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Category Archives: anime

Bread

I have now gotten into baking bread at home and I like the result greatly. The inspiration came from an anime Yakitate!! Japan! – a very funny anime about bread bakers with lots of parody on other anime and lots of over-the-top reactions to bread. It also has a lot of tips on baking your [...]

REC

I have just watched a great anime called REC. It is about a male 26 year advertising guy letting a 20 year old girl into his appartment. She aims to become a voice actress for anime, advertising and foreign film voice-overs. They meet accidentaly at the beginning and at the same night her house burns [...]

A couple shots from Tokyo girls concert …

A couple shots from Tokyo girls concert from the closing ceremony of the Animefest3. This ends my photostream from the event, now I’ll have to shoot something new to show you. BTW: there are also some photos that I did upload to Flickr, but didn’t link to the blog – you can go to my [...]

Here is my friend lastguru – the second …

Here is my friend lastguru – the second most active photographer on the AnimeFest3. He is trying to get a shot of the audience, but while he is doing that, I got a shot of him Yesterday I discovered a great surge in popularity of SBackup – just on SourceForge around 700 people downloaded it [...]

First batch of 6 photos from Animefest.

First batch of 6 photos from Animefest. Just a note – yes, my cosplay costume is crappy and the hair are curly and not straight, but at least my hair were white and not yellow (like the other guy that cosplayed Jiraiya had) and I was true to Jiraiya’s pervert spirit (P.S. No laws were [...]

Photography is dangerousAfter a bit of s…

Photography is dangerous After a bit of sleep, a bit of rest and several hours of working trough all the 293 photographs taken during the 3 days of AnimeFest, I must finally write something about the last day.The last day of the fest (Sunday) was easily the best. The morning was a bit disapointing as [...]

Mad cosplay

Mad cosplay More coverage from Latvia’s 3rd Animefest coming up.Todays features were:* Hellsing – a phenomenally great vampire story. This is actually not a movie, but an anime series of 13 episodes – first 6 were shown today and 7 more will be shown tomorrow. It is not too scary – the good guys are [...]

President and people

President and people No time to process new pictures, so one of the oldies is here – our president again, this time from a more interesting angle.Today there was a bit IT conference here – it looks like Latvia finally has a strategy for country wide growth capitalising on knowledge. The plans look sound and [...]

Cosplay warm-up

Cosplay warm-up The opening of AnimeFest went great – there were few cosplayers and a huge lot of general public. Anime is on the high.The fest was opened by two cute girls – one of them was speaking in Latvian and the other in Russian. At first they were translating each others lines both then [...]

Otaku girls

Otaku girls Today I am preparing for tomorrows big event – opening of Latvia’s third Anime Festival. A bunch of otaku girls is begging me to cosplay Jiraiya – the super pervert ninja from the very popular Naruto series. I already have most needed components – white hair (false) and a pervert mind (true). It [...]