Something Completely Different

Onmyoji manga covers by Reiko Okano. Available in French, not available in English. Unexplainable!

Mansai Nomura as Abe no Seimei. Because… Because of reasons!

Red Cliff by John Woo

Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War is a really good movie. And a beautiful one, though with Zhang Yimou directing I always sort of take that for granted.

P.S.

I should post more screencaps from those awesome Chinese movies I watch all the time. Maybe.

“This German art student, Benjamin Harff, decided, for his exam at the Academy of Arts, to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’sSilmarillion. It took him six months of work. In very 21st century elvish-monk style, he hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book.”

-read more here

A very old scan. Alas, no idea who’s the artist.

Awesome papercuts by master Yongshou Zhang

Now I’m louder than a shotgun 
Load it down and don’t give up 
And put some plastic, steel, and wire 
When I rock I rock the planets 
Maybe later I’ll retire (c)

This song is totally about Legion!

Some screencaps from Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony directed by Zhang Yimou