Max Pictures’ Blather

…giant, cute microbes.
Some time ago, Miss T discovered the anime Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture (もやしもん). The show, set in Japan, follows a university ag-student with the ability to see microbes without aid of a microscope. The kicker—and what probably caught Miss T’s attention in the first place—is that the microorganisms our ag-student sees aren’t like [...]

…are up.
Rather, now they’re all up. The first batch has been up since Preview Night (a.k.a. Starting Night). Anyway, I’ve finally finished posting Max Pictures’ 200 photos covering the 4+1 days of the convention.
Click the slideshow button and enjoy.

…of the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con is over and done.
Miss T and I and the K&E&k! Show spent a good six-and-a-half hours (less an hour break) perusing Comic-Con’s massive 523,000 sq. ft. exhibit hall. Starting at row 100 we wound our way up-and-down the aisles, reaching roughly row 2000 (or 40% of the exhibit floor) [...]

…is on.
San Diego Comic-Con 2008 has kicked off this Wednesday with the inaptly-named Preview Night. With attendee registrations selling out well in advance of the convention, Preview Night has become the official “Starting Night” of the event.

Miss T and I arrived a little later than usual to pick up our registration badges and were greeted [...]

…but Max Pictures isn’t going.
For the first time since we started regularly attending in 1999, Miss T and I are taking a pass on Anime Expo. While my anime life continues on, Max Pictures’ My Anime Life has ground to a halt, and I’ve decided to not return to the convention until I can exhibit [...]

Miss T and I are back from FanimeCon, an annual Memorial Day weekend celebration of all things of, and related to, anime.
Back in the day, say seven or ten years ago, some of the main reasons to go to an anime convention were to get info on Japanese shows, buy anime merchandise (videos, books, toys, [...]

…and hotel wallpaper. In San Jose for the FanimeCon anime convention.
More to come later.

Those of you familiar with the anime Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (GitS:SAC for short) will recognize the friendly, blue, soul-searching critter above as a Tachikoma. Those of you not familiar with the 26-episode series should rent and watch the whole thing right now, it’ll save me some explaining and will be more [...]

Judging from the posts on the Max Pictures’ Blather page you might think that all we ever do is watch Lost, make DHARMA Initiative labels, and avoid working on our film projects. This is patently untrue. Miss T and I also watch anime and J-dramas and also avoid working on our slowly-decaying hut.
Here are a [...]

Slow on the heels of the last photos-posted-late post are a batch of pics from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. They are, of course, from a jaunt Miss T and I took last month.
So, the story goes like this: after a couple of false starts, one afternoon Miss T and I finally hiked [...]