Tag Archives: Aesthetics

I consult original English sources to get to the bottom of the meaning and history of Japan’s ai ai gasa (“love umbrella”).

A pigeon’s visit to a Brooklyn statue of Christopher Columbus inspires a piece on the history of the depiction of the brave explorer.

I say what the reports left implicit about the fact that two fraudsters created 25 convincing Basquiat forgeries with nothing more than cardboard and a few minutes of painting.

I wade into a spirited debate about GoHands’ animation techniques in episode 1 of The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses.

We review a very pretty gray-scale visual novel set on a nearly empty train.

Reviewing a Pikachu-themed Pokémon-inspired cursor set for Linux. Not only are the colors right, but the shapes invoke the classic late-90s Pokémon aesthetic.

Avenging the old Penn Station.

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, is a wonderful game. A 2004 review suggests an ideal for game design.

A review of a re-release of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards led me to explore which kinds of classic video game visuals stand the test of time.

“Why is it, said a friend to me one day, that the factory girls write so much about the beauties of nature?”

One of anime’s most beautiful scenes: Takaki’s distant everyday memories in 5 Centimeters Per Second.

Examining a Game Boy renaissance with reference to a 2000 Ken Sugimori interview.