Link Drawer, pt. 6
Jun. 28th, 2011 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigozealI'm not entirely sure why I have a PDF of a Japanese travel brochure for Mont Saint-Michel and Spain bookmarked, but it sure is pretty, isn't it.
Likewise, I'm not sure why I have the entry for the game Legendary Inn. It's in Chinese, which I can't read, and skimming the description, it seems like a hybrid dating game/inn-management simulator. A bit interesting, but nothing to bookmark for future reference.
I like the idea behind BagNews Notes - analyzing news photographs for the story or angle intended by the photographer through overlooked elements of composition - but it too often goes for the cheap shots politically. Most often correct, but cheap and facile, which is particularly frustrating when merely sticking to the site's supposed mission statement would provide much moer substantive takedowns (ETA: see here). Also, I feel uncomfortable with their lobbying for the release of bin Laden postmortem photos.
Man, I've tried to like (or at least tolerate) Chocablog, but the articles are as substantive as an Aero bar. Seven writers, and not one of them could pen a review suitable by even Amazon standards. It's unfortunate, considering the ridiculously lavish samples they receive from luxury chocolatiers. If you give the site a look at all, go for the photos of exotic concoctions like the mad Zotter bars in olive-and-lemon and cheese-walnut-grape or the not-luxury-but-still-half-cocked Cadbury Bar of Plenty.
Miniature old-time maps and charts. I don't have a dollhouse but find the small-scale elfin reproduction of material that was half-mystic from the start fascinating.
This person has a pretty LiveJournal setup. (This applies if s/he still has a header of cirrus clouds in a steel blue-grey sky against a pale grey backdrop and a Legolas icon in a muted palette, with the journal title "I go to find the sun.")
Dichroic glass, man, I dunno. It looks so neat in pictures - and that bracelet is indeed neat - but it never looks quite right worn, y'know? You can never find outfits that go with so many colors at once, and the riot of bright hues and metallic shine always ends up looking somewhat gaudy.
I bookmarked this to look up a certain term regarding hairstyles, but if you'd like to read a Japanese hairdresser's blog, here you go.
The recent official FFIV novelization. Don't think I'll be getting it, considering how it apparently ties into the lackluster modern sequels. (On that note, how irritating to find a reissue of a solid work graffitied over by references to a lackluster sequel in an attempt to force the public to embrace it. I'm looking at you, Chrono Trigger DS.)
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Likewise, I'm not sure why I have the entry for the game Legendary Inn. It's in Chinese, which I can't read, and skimming the description, it seems like a hybrid dating game/inn-management simulator. A bit interesting, but nothing to bookmark for future reference.
I like the idea behind BagNews Notes - analyzing news photographs for the story or angle intended by the photographer through overlooked elements of composition - but it too often goes for the cheap shots politically. Most often correct, but cheap and facile, which is particularly frustrating when merely sticking to the site's supposed mission statement would provide much moer substantive takedowns (ETA: see here). Also, I feel uncomfortable with their lobbying for the release of bin Laden postmortem photos.
Man, I've tried to like (or at least tolerate) Chocablog, but the articles are as substantive as an Aero bar. Seven writers, and not one of them could pen a review suitable by even Amazon standards. It's unfortunate, considering the ridiculously lavish samples they receive from luxury chocolatiers. If you give the site a look at all, go for the photos of exotic concoctions like the mad Zotter bars in olive-and-lemon and cheese-walnut-grape or the not-luxury-but-still-half-cocked Cadbury Bar of Plenty.
Miniature old-time maps and charts. I don't have a dollhouse but find the small-scale elfin reproduction of material that was half-mystic from the start fascinating.
This person has a pretty LiveJournal setup. (This applies if s/he still has a header of cirrus clouds in a steel blue-grey sky against a pale grey backdrop and a Legolas icon in a muted palette, with the journal title "I go to find the sun.")
Dichroic glass, man, I dunno. It looks so neat in pictures - and that bracelet is indeed neat - but it never looks quite right worn, y'know? You can never find outfits that go with so many colors at once, and the riot of bright hues and metallic shine always ends up looking somewhat gaudy.
I bookmarked this to look up a certain term regarding hairstyles, but if you'd like to read a Japanese hairdresser's blog, here you go.
The recent official FFIV novelization. Don't think I'll be getting it, considering how it apparently ties into the lackluster modern sequels. (On that note, how irritating to find a reissue of a solid work graffitied over by references to a lackluster sequel in an attempt to force the public to embrace it. I'm looking at you, Chrono Trigger DS.)
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