading up to World War 2 and the way in which kids internalize the things they see adults do around them through play. It sounds like a heavy movie but it's not! until it is, but before that it's a live action cartoon. Incredibly funny and sweet and then the ending completely breaks your heart. If you're going to watch this one, I'd recommend the colour version first because they do something different with the colour version that I can't imagine the black and white version topping. The colour version can be found here and is also available to watch on youtube!

lastly, if you're sold and have a physical media player, third window has an excellent (but still incomplete! please release more!) selection of his work available on blu-ray.

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that's me!!!

Marigold

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I saw a lot of people watch House this past October. If you're one of those people reading this, hi! I'm not going to talk about House in this post because it's a movie that's very straight forward about it's themes and very easily explained by just, watching the movie. What I am going to share is, the thing I excitedly DM people when I find they've watched House for the first time. I'm going to tell you where to watch more films by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Nobuhiko Obayashi was very prolific, before I watched House I was under the impression that this was a one off and that the director never made anything since, I was very happy to find out this wasn't the case!

If you want to read something about his career, (you do! he was super interesting!) Here's this career overview that I really like, which I think works a lot better than a where-to-start-with-obayashi (some of the ones I've seen are quite odd)

If you prefer videos there's a great video that I watched just recently by Pyramid Inu about Obayashi. This ones great if you want to have a little sampler of a bunch of his movies. They watch around 26 in total and each gets a couple minutes on average. After that you might ask yourself, hey where can I watch his movies. Well,

A very kind and diligent twitter user by the name of capybaroness (shout outs) has gone to the effort of putting together a very comprehensive mega folder (which can be found here) which acts as a sort of career overview. There are some absences which are detailed in the FAQ. I downloaded basically everything from there over the course of about a month but I think you can skirt the mega download limits if you use a VPN in my understanding (i think she goes through this in the FAQ also) *the screenshots above are from Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast. That would be my personal recommendation! It's a story about rising nationalism in the months leading up to World War 2 and the way in which kids internalize the things they see adults do around them through play. It sounds like a heavy movie but it's not! until it is, but before that it's a live action cartoon. Incredibly funny and sweet and then the ending completely breaks your heart. If you're going to watch this one, I'd recommend the colour version first because they do something different with the colour version that I can't imagine the black and white version topping. The colour version can be found here and is also available to watch on youtube!

lastly, if you're sold and have a physical media player, third window has an excellent (but still incomplete! please release more!) selection of his work available on blu-ray.

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having fun(?) at the lab

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floatware

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Important note: basically all of the works I talk about here have some element of flashing or strobing images so if you are photosensitive please take care if you watch any of the shorts I talk about here.

One of the things I've done on my stream that I'm most proud of is marigovision where we take a little break to watch something together. I've taken this as an opportunity to show off things that people might not have seen. We've watched a lot of experimental stuff from the 40s like Norm McLaren and Len Lye, former Soviet Block animation, early computer explainers from the 70s, videos of people cooking that kind of thing. (recently I've been getting big into 8mm experimental shorts so look forward to that when i come back from my streaming break)

One of the first things we watched was an experimental short film called Shift by Toshio Matsumoto.

"One of Matsumoto’s last shorts, Shift is also among his most impressive works. Through the use of what was at the time state-of-the-art video technology, Matsumoto decomposes a residential building in horizontal stripes, thus tearing down its balance and symmetry."

If you haven't watched it, it is here. It's weird and crunchy and digital and eerie and above all else, playful. It's funhaver media, it's one of my favourite things I came across as part of screening for marigovision. I did notice something fun about it, something that I don't think I've noticed anyone has spotted. At the very least, no one in the English speaking web.

So a little while ago, I've gotten into the films of Takashi Ito. Takashi Ito is another experimental Japanese film maker from this cohort. The first short of his I saw was Spacy which knocked my damn socks off (if you look up this one, please do take care if you are photosensitive, there is a lot of strobing). Ito uses a lot of my favourite filmic techniques like stop motion and light trails to create this really otherwordly space where it feels like a haunting is taking place. The next one I saw is called Box (again if you are photosensitive, please take care with this).

The film shows a rotating box with frame-by-frame landscape photographs on each face of the cube. The box looks as if it's revolving 360 degrees, but it only revolves 90 degrees. Ito explains that he was "aiming at disturbing our awareness of space in the movement from the three-dimensional to a plane and back again."

Here's a frame from it.

Here's another.

