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Tucked away behind a sleek storefront almost smack in the middle of Harvard Square, five salespeople are the only ones enjoying the fragrant smell of the Origins store...
...With his signature black turtleneck, neat goatee and long hair pulled back in a sleek ponytail, the 40-year-old Kon takes pains to set himself apart from the stereotypical otaku animator who's too immersed in his cartoon world to ever change out of slippers and pajamas. But Kon's distance from the anim? mainstream is more than sartorial; he is one of the rare animators whose creative point of reference isn't other animation or manga. Instead, he takes his inspiration from reality: "My ideas for movies come from the world that I live in. When I walk...
...director Nobutaka Ike. To prepare for the task of rending Tokyo into anim?, Ike spent months prowling the city with a digital camera. In the process he discovered the beauty of Tokyo's grungy, cluttered back alleys?normally passed over by filmmakers in favor of the city's sleek, sterile thoroughfares. "I took pictures of garbage bags, air-conditioner boxes, cases of empty beer bottles," says Ike. "I came to think of the city as a character in the movie." Tokyo Godfathers' portrayal of the metropolis is so fresh and stark that it's hard to view the city...
Frequently laughing that their lives revolve around eating, the three seniors embrace their far-from-sleek physiques and all else that comes with being an offensive lineman. They keep up non-stop banter as they attempt to explain the “O-line mentality” in terms of food and their softer side, and in doing so, they feed off each other as much as the massive amounts of food they...
...quick price check proves the point: a 56-in. Digital Light Processing (DLP) TV from Samsung costs $5,000, Philips' 55-in. Cineos lists for $4,200, and Sony's 60-in. LCD Grand WEGA is $4,000. By comparison, a 50-in. plasma set, while handsome and sleek, will run you $15,000. And rear-projection TVs have significantly slimmed down their rears, compared with older models, so you don't need a weight lifter to lug one into your...