Listen, the Exploring/Looking For Bounty Leads/Talking To Lots Of People montages are some of my favorite parts not just in Cowboy Bebop but anime/tv/film in general - they’re always so well-done and the interactions/story progression are so clear despite no dialogue, with gorgeously-drawn city backgrounds and diverse AF people, any of whom look interesting enough to have an episode to themselves. (The time they do this with space truckers is a freaking standout, as is theopening credits to the movie, set to the absolute jam of a song, Ask DNA.)
Just - Cowboy Bebop was Really Freaking Good on so many levels and I miss it every day.
Like i said before:
one of the reasons i still love Cowboy Bebop so much is because it takes the “used future” look to such an extreme. There’s scenes on Mars that you’d assume were in some lonely southwestern town if you didn’t know otherwise, spaceship interiors that are stained and worn and feel more like the deck of an old fishing boat, space “truckers” whose cockpits are overloaded with gewgaws and souvenirs. Colonies still look very Earthly, because Earthlings didn’t abandon their heritage just because there was new technology available. There are places where brick and mortar buildings are practical and cheap, so you see stone and stucco rather than gleaming arcologies. For the most part, it’s a very industrial, blue collar future; even Spike’s bright red Swordfish II personal fightercraft has more of the feel of something a backwoods tinkerer might occasionally pull out of storage—a former racing vehicle repurposed in ways that probably aren’t wholly legal. Jet’s Hammer Head is alien and strange, yet at the same time calls to mind both older automobiles (with its prominent forward section) and more industrial vehicles with its large towing arm, all brought together by its thoroughly scuffed surface.
some other settings do a bit of this, but none so totally as Bebop. We don’t see things that are fancy and futuristic for the sake of being impressive, but because they make sense in context. The Bebop itself isn’t some super-spacious vessel with room to spare (thinking of a lot of the interior shots of the Serenity in Firefly, here), it’s kind of cramped and uncomfortable, dingy and dark, with a few small personal spaces. It feels small, in contrast to the vastness of space.
“Ice Cave” by Georgia O’Keeffe and a photograph of an ice cave.
yeah Georgia? that’s an ice cave ? that’s a god damn ice cave? that’s the only thing you intended to paint? that’s it? just an ice cave?
all of georgia okeefes art is like this dont act surprised
It Really Is.
Staff seeing this:
i hate to ruin everyone’s fun BUT you guys are so annoying. georgia o’keeffe very specifically stated how much she hated it when people, especially men, sexualized her art. male art critics pushed the interpretation of her artwork as sexual onto her and it upset her VERY deeply:
“When people read erotic symbols into my paintings they’re really talking about their own affairs,” O’Keeffe said. Still, the sexualized misconceptions of her work devastated her. “I almost wept,” she wrote of one review in 1921.
now, because of some immature dudes in the art community, her work has been sexualized forever, and her paintings are now sexual objects. so like…making pussy jokes about her artwork isn’t just annoying, it’s disrespectful to everything she worked for, and it’s like rubbing her legacy in her face.
The male gaze really be like that sometimes huh?
I’m a woman and I saw a pussy.
Same
Those 100% look like vaginas and nothing will convince me otherwise.
Another girl here. Yep, them be vaginas
I think it’s less “immature males” and more immature people in general
i just had the funniest experience in vr chat, i joined a random server and the one i joined had Japanese people so i waddled around in my goofy club penguin avatar that i have saved, after a while a guy walks up to me and clones my avatar so were both penguins then another guy shows up and clone my avatar
now keep in mind there only speaking Japanese i don’t know what they are saying, then another guy joins in, so i got a group of three penguin friends
we just waddle around and goof about, the one of them tries to talk to me, but not only do i not have a mic i also don’t speak Japanese, they figure out i don’t speak Japanese and start listing various places, they get the part of being European right, and after listing a lot of places they ask if im from the UK and when i nod they all just start cheering. after hanging out for a while one of them gets real close to me and whispers…
The Extra Room of Mario Party 4 contains a single-player minigame called “Doors of Doom”. It consists entirely out of choosing one of two doors; each one either lets Mario through to the next room, awarding him a point, or opens to reveal Bowser, which ends the game.
The minigame is actually completely rigged from the start. The game determines how many points the player is allowed to receive and the result will be the same no matter which doors are chosen.
In the above footage, the game has decided that Mario should lose after getting 1 point. In the second room, both doors open to reveal Bowser. This can be tested by using an emulator and saving a snapshot of the game. No matter how many times the savestate is reloaded, what frames the inputs are made on, and what doors are chosen, Bowser will always appear after the predetermined allowed number of points. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Mario Party 4 (NA, GC) in GC emulator