As I was watching it for the first time I almost jumped out of my seat. That's the same damn building from Shift! Has no one else noticed this? At least on the English speaking web at least, I haven't seen anyone notice this. It's possible there's an interview with either Matsumoto or Ito where they discuss this.

So a quick biographic detail, Ito studied at the same university that Toshio Matsumoto taught at. In fact his film making style is directly influenced by Matsumoto.

He attended an exhibition showcasing works by filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto; upon viewing Matsumoto's 1975 experimental short Ātman at the exhibition, Ito thought, "I want to make a movie like this."[7] When he learned that Matsumoto was coming to work at the university, Ito abandoned plans to get an immediate job and decided to stay enrolled in the school.[7]

So a little while ago before I watched Box I was kind of curious what building this was, where and when it was shot. Because it's so strange and interesting looking, someone probably knew but I wasn't able to find anything anywhere, no one even talking about it (again, i can't speak japanese which limits me to discussion on the english speaking web, I'm sure someone has talked about this on a japanese film blog or something like that).

But the fact that the same area is also featured in Takashi Ito's Box kind of gave me a big clue as to where this was shot. I found the college that Toshio Matsumoto taught and where Takashi Ito studied and popped it into google maps, had a lil click around on streetview and, sure enough.

There it is! It's the Kyushu University Ohashi Campus. Specifically the most famous image of shift with those two circular windows above the doorway seems to be the "Acoustic Research Center Building" according to Google Maps. You can click around in here to give an eerie approximation of Shifts camera movements. It's very surreal.

Here's another wide view, it's a really quite striking campus with these very geometric shapes. I can totally see why two separate experimental film makers were both able to make something so radically different using the same space as inspiration.

Both of these were released in 1982, I'm so curious to know of the genesis of this project. Was it the younger Ito that suggested this or was it the elder Matsumoto. If anyone speaks Japanese and is familiar with experimental film during this time period I would be so curious to know.

Thanks so much for reading and watch things that make you excited to make things!

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Some of my favourite Marigold's I've gotten from @chimeracauldron. Tysm again! Go follow her!

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Recent commissions :3c

if you like these, you can request one at my ko-fi~~

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My ko-fi commission from @paluis-log I highly recommend working with them, tysm again!

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Always important to remember your ABCs!

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Important note: basically all of the works I talk about here have some element of flashing or strobing images so if you are photosensitive please take care if you watch any of the shorts I talk about here.

One of the things I've done on my stream that I'm most proud of is marigovision where we take a little break to watch something together. I've taken this as an opportunity to show off things that people might not have seen. We've watched a lot of experimental stuff from the 40s like Norm McLaren and Len Lye, former Soviet Block animation, early computer explainers from the 70s, videos of people cooking that kind of thing. (recently I've been getting big into 8mm experimental shorts so look forward to that when i come back from my streaming break)

One of the first things we watched was an experimental short film called Shift by Toshio Matsumoto.

"One of Matsumoto’s last shorts, Shift is also among his most impressive works. Through the use of what was at the time state-of-the-art video technology, Matsumoto decomposes a residential building in horizontal stripes, thus tearing down its balance and symmetry."

If you haven't watched it, it is here. It's weird and crunchy and digital and eerie and above all else, playful. It's funhaver media, it's one of my favourite things I came across as part of screening for marigovision. I did notice something fun about it, something that I don't think I've noticed anyone has spotted. At the very least, no one in the English speaking web.

So a little while ago, I've gotten into the films of Takashi Ito. Takashi Ito is another experimental Japanese film maker from this cohort. The first short of his I saw was Spacy which knocked my damn socks off (if you look up this one, please do take care if you are photosensitive, there is a lot of strobing). Ito uses a lot of my favourite filmic techniques like stop motion and light trails to create this really otherwordly space where it feels like a haunting is taking place. The next one I saw is called Box (again if you are photosensitive, please take care with this).

The film shows a rotating box with frame-by-frame landscape photographs on each face of the cube. The box looks as if it's revolving 360 degrees, but it only revolves 90 degrees. Ito explains that he was "aiming at disturbing our awareness of space in the movement from the three-dimensional to a plane and back again."

Here's a frame from it.

Here's another.

As I was watching it for the first time I almost jumped out of my seat. That's the same damn building from Shift! Has no one else noticed this? At least on the English speaking web at least, I haven't seen anyone notice this. It's possible there's an interview with either Matsumoto or Ito where they discuss this.

So a quick biographic detail, Ito studied at the same university that Toshio Matsumoto taught at. In fact his film making style is directly influenced by Matsumoto.

