Xah Arts Blog Archive 2010 to 2019

Russian girl skater Anna Shcherbakova changing dress while spinning

Russian girl skater Anna Stanislavovna Shcherbakova (А́нна Станисла́вовна Щербако́ва) What a beauty. Changing dress while spinning.

when i was young, i wanted to join a circus

shocking to me. apparently, a lot people can't do the “asian squat”. I thought it's just video meme. After watching a few, it's true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlVNjAEa3Tw Why Asians Can Do The Asian Squat | ASIAN BOSS (한글자막)

more asian squat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJx3smIfk1U ASKING RANDOM PEOPLE TO DO THE ASIAN SQUAT - Fung Bros

China Toilets

i watched Joker in theater

i watched Joker in theater. havnt went to movies in 5 or more years

i like to support it politically, but i find it actually dry and boring. It's not superhero movie, no exciting fights etc, rather a drama/psychology film. I like this type, but still, it's kinda dry.

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look at these beautiful people, making drama. with women's thing commercial interjected. and, mostly women watch it. https://twitter.com/HarrisSane/status/1111214492422209536

u have calluses on ur feet. they r like car tires, where, it's hit hard by rubbing, except, they don't wear, they grow. its, biological tire, for human feet, engineered by nature.

Xah Lee Favorite Movies

China Made a Hard Scifi Movie, the Wandering Earth

china made a interstellar scifi movie, The Wandering Earth. playing in usa now. seems good reviews.

disappointed by the trailer. It seems, a pop film. pleasing the masses. like, save humanity and help stuff.

this guy wrote The Wandering Earth 刘慈欣 Liu Cixin apparently, scifi novel community in China has risen. Note that, scifi novel WAS not a thing in china, but kungfu.

Liu Cixin (simplified Chinese: 刘慈欣; traditional Chinese: 劉慈欣; pinyin: Liú Cíxīn; born 23 June 1963)[1] is a Chinese science fiction writer.[2] He is a nine-time winner of the Galaxy Award (China's most prestigious literary science fiction award) and winner of the Hugo Award.[3] Liu's work is considered hard science fiction. In English translations of his works, his name is given in the form Cixin Liu.

2019-02-09 Liu Cixin

• Xah Favorite Drama Movies

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  tiktok girls

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  Humor: Linux Mac Windows Perception

haha. Guan Yu (year 200 AD) is a historical Chinese character who has become a demigod in Chinese culture. You can often see his statue in temples or people's homes, or in chinese video games, figurines. He's know for his loyalty, courage, and kungfu. [2019-01-09 https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1082931321628835841 ]

Arabian Nights Art Gallery

the art of commercial cinematography https://twitter.com/LincolnMotorCo/status/1076170478837026816

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  Humor: Google Logo Boobs

back then, Google still can have humor.

Google Plus song, the year Google turns evil.

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  The Google Plus Song (humor)

note the initial head sway? that's parallax technique to judge distance. Cats do the same by moving head up/down before leap. [ https://twitter.com/Koksalakn/status/1067217923448741889 ]

what the... oh my. China. And, it seems architectural design really have gone up in past 20 years. We see all kinda shapes. This one, perhaps bearing the classic chinese gate shape.

photos https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1067342099555577856

buy Harry Potter socks to show your Hogwarts lineage

now you can buy Harry Potter socks to show your Hogwarts lineage. you wanna fight for muggle's rights, but you no wanna be mistaken as muggle amazon #xahpop

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  Betty and Veronica

amazing city wide skyscrapers light show

amazing city wide skyscrapers light show, in shenzhen china. https://twitter.com/llepen/status/1056562953720233985

is this done by projector at bottom or installing LED all over buildings?

horror movie, Look Away

horror movie, Look Away, 2018 Buy at amazon

Chinese summary 【喵嗷污】女孩总被同学欺负，镜中的另一个自己看不下去了，跑出来帮她复仇《镜中人》几分钟看奇幻片 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7PqmbDdExk

bad ratings

love this kinda drawings. of all forms of visual art works, the type i like the most is illustration. a sub style of which is japanese comics, aka anime. https://twitter.com/LivvyKemp/status/1049262295619182592

handmaid's tale costume it's pretty much just a robe, but very expensive. and women buy it. capitalism at work.

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  Human Facial Expression (Tyra Banks Yells)

Battlefield Fiasco

i dunno what is this. but it's got girls, n things people moving in my eyes that makes me weak n wanting.

https://twitter.com/insatiable_/status/1040012361816408064

Dune, Miniseries, 2000

Chinese fantasy novels (wuxia, xianxia, xuanhuan)

very interesting. (if you are nerdy about fantasy fiction)

photo art, hapa supremacy

Now this is art. From https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco and https://twitter.com/ShaineScalph

Chinese sword, and mixed martial arts with melee weapons?

