Mahari Yuware

[allekha]

I went to my first skating lesson in three years on Sunday! Beforehand, I was joking that my coach, D, was going to make me spend twenty minutes on edges... it was more like forty-five. But he has a new teaching method and philosophy and he was SO EXCITED to share it with me, haha. And it was fun! He mentioned that he's doing group adult classes now, though they're on pause for a couple of weeks so I'll try to see if I can make one of them. (Bonus, I'd get a discount on my privates.)

And I did an active flexibility workshop focus on y-scales yesterday. My hips are now very sore, but I really liked the workshop and will repeat it (it's a video that you purchase). The person who made it has a blog that has been very helpful to me in terms of things like 'how to not make your spine feel like you're destroying it trying to do basic layback positions', so I was glad the video worked out! I will get myself a Y-spiral one day 😤

Mizuna sprouted! :)

Z and I made chocolate and marzipan cookies today. This was a good idea.

I meant to rewatch a bit of Promare and go to bed the other day... watched the whole movie instead, oops. The subtitles did come in handy even though I had to constantly adjust the timing (VLC has a thing that is supposed to adjust the frame rate at which subs play, but it doesn't appear to work), and thankfully it is not a film where you need to understand every line, especially since I've seen it before. I love how colorful and bright and stylish it is, but one of the things I also love about it is the sense of scale. It gets across things being BIG in a way that I don't think a lot of films accomplish. Especially the scene where Lio bursts out of the volcano - you can just feel how utterly consumed with fury he is. But it's also there in smaller bits like when Heris is running and almost falls over the edge of the space ship, and they use the visuals of wind + her fluttering coat to show exactly how far of a drop is below her.

Comments

[yuuago]

Yay for skating! Hope you'll manage to make one of the group classes as planned. :)

You're making me want to rewatch Promare. <3

[allekha]

Thanks!

It really is a lot of fun <3

the power of trigger

[operasteers]

promare is such a fun and lovely film and yes! a lot of productions that studio trigger has worked on really do convey the sense of scale in such an amazing way and it's a detail that really adds a lot more life to their works and i appreciate it a lot (makes it a lot easier to just kinda fall into the worlds they set up too)

Re: the power of trigger

[allekha]

I'm not sure if it's something I've noticed in their work before (though it's been a while, so who knows), but it definitely added to the experience! It gives all the big robots and big emotions more oomph when you can feel the size of it all.