As a reward for finishing my translation project I thought it would be great to get it professionally bound like a real book. Avi pointed me in the direction of lulu.com a company in the u.s. that does this service for the common man at an affordable price. After weeks of complaining to my parents that my books haven’t arrived yet, today they finally arrived (in fact I found them at the door step only 5mins after complaining they hadn’t arrived.) I got them hard bound with a dust jacket, when you open the book it has my essay after the contents and title page, then it tells you to turn to the back because that’s where the manga starts (Japanese read from right to left and I saw no reason to flip the pages). After some serious adobe acrobat acrobatics in getting that to happen, I was very surprised to find there were no printing errors (except for a font change on one word in the contents page, but that’s pretty minor and not the printer’s fault.) I had 4 copies printed, 1 for my parents, 1 for the manga library, 1 one for my supervisor and one for me.
This blog is getting pretty image heavy so I’ll just stick some thumbnails up, click on them to see the bigger picture.
I’m eagerly awaiting the release of Spore (simeverything) and grabbed a copy of the demo creature editor. I handed in my last bit of assessment for my masters today and so feel justified wasting my time with computer games until I leave for Japan. I’ve attached some pics of my cute little spore monsters I’ve made so far. Its fun but a bit limiting in what you can make, I guess it serves its purpose as a bench mark for seeing if your pc can handle Spore.
This is Dog Tamping teaching his Dog Tamping spawn about roaring.
And this is Crocospant. I don’t know why but things with a duckbill are pretty hilarious.
(Warning this post contains spoilers which have been whited out, to read them highlight the white gaps) On Saturday night Romesh, Fran (my brother’s girlfriend who just got here from Atlanta on Friday) braved Karingal cinemas to see the new Indianna Jones movie in Vmax. And I enjoyed it, I had a great time, my two cohorts on the other hand weren’t as impressed but both thought it was a good movie. It comfortably fit the mold of an Indianna Jones film with goofy jokes, unrealistic stunts and camera angles that make you appreciate why Steven Spielberg is a supreme deity. My only criticism was that the Aliens were a bit too prominent and could have been played more subtle, but my criticism is based largely on the final scenes of the movie which got a bit too cgi and didn’t satisfy-ably do away with bad guy Cate Blanchett. My other problem with the movie was the lame and unnecessary wedding scene which seemed tacked on and not really built up to, but maybe I’m too cynical to appreciate such things. Over all I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and eagerly awaiting the dvd release even though I’ll probably be in Japan at that point and too poor to afford it. Any if you haven’t seen it yet, get to a cinema and enjoy it the way it’s meant to be enjoyed.
