A few more notable news

Here are a few notable news & links (mostly anime & manga related) that I came across recently:

• A world without books is a fearful place to imagine (PressReader / The Gazette)
• Japanese Films at the Fantasia International Film Festival (Coco Montreal / Issuu July 2016)
• Drawing on the past of Osamu Tezuka (The Japan Times)
• Ancient Stupa Holding Bone of Buddha Discovered (Live Science)
• Five Manga, One Light Novel, and an OGN from Yen revealed at AX (ICv2)
• VIZ Announces New Manga Licenses (ICv2)
• GKIDS Picks Up North American Rights to 'Miss Hokusai' (The Wrap / ANN)
• Montreal's Fantasia Int'l Film Festival to Screen Anime and Manga-related Live-Action Films (ANN)
• Anime Expo Manga Announcement Round-Up (ICv2)
• New Cast Members for 'Blade Runner' Sequel (ICv2)
• Nest Cam Outdoor upgrades original Nest Cam with more rugged design (Apple Insider)
• Fashionable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Saalburg's Well, Germany (Open Culture, Inquirer, Direct Matin). There was a similar discovery in Uttoxeter, UK, in 2010 (Archaeology News Network)
• The Chronicles of Amber TV Series Could Be the Next Game of Thrones (IO9)
• Drawn & Quarterly to Publish Guy Delisle's 'Hostage' in 2017 (ICv2). The original french version, S'enfuir, récit d'un otage, will be publish by Dargaud in September 2016 (link)
• TOHO's 'Godzilla Resurgence' Gets U.S. Release (ICv2)
• 'The Walking Dead' Season 7 Comic-Con Trailer (ICv2)
• Kodansha Comics to Release Deluxe Edition of Ghost in the Shell Manga (ANN)
• Shigeru Mizuki's Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan Wins Eisner Award (ANN)

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Tulipe : “Princess Irene”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 300mm, 1/2000, ISO 400]

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Tulipe : “Red Impression”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 300mm, 1/2000, ISO 360]

Cat-urday's picture

A drone-view of the whole family

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-27)

Japanese movies at Fantasia 2016

This week the programmation for the 20th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival was announced. Twenty years, that’s worth celebrating! It will be held in Montreal from July 14 to August 3 and screenings will take place mostly at Concordia's Theatre Hall and Salle J.A. de Sève. For more programming details you can check the festival's web page at www.fantasiafestival.com, this year’s program [PDF] and screening schedule [PDF].

This year the festival offers 60 movies from Asia: 5 from China, 26 from Japan, 20 from Korea, 6 from Hong Kong, 1 from Taiwan, and 2 from Thailand.

As usual, we will concentrate our interest on the Japanese program that includes 4 anime (in total you can also find 33 other animated features — 29 shorts and 8 movies — from various countries). Besides Momotaro, Sacred Sailors, which is probably one of the first anime ever produced in Japan, there’s nothing out of the ordinary among those titles — although we’ve noticed that there’s lots of manga adaptations. Here's a list of all the Japanese titles (with links to full description):

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Tulipe : “Yellow Pomponette + Sun lover + Purple Jacket”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 135mm, 1/500, ISO 250]

Funnies forever

Here (after the break) are a few notably funny comic strips that I found in the last few months…

Starting with Unshelved, the web comics about the staff (and patrons) of a rather dysfunctional library. I caught up on several months of strips to realize that artist Bill Barnes decided to take a break and was replaced by occasional contributor Chris Hallbeck. It doesn't change anything. Here are a few of my favourites (believe it or not I've experienced many of those situations):

A few notable news

Here are a few notable news & links (mostly anime & manga related) that I came across recently:

