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2011-09-12T02:29:00.001-04:00

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2011-09-11T02:30:00.001-04:00

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2011-07-22T16:20:00.005-04:00

BREAKING TABLES

Dates for upcoming US Cabaret tour with Ambergris (Matthew Thurber), Jackie Wang, Janane Tripp (of Visitations), and Cave Bears

wed August 3rd New York, NY @Silent Barn 915 Wyckoff Ave Ridgewood, NY

thur August 4th Philadelphia, PA @ Marvelous! Music 208 South 40th Street

fri August 5th Baltimore, MD @ Tarantuala Hill 2118 w. Pratt Street

sat August 6th Pittsburgh, PA @ The Shop 4312 Main Street in Bloomfield

sun August 7th Columbus, OH @ Skylab 57 E. Gay Street

mon August 8th Chicago, IL @ Palzie, Palmer and Kedzie

tue August 9th Ypsilanti, MI @ Dreamland Theater 26 N. Washington Street

wed August 10th Detroit, MI @Andrew Coltrane's House 11701 Hazelton (Redford, MI)

thur August 11th Buffalo, NY @ Sugar City 19 Wadsworth Street

fri August 12th Ithaca, NY @ Jarek Miller's house -1175 Ellis Hollow Road


Last updated: July 22, 2011

In spacE 666
1st aniversary MIX

Listen Here

It's the new year 2011, here are some of my favorite songs from 2010.
I will always remember this great year.

Includes:
Iskander - Painter
Visitors - Everybody Now!
Colonna - Jezzabell
Rudy - Homme Mechanique
Araxis - Araxis Space Ship
Transvolta - Disco Computer
Sizike - Don't Stop
Videosex - Moja Mama
Jasmine - Boing Boing
Charles Calette - Inca People
Comic - Ojos de cristal
Du Du A - Hop Ap Du Ap
Almodovar & McNamara - Susan get Down
Stratosferic Band - Gloria
Neon - Sky Diver
El Ultimo Sueno - No Debiste Asustarme

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Thanks: Saltyka
Mystery Poster
Crispy Nuggets
Italo Deviance
Systems of Romance
LeIntrovabili3
La Nueva Ola
Ex yu pop rock madness

Le démon dans l'île

2010-10-25T12:00:00.004-04:00

"Le démon dans l'île," a 1983 suspense film by the director Francis Leroi, otherwise known only for his porno movies (including several "Emmanuelle" sequels.) The film isn't available on DVD and has never been released in English, but a fan-subtitled version is available on tracking communities.

I'm having difficulty writing about it. It's hard to write synopses. Still, I'll try, since I have to give something to recommend the film by. It takes place on a closed and provincial French island. There is a new doctor in town. The previous doctor is still in practice, but everyone is suspicious or even afraid of him. He is apparently connected to a string of accidents in which appliances keep maiming people. The appliances are all new and come from the same department store.

This is the beginning premise, and the heroine, the new doctor, does find some solution to these mysteries in the end. It's impossible for me to say any more, since what I find so special about this movie is how far the plot unravels from its opening premise. There is nothing controlled about the way the plot the develops. The atmosphere and stagesetting of the movie are controlled— sophisticated and full of portent—sort of like "Don't Look Now," from which I think this movie takes some cues—but this makes it even weirder that the plot is so haphazard.

Other fantastic narratives give the feeling of being in control. Strange events may happen, but they cohere into a comprehensible whole, and, whatever there is that remains mysterious, you can be sure that the writer left it that way on purpose, in order to gesture at something that cannot be contained by the work itself. Sometimes this gives just the right effect. I like stories of conspiracy, and narratives that form themselves into tight little balls like this provoke the right feeling. The remote and frightening events of the narrative exert control over both the protagonist and the reader.

But, on the other hand, and just as interesting, you have narratives like the one in this film, that stack up their fantastic elements in crazy heaps. Sometimes this is the best way to express the fantastic. The kind of narrative I described above belongs to the city. Structure rises up on all sides. There is a forced march forwards—a sense of inexorable fate—destin sans issue. By contrast, after watching this film I felt like I had spent the night in a dark, enchanted forest, fleeing from one strange light to another, with too much wildness all around to really be sure what I saw. The protagonist's face at the end of the film communicates this, but I think you have to be seeing what she's seeing if you want to understand.

I don't have much more to say about this film. I think there may be some holes in my aesthetic theory, and I'm not sure that these two categories are really such opposites after all.

More by Boone

2010-10-12T17:08:00.011-04:00

More powerful and mysterious artwork from the defunct Boone's art page. The first few of these are screenshots that I took of the webpages themselves, in order to preserve Brittany's interpretations of her son's artwork— in particular, (what she interprets as) his ability to predict the future using his artwork, making "his own little newspaper (of the future)... Not too surprising since he sometimes comes to work with me." (Brittany James is a journalist, writing for the Albany Journal in the state of Georgia at the time this website was published.)

The Twenty-Five Clones of Captain Blood

2010-10-11T23:17:00.007-04:00

Images from the French science fiction computer games Captain Blood (for Mac and Atari ST, and other platforms) and Commander Blood and Big Bug Bang, its FMV sequels (for DOS.)

"The titular character of the game is a 1980s video game designer, Bob Morlock, who had picked "Captain Blood" as a nickname in tribute to the film starring Errol Flynn of the same name. Morlock develops a new video game about aliens and space travel. While testing for the first time his new project, he becomes warped inside the spaceship of the very game he had designed. Soon after, Blood is forced to go into hyperspace mode and, due to an incident, gets accidentally cloned 30 times. For 800 years, Blood tracks down every clone, as each one took a portion of his vital fluid. When the game begins, Blood successfully disintegrated 25 clones but he needs to kill the last five clones who turned out to be the most difficult to track down or he will lose his last connections with the human species."

Video from the two DOS sequels:

Music in all videos is by Stephane Picq (including a cover version of "Ethnicolor" by Jean Michel Jarre)

VR gnosticism: Immercenary

2010-10-11T22:46:00.006-04:00

Videos shared by youtube users from "Immercenary", a 3DO game set in a dystopian virtual reality called "Perfect".

Immercenary is an old 3DO game made in 1995 by Five Miles out and published by Electronic Arts. In this game, you play the Immercenary, a virtual warrior sent to earth's grim future, where a virtual reality game called Perfect has enslaved all of mankind into a brutal fight for survival.	Your goal is simple: Rise in power and rank, become powerful enough to defeat Perfect1, the SysOp of the game, and shut down Perfect.
Goners Rank: 256?? Goners are so named because their bodies are made up of polygons. Goners all share the same rank, as they are essentially bugs within the Perfect Operating system, runaway programs that are not attached to a host body(Cyberdud's note: Sounds familiar?). They function outside of the operating system protocols that allow for only 255 players at a time within the Garden. They have managed to slip from the Buffer Zone outside the Garden into the game world itself.	Picassos Rank: 255-132 Picassos occupy the next rung on the evolutionary ladder that is Perfect. Their disproportional, cartoonish bodies represent a significant advance over the crude Goners, but they sacrifice three-dimension depth to achieve this vaguely human form.
Tesla Rank: 10 One of the 12 higher Rithms in the garden, Tesla controls electricity, lightning and will use them with shocking results.	Davids Rank: (19-12) The eight Davids are fully recognizable , perfectly formed humans(Hence the allusion to Michelangelo's creation of the same name). They have even DOA level, and are the most powerful and individualistic of the lower ranked Rithms.