He attended an exhibition showcasing works by filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto; upon viewing Matsumoto's 1975 experimental short Ātman at the exhibition, Ito thought, "I want to make a movie like this."[7] When he learned that Matsumoto was coming to work at the university, Ito abandoned plans to get an immediate job and decided to stay enrolled in the school.[7]

So a little while ago before I watched Box I was kind of curious what building this was, where and when it was shot. Because it's so strange and interesting looking, someone probably knew but I wasn't able to find anything anywhere, no one even talking about it (again, i can't speak japanese which limits me to discussion on the english speaking web, I'm sure someone has talked about this on a japanese film blog or something like that).

But the fact that the same area is also featured in Takashi Ito's Box kind of gave me a big clue as to where this was shot. I found the college that Toshio Matsumoto taught and where Takashi Ito studied and popped it into google maps, had a lil click around on streetview and, sure enough.

There it is! It's the Kyushu University Ohashi Campus. Specifically the most famous image of shift with those two circular windows above the doorway seems to be the "Acoustic Research Center Building" according to Google Maps. You can click around in here to give an eerie approximation of Shifts camera movements. It's very surreal.

Here's another wide view, it's a really quite striking campus with these very geometric shapes. I can totally see why two separate experimental film makers were both able to make something so radically different using the same space as inspiration.

Both of these were released in 1982, I'm so curious to know of the genesis of this project. Was it the younger Ito that suggested this or was it the elder Matsumoto. If anyone speaks Japanese and is familiar with experimental film during this time period I would be so curious to know.

Thanks so much for reading and watch things that make you excited to make things!

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idk how often i'll remember to do this but i logged a lot of things on letterboxd this month and maybe it'd be fun to just list those with some thoughts on 'em if i have any

2nd of august - Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island the yaoi in this went absolutely crazy 4th - Boogie Nights the moment when rollergirl asked julianne moore to be her mom was insane 6th - Dragon Inn my first wuxia? i watched this for context for Goodbye Dragon Inn, p good, fun to watch w friends 8th - Pinocchio 10th - Green Snake Absolutely toilet quality rip cannot hide how absolutely beautiful and insane this movie looks - GoodFellas - Italianamerican This is up on youtube, documentary about Martin Scorsese's parents and growing up Italian American. Very cute, I wish Scorsese's mom was my mom - The Big Shave - The Bridges of Madison County Surprised myself how much this movie worked on me, I know Clint Eastwood sucks now but he is soooooooo hot in this movie. If he wore glasses in this I would have gone insane. 12th - What Time Is It There? 14th - The Wayward Cloud This was very funny and hard to recommend. A loooot of unsimulated sex and one of the hardest to watch endings I've ever sat through. - The Watermelon Woman Lesbian Clerks feels reductive but that's not a million miles off 15th - Goodbye, Dragon Inn Game comparisons I made during this: this has sector based lighting like Doom 64. This has tank controls and prerendered backgrounds like Resident Evil - Bobby's Girl 16th - Casino Didn't really work for me but maybe it needs a rewatch 17th - Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels 20th - A Confucian Confusion This transfer was very dark but man what a beautiful looking movie. 23rd - Fat Choi Spirit Big big big recommend if you like mahjong. It's sports anime. 24th - Panda! Go Panda! - Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus 25th - Tails - boro - Spinning Light One of my favourite new things I watched this month, it's on vimeo. - The Amaryllis Musical Box - Eye Myth - Semi-Auto Colours - The Whispers of Indi-Go 26th - かつぎめのいろこ - The Garden Just before Dawn - Water-soluble Doze - Mr. O’s Dream - 水平リーベ僕の船 - From the Ionosphere - yacht dance - A Boat Acrossing the Clouds - Spinning Light - Go-Stop - Breaking and Entering - Late Embryo - Pears - Shooting Star Summer Solstice - Eden is a Cave - E6-D7 I DM'd the director on twitter to watch this bc it's currently making the festival rounds atm, very good! 27th - Spacy My first Takashi Ito, I kind of became obsessed w this director this month 31st - Spinning Light - Grim Probably the most jaw dropping thing I've ever seen - Atman - Spacy - Box - Thunder - Screw - Drill - Unbalance

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New friends every day

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cute!!! ty again!

quack!

commission for handsewngirl on twitter

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Hey, I've got an inprnt shop now! If you've ever wanted to have my art in person for some reason(eating?) you can do that now!! check it out maybe?

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