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1996-09-08 22:57John BusHi, >I agree comletely. I don't know if the anime stuff was taken from >something else or

From:: John Bus <John.Bus@syd.dcet.csiro.au>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 08:57:17 +1000
Subject:: (idm) Ken Ishii's Manga

Hi,

quoted 4 lines I agree comletely. I don't know if the anime stuff was taken from

>I agree comletely. I don't know if the anime stuff was taken from >something else or produced for this video, but it was some of the most >intense and coolest animation stuff I've seen. Anybody know who the >artist was and if he's done anything else?

Wasn't it supposed to be Ken himself who did the artwork?? Regards, John

1996-09-08 23:28BlipvertJohn Bus wrote: > > Hi, > > >I agree comletely. I don't know if the anime stuff was taken

From:: Blipvert <blipvert@snider.net>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 18:28:47 -0500
Subject:: Re: (idm) Ken Ishii's Manga

John Bus wrote:

quoted 9 lines Hi,

> > Hi, > > >I agree comletely. I don't know if the anime stuff was taken from > >something else or produced for this video, but it was some of the most > >intense and coolest animation stuff I've seen. Anybody know who the > >artist was and if he's done anything else? > > Wasn't it supposed to be Ken himself who did the artwork??

No. There was a brief article about the video several months ago in Wired but I only remember that they liked it, they liked Ken Ishi, they claimed that the video broke new ground in anime (it does) and that the artist was relatively well known in Japan. Steve Grant ******************************************************************************* "And so presented here is the electronic "Au Go Go" that might be heard soon from the juke boxes at the interplanetary way stations where spaceships make their rest stops." -from liner notes of Perrey and Kingsley's _The In Sound From Way Out_

(idm) Ken Ishii's Manga