Project Ghibli #6: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Original Release: 11th March 1984
- Director(s): Hayao Miyazaki
- Producer(s): Isao Takahata
- Screenwriter(s): Hayao Miyazaki
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter (2015)
I picked up this book yesterday and so begins the first of hopefully several bookish reviews on this blog. I haven't read a thing for ages and I have a growing stack of books Lizzie wants me to read, but when I saw this book it just called out to me. I demolished it in an hour on the train home from work. It's a short book.
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Let's Play: No Man's Sky (PS4)
Something a little different for you all today..
I recently bought a Playstation 4 with the intention of trying out No Man's Sky, the recently released space exploration game by Hello Games, a small studio from Guildford and creators of the Joe Danger series. The Unique Selling Point (USP) of the game is that almost the entire universe within is procedurally generated - the planets, the environments, weather patterns, flora and fauna - and you are free to explore at will. I thought it would be fun to attempt a 'Let's Play' video of my experience.
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Project Ghibli #5: Gauche the Cellist
- Original Release: 23rd January 1982
- Director(s): Isao Takahata
- Producer(s): Kôichi Murata
- Screenwriter(s): Isao Takahata
- Alternative Title(s): Gōshu the Cellist
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Choosing Friends
My friend Ra is the reason I started blogging again. When I started blogging back in 2005, my posts were sporadic, amateur and without purpose. I was never part of the blogosphere - if such a thing existed back then - and as my first attempt at blogging, ultimately it fizzled out. Literally years went by between posts and I'd long since moved towards Twitter and Instagram.
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