Chinese sword, has fell out of progress. I think only the Japanese kantana, is still in some practice, and also Western ones in fencing. rapier, saber, foil. i think the making of kantana still progress under today's science. Chinese swords are mostly just in movies and myth.

picture https://twitter.com/yifei_cc/status/1029225390219218945

of one on one fighting techniques, currently mixed martial arts or similar is keeping it up, state of the art. The Chinese kungfu, is now mostly showbiz. It's not to say kungfu wasn't good. But for reasons, it has ceased to be real fighting technique.

today, we still do not have any way that allow us to advance the art of melee weapon 1-on-1 fighting. there is kendo, which is japanese sword sport, and fencing for western. But they are not realistic, and doesn't allow other weapon e.g. axe, lance, or other fancy weapon.

for hand-to-hand combat, mixed martial arts pretty much have told us what is most effective. but for with melee weapons, i don't think we know much. Note, if we do not allow armor, then lean and agile types are likely to always win.

it's hard to come up a way for 1-on-1 melee weapon combat to progress. hard to make it a sport, because even non-shapened sword still do too much damage, or, heavy armor/protection gear would severely limit reality. also, it'd also filter out heavy axe or iron ball.

it'd nice to have StarTrek holodeck. but that's too much scifi.

Perception of Difficulty Levels of Human Feats

my list of fav movies Xah Favorite SciFi Movies ^_^ #xahpop but no, they are not pop. pop tastes bad in my mouth. its for nerds, weirdos, misfits, and philosophers

Game Of Thrones

The Martian Buy at amazon 2015 scifi movie

good reviews.

Scify Action Thriller Movie Lucy (2014)

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  Art of Stanislaw Szukalski

[Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting 2017-12-02 By Tony Zhou. At https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc ]

to read. seems a good article, by a YouTube star, seems a video/film expert.

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  Art of William Bouguereau

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  Art of Frederic Leighton

Wonder Woman: from Bondage Heroine to Feminist to Sexpot

Las Vegas Travelog: Luxor

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  Art of Audrey Kawasaki

Las Vegas Travelog: MGM Grand. more art deco.

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  Art of Tamara de Lempicka

Flatland BMX (Bicycle Acrobat)

I always admired free style skate boarders and especially freestyle BMX. I thought, California is full of it. But since living in Cali in 1989, i've actually never seen it on the street. No ramp, no skilled ones. Actually saw a small ramp once in a park.

Double-Bun Hair Girls (new photos)

2019-01-01 work in progress, todo. add thumbnail

• Yaksha Sculptures
• Photography is High Art?
• A Note To Deviantart Users
• Drawings and Comics
• Support Living Artists
• Reading Notes on Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics
• Candy Candy 小甜甜 キャンディ・キャンディ
• Japanese Cartoons of 1970s
• Art of by Kuvshinov Ilya (aka kr0npr1nz)
• misc visual art 61915
• Misc Visual Art: Girl Artist
• Crocodile Sex Codex Seraphinianus
• Art of Chris Butler
• Visual Art: Misc Watercolors
• 海賊王 One Piece, Model Figures
• 海賊王 One Piece Characters
• Gatchaman Jun 科學小飛俠
• Photo: Cherry
• Chinese Dragon Relief
• Chinese Top 陀螺
• The Flaming Cyclamen
• Dragon Flags
• Dragonfly, Damselfly, Insect Flight
• Hector and Andromache
• Monkey King's Pigsy Carrying Wife
• MS Paint Drawing (video record)
• The Philosophy of Rick and Morty
• Superhero Landing

Truth Coming Out of Her Well

2018-07-06 Nude Alice Artwork by Frank Brunner

great article. Roughly a history of “anime”, but more about tech detail of what “anime” is actually limited animation, how they are created, and perception, etc.

[ANIME'S GREAT DECEPTION -- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANIME and CARTOONS 2015-07-01 By Rich • Art By Aya Francisco. At http://www.tofugu.com/japan/anime-vs-cartoons/]

There's a graffiti artist, called banksy. A first class idiot. It is, the prototype of opposite of intellectual. Many celebrity artists are of that ilk. They, like, grab some political hot button, put on wall, artless. Lauded as “make you think”.

Copper Antimicrobial Effect

Copper and its alloys (brasses, bronzes, cupronickel, copper-nickel-zinc, and others) are natural antimicrobial materials. Ancient civilizations exploited the antimicrobial properties of copper long before the concept of microbes became understood in the nineteenth century.[1][2][3][unreliable medical source?] In addition to several copper medicinal preparations, it was also observed centuries ago that water contained in copper vessels or transported in copper conveyance systems was of better quality (i.e., no or little visible slime or biofouling formation) than water contained or transported in other materials.[4]

The antimicrobial properties of copper are still under active investigation. Molecular mechanisms responsible for the antibacterial action of copper have been a subject of intensive research. Scientists are also actively demonstrating the intrinsic efficacy of copper alloy "touch surfaces" to destroy a wide range of microorganisms that threaten public health.[5]

• 2023-06-06 Antimicrobial properties of copper

Taichi vs Mixed Martial Arts

great dance

Reminds me of The Fisherman And The Jinni

Chinese 3D Animation Swordsmen TV Series

This is a adult 3D animation TV series, wuxia (swordsmen stories), made in China, started in 2015.

it's a big success.

