Friday Odds and Ends
A couple of new angles on navigation this week. On the Web side, a nicely-rendered side-scroller by Cody Coltharp, and on the mobile side, a tilting viewer by Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett.
[Via comments: The javascript for the side-scroller viewer was written by Jean-Nicolas Jolivet, originally as a panoramic photo viewer.]
From Mexico, a well-told silent comic by Edgar Delgado, using some extended page sizes and storytelling tricks practically designed to make me happy (and maybe you too).
Finally, a moving good bye from Satoshi Kon, a creative giant of Japanese animation whose work I was still in the process of exploring when I heard the news of his death from cancer. I look forward to finishing my journey through his stories. I regret there won’t be any more.
Tokyo Godfathers arrived in the mail yesterday.
March 3, 2021
I don’t know Kon’s work yet. I hope to get to know it soon. But I never know what to do with deaths.
I suppose we have to take them as inspiration to scream louder into the void while we’re here. He seems to have given it a good go.
Hi Scott, thanks a million for linking to The Pale! For the record, the javascript for the viewer was written by Jean-Nicolas Jolivet, originally for viewing panoramic photographs.
I was very saddened to hear about the death of Mr. Kon- Paprika had a tremendous influence on the design of the dream sequences. He will be missed!
Thanks for the correction. I’ve amended the original post.
Kon was a stone genius. I first discovered him via his brilliant mini-series Paranoia Agent, and soon sought out his other work. I think Millennium Actress is my favorite of his films, with its intertwining of Japanese history with film history in a completely surreal setting. But Tokyo Godfathers runs a close second–awesome to see an anime take on John Ford.
I saw a great tweet the day Kon’s death was announced: “It’s not that anime will never be the same with Satoshi Kon gone. It’s now much more likely that anime will always be the same.”
Too true. A truly great loss.
Edgar Delgado is from Mexico, not from Spain. By the way, the storytelling is great! Thanks for the link (and sorry for my bad english).
Crap! I’m making tons of errors this morning. Thanks for the correction.
Crud… 🙁
I hope to adcive that much by my 40’s and handle my death that gracefully. Goodbye Reporter, Agent, Bartender, and Godfather Kon-san.
I wish we had meet.