Enduring brilliance: "Adroids" and other games and animations by Chris and Alex Scobell

2010-10-11T22:18:00.004-04:00

These animations were shared by one of their creators, Alex Scobell (aka Kralex), on Youtube. Click to start a new adventure in Adroid World.

ALEX GAMES
A Game With Built In Pictures
Is You Go There Will Be More
Pictures in the Real Game

Boone writes

2010-10-11T22:01:00.005-04:00

From the now-vanished "Boone's art page", where Brittany James collected art by Boone, her 5-year old son with autism. The less said, the better: click and see for yourself.

A letter to Grandma

1. Power catalogue page 22

2. Plop! And plop! Analog

3. Please wait... and 3 min.

4. Founds avg. Founds sum

5. Picked an analog clock

6. Take your bag home

7. Play preview clock

8. Total java sweet port

9. Java,s sweet cd late

10. Son art art snap 2

11. Java examples

12. The java not java aero

13. Lock outs the doors and

14. Wee powered button

15. Class clock

16. Movies primary schools

17. War drags not hurt you

18. Toes and water cape

19. Dragonball aisle dragonball

20. America

21. Atop cloudy we applet

22. Error rock rod clocks

23. Tire saw duo clock

24. Sino clock clock clocks

25. Hey people and ecards

26. Living room 7 after one

27. Table cossetoepe modem

28. New ocher output plus

29. Pie troop yeoman cero

30. Crash

31. And help Saturn

32. Pushed the bears

33. Said birds

Boone makes two lists

1. Ash

2. Ashcropft Handle Go city D

3. Handles

4. Table

5. Reposes

6. Accnm

7. ???

8. Plaza Swash Dswr

9. Rco777Crtu

10. Pounds Jaer

11. Wee Power Ibutton Sawsolto

12. Miles 4.0

13. Angel Javas Clock

14. Put A Java Clock on your site Free

15. New 7.4

16. Clock

17. Page to Page 22

18. Clock Nsto 7.7

19. Nhaer

20. Nhaer

21. Meto

22. Mashmeat

23. The 2001 And Yarn Gayuopl

24. Clocks-

25. Visitor's Houses Reen Reonm

26. Vivvi Found Not Partiesyms

27. Java Doverdover-Cosis-Fonts

28. Uauer Biggies Clock Fonts

29. Lets Try Never One nbc

30. It's Dollpy

31. Emniu 30%

1. Adoyte Java

2. Top united Java

3. Plan Java

4. Gas Pay Cyber ifs Cool lumno

5. Ipoy Java Pnoi Daddy Java Hysts

6. Ancbcv By Fbcv bncv Cnn bomb Java Oder

7. Preview Java Clock Applet Clock

8. And Sofis Fabiy is open Dc co

9. Welome To The Clock Java Saw

10. Dash Dish Dash Dish Javason

11. Twentyish His And 2000

12. Java City 2007 City City soul Comtise Scocs

13. Criterd

14. Gf

15. Gf

16. G

17. Gh'

18. Gh

19. Gh

20. Gh

21. Hg

22. Gh

23. Gh

24. Gh

25. Gh

26. Gh

27. Hj

28. Hj

29. Hj

30. Jk

31. Hsdf,

32.

Under the cut: Boone writes a book of war, mushrooms, wizards, pain and school

Computer meditations

2010-10-11T03:44:00.004-04:00

No pulse

2010-10-11T03:25:00.013-04:00

Blood software, head in a jar, and super maze wars

2010-10-10T04:16:00.005-04:00

Some photos

2010-10-10T01:48:00.004-04:00

I took some photos to record signs of life in my kitchen, and an important conversation that took place by text message.

These are drawings from my uncompleted science fiction comic, which was shelved this spring so that I could focus on the other story that was just completed. I just bought a binder to store them. Unfortunately, some of the artwork was damaged from being rolled up in a tube for so long, but it is nothing that will affect the finished product. Soon I'll be able to start work on it again.

The body and the head

2010-10-09T18:19:00.011-04:00

"FindMySoft Head" —Blanca

↓↓↓↓THE HEAD↓↓↓↓

↑↑↑↑THE BODY↑↑↑↑

(play all videos at once...)

I should have spent the day working on comics, but again I get distracted by making these digital videos... I made the first few with Eliza and Kid Pix, the last is edited documentation of a sculpture by Person. Person makes kinetic sculptures, and this flailing body is designed to elicit a reaction of empathy. It's a body, and all my videos are heads. This started because of the Eliza program that came preloaded with a talking head, but with the following video I decided to keep doing it. I think that Person will continue making the bodies for as long as I can supply the heads.

In other news, check out this unearthed 80's-vintage mouse-drawn comic strip by Trici Venola.

Snow is melting

2010-10-09T02:20:00.002-04:00

It's not winter yet, so that means snow is melting somewhere. I installed Kid Pix 2 on my computer to try to recreate beach conditions. As I hope you agree, the experiment was a success, and I hope to continue to use Kid Pix 2, as well as other antique software such as Kid Pix Studio, Kid Works, ClarisWorks, Deneba Canvas, Great Works, Drawing Table, AppleWorks, MacDraw, Dabbler, Cricket Paint, Super Paint, Web Workshop, Design It 3-D, Bryce 3D, and Fred Nerd's Comic Strip Factory to create more computer drawings for comics in the future.

This is the title page for Custerds Quest, the magazine. The graves were left behind by the telephone people that will die on the front cover. Pyramids are also a kind of grave, but these are pyramid people, who can't die.

This is a tribute video for the telephone people that died.

This is a telephone person.

September's over

2010-10-02T01:08:00.020-04:00

September's over ... and at last I've finished my final draft of the comic that has taken up the past few months, "The Prickless Man." Above is a detail from the final page of the comic, which will be printed in two colors. Here are some photos of one of the sample booklets, which I printed to submit with the grant which will allow me to publish the book:

It required a few sleepess nights in order to complete the drawings on time, and then, in my sleepless state, I was unprepared for how difficult it would be simply to print the 6 sample copies (48 pp. each) that the application required. Here is some of what happened in the past two days:

•While preparing art, scanner had a smudge on it, making it necessary to go back and rescan every page
•Local copy shop gave me a quote one week previously for $40, about 15¢ per page. On the day it was necessary to print, it turns out they were lying and want to charge $300, refusing to honor original estimate
•Not knowing any other options, I decide to print in black and white, but copy machine at university can't scale original art correctly onto a sheet of paper
•Try to print from computer at university, but it keeps running out of memory
•Print all six copies (300 pages) at another computer at university, returning home at 12AM discover that the entire run is misprinted and the image cut off of page
•I wanted to include samples of the work in color. Try to print on home printer, it jams and keeps destroying pages, 6 AM next to my partner's sleeping head
•The grant is due the next day, and the landlord has announced an inspection that morning so it is necessary to disguise our room since we are not on the lease
•There is a torrential downpour the day of the grant, and I don't have an umbrella
•I borrow an umbrella, but it is too small to be useful
•Return to university, the day I must complete the grant, in order to make up for the misprinted copies, but the printer has broken
•The other printer has no paper and the university staff are frowning at us so we leave
•Discover that university library has 15¢ color copies. I decide to print in color. But I forgot the cord from my hard drive and have to go back to get it
•I forget the umbrella at home and walk back in the rain, maybe it was not so useless
•Print one copy of the comic, the library refuses to allow us to print more copies, it's unclear whether it is because we are not students (but it is open to the public) or because they don't allow copies in volume (but the charge is per page?)
•Luckily, the post office at the university can print for the same price or better, so the grant is completed in time.
•Completely sleep deprived, I thought I lost my power cord, so after completing the grant I walk back to the library to get it, and finally after returning back to the café with Jackie I find it was in one of our bags
•Also, my house caught fire.