《画江湖之不良人》（又称：《画江湖》系列之《不良人》）是北京若森数字科技有限公司­继动画连续剧《侠岚》在获取了巨大的市场成功之后推出的又一部大型三维成人武侠动画连­续剧。 这部动画巨制以一种前所未有的方式描述了交织着战乱与黑暗的五代十国时期，黄巢起义、­朱温篡位、李氏族诛、友珪弑父、沙陀争霸等著名的历史事件和民间传说贯穿于其中。几位­主角同群雄侠隐仗剑高歌江湖，于历史漩涡中的乱世里经历了青春与爱情、背叛与忠诚的沧­桑变幻、悲喜轮回，最终成为了终结这个时代、开创新纪元的决定性力量，也堪称是一段浪­漫辉煌的中国式武侠历史传奇。 北京若森数字科技有限公司所出品的大型三维武侠动画巨制《画江湖之不良人》之所以取这­个名字，是因为其故事背景被设定为唐朝末年，所有的故事线索都紧紧围绕着“不良人”这­个组织所隐匿起来的大宗宝藏而展开，所以主创团队将这个名字用作本片的片名，以使观众­能对本片有一个最为直观的认识。

故事内容:
唐朝末年，天下大乱，藩镇割据，群雄并起。 据说黄巢叛军攻陷长安之前，官府中的神秘组织——‘不良人’，曾经执行过最后一次任务­，然后便消失不见了，几乎与他们同时消失的，还有叛军搜遍长安也未曾找到的国库宝藏，­自此以后，江湖上便传出一条谣言，在传说中的龙泉剑上，隐藏着一个天大的秘密。 直到有一天，一个名叫李星云的神秘孤儿，机缘巧合下被隐士阳叔子所救，并拜在其门下学­武，数年之后，李星云与师妹陆林轩下山历练，途中结识了姬如雪和张子凡两个好友，后来­又偶然得到了传说中的龙泉剑。 这样一来，李星云和龙泉剑引起了包括玄冥教、通文馆、幻音坊和天师府等诸多门派的觊觎­，他们动着各种各样的心思，或巧取豪夺，或通缉追杀，各种手段招数无所不用其极，甚至­连消失已久的‘不良人’也有重出江湖的迹象。 李星云，这个身世成谜的少年，就这样和他的朋友们周旋于险恶的江湖之中，为了求得一条­生存之道而努力挣扎着。

casio waches, tons of them on amazon. Here's some design i like.

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it must have a analog face, plus digital. The analog face can actually be digital. The point is, that having geometric hands and pointers dials gives you a much better visualization of time. Then, it needs digital parts, to display things like date.

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  asian eye

The Philosophy of Rick and Morty

Superhero Landing

The Little Match Girl

“The Little Match Girl” is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845. It has been adapted to various media, including animated film and a television musical.

The Little Match Girl

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  Candy Candy 小甜甜 キャンディ・キャンディ

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  海賊王 One Piece, Model Figures

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  Art of by Kuvshinov Ilya (aka kr0npr1nz)

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  AC Girl, AC娘

3D Gel Breast Mousepad (repost)

Chinese Top 陀螺

Julie Taymor's Titus

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  Misc Visual Art: Girl Artist

New Swanstone Castle

Geodesic Domes

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  CPU Fan Girl

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  The Perry Bible Fellowship

Las Vegas Travelog: Caesars Palace

Las Vegas Travelog: Mandalay Bay

Las Vegas Travelog: the Mirage, Treasure Island

Official Lincoln #SteerTheScript Commercial 📺

Alice in Second Life

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  Naga Goddess

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  Khajuraho Temple

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  Cyborg 009

the Diva Dance Song from The Fifth Element 🎶

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  Art of Robert Crumb
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  Starry-Eyed Owl
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  Itchy and Scratchy Show

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  cat catching bass

the Story of Andromeda and Perseus (Perseides meteor shower)

Andromeda is damsel in distress to be eaten by monster, saved by Perseus (the same guy who beheaded the most ugly woman Medusa). Their son, Perses, founder of Persian (Iran), mate with sea nymphs, and the whole family is called Perseides.

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  Artemis -- the Greatest Bitch of All Times

Architecture: Atomium

Wonderland Alice Art Gallery

Korean Game Girl Makeup

enjoyed watching Pacific Rim.

it's funny that silly giant monster movies of 1970 Japan era (Ultraman ウルトラマン) can be made into such a fun movie today. In those days, i as a child are crazy about the Ultraman. We used to collect the cards, each has a spec about a monster. You can web search image for “Ultraman monsters”.

she's got spunk.

tumble u tumble me http://xahlee.tumblr.com/

now am on tumblr, what shall my nature be?

art and craft, of course. I think tmblr is mostly girl things, like pinterest.

side-face makeup

Cheschire Cat Halloween Makeup Tutorial

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  Spotting Deer (by Michael Deforge)