2016-11-19

mindstalk: (YoukoRaku1)
"I like your hair. How long have you grown it?" This would have been more flattering were the speaker not a short male bear, aka a random guy on the sidewalk, and I as straight as a fan of ultra-femme yuri. Still, it's a novel experience. The comments I expect on my "no hair cut" experiment" are "get a hair cut"; the ones I've actually gotten until now have been "huh, it's long". (I think the girls no longer in Chile are miffed that my hair is longer than theirs.)

On my walk I passed some "Shift 4" (Apple computer cloverleaf 'Shift') art space on the way to Union Square. I was told it would be ready in 5-10 minutes, some sort of video installation. Didn't seem to be after 20. Oh well. *Almost* saw something...

Reliable Market, an Asian (probably Korean) market in Union, had a mix of prices. Cheap red cabbage, normal tofu, expensive I forget... cheap sushi for a store, $6.50 for a decent 8-pack of maki.

Beacon street is being worked on today, a Saturday afternoon. I imagine that Somerville has suddenly gotten desperate to get the renovation finished before winter arrives. (And based on the past few years, I predict a nasty winter.)

A bar near Dali had some article taped in their window, extolling a new trend of fat-washed cocktails. "1) Fat tastes good and 2) why not?" Talked particularly about some cocktail with made with rendered beef tallow.
mindstalk: (thoughtful)
The OP of the anime Sora no Woto is really really pretty. It's also kind of disturbing: the show is about these girl soldiers, fairly active and all, but the OP has them mostly with closed eyes and often in somewhat sexualized poses. Very passive and objectified.

I just found something about that: apparently the art is heavily inspired by Gustav Klimt's paintings, especially the Beethoven Frieze. Which sounds vaguely thematic. The style is similar and you can match up most of the poses; the Sora girls are at least wearing clothes.

This doesn't explain why this choice was made, nor necessarily excuse it... but it is interesting context.



Link to an image if you don't see one: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/soranowoto/images/d/d4/OP6.png/revision/latest?cb=20130221213305

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