For the last item, here is some proof...some pictures taken by Jackie (my partner, Jackie Wang):

Nobody was harmed, but the sprinkler system went off, and some apartments were flooded. This was on the other side of the building, so it didn't affect my roommates or me. I had to work somewhere else, so I went to my roommate's studio at the university, and completed most of the final work on the comic there. The fire turned out to be productive for me, but I wish it hadn't harmed anyone's stuff

Perhaps more interesting to most readers of the blog, however, will be what happened the morning before all the madness with the printing, following the night of the fire. At 8 AM, a package arrived:

While I was completely frenzied, I recieved this wonderful surprise. Nishino Sorau, the editor of Kakuh, gave me something to look forward to while I completed the grant. Inside the package were the back issues of Kakuh, and several copies of the issue from this month in which my work has appeared.

Of course, it took some time before I could finally get to them. But notice the shipping codes on the package above. This matches the name of Saito Taneo's famous comic:

(An advertisement for Hokutoh Shobu, featuring the book by Saito Taneo in which "EGO" appears)
Can this be a coincidence? Anyways, now that I have recieved the package, I can announce that I will make a few issues of Kakuh available through my online store, which has recently opened at seminal.us.

Or you can buy Kakuh now by clicking here: temporarily SOLD OUT!

It's the day after all the madness, so I've had some time to look at the back issues of Kakuh. I still have a lot to absorb, but I will try to share with you some of the artists that have stood out for me so far.

Hironori Kikuchi, a fantastic artist whose work from Garo was translated in English in Secret Comics Japan, and is also published by Editions Humeurs in France, has appeared in almost every issue of Kakuh this year. I recorded this video of his appearance in this month's issue— a collaboration with Sylvain Gerand, who has previously been published in Stripburger.

(Lewisite was playing, and a train went by in the distance)

Kawakatsu Tokushige is an artist I didn't know before whose work really shocked me in this issue. It's a horrific story about a human snail.

When I showed one of the above pages to Jackie, she said it reminded me of her novel, in progress, in which the mother runs into the woods, following a ghostly, glowing pearl. This drawing by Jackie was inspired by Kawakatsu.

In addition to these and a few other artists my own story appeared. I took some pictures when I first leafed through it—something went wrong with the camera, but I like how it looks!

Then, on to the other issues of Kakuh. I've still barely scratched the surface, but I was instantly impressed by the work of Takagi Hitoshi. His work appears in this month's issue, but my favorite is his appearance in the August issue. This a story about a boy detective, hired by a baker to track down a dog that stole a loaf of bread. When he finds the dog, he sees her sharing the loaf with her family—we have a translation from dog language, and although I can't read it I bet the child must be crying because the food is not enough! The boy drags the dog away from her starving family, which is incredibly heartrending and rendered in a few huge, emotionally charged panel—but he has a change of heart, and tries to return the money to the baker. The baker has a change of heart, too—and in the end, the money goes to give the dogs more bread.

This story is very emotional, but the first thing that caught my eye, before I deciphered the story (which I could understand quite well withous speaking Japanese), is Takagi's textured and extremely varied rendering style. There are no solid blacks to be seen anywhere in this comic. In addition to screentone and detailed crosshatching and stippling, there are also textures that look like they could be from a block-printing process, or from a copy machine that's low on toner, or maybe simply from the contrast being turned up where there were solid blacks so that the brush strokes and the grain of the paper that can be seen—except that there's no noise or grime in the comic, just these very beautiful and varied textures rubbing up against one another. There's clearly a lot of work put into these drawings, but there's nothing forced about them, since the figures are drawn in a free, scratchy pen line in a style that resembles old children's manga. I don't know anything about children's manga, but this rough, cartoon style reminds me of Yoshiharu Tsuge's work for children from the 50's.

Takagi's use of texture reminds me also of Saito Taneo, who in "Dream of Koshihikari" is adept at putting textures in front of you where it's impossible to say what process they came from. Saito Taneo, who is an editor of Kakuh, has work in 4-koba style in most of the issues, which are hard to understand as a non-Japanese reader. But in the second issue of Kakuh, before it was a monthly magazine (after two sporadic issues, in 2006 and 2008, the monthly publication began in April 2010, and is now numbered monthly, which is why, to judge by the numbers on the spines, there is no issue #3), I was really happy to find some strange computer-drawn comics, that date back to the 1990s', by Saito that feature his characters, very beloved to me even though I don't know their names, from "Ego" and other stories.

To give the example, here is some of his work from the book "Dream of Koshihikari" that I've mentioned previously on this blog.

This is some old animation by Saito Taneo that Nishino posted online.

Finally, in addition to all of the issues of Kakuh, Nishino also shared with me his own work: "HAPPINESS IN A WORLD WITH NO DIRECTIONS." This work is told almost entirely in 4-koma style, but instead of gags the format is used to describe the problem posed in the title. With one comic per, there is quite a lot of room on the page— which, to my surprise, allows room for a translation in English! I will certainly post more about this book once I have a had a chance to read all of it— a rare privilege for me with Japanese comics!

That wraps up this post, so I want to thank Nishino Sorau profusely for allowing me to share these comics with you. Also, thanks to Susanne Yuki, the translator of my comic, who made it possible for me to participate in Kakuh! If you would like to read these comics, please visit seminal.us, or the Kakuh website in Japanese.

(Video taken in the sleep-deprived morning, after placing the books from Nishino on the shelf)

seminal.us

Kakuh 9.2010 Coming soon!

2010-09-15T20:29:00.007-04:00

I am very pleased to announce that my six-page comic entitled "MY STORY" will appear in Japanese translation in this month's issue of the avant-garde comics magazine Kakuh, which will soon be printed by Semi-Shobo. The story, which hasn't been printed in English, dwells on the themes of domestic conflict, paranoia, and a famous psychoanalytic case study by Viktor Tausk. It was only possible for this comic to appear thanks to the help of Susanne Yuki, who translated it, and Shigehiro Okada. The magazine is edited by Saito Taneo and Nishino Sorau, and I'm very grateful to both of them for giving my work a home.

