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Harmless Weapons are as Useless as They are Amazing

by Eric Limer Dec 14th

Kyle Bean, the man behind pencil shaving portraits, has come up with another beautifully simple and awesome idea: Harmless weapons. The photos are for an article in CUT Magazine about guerilla gardening and yarn bombing, two similarly harmless, but weapony things. I never thought I'd ever say this, but man, I really want to eat that grenade.

Studio Ghibli Could Close? Pending Borrower Box Office

by Susana Polo Aug 22nd

Cut Magazine has an interview with Hayao Miyazaki where the venerable animator confesses that if their upcoming Arietty the Borrower doesn't do well in the box office, plans are already in place to shut down Studio Ghibli.

Suzuki-san is making a dissolution program for Ghibli. No joke, we talked about it the other day. For example, Ghibli should be able to continue with about five staff members as a copyright management company even if we smash the studio. So, Ghibli can say ‘We stop film production. Goodbye’. I do not have to be there.

Presumably Miyazaki means the American box office, as the film has already been released in Japan.