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In Kyoto, Kevin took me to
Kanga-an Temple, a temple with a hidden bar once the sun goes down.
We sipped on Japanese whiskey (finally!!).
“The pace is slow here so it calms you down,” says Yamada [the bartender]. “It’s not the drinks, it’s the garden that relaxes you” (from the Japan Times).
After Kyoto, Kevin & I stayed in
Eko-in Temple in Koyasan. The train ride was so pretty.
Dinner.
Best tofu ever.
The view! It was nice to wander the halls and find random rooms and studies. The best parts were the fire ceremony in the morning, relaxing in the onsen, and the table in the room with an electric blanket as the tablecloth. Glorious. We basically lived under the table.
And then there was Totoro! I happened upon him many times before actually saying hello at the Ghibli Museum.
jillthompson:
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Totoro Cookies by =Demi-Plum
Recipes for these gorgeous cookies are on the page.
There is also a link to a cookie cutter shaping tutorial which enables you to make any design cookies you like!
I need to make these!
Totoro as a sugar cookie.
Okay! By popular demand, pics of our Totoro and Satsuki costumes! I've been holding off because we don't have too many--I was inside the thing all night, after all!--but people have been asking, so here are a few pics to whet your appetite. First up, a picture of Jo and me (inside Totoro) with Grant Imahara, star of Mythbusters, and host of this year's DragonCon Masquerade! He was really cool--and really appreciated the scale of Totoro! We were too tall for the photographer's set and lighting here, which is why there's a big lamp above Totoro's head. Jo is holding our award for Best Animated Character--our second award in that category. (Our first was for
Samurai Jack and Aku.)
Here's a shot I yanked off someone's Tumblr. After the Masquerade, we set up Totoro on one of the floors in the Marriott, where a number of people got their picture made with him. He was so tall (over ten feet) that his head was hitting the ceiling (and a sprinkler!) in the first place we set him up. This place had a bit taller overhead.
Getting Totoro to the con was a bit of a challenge, as you might imagine. We had to rent a mini-van for the purpose, and stuff him in the back. We built him to be collapsible, but we were careful with his face. :-) I had hoped that people would see Totoro peering at them out the back of our van on the highway, but all the van's windows were tinted, so I don't think anyone actually saw him.
That's your teaser! More pics of the construction, and hopefully of Totoro around the con, to come!
(Click the pics to see them bigger and better.)
Charles Santoso has started a Tumblr of tribute fan art. Here’s his Totoro.
Caricature of y brother and his soon to be wife with some characters they really like from various Hayao Miyazaki movies and Shaun Tan books.
I do not blog while on vacation, so I'll let another blogger do the work for me. AnnatheRed is an obsessed bento box creator who loves Totoro even more than I do. Obviously! Check out this post and this one and this one.
I got great news today!
My drawing, Guardians Of Autumn, which I did for the Totoro Project auction got into the Society Of Illustrators annual! I can't believe it! This means a lot to me, the Society was founded in 1902 by illustrators such as Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle. This competition is the most prestigious of it's kind and I had absolutely no expectations of being selected. In fact when I got the call from New York I called them back to make sure they were right. This is great for me but is also great publicity for the Totoro fund which is helping to preserve Sayama Forrest in Japan from over development.
Totoro Forest Project Part 1 starts today at Cartoon art Museum in San Francisco.
This is the first half of 184 pieces of artwork featured in the Totoro Forest Project Auction. I can't make it but if you're in San Fransisco I'd love it if you could visit.
Here's a photo of the auction taken by Dice Tsutsumi. If you blow it up you can see my piece in the lower left hand side. Pretty neat.
Good news! The art auction at Pixar studios sold out last night! That's great news, it means we were really able to make a difference in preserving an important and unique tract of woodland sitting very close to one of the worlds biggest urban centers. I wanted to again thank Dice Tsutsumi, Enrico Casarosa, Ronnie Del Carmen and Yukino Pang of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. And a special thank you to Patrick Awa for buying my piece! I couldn't make it to the show but I'm glad I was represented by this forest spirit.
Finally! Here's all the info you need to attend this amazing event and get an original piece of art...maybe mine!
Totoro Forest Project Tickets Available Monday 8/11 10:00am Pacific Time!
Many of you have been wondering when and how you can buy tickets for the upcoming Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit Event to be held here at Pixar on September 6th. Finally we are ready to start selling these online! The first pre-sale will start monday 8/11 at 10am. Here's the options available - Please note that all tickets include the stunning Art of Totoro Forest Book (worth $40)
Forest Friend - 100$ regular admission + book.
Forest Sponsor - 200$ includes admission + book + signed limited edition print
Forest Champion - $300 includes middle VIP live auction seating + book + signed limited edition print + gift certificate to Blowfish Sushi
Forest Hero - $500 includes front VIP live auction seating + book + an original drawing by one of the artists
Tickets will go on sale at this LINK exactly at 10AM Monday! We have a rather limited numbers of tickets so we suggest acting quickly if you want to be part of this event. Remember many of the donating artists will be in attendance, this will be a night to remember!! All the "Totoro inspired" art is up for preview at TotoroForestProject.org. All proceed will be donated to the Totoro Forest Foundation!! Let me know if you have any questions.
Something that was a bit inevitable was that I was going to influenced by the other artists working on the Totoro project. Many of the artists working on that project I had been a fan of for years but there were many I was being introduced to. Here I was trying to combine gouache with graphite. This is a combination some of the others used. I fell flat on my face. Ah well, it's good to try new things.
If you don’t have kids of your own you may have missed some of the wild and whacky thing publishers have been doing to grab little kids attention. With the manufacturing of these specialty books having been sent offshore, these novelty kids books have come down in price. Here are a few recent interesting items that have crossed my path. Some of these still had stickers from major retailers on them indicating they were sold for a mere $3-$8 dollars.
These all are used books in these pictures, amazingly. These novelty books tend to be destroyed by children, so expect pristine books like this to go up in value over the years as toddlers destroy the rest of them.
Popups are pretty traditional, but with laser cutting now available, they’ve gotten really, really elaborate.
From the “The Encyclopedia Prehistoric: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters” by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.
Not only does this have a pop up, it’s a book within a book! The square on the upper right corner is actually a very small pamphlet style book attached to the main book with photo corners. You can pull it out and read it separately.
No author listed for this, which is very typical for board books. From Publishing International, Busy Bugs Jigsaw picture book.
It’s a little hard to see in the picture, but the right hand page is actually a puzzle. Each of the right hand pages in the book is a small puzzle.
Isn’t this adorable? It combines a plush critter with a book for bedtime. Unfortunately because the fur is glued to the outside, any publication data was covered with plush monster. Its cute… but I have no idea what company made it, when it was made, who wrote it, or who illustrated it. I don’t even know what the title is! Darn is it cute though…
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Don’t miss Nora’s excellent post on Books that Nobody Wants
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This is great. Your brother is lucky to have someone who willing to create such a cool portrait for him.