Otaku Dan: The Life of an Anime Fan

Here is the weekly round up for the week of 7/18/2011 - 7/23/2011

My posts:
Summer 2011 WonFes Gallery
My Moleskine
Flandre and Remilia Scarlet Gallery
Figure Photo Shoot: Ika Musume
I'm Moving

My favorite posts of the week:

Lifehacker
Working Without a Printer
Brew Tea with Cold Water for Better Flavor and a Cooler Kitchen
Choose an Irrelevant Skill When Asked "What Are Your Weaknesses?" in a Job Interview
Save Space in Your Backpack with DIY Mini USB Cables
Create a Personal Renewal Program to Protect Yourself from a Toxic, Life-Sucking Job
Top 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Gear (Without Spending Extra Money)

Unplggd
Cute Woouf Bean Bags for Photographers and Musicians
7 Bizarre Home Remedies That Repair Scratched DVDs
The $2 IKEA Solution for Angled Wall Shelving
Change Your Google Plus Background to Any Image
DSLR Camera Life Cycle: What's Down the Pipeline
How to Easily Create Memorable Yet Cryptic Passwords

PetaPixel
Why You Should Shoot Photos in RAW
How to Secure a DSLR When Shooting from Great Heights
The Amazing “Rooftopping” Photography of Tom Ryaboi

Crunchyroll
Atlus Offers Free Soundtrack CD with Persona 2
Nobuo Uematsu to Perform at Final Fantasy Concerts
"Persona 4 The Animation" Trailer Streamed, Theme Songs Announced, and More

Well, I'm moving. The thing is, I have been living in a small town for the last 4 years and I know for a fact that I wont have any personal growth while I'm living here. Also, the job market is horrible here and there are no opportunities. I decided to move to Orlando due to it is great city and it has an amazing anime community there.

Here is a new figure photo shoot of everyone's favorite invader, Ika Musume. This version was made by Wave and it is a special variant of the Beach Queen line. Come on in and check it out.

This face is pretty cute because it looks like she is up to no good.

She is honestly too cute.

I never really noticed but Ika has a nice body on her.

There is one thing that I do not like about this figure, the PVC quality and the size. Wave has a bad habit of using low quality of PVC with their Beach Queen line, which ends up making the skin tone of some figures look yellow or orange. As for the size, it is 1/10 scale, that is pretty small figure. I wish Wave would go back to making high quality figures like they use to but it seems that it could be pretty expensive for both them and the customer.

Today, I have a gallery featuring Flandre and Remilia Scarlet from Project Touhou.

I love writing in notebooks, it is just something about putting pen on paper and recording all of my thoughts and ideas on it seems beautiful to me. There is something I really never mentioned on my site is that I go through 7 to 8 notebooks a year because I do a lot of free writing to get my creativity flowing and I write down, research, and plan out my posts. For sometime, I have been needing a new notebook and this time, I wanted to go for something nice and fancy, so I went with a Moleskine.

The Moleskine notebook is beautiful and ah inspiring. When I started using it, I got in a trance and all of these thoughts and ideas came to me. When I finished, I realized that I will never use another notebook ever again. Each sheet of paper feels great to the touch and the smell of the glue that binds each sheet together is intoxicating with wonder. I am obsessed with this notebook.

Part of me feels bad for not using a fancy fountain pen.

Special thanks to lenejenius for the Miku Hatsune sticker.

If you are interest on picking up your own Moleskine notebook, here is their site and if you want to make your own, here is a tutorial.

Here is a photo gallery of the many amazing figures that appeared at summer Wonfes this year. I personally cannot wait for some of these figures to come out soon.

Image Source: gsc_mikatan, 2tohei, and amiblo_sub