Monthly Archives: June 2008

Haibane Renmei 03: The Bounds of Thinkable Thought

Title taken from a Noam Chomsky article (The Progressive, 1986)

[36] The Chicken or the Egg – the Scene or the Sound

I’m pretty fascinated by psychoacoustics -

Kyou-sama: The Semiotics of Skin

Go to this post, and skip[1] to the picture of Kyou-sama. Then read the third comment:

Many Boxes Lead to Many Accidents

So it’s probably time for some housekeeping.

[31] Semiotics of Sketchbook 01

I’m late on this anime, and thanks to TheBigN for telling me to watch this. Anyway, BigN was mentioning the difference between Sora’s affinity for sketching vs. “Camera-Girl’s” preference for the camera.[1] In essence, we have the issue of subjectivity (sketching) vs. objectivity (photography).
The photograph is interesting, as Barthes put it, because of its inherent [...]