Full table of contents follows:

■制作まで⑤
まどの一哉 ■ 巻頭言「漫画は客商売である」
三好吾一 ● 「城山」
藤宮史 ● 「顔旅Kaotabi」（初参加）

雀斑 ■「架空雑感」

川勝徳重 ●「縁の下の蝸牛」①
三本美治 ● 「夜のホッケー」因縁の巻
キャロライン・ブレン ● 「マイ・ストーリー」（初参加）

シルヴァン・ジェラン×キクチヒロノリ ●「アクミート」（シルヴァン氏　初参加）
沿道櫻児 ■「神の目と漫画」
高木ひとし ● 「１９７３年のマトリョーシカ」

● 四コマ架空
清河蛇之介（初参加）
かなしきじゅんこ ●「原始時代の半田さん」
山坂ヨサンセン
砂糖ヒロタカ ●「りかぴぃ」⑦⑧
斎藤種魚 ●「無農薬の人」外伝②

斎藤種魚 ●「西野空男番外地　下」
久保隆 ■「情況」的場所へ【６】【７】
金ゐ國許 ■「つげ義春を旅マップする④」

■「月刊ガロ目次録」第六回

何野周一●「僕の毎日」　（初参加）
安部慎一[原作]西野空男[作画] ●「理知という名の赤い花」
鳥子悟 ●「だめ色コンチェルト」後編

■ 控え室から（執筆者のコメント）
■今月の反響欄
▽原稿募集のお知らせ△

164p　B5版

"Kyarorain Buren"

In other news, I've taken down most of the posts on this blog in preparation for the eventual move to a new domain in October. Keep an eye out for the revamped version of this blog.

From the work in progress

2010-08-10T20:15:00.001-04:00

"The Prickless Man" is the story of a perilous journey into childhood during which an unscrupulous police detective is betrayed by his own talking penis.

"Folktales of Nippon", by Kazuichi Hanawa (ニッポン昔話。花輪和一)

2010-07-15T02:06:00.005-04:00

Quite a few readers will be familiar with Kazuichi Hanawa for "Doing Time," a comics memoir of prison life which has been translated into multiple languages and was made into a film. English-speakers might also be familiar with him for his strange story "Mercy Flesh," which was included in Kevin Quigley's anthology "Comics Underground Japan." I'm not sure that anything else by him is in English. Well, I recently got to borrow a few books of Japanese comics from a friend, and one of them was Hanawa's "Folktales of Nippon", a recent work from Hanawa (part of a series published throughout 2009) which is very much in the vein of the "historical-grotesque" such as "Mercy Flesh," featuring the young girl from that story in a number of adaptations of classical folk tales.

Although I found there were a few stories in this book which I could more or less follow even without understanding the text, including one in which a strange kappa-like creature wearing a diving suit is caught and escapes, the story which I will share below is utterly mystifying to me, but I find it interesting despite that. It seems to be about a hereditary deformity within a family, and a certain type of fruit which resembles it, but whatever the relationship is between these things (which seems to be explained as the story goes on), it is impenetrable to me, as are the motivations of the story's villain, who may or may not be responsible for the fruit/tumor relationship and who undergoes a mysterious transformation at the end. It is all over very quickly, with a very sudden shift back to the idyllic state of the story's introductory splash panel, with the evil safely contained in servitude nearby. Maybe I'm not really doing the story justice when I can't understand it, but I derive a lot of inspiration sometimes from comics I can't read. I hope you enjoy this story as much as I do, and I hope that the artist and publisher will not mind that I have shared it here. Although I apologize for the low quality of the scans, it couldn't be avoided, since I didn't want to cause any damage to the gracefully lended book. Thanks to Mr. Freibert for the lend. The book is still available, along with an intriguing companion volume, so why not track it down for yourself?

The story follows under the cut.

An old e-mail from dearraindrop

2010-07-14T12:48:00.002-04:00

The collective dearraindrop are creators not only of fantastic multimedia installations but also of fashionable custom-made clothing. In 2004 I asked them for some tips on making awesome t-shirts.

> From: la la
> Subject: RE: tshirt
> To: w****@yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2004, 7:44 PM
>
>
> hi
>
> thanks,
>
> to make better t shirts
> try these ideas=
> ---------------------------
>
> 1.go to dollarstore,99cent, and find the
> stupidest thing in the store and buy
> 20 of that thing and buy
> superglue and glue them all
> over a shirt of your choice.
> 2.spraypaint cuss words in neon colors.
> 3.pour bleach on blackclothing ,dont get
> any on your skin,
> 4.rip up expensive clothes
> 5.paint on them w/ house paint
> 6. glue glitter on
> 7.l.e.d.'s and sound effectsx
> 8.fog machine
> 8.wear alot of giant necklases. gold
> chain s,
> 9. dont use a laundry marker,
> go buy some paintpens on a permanent
> marker
> 10.bury your clothes 6 inches into
> the ground , dig them up in a month
> 11. black and white tiedie
> 12. print goco
> 13.glue keyboards to the front of the shirt
> 14. glue action figures to your shirt
> 15.tape stuff to yourself and on your shirt
> 16.make a tape-shirt with just tape.tape tape onto
> yourself till it looks like a shirt
> 17. get a vcr backpack
> 18.watch the rocketeer{for inspiration}
> 19.costume part accessorixze
> 20. use real birdfeathers , not fake or dipped in
> colors= find at a park or zoo.
> 21.rubb white shirt in the green grass in a
> zig-zag motion
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> 22.spraypaint w/ stencils
> 23. try puff-paint,,; never huff paint.
> 24.add tons of pockets
> 25. add tons of zippers with no function like that Micheal
> Jackson jacket
> 26.sew a cool shirt to your old shirt
> 27. crumble up a shirt, paint it with a
> paint roller. uncrumble it
> 28. set shirt on fire put fire out.fire damaged
> clothing. is really cool in england right now
> 29. iron-on tranfer paper. print images you
> like from googlrimage search onto tranfer paper/iron
> on.
> 30.type a story on shirt with
> a typewriter.load shirt into typewriter.
> 31.cut holes into shirt. add fake blood stains
> say a shark attacked you.
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> 33.food coloring
> 34.iodine
> 35.grape juice
> 36.glow inthe dark paint
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Visit the blog of Shigehiro Okada (オカダシゲヒロ)

2010-06-02T13:22:00.004-04:00

A couple of weeks ago the artist and mangaka Shigehiro Okada was kind enough to feature two of my drawings in his blog. Well, unfortunately I was slow to respond, but now I draw your attention to his post, and invite you to look at the rest of his blog, which features many of his single-image drawings/paintings, and a few tantalizing glimpses into his longer comics work. Very soon Mr. Okada will be featured in English in the forthcoming AX anthology, so we will all soon have the chance to learn a lot more about his work. I am very surprised and grateful to Mr. Okada for featuring my work in his blog.

See more by Shigehiro Okada

More Amiga animation: Apeiron

2010-02-27T13:11:00.010-05:00

In an earlier post I linked to a youtube video of an inspiring animated music video made on the Amiga home computer. Here is another Amiga animation recently linked to me by a friend, with some interesting images and sounds as parallels. The artist is Eurico Coelho, from Portugal.

1. Still image from "Apeiron"

2. "Apeiron" by Eurico Coelho

3. Lisa and the Devil by Mario Bava

4. Copper engraving for the Inferno after Sandro Botticelli

5.

Gadget

2010-02-03T21:29:00.005-05:00

by Haruhiko Shono

"In practice, the technology we had at that time could not have been used to create realistic characters like those which are possible nowadays. But I remember how hard it was in that atmosphere to produce something, having to make choices of hardware and software, establish a creative technique. The characters that appear in Gadget are like lifeless dolls. This is because in the game world, characters that ask too much and don’t fit in are judged.

"Although they have the appearance of humans, realistic humans weren’t necessary, because what I needed were characters that added tension and persuasive power to this static world. The exposure time for the earliest portrait photos was very long, so the subjects’ poses and facial expressions seem stiff and unmoving: I think the persuasive power of those images is very strong.

