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Princess Iron Fan (1941), the first Asian-made feature-length animated film, is an adaptation of, no surprise here, an episode from Journey to the West. It was a Chinese production, made in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation, and inspired Tezuka to create comics, thus launching the Japanese anime industry. Wikipedia has more.
Rock paintings dated to 9000-9500 BCE provide evidence that kites were flown in Indonesia thousands of years before they were in China. In case you’re wordering, yes, the classic diamond shape, made from thin woven strips of bamboo fibers. (via Janni)
The Wageningen University & Research houses a collection of 1180 drawings of the root systems of trees, grasses, crops, shrubs, weeds, flowers, and other plants. Beautiful. (via)
In other irrelevant news, I’ve become obsessed with the music of CHVRCHES.
---L.
Subject quote from Forever, CHVRCHES.
Princess Iron Fan (1941), the first Asian-made feature-length animated film, is an adaptation of, no surprise here, an episode from Journey to the West. It was a Chinese production, made in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation, and inspired Tezuka to create comics, thus launching the Japanese anime industry. Wikipedia has more.
Rock paintings dated to 9000-9500 BCE provide evidence that kites were flown in Indonesia thousands of years before they were in China. In case you’re wordering, yes, the classic diamond shape, made from thin woven strips of bamboo fibers. (via Janni)
The Wageningen University & Research houses a collection of 1180 drawings of the root systems of trees, grasses, crops, shrubs, weeds, flowers, and other plants. Beautiful. (via)
In other irrelevant news, I’ve become obsessed with the music of CHVRCHES.
---L.
Subject quote from Forever, CHVRCHES.
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