Up and Coming Artists.

En route home from work today, I popped into Sendai Mediatheque to see Alex's daughter's artwork on display in one of the galleries there. The best work from local elementary and junior high schools were chosen for the gallery. Pretty good stuff!

Here's the artist, Kaede, with proud papa and little brother below.

I am so jealous of these kids for my artistic talent is negligible in comparison. Check out the following and you'll see what I mean.

I did the colouring all by myself and stayed (mostly) within the lines.

Here's a selection of the other artists' works. I chose the ones that caught my eye. The first few are age peers of Kaede, then it's a wild mix of all ages.

That last one is one of the few based on an anime/manga. All the rest are truly original.
Note: I've removed the names of the artists and be sure to click on the pic if you want to see it in all its glory.

Tomorrow is the last day for the exhibit so if you want to see the other paintings, you'll have to get your butt to Mediatheque!

I'm the Best at What I Do...

And what I do best is look incredibly cute in a Wolverine head.

I'm also the best at bargain shopping for geeky goods. At Toys Am Us, I picked up a bunch of Avengers Disc Wars stuff for about 10 bucks thanks to a 30% discount. I picked up a Hyper-Motion Hulk (which is actually motionless but has several points of articulation for lots of posing) which comes with a Hulk Disc Base and Disc.

I also picked up a five-pack of Disc bases which includes Crimson Dynamo, Loki, Captain America, Spider-man, and Hulk.

And a series 1 and 2 blind bags which contain a Disc Base and two Discs.

Abomination and Juggernaut, and Loki and a Destroyer: not a bad selection.

These are basically just glorified Pogs that are made of plastic and tie in with the anime (see link above for the Wiki-page or click that link for the homepage in Japanese.)
They are called "BachiCombat" and I suppose you use them like tiddly-winks. There is one warning on the package, you aren't supposed to smack your little brother upside the head with them. Disappointed!

Holy Crap! The anime actually looks pretty cool! Too much little kids gabbing and not enough super-heroics but not bad.



Across the road from Toys Am Us is a "Hard-off/ Hobby-off" (for Hardware/software and hobbies, similar to a Book-off), and I found another Hulk, only this guy was only two bucks! I also found 3 different Planet of the Apes Kubricks at only 3 bucks a pop. I have never seen these for under 1200 yen before. I also got Season One of Supernatural Super-cheap.

On the way home, I picked up a shelf to display some of this crap and popped into Mandai to grab a few more Movie Pamphlets and a couple of Spider-Man goodies from the year 2000. (Was the first movie really 15 years ago?!?)

I may go back and pick up some more of those Discs tomorrow!

Bloody Great!

I picked up a collector's set of Blood: The Last Vampire way back in October fully intending to review it for Halloween but never got around to it. I watched it last night and was not disappointed, apart from the length, (only 45 minutes!) but they sure packed a lot into 3/4 of an hour.

The complete box also includes a Digital Copy and a Supplementary disc crammed full of extras, such as an interview with star, Yuuki Kudou. 

Here's a taste of it. You can seek it out on the interwebs by yourself.



Interestingly enough, it also contained a complete script in English (appropriate, since it was filmed in English.)

There was a live action version way back in 2009 and I wrote about it here.

Now all I have to do is locate the 51 follow-up anime episodes and I'll be all caught up.