• Find your local library on the social networks [link]
• A Jirô Taniguchi's one shot published in issue #8 & #9 of Big Comic (april 2016). Titled Izuko ni ka, it is set in Tokyo during the Meiji era [Animeland, in french]
• Viz announced that it will released Tomie, horror master Junjo Ito’s first manga series, into a single omnibus hardcover [ICv2]
• Kadokawa announced in april that it has Purchased 51% Stake in Yen Press, therefore entering into a joint venture with New York-based publishing company Hachette Book Group to publish manga and light novels in English. [ANN]
• More than half of N.L. libraries closing in wake of budget cuts. Therefore, Let's not take Montreal's public libraries for granted [CBC, The Gazette]
• Crackle has announced that it has acquired streaming rights to Harmony Gold's Robotech 85-episode television series and the Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles feature film. It will be available from May 15. Crackle has launched an anime channel that play like linear television, but content is also available on demand. Sony, Crackle parent company, also announced last year that it was planning a live-action Robotech film. [ANN]
• FUNimation announced in May that it has licensed the restored edition of the 1944 anime film Momotaro, Sacred Sailors (Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei)— probably one of the earliest animation produced in Japan — for home video distribution in the United States and Canada. [ANN]
• Director Luc Besson has been steadily sharing new images from his new stylish sci-fi epic movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, on his Facebook and Instagram accounts [ICv2]
• TMS announced a new television anime production titled Trickster: Edogawa Rampo 'Shōnen Tantei-dan' Yori (Trickster: From Rampo Edogawa's "The Boy Detectives Club"). It will air in October on Tokyo MX and Yomiuri TV. It is based on Shōnen Tantei-dan (The Boy Detectives Club), a 1937 series of novels by renowned Japanese mystery novelist Edogawa Rampo. A manga adaptation will also begin in the July issue of Kodansha's Magazine Special [ANN]
• No job is safe from the robots: Robo librarian tracks down misplaced books ! [Popular Science]
• A Battlestar Galactica reboot? According to Deadline, a Battlestar Galactica feature, based on the 1978 Glen Larson TV series, is in the works at Universal. Lisa Joy (Westworld) would write the script and Francis Lawrence (Hunger Games) could direct [ICv2]
• Titan Comics has announced the acquisition of the right to create a new Robotech comic book series. Several comic adaptations have already been published: it started in 1984 with DC’s Robotech Defenders, followed by stories from Comico, Eternity, Wildstorm, and Dynamite, which published a Robotech/Voltron crossover graphic novel in 2015 [ICv2]
• Aardvark-Vanaheim has announced that it will release a new five-part Cerebus miniseries, Cerebus in Hell, beginning in October, and continuing in January through April of 2017 [ICv2]
• Pokemon TV app is now also available on Apple TV. The app, which offers every episodes of the anime series, was first available since 2013 for iOS and Android devices [IGN]
• The trend continues: after the announcement of live-action adaptation from anime like Ghost in the Shell, Battle Angel Alita, Yowamushi Pedal and Fullmetal Alchemist, now they are talking about adaptations for Gintama, Peach Girl, and even an americanized version of Death Note ! [Animeland, ICv2]
• Vertical announced that it has licensed NisiOisin and VOFAN's Nisemonogatari light novel series. The first of two novels is slated for April 2017 [ANN]

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Un père moderne
J'ai rarement vu un papa-chat aussi dévoué pour ses chatons

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-26)

Fragments d'été

Rayons de lumière sur le parc

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-28)

Créatures du jardin

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-28 & 2016-07-01)

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Tulipe : “Gavota”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.3, FL= 285mm, 1/600, ISO 400]

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Grisou (aka Griselda)

(Nikon D3300, 2016-06-20)

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Tulipe : “Aladdin's Record”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 250mm, 1/2000, ISO 320]

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Saya

(iPhone 6s, 2016-05-28)

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Tulipe : “Happy Generation”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 300mm, 1/2000, ISO 250]

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Grisou et ses minous

(Nikon D3300: f/4.0, 70mm, 1/250, ISO 450; 2016-06-06)

Elle me remarque, puis me regarde avec curiosité

(Nikon D3300, 2016-06-06)
[g: f/5.0, 260mm, 1/500, ISO 4500 / d: f/4.0, 70mm, 1/250, ISO 500]

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Tulipe : “Akebono”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 150mm, 1/2000, ISO 220]

Chatons gambadant dans le jardin

Je m'amuse un peu avec iMovie and j'ai produit une bande-annonce pour “Les chatons qui gambadent” (disponible sur votre blogue préféré et sur Vimeo):


Pour les pas-bilingues voici la traduction [augmentée] du texte:

“Clodjee.com présente…
Dans notre cour arrière il y avait deux chats un peu bizarre: Grisou et Toffee²
Ils ont eu trois chatons
Qui ont grandi et ont maintenant trois mois
Ils sortent de leur cachette et gambadent dans le jardin
Mais sont aussi plutôt timides
Cet été… relaxons et observons…
Les chatons qui gambadent
Dans un jardin près de chez vous.”
[crédits]
C'est d'ailleurs le premier vidéo que j'ai filmé avec la Nikon D3300 (en utilisant l'objectif Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6). iMovie offre des fonctions amusantes mais qui malheureusement manquent un peu de flexibilité… Mais, bon, le résultat est quand même pas trop pire.

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Caramel dort

(iPhone 6s, 2016-06-02)

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Tulipe : “Purple & Candy Prince”

(Nikon D3300, Ottawa's Canadian Tulip Festival, 2016-05-12)
[Taken with Tamron 70-300mm lens: ƒ/5.6, FL= 120mm, 1/500, ISO 200]