Category: Motion

  • American Family Insurance: Dad Insurance For Fearless Dreams

    All these feelings~

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et3j-ZsZ-k8

    Next week (+ one day) is also my dad’s 3rd anniversary, so this just hit right in the feels.

    The agency in charge of the campaign of Dream Fearlessly [also] was BBDO New York.

  • Instant Buzz by Taiyo Kikaku for Nissin Chicken Ramen

    ‘Tis a thing of pure beauty.

    Otherwise known as SamuraiDroneCatIdolSuperhumanRubeGoldbergViewerWarningTooExplosiveHighSchoolGirl (侍ドローン猫アイドル神業ピタゴラ閲覧注意爆速すぎる女子高生) — I don’t exactly know how the translation in English came to being, but in the Japanese, there’s a mention of Pythagora (as in PythagoraSwitch).

    Also, obvious dig at Shideido’s commercial.

    [original link was this one]

  • Just Discovering the Amazingness of Ivana Wong~

    So I was browsing album covers on Xiami when I ran into the one for Ivana Wong’s latest single, Goi Sei Dik Faai Lok (該死的快樂, translated to Damn Happy)… which turns out has a brand new video. And I was like- where have you been all my life when I started going down her discography~

    Jyu Jat (如一, As One) is great. Siu Sau Seot (小手術, Minor Surgery) is amazing with the Lyrics Video. It’s also helping me practice my Cantonese xD My jyutping game is totally poor. I also hate that sometimes I’m fixing my music library and it’s not Cantonese but Mandarin, so I gotta fix my romanization. But I’m totally digging her music. More her less popular songs that are not straight up sappy ballads. Her piano skills seem to be on point.

    Not new talent, but total new discovery.

  • The Polite Fight for the Bill~

    I just finally finished catching up to Fresh Off the Boat, and though it seems like there were a lot of filler episodes, there were actually a lot of more meaningful moments too. Of course, Chinese New Year celebrations was a major thing, but I also enjoyed the episode of Lao Ban Santa, which focused on Evan’s loss of innocence… alongside the development of his OBVIOUS gambling problem. First the bunny he lost to grandma in poker, now his Pogs. And his totally Machiavellian plans in the Jessica Place Melrose Place spoof.

    And Emery gets his own development too! Loved that he was so devastated to find out his parents’ definition of romance, how we got to see him dealing with his anger and frustration, and his best moment having to deal with puberty.

    I think I may have to write a review. xD

    Anyway~ this post is because my life is literally the “polite fight” every single time we go out for lunch or dinner with my aunties.

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  • Identity and DNA

    We’re living in a world obsessed with identity, origins and DNA. I’m starting to believe this is a conspiration to get us all to test our DNAs -paying and very much willingly- to see where we ‘really come from.’ No, like- really, where YOU REALLY come from. First it was this overly dramatic flights company, Momondo ad. Followed by this DNA test Buzzfeed video, which got me really really wondering.

    Then this Joanna Rants Flama video about hyphen identities~~~ with a shout out to Asian-Peruvian (Protestant)! xD Which in the end sent my head spinning mainly because of my dad’s side. Peruvian isn’t really a racial identity, though some would differ. I don’t know much about my dad’s side of the family, but I know more than my mom’s side~~~ one thing is certain, I’m positively certain my mom is 99,9% East Asian xD which makes me, at least, half East Asian (if not half full Chinese, despite having two Chinese last names~)

    I know my grandpa on my dad’s side was mixed Chinese and I know my grandma on his side was mixed Spanish-Afro-Peruvian, but not certain on percentages. I’ll have to ask my aunt around now. But that would make my dad, at least, half Spanish creole (if not more) Afro-Chinese Peruvian xD and that would make me…… Chinese Spanish creole Afro-Peruvian? xD A Queer Catholic-by-culture Franciscan-by-school Agnostic Chinese Spanish Creole Afro-Peruvian. And that doesn’t even paint the political colors. xD

    But interesting.

    I’m totally into the idea of finding out what’s in me, but at the same time, I’ve been watching too much Orphan Black. lol

  • Update Khamatova Filmography Supercut

    Chulpan Khamatova’s FB updated a couple of days ago with a link sharing this supercut of her most updated filmography; meaning it includes Under Electric Clouds, as well as The Puppet Syndrome. There’s just a couple of clips I’m not so sure of, they could be from her series Bashnya (Башня) [Wikipedia], which was a little bit difficult to watch for lack of subs xD

    Recognized clips (without repeats) are as follow~

    • Sobytie [1]
    • The Puppet Syndrome
    • Paper Soldier
    • Midsummer Madness (in that red whatever that is uniform xD)
    • Katya (short film)
    • Sleeping Songs
    • Dostoevsky (series)
    • The Rainbowmaker
    • Under the Electric Clouds
    • America
    • There’s a desaturated kissing clip between two Puppet Syndrome clips, that I think looks like America. But I’m not 100% on that.
    • The clip of Chulpan with a beard is from the Ivan the Terrible series.
    • The clip of Chulpan revealing her mangled face is from Bashnya
    • Unrecognized red screencap 001
    • Unrecognized sitting screencap 002
    • The House of the Sun

    The unrecognized scenes could very well be from Sleeping Songs, I honestly don’t remember a thing about that movie. lol I’ll leave you with the screencaps, in case anyone wonders and/or knows. The second cap could be, judging from the hairstyle and the eyebrows, but I’m drawing a blank with 001. xD

    Some image confirmation source at kino-teatr.ru + ruskino.ru

  • Art History Bar Fight for Au Lapin Agile

    I forgot to share this! Gobelins is always great for student animation, it seems the shorts they’re posting on YouTube will be feature at the current Annecy Film Fest~ including this fantastic short by Fabien Corre, Sixtine Dano, Thibault Leclercq, Katie Sung Lee, Valentin Lucas, and Andrei Sitari.

    It’s gorgeously animated when a bar fights strikes involving a bunch of artists in 1910, Montmartre.

  • Kent’s Back with Då Som Nu För Alltid

    Yo~ that’s one heck of a great teaser for an upcoming album. Looks and sounds epic.

    The best? Kent gets us, songs are available for stream on YouTube. Thank you so much~

    Looks like the album is available everywhere on iTunes but the US xD

  • Enchanted Throwback: You Make Me So Angry!

    My only ever memory of Enchanted was that when it finally opened in Lima, it was only presented in its Latino dub version and I was pissed. I didn’t watch it at the cinema because I refused to watch Amy Adams dubbed, and my doubts were confirmed when I tested the Latino audio on the DVD. xD

    I love the movie so much- the throwback, the modern spin on the princess story, the music and everything that I’ve seen it a number of times on my own DVD, I sometimes re-watch it when I catch it on TV, and I may or may have not watched the Japanese dub on the plane from Japan back home. However, my favorite scene in the whole movie definitely is the “you make me so angry” bit because it pushes the movie out of the Disney comfort zone without ever leaving it, and it’s perfect. It changes Giselle from Disney princess to actual modern-day woman within the Disney universe constrains.

    All the feels. In here and in the So Close number. And Giselle saves Robert. Most awesome princess movie.

  • Mamamoo Got No Chill for Pretz

    The first thing to notice- OMO, I’ve been saying Pretz wrong my WHOLE life. How does Pretz (which obviously derives from Pretzel) end up being “pritz”? HOW!?

    Second thing to notice… Solar, I’m never ever sharing snacks with you xD You bunch of adorable dorks.