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...Nakamura throbbed out on to the street. Inside, the crowd was as hip, diverse and giddy as the band’s eponymous debut album: slightly ostentatious, but mostly with a self-deprecating sense of humor. As Nakamura’s set finished, Gorillaz cartoonist (and Tank Girl creator) Jamie Hewlett sipped his beer nervously behind his banks of projectors ranged on a platform at the back of the room. Unlike the first couple of shows in Britain, everyone had a pretty good idea what we were going to get: animated performers and images, projected onto a translucent screen through...
...rise shorts (to show off his boxers) and DC shoes. Oh, and he's 30 cm tall. And made out of plastic. But Maxx isn't just another Ken or G.I. Joe doll. Maxx has attitude?and a cult following. So does his 31-year-old Hong Kong creator Michael Lau, whose original, street-savvy figures have molded him into a hot icon among the most unlikely doll collectors imaginable: Tokyo's jaded, trend-setting twentysomethings. To reach that desirable market, Nike Japan featured Lau in a series of Presto shoe advertisements two years ago and Levi Strauss Japan quickly...
...delightful memoirs, Chuck Amuck and Chuck Reducks. And for a 1985 Museum of Modern Art tribute to Warner Bros. animation, he drew new Bugses and Daffys on the Manhattan museum's walls--a tacit acknowledgment from the world of high culture that this cartoon man was a significant creator of modern...
...writing built around everyone from David Bowie to David Cassidy. While most other fan-fiction sites are boutiques devoted to Harry Potter or The X-Files, "FFN is the giant shopping mall," says Tara O'Shea, 28, who started writing fan fiction at age 11. Says Chris Burks, creator of www.lit.org a site for original fiction writers: "There's nothing else like it. Nobody else is archiving so much or has such an open editorial policy...
...some 115,000 members. A third of them are 18 and under, and about 80% are female, according to creator Xing Li, 24, a computer programmer who lives in Los Angeles and calls the site "strictly a hobby." Registration is free but permitted only if you click the box marked "I'm at least 13" (there's no accounting for dishonest answers). Writers upload stories directly to the site, assigning a category and rating from G to NC-17. There's no screening process, no editorial board; most features are automated, and Li relies on members to report inappropriate behavior...