"For example, the portraits of photographer August Sander have a powerful influence on me. One of the things that differentiate GADGET from other games is perhaps that while it used the latest technology of the time, the imagery is strongly reminiscent of the fascinating expressions of the past. Incidentally, I now base my concept designs for movies and games on what I experienced during this creative process."

the rest of the interview here

Ian Miller: Green Dog Trumpet (1979)

2010-01-28T13:28:00.018-05:00

I have owned for a while but rarely hear anything about this book of illustrations by Ian Miller, a very individual fantasy artist who reminds me the most of Harry Clarke, although it is likely there's a much more direct connection that I'm missing given my general ignorance regarding fantasy illustration. It is a kind of comic book, although it is wordless and does not look at all like one, with single panels of odd size separated each to a page leaving vast amounts of blank space in between (green, for this story, but red for the next and then purple; the table of contents lists colors in the place of page numbers.) I've done my best to reproduce the presentation of the book in a form suitable for online viewing; keep in mind that two thirds of most pages in the book are blank. You can also see the artist's illustrations gracing the covers of numerous horror and science fiction paperbacks, like his (uncredited) work for a Ray Bradbury collection that I've scanned and included below as a bonus; you can see another gallery of his cover art here, and there are more examples of his fantasy and illustration work on the sci fi o rama, ski-ffy and i09 blogs. If this post incites some interest I may scan and post some more stories from this book.

Bonus illustration:

(click for larger version)

Zen Zipatone

2010-01-23T21:34:00.021-05:00

Zip-a-tone use was kind of a zen thing.
It led to all kinds of mystical revelations and stuff.

by Harry Lazarus; from here . . . click to see the zipatone technique a little larger

"If you look at the first printing of the old EC comics, all 50% halftones are line screens...not dot screens. This is on the original comics...not the reprints. Dot pattern zip-a-tone is either black dots on a white field or white dots on a black field. So there is actually no true 50% halftone with dot screens. It's either 51% or 49%. A true 50% is impossible. This is known as the secret of OXO...because overlayed zip-a-tone , when it is overlayed at a precise 90 degree angle, seems to spell out oxoxoxox . So Zip-a-tone use was kind of a zen thing. It led to all kinds of mystical revelations and stuff.

But now it is obsolete." -- Jay Lynch: forums posting from here

As far as zen practices ago, how about that article on competitive players of Pacman and Mrs. Pacman that appeared in Harper's a while ago.

" . . . not the first person to consider the divine implications of computer programming. Philosophers have long pondered whether programs constitute a separate reality, and programmers in the Eighties began using the philosophical term 'ontology' . . . as a technical designation for how software defines operating space." here

If someone's asking these questions about video game cabinets, why aren't we doing the same about "lines on paper"? A video game program happens to be defined by machine hardware, but that doesn't make the program itself any more sophisticated or less impalpable than any other invented conceptual space.

Gensenkan Shujin by Teruo Ishii

2010-01-22T14:05:00.015-05:00

Here is Teruo Ishii's adaptation of Yoshiharu Tsuge's "Gensenkan Shujin" from the 1993 anthology film of the same name, in which Ishii brought several stories by Tsuge to the screen (also including "Red Flowers",) with Shirô Sano portraying the main character in each episode as well as Tsuge himself in the framing segments. I think that this is a really excellent adaptation; Shirô Sano inhabits his character more convincingly to me than do Tsuge's own drawings. It is weird how much Sano's double role (Ishii does not choose to keep the doppelganger's face in shadow throughout, as Tsuge does in the original story) resembles in appearance and significance that at the center of Shinya Tsukamoto's later film "Gemini,", an Edogawa Ranpo adaptation. I cannot imagine that Tsuge was not thinking of Ranpo when he drew the original story, so maybe it all comes full circle. I hope that you will watch this excerpt and post your thoughts in response. Images from the movie featuring Tsuge's artwork appear after the cut.

漫画主義 COVER GALLERY

2010-01-21T19:59:00.009-05:00

The comics and art magazine 漫画主義 was first published in 1967 and continued publication irregularly through the 1970's, releasings its 14th and final issue in 1979. This post shows a few images of the magazine's covers. Although it hails from a totally different decade, the magazine published many of the same artists as the current "Gento" magazine: Sugano Osamu, Tadao Tsuge, and of course Yoshiharu Tsuge. Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Shigeru Mizuki also appeared in the magazine, as did Genpei Akasegawa who provided the cover image for issue #6 featured below.

A detailed history of the magazine's publication is available. It is interesting to note that though a current magazine such as "Gento" may seem notable to us (American or European comic audiences, I mean — allowing quite an assumption) for its juxtaposition in each volume of new comics work alongside comics criticism and other articles, the magazine 漫画主義 was able to do the same thing back in the 1960's — which needless to say would be completely incomprehensible in the United States given the place of comics in its cultural environment of the 1960's. If I am not misinterpreting the above bibliography, 漫画主義 published an article or supplementary materials relating to Tsuge's "Neji-Shiki" only a few months after it was published.

幻燈 "GENTO" (LANTERN) COVER GALLERY

2010-01-21T17:29:00.009-05:00

"Lantern" magazine was founded in the late 90s and continues to publish now, with greater frequency in recent years. Artists that have appeared in its pages include Shinichi Abe, Osamu Kanno, Saito Taneo, Jun Urata, Tadao Tsuge, Nishino Sorau, many others who I am not familiar with. Most issues of the magazine print features dedicated to Yoshiharu Tsuge, such as travel diaries with photographs of the locations he depicted in his work as well as concept artwork and previously unpublished artworks predating his retirement. Some of the cover illustrations below are by Tsuge.

"Gento" is published by 北冬書房 "Hokutou Shobou" (North Winter); most of these images are from the Hokutou Shobou website. Copies of this magazine can still be easily obtained through online retailers.

齊藤種魚 Saito Taneo「コシヒカリの見た夢」 "Dream of Koshihikari"

2010-01-19T13:26:00.001-05:00

THE BOOK WAS RELEASED 2007, UNDER COMPOSITION FROM 1989-2006.
APPARENTLY THE ARTIST HAS EARLIER WORK PUBLISHED IN "QOM", "GENTO".
THIS REPRESENTS ALL THE IMAGES I HAVE FOUND OF THIS BOOK.
EXCEPT FOR THE COVER, THESE IMAGES WERE ALL POSTED ON THE BLOG OF NISHINO SORAO, OF "GENTO".

REVIEWS:
http://kubo1123.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2007/06/07212_0725_a93f.html
http://www.geocities.jp/bbtugeken/0wkspcl.html (BOTTOM ENTRY ON PAGE)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/mabuya/20080517 (BIBLIOGRAPHY ALSO CONCERNING OSAMU SUGANO)
http://www.webspace.ne.jp/rental/icon_tree_bbs/bbs.php?pid=29970&mode=thread&page=3 (DISCUSSION ABOUT "LANTERN" MAGAZINE)
NOT MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ARTIST ON THE WEB.

HERE: YONKOMA-STYLE CARTOONS BY SAITO TANEO

漫画史における記念碑的名著、齋藤種魚「コシヒカリの見た夢」が発刊された。 Great book monumental in the history of comics, fish species Saito "dream of Koshihikari" was published. この名作について西野氏が「悲哀」に書いた文章がすばらしく、また各掲示板で書き込まれている意見が全くそのとおりで、自分のははるかに蛇足ではあるが、作品に対するリスペクトとしてこの小コラムを書く。 Mr. Nishino for this masterpiece "sorrow" is a wonderful article written in exactly so that the opinion was written by each board also their Although there is much superfluous, write a column in this small respect for the work as .

