A sumptuous; beautiful collection of cyborgs; sushi; and monsters–this book is a feast for the eyes and a phosphorescent display of creativity. Other than watching an octopus make love to a rainbow; I canrsquo;t think of anything Irsquo;d rather stare at than this book. – Matthew Inman; creator of The OatmealIts adorable; explosive and has more chibis than an Akibahara game store.Welcome to the whimsical world of Cute Grit; the digitally rendered pop art debut by video game developer and artist Enfu. Comprised of over 1;000 illustrations; this fantastical collection explores the intersections between video games; art and the Asian American experience through the lens of Enfus wild; east-meets-west style. Re-discover your favorite game villains; cartoon characters; icons and cityscapes in a digital universe where Enfu unites the loveable; the warped; and the fantastic in a world both foreign and familiar; sweet and surly; gritty and cute.Ken "Enfu" Taya enjoys his day job in the video game industry as a developer for titles such as Halo 3 (XBO 360) and Scribblenauts Unmasked (WiiU; PC; 3DS). His commissioned illustrations and murals can be seen in stores and restaurants across the Pacific Northwest; and his popular bilingual comic; I Fart Rainbow; enjoys success in print and digital media outlets. Other Enfu collaborative projects include Enfu Snaps hats; Bombsheller leggings; and customized t-shirts. His first indie game; Matchfu; is set to release in late 2014. Ken Taya lives in Bellevue; Washington; with his wife and daughter.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A deep thinkers media-bending post-Gutenberg contributionBy ScriblerusCarl Djerassis sumptuous foretaste of publishings mixed-media future is the title of a three-part review of this book at post-gutenberg.com.Extract:Now; heres a strange thing: the most thrilling media-bending creation that we at post-Gutenberg have met is not by a gangling; google-eyed nineteen year-old muttering `mashup and `re-mix in sleeptalk; but by someone who will be ninety in October; writing imaginatively in voices brought back from the dead.Carl Djerassi; who made his name as an inventor of birth control pills and has won high honours as both a scientist and technologist; is somehow cramming at least four lives into a single lifespan. His harbinger of mixed-media publishings future evolution is a hybrid of ingeniously animated philosophical debate; art appreciation; experimental graphics and dramatization. It comes pressed between cardboard covers; titled Four Jews on Parnassus; and fitted with a pocket holding a CD compilation of clips from musical tributes by five composers to a single painting by Paul Klee.We will call the result simply a book for shorthand. The right-sounding term for it has yet to be invented. It is available as an e-book**; but the images in it - roughly half of them feats of larky digital tinkering; and as essential to its purposes as the pictures John Berger chose for Ways of Seeing were to his - are best savoured on paper. Rolls Royce-grade colour printing on luscious glossy pages makes Four Jews on Parnassus virtually pirate-proof; cheap knock-offs are inconceivable.If; as we believe; the only adequate reply to a great poem is a dance; if not another poem; then Four Jews is a re-creation ... [ continues here: [...]]1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. His novels are great reading; tooBy M. Lyonwanted to see what Djerassi had to say. His novels are great reading; too. And; he is an esteemed scientist;1 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Disappointing till nowBy viviI was very exited when I saw this book on a library; in spanish; and although the price was excessive(160 Peruvian soles) I bought it.I read till now till the dialogue of the wifes; which I jumped by the end because of boredom. What a shallow; uninteresting book. Nothing about the philosophical insights or very little. I am now reading the angelus novus part. Till now I read more in Wikipedia about than here. Maybe it will change; but meanwhile if I would have been an editor; I would have never published such a shallow; charicatural and repetitive work.
