Just watched Kokuho by Lee Sang-il - simply one of the best films of the past twenty years. Unbelievably gorgeous, and beautifully written. Satoko Okudera's script shines like no other. Please go watch it if you can!

Today I'm cataloging a book by Maria Sibylla Merian, an entomologist and genius scientific illustrator:

Watched Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine tonight.

A student in 1829 tries very hard to draw an arctic fox :

Cataloging student notebooks from the 1820s today. A student 200 years ago started drawing animals on the blank pages he had left:

Cataloging student notebooks from the 1820s today. A student 200 years ago started drawing animals on the blank pages he had left:

Domestic dispute in public

I love reading acknowledgements in thesis - while working I found this veterinarian thesis from 1947 thanking Walt Disney for his help

Took a nap and dreamt I was in a world where everyone was riding mushrooms. This was my mushroom, Champival :

Cataloging some 16th century bird letters today

Remembering some heroines from my youth

Remembering some heroines from my youth

Cataloging cherries today:

The Angel's Egg x Mikio Sakabe fashion collection goes so hard:

(Author is quadriplegic)

I open the library at 9.

OK (1/2)

Pickpocket (1959), directed by Robert Bresson. One of the most elegant scenes ever made, and so simple too.

Watched The Running Man today. When Lee Pace removes his mask at the end and Glen Powell whistles I genuinely thought the twist was that the scary hunter turned out to be a beautiful man. It took me five minutes to understand Powell was mocking his facial scars.

Bootleg Labubus and One Chip or Dale, Balloon Fiesta, 2025. #filmphotography #analogphotography #halfframe #canondemiee17 #harmanphoenixii

Monday again

Had to show old books to a group of teens today and managed to make them interested in what I was talking about by going off on a rant about pokemon cards speculation

Monday again

Rewatching Hyouka, which will soon be 14 years old. One of the most beautiful intro to a first episode ever made:

Apples

Daily subway battle:

Counterattack

"Gauze", the 7th 2025 Gobelins graduation short, is now online, and is inspired by the events in Gaza. Directed by Noran Fikri Alezabi, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, Xiaonan Zhou. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsBa...

A recurring dream I had as a child:

Watching modern horror films

Monday

When the fish left the river:

No.1 Dutch cowboy booster @cleefouti.bsky.social said "what if Revolver Ocelot [Metal Gear Solid 1998-2015] really looked like Lee Van Cleef"

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Columbo

Someone asked if my pfp was from Paranoia Agent and it is! I drew Maromi a long long time ago and never posted it here so:

Successful therapy

The craziest thing I have to deal with now re: AI is what I call App Men. Every now and then, someone will come to the library and tell me they want to make an app "with AI", like "I want to make an app to identify plants, with AI". And every time, they don't know anything about plants or AI.

Captain Torture

This film has a little Frankenstein rat with little Frankenstein scars and they put it in this giant tube to revive it and it made me laugh so hard I cried

There are many ornithology books - but none will ever be as beautiful as the d'Orbigny to me:

There are many ornithology books - but none will ever be as beautiful as the d'Orbigny to me:

Saw someone still working as I went home tonight. We waved to each other. I couldn't see their face at all.

Grandma fiction:

Out of fashion

I'm not saying that the SAW puppet isn't iconic but I think if it looked like Chiikawa SAW would be even more popular

Steamboy (2004), Katsuhiro Otomo

Cataloged many bats illustrations for halloween:

Knights of Guinevere (2025) / Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent (2004)

To celebrate @realgdt.bsky.social 's Frankenstein I spent the day cataloging anatomy books at the Alfort Library.