みなさんご承知の通り、齋藤漫画というものは極めて珍しい構造を持っている。 As you may know what comic that Saito has a very unusual structure. ふつう漫画は漫画家の頭で、大づかみにストーリーが設定された状態で描き始められる（と思う）。 Usually the head of the cartoonist in comics, which began in the state is set to draw大Dzukami story (I think). そもそもストーリーというもの自体は現実世界での諸々の関係を弄ぶようなものだ。 Stories that begin with those countries themselves in the real world is like our games, play the relationship.

ところが斉藤漫画は基本的に巨大な内語の塊だから、世界と無関係に膨大な量の言葉とイメージが制御されずに出てくる。 But Saito's manga from a huge chunk of the basic words come out without being controlled by the enormous amount of words and images unrelated to the world. したがってストーリーが成り立つ以前の段階がムチャクチャに多い。 Most of the earlier stages of the Muchakucha So the story holds. これは齋藤種魚の脳構造がそのまま作品に反映されているのではないか？ Is this not being reflected in the work of the brain structure of fish species intact Saito? 書き始めると同時に作者は興奮状態に落ち入り、特殊な脳内物質がとめどもなく分泌され、コントロールが効かないのではないか？ At the same time the author began writing down into the excited state, the substance is secreted in the brain ever-increasing special idea of control does not work? 。 .

あとがきによると、イメージになるものは絵にして、文字になるものは文章にして、「頭の中身」をぶちまけるとあるが、これだけの物語を構築できる人が、なぜ絵と言葉が融合される前の段階が余るほどあるのか、自分にとってはおおいに謎である。 According to the afterword, which will then painting the image, which will then writing letters, "inside the head" but to give vent to, people could only build a story, which is why combining words and pictures What is a dime a dozen in the previous stage, is a mystery for me greatly. ただしこれが通常の漫画の方法でコントロールされてしまうと斉藤漫画の魅力は間違いなく半減する。 Appeal of comics and SAITO control would be the usual comic manner but is definitely half. その点「コシヒカリ～」は、暴走する脳に見開き2ページという制約があたえられて、絶妙のバランスで完成した。 Point "Koshihikari -" is a runaway spread to the brain is able to give the constraint that two pages, complete with exquisite balance. ヨカッタ、ウレシカリケル。 Yokatta, Ureshikarikeru.

もし4ページ以上連続すると、また話は分裂して、めくるめくサイトウワールドになっていくのだろうか？ If four or more consecutive pages, the story also is divided, what's going to be dazzling Saitouwarudo? 。 . でも大丈夫。 Fine. 圧倒的に過剰なネームは、その意味を忠実に追っていくと一歩ごとに行き止まるので、隣り合う言葉と言葉の触発を楽しもう！ Name overwhelming excessive, so stop and go with each step we faithfully follow its meaning, inspired by the words and enjoy the adjacent words! また、画面に描かれるもの全ては独立したネタであるから、ちりばめられた小ネタを満喫すればよし。 Also, everything that is drawn on the screen from the independent neta, neta if we enjoy the small-studded. さて。 So.

●「イーゴ」シリーズ齋藤漫画はあえて連続性を破壊する特徴があるので、こんなふうにとりあえず見開き2ページ分は完結したお話として読めて、全体通してみれば大きなストーリーになっている。 ● "Igo" Saito cartoon series that features so deliberately to destroy the continuity, two-page spread in this way Toriaezu is read as a complete story, you are Looking through the whole big story. という形式がすごく読みやすいです。 Is a very readable form. しかも巻頭「ego」から完結編の「サルベージ」までギャグありシリアスありの、様々の形式で自由に描かれている。 And prefacing "ego" of the Final from the "salvage" a comedy with serious up there, many are drawn in the form of freedom. サイトウさん、なんでも描けるんですね。 Ms. Saito, you'd draw anything. そしてSFの道具立てと壮大なテーマ。 SF and the paraphernalia of grand themes. テーマについての論評はインテリにお任せします。 I'll leave comments about your intellectual themes.

●「悪路王子」シリーズここ10年のサイトウ作品を横断して、くりかえし登場するキャラとモチーフがあって、ストーリーと無関係に楽しめます。 ● "evil Prince Road" series here and works across the Saito 10 years, there appeared to repeat motifs and characters, enjoy the story regardless. ストーリーよりキャラクターで成立している作品。 Work has been passed in character from the story. 全部キャラが立っている。 All characters are standing. キャラが面白すぎて勝手に動き出すタイプの漫画。 Move-type cartoon characters are fun too freely. もし自分に資本があれば、テリル坊やのフィギュアを作って売って大赤字に泣いているであろう。 If you have your own capital would probably crying into debt to sell to make a little boy figure Terrill. ああ資本がなくて良かった。 Oh good without capital.

●「コシヒカリの見た夢」は農家の日常を描いて、サイトウ作品の中ではかつて最も穏やかにストーリーが進行する作品だ。 ● "dream of Koshihikari" depicts the life of the farmers in the works Saito story is a work in progress once the most gentle. と思って読んでいくと、続編の「Mのアジール」「ひとめぼれ」から物語が激変し、内容が危機を孕んで濃密化するとともに、絵が俄然アベシン化してくる。 Reading through I think, the sequel to "M Asyl of" "shine" a radical change from the story, as well as the contents of intense crisis in孕N, Parapara Abeshin becoming a picture. まさに正統つげ義春以降の名作といって過言ではない。 An exaggeration to say the Classic is not exactly orthodox after Yoshiharu Tsuge. 西野氏はここばかり読み返しているそうだ。 Nishino said it again just as it has here.

