This page features an interesting switch on the usual colorblindness tests - these tests are only correctly visible to people who are colorblind. It taps into the fact that colorblind people can detect subtle changes in intensity (contrast?) much better than us normies. Of course, they do sacrifice the ability to see certain hues. I’m not sure of the scientific integrity of this test - but the general theory seems sound. I guess you’d need to validate the test images by having lots of colorblind folks confirm they can see the ‘hidden’ images. Maybe I should make my own anti-colorblind test and it always works because there simply is no hidden image at all! *evil grin*
July 2nd, 2006
Looks like the Mecha Musume figure series I blogged about previously is going to be turned into an anime series called Strike Witches. Using the same character design by Shimada Humikane, it looks like magical girl series will have a fairly weak plot, and feature mostly the characters from Mecha Musume that I wasn’t so crazy about - the airplane legs ones (I bought the Sherman figure). Looks like it will probably appeal to a certain niche market of anime fana-tiques.
July 2nd, 2006
A few days ago I was lucky enough to check out The Pillows live in the USA! They are the Japanese band that did all the music to one of my fave Anime series - FLCL (Furi Kuri). The venue was packed and I was ready for a good show. LemonDropKick was playing when we finally got into the club - they’re a Anime/J-Rock inspired LA-band that turned out to be pretty decent. We had actually seen the lead singer do Karaoke at Fanime Con. Small community I guess.
Next up was SecretSecret - which turned out to be a secretsecret weapon of uber-cheesey goth music. Imagine a cheesey Marilyn Manson wannabe crooning lame-o lyrics like “Come to meeeeee, this is a my sanc-tu-aaaaary” and throwing flowers into the crowd every few minutes. Suffice to say we were glad when they were done (Though to be fair, the beats and melodies were pretty phat).
Onto the headliners - The Pillows!!! And boy o boy did they kick ass. They played tons of their hits from FLCL as well as some tracks from their new album My Foot. High energy performance, no holds barred, awesome to see them live. If you want to check out their tunes, I’d recommend checking out the FLCL Soundtrack (OST) on Amazon (iTunes suxorz).
July 2nd, 2006