「夜行」は１９７２年から１９９５年の２３年間を費やして刊行された全２０号の刊行物である。 "Night" from 1972 was published in 1995, spent all 23 years 20 issue of the Journal. その「夜行」の主力執筆者、湊谷夢吉、羽鳥よしゅあ、南日漣、伊藤重夫、秋野すすき、新谷成唯たちが、私の視界から姿を隠して少ないとは言えない月日が流れている。 The "nocturnal" main author, Gil dream Minatoya, Yua Hatori Yoshi, Ren Nitinan, Shigeo Ito, Silver Akino, Shigeru Yui their Shintani, and less in hiding from sight in the months I do not flowing. 純粋に例外といえるのは斎藤種魚だけであろう。 Would say with the exception of purely Saito fish species. 斎藤種魚は僕にいまだ懐かしい悪夢を見せてくれる。 Saito fish species still shows a nostalgic nightmare to me. その斎藤種魚がこの度、大きく厚いというにはあまりにも小さく薄いＢ４版４１６ｐの漫画単行本「コシヒカリの見た夢」を出版した。 Sono Saitou species of fish this time, a rather small and thin and thick is too big 416p version B4 comic book form "dream of Koshihikari" was published. この漫画は１９８９年から２００６年の１６年間にわたり毎月２ページという制約の中で描き続けた作品集であるらしい。 This cartoon from 1989 to 2006 a month 16 years continued to draw two works in the collection seemed constrained to page. さらに言えば私はこの斎藤種魚の「コシヒカリの見た夢」に現在、連日寝床でうなされ続けている一人であると言えよう。 I am also speaking of the fish species Kono Saitou "dream of Koshihikari" Right now, the person continues to be言Eyou Unasare in bed every day. １６年という長い年月を４００枚の漫画原稿から感じる事ができるという事、月日が作品から見える事を僕はこの「コシヒカリの見た夢」で教えていただいた。 400 years of the 16 years that can feel things that comics from the paper sheet, I see things work the months from this "dream of Koshihikari" you have taught. その月日とは漫画の中にある時間ではなく、漫画の外にある時間で言葉にする事は僕にはできないのだが「コシヒカリの見た夢」を見ればそれは確かに認識できる。月日time and it is not in the comics, things that the word time is outside of the comics, but I can not "dream of Koshihikari" If you look at it is certainly recognizable. 数日間で制作される音楽ＣＤが３０００円。 Music CD to be produced in a few days to 3,000 yen. １６年という年月が刻まれた漫画本が２５００円これを高すぎるというのはあまりにも安易過ぎる発想と言える。 16 years of comic book engraved with the year of 2500 yen is too high to say it too easy and too much thinking. おもしろいのはのは４００ｐを６００円程で売られているコンビニ本たちとは表現に対する質が異なっているところ。 An interesting book of 400p to 600 and they are sold in convenience stores where the yen is different about the quality of representation. （故）アンディー・ウォーホールはこう言っていた。 (Late) Andy Warhol was saying. 「制作時間は関係ない。あるのはその作品が良いか悪いかだけである。」確かにアンディー・ウォーホールの制作姿勢を肯定する為には必要な言葉だ。 "Production time does not matter. The only one that works better or worse." Positive attitude in order to produce the words of Andy Warhol is certainly needed. しかしどうだ！ But I ask you! アンディー・ウォーホールの作品から年月が感じられるだろうか！ You will feel the years from the work of Andy Warhol! 短い制作期間で作られた作品から長い年月といえる制作期間を感じることはできないのである。 Production time can feel long and say from work made a short production period is not. 商業漫画もまた同様である。 Is also similar commercial comics. 数ヶ月の制作期間で制作された。 Production was produced in a few months time. 週刊漫画の単行本からはそれ相応の月日しか感じられない。 We have not seen from the weekly comic hardcover only月日accordingly. 週刊漫画にマーケティングされてしまった人々は計算され尽くされて刊行され続ける週刊漫画の単行本をまるで自分だけが内容を理解しているような口ぶりを一度控えて斎藤種魚の「コシヒカリの見た夢」を拝読してみるべきであろう。 Have you been to our weekly cartoon marketing of fish species has declined Saito implied that once you understand the contents of a book just like his cartoon was published weekly to continue the calculation been exhausted "dream of Koshihikari "拝読then you should try to be. そういう認識できなかった視界が十分開けてくる可能性が「コシヒカリの見た夢」には詰まっているのです。 Open the chance for such recognition was not enough visibility "of Koshihikari dream" is to be filled. 私にとって小難しい言葉や情報量の多すぎるコマ絵ばかりが目についていたこれまでの斎藤種魚の漫画であったが「コシヒカリの見た夢」では多すぎる言葉、多すぎる情報量の絵が制作された月日となって現れている。 Cartoon was far Saito fish species was about the only picture of the piece of information too small and difficult words for me, "dream of Koshihikari" too many words, the painting was produced too much information Ta月日have been seen. それは膨大な労力でなくて棒大な月日だ。 It's a big月日not stick to a huge effort. このわずか４００ページの漫画単行本を一日で読む事は不可能である。 This 400 per day just to read a comic book form page is impossible. こんないいものは１６年の年月がかかるのだ。 I like that it takes 16 years for. もう斎藤種魚本人にも作れないものである。 What kind of fish can not make himself even more Saito. そう思うと斎藤種魚の次の展開が楽しみで仕方がない。 There is no way forward to expand in the following species of fish and Saito think so. 僕はこれまで漫画を多くの読んでる人に出会ってきた。 I've met many people I'm reading comics so far. つげ義春を通過していないこの世界の住人を絶対に漫画を読んでいる人と認めなかった。 Did those who read the comics and the inhabitants of this world absolutely does not pass Yoshiharu Tsuge. そしてこれからはいかなる評価を下すにせよ「コシヒカリの見た夢」を読んでない人を認めたりはしないであろう。 And now the verdict in any case "dream of Koshihikari" is not going to admit a person would not read. これは両手を挙げての賞賛をもとめているのではない。 This is praise that asks no one's hands. 僕だって斎藤種魚が引きちぎった左耳を芸術と偽って渡してくる事ぐらいわかっているのだから‥ About things they know from coming to pass under the guise of art left ear thing if I Saito引Kichigitta fish species ‥

内容は主に「イーゴ」シリーズ、「悪路王子」シリーズ、「コシヒカリの見た夢」シリーズの３部構成です。 Content is mainly "Igo" series, "Prince-road" series, "dream of Koshihikari" is a three-part series.

「イーゴ」 "Igo"

若返りウイルスを取り巻くＳＦ群衆劇イーゴ天主教の繁栄と　没落、意識と幻想の世界の話 Surrounding the virus and ruin the prosperity of the Catholic Youth Igo SF mob drama, story and fantasy world of consciousness

「悪路王子」 "Prince Road evil"

空想時代娯楽作ピンチョナムの生き様と悪路王子の成長の物語 The story of the growth of the Prince-road recreational and life of his era fantasy Pinchonamu

「コシヒカリの見た夢」 "Dream of Koshihikari"

「架空」に農業漫画「無農薬の人」を執筆して貰おうとしたさいすでに描いていると斎藤氏から執筆要請を断られた事があった。 "Fictitious" manga agriculture "pesticide-free people" had turned down a request by writing things that drew Mr. Saito in the chair and is the author貰Ou. その農業漫画がこの「コシヒカリの見た夢」である。 Agricultural this cartoon the "dream of Koshihikari" is.

藤宮史は無視しようと思う。 I think to ignore Huzimiya Humi.

木下竜一の絵は下手だと思う、152頁の下段左と228頁の上段。 I think the picture is poor Kinoshita Ryuuiti, 152 and 228 upper left of the page Bottom of the page. でもそれが天才だと思う。 But I think it is genius. じんわり来る。 Wari dust coming.

山羊タダシは師匠スジの斎藤種魚をもう超えたと思う。 Tadashi goat species of fish other than I think the teacher Susie Saito. でも飛ばし過ぎで心配だ。 But skip the too worried.

さて、ネズ実さんの『葉っぱの亡い花』。 Now, says the real 』juniper leaves『 dead flowers.

貝殻草の傍らに赤松があって、その洞(うろ)に妖精が棲んでいる。 There the grass beside the pine shell, the sinus (hollow) that lived in a fairy. 洞は陰核があって女性器の形をしている。 Dong is in the form of female genital clitoris is there. 妖精は両耳の欠けた猫で左腕が亡い。 Fairy is a lack of dead cat left arm in both ears. 目の前のビルから人が飛び降りる、ぼんくら社会に向かってその猫が歩き出す。 People jump from a building in front of the cat walked out into the punk community. 大正5年に亡くなった愛馬の供養碑の前で和む(ちなみに大正3～9年は第一次世界大戦)。 Relax in front of a memorial monument in 1916 died in the horse (Taisho way 3-9 years of World War I). ありふれたエコロジカルなモノローグがあって(ただ、けして飛びそうも無い人力飛行機は何だ寺山修司と関係あるか？)、指紋だらけの壁の翳からもうひとつの手足が4本指のバケモノ(女性精)が、それを当然のごとく「聞き飽きた」という。 There are common ecological monologues (however, not even human-powered airplane and flew it to perfection Terayama Shuji's relationship do you have?), Shadow of the hands and feet of another wall covered with fingerprints from four fingers Bakemono's (woman deferens), but of course like it, "sick of hearing" he said. 私はそこで妖精猫を「うけ」と名づけることにする。 Where I was a fairy cat "Uke" and you can clepe. うけは、バケモノから都合良く人間の左腕を貰らって、亡くした手に付ける。 Uke is, What is the human who conveniently from Several regulations Bakemono left arm, put the hands lost.

潅木に生えた茸だろうか？ Do mushrooms grown in the shrubs? そこを歩くとその左手が拒絶する。 Reject the left and walk there. その手のひらを睨視する。睨視a hand to it. お母さん指とお兄さん指の指紋は渦巻きで、お姉さん指は流れだ。 Fingers and fingerprints of the mother is a spiral brother, your sister's finger flow. その衝撃に感電して、うけは人間の左手首を捨てる。 An electric shock to the shock that Uke will discard the human wrist. 後ろに見えるのは庚申碑か？ What Koshin monument at the back?

白土橋で河に落ちたうけは再生し元の赤松の洞に戻る。 Dobashi落Chitau River in Ke-dong, white pine is the original back to play. その産道から顔を出すと、そこには貝殻草の花蕾に頭はえた奇妙な魚の生物。 That emerge from the birth canal, there is a head of grass flower buds Strange Case of shell-fish species. その口から男性器が覗いていて、この星は2時間32分で砂漠になるという。 They prick peeps out from its mouth, this star is 2 hours 32 minutes of becoming desert. うけはそれは海だと訂正する。 Uke is correct but it is the sea. あたたかい春だ Spring is warm

“つげ義春以後”と擬せられている作家・斎藤種魚の最新作品集『コシヒカリの見た夢』（一九八九年から二〇〇六年まで月刊誌「政経東北」に見開き二頁の連載を纏めたもの）は、自ら、“以後の以後”へと地平を切り開くべく、〈自在度〉を過激に駆使したかたちが示されていると、いっていいと思う。 "After Yoshiharu Tsuge," the latest collection of fish species work has been擬Se Saito writer and The dream of Koshihikari 』(2 from 989.1 thousand years until six monthly" northeast of politics from economics "two-page spread in the What纏Meta the series) is his own, "since after"切Ri開Kubeku the horizon and to the "universal time" and that full use has been shown to form a radical, I think I can go. 斎藤は、第７集においても、「ベートーベンの右耳とゴッホの左耳の間で戦争が起きた」を提示している。 Saito is also seventh in the collection, "the war took place between Van Gogh's left ear and right ear of Beethoven" has been presented. 斎藤作品の特色でもある、言葉と画像の見事な意識的な融合が、ますます過剰になっていることに、支持したいと思う。 Saito is also a feature of the work, and consciously beautiful fusion of words and images, is that more and more excessive, I would like to support. たぶんそれは、延べ十七年間、月刊誌（様々な規制があるのは当然だ）という制約の中で、培われたことの達成だといえるはずだ。 Maybe it is a total of 70 years, a monthly magazine (there are various regulations and rightly so) in the constraints that say it should be cultivated achieved.

作品集『コシヒカリの見た夢』は、五系列に連なる作品群で構成されている。 Koshihikari saw Sakuhinshu's Dream, meanwhile, has been lined with a work group composed of five series. 時間順に並べてみれば、「コシヒカリの見た夢」（八九年～九三年）、「えご」（九六年～二〇〇〇年）、「愛モード」（〇一年）、「死にたくない」（〇二年）、「センチメンタルアーミー」（〇三年～〇六年）となるが、集中、構成順は、「えご」、「センチ～」、「愛モード」、「死にたくない」、「コシヒカリ～」となる。 Looking to be arranged in order of time, "dream of Koshihikari" (98 years - 39 years), "Ego" (years 69 to 2,000 years), "Love Mode" (Yes one year), " Want to Live "(Yes two years)," Senchimentaruami "(6 years Yes Yes - 3 years) is given, concentration, order configuration," Ego "," cm ~ "," Love Mode "," death Takunai "," Koshihikari - "will be. 多彩なタッチ、多様なモチーフを持った作品群を眼の前にして、作者の重心はどこにあるのだろうかと、考えてみる。 Colorful touch, and in front of the eye motif with a variety of work groups, or centroid of the author and where to find it, think. むろん、そんな問いは愚問に過ぎないことは明白だ。 Of course, such questions can only stupid question is obvious. 誤解のないようにいえば、斎藤種魚は、自身が農業に従事しているからこそ描出できる世界というものを持っている。 Speaking to avoid any misunderstandings, Saito fish species, which can depict the world that have something from what you are engaged in agriculture itself. そしてそれは固有の世界をかたちづくるものでありながらも、やがて拡張できる世界でもあるのだ。 And it is shaping the world but what is unique in the world that it can grow over time. だからこそ「コシヒカリ～」という一群の作品は、斎藤にとって最も重心がかかった物語として提示されているといっていいだろう。 That's why "Koshihikari -" work of a group that is going to get that story is presented as the most gravity took Saito.

“米”というものは、生命の循環に似ている。 "American" things that are similar to the cycle of life. それゆえ、天皇制は農耕的なのものに擬定せざるをえないのだ。 Thus, the emperor system is inevitably something of an agricultural擬定. 斎藤は、あえて霊的なものを対置して、生々しい現実の天皇制に抗おうとしているかのようだ。 Saito is contrasted with spiritual things deliberately, as if they are raw and real Shii抗Ou the emperor.

「人には手がある／おのおのの手がある／おのおのの手が…／その手には過去をもつ／その過去ゆえに／その手はそのように変わらざるをえなかった」（「ひとめぼれ」―《コシヒカリの見た夢》） "The people have the hand / that each hand / the hand of each ... / its hands with a past / past therefore its / their hands変Warazaru had to do so" ( "shine" -- "dream of Koshihikari")

Ｍさんこと松田清治の手に秘められた不思議な力は、「土に触れば／土はどんどん肥沃になるあの力さえあれば／どんな水だって／どんな…」というものだ。 M mysterious force hidden in the hands of Matsuda Kiyoharu that says, "I touch the soil / soil fertility will be more and more that there Tsutomu Sae / Wed Even whatever / whatever ..." of that. 自然対人間から生み出されていく力、それを霊力と呼ぶ人がいても、それは別に構わない。 The pair created from strength to human nature, people even called it霊力, it is fine to another. そしてそれが発生する不思議な場所から、現在という重い課題を引き受けて、斎藤種魚は、「ＥＧＯ」や「悪路王子」という“不思議な”作品を描き出していることが重要なのだ。 It occurs from a strange place, and now burdened with the heavy task, Saito fish species, "EGO" and "Prince Road evil" that "strange" that it is important to explore the work. わたしはそのことに、素直に感動したいと思っている。 I will be that impressed by the straightforward that I want.

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