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Looking back at this past year:

Thanks for all your support in 2011 ♥ Here’s to another great year in 2012!

Came across these awesome One Piece bento pics on matome.naver.jp:

One Piece Bento

One Piece Bento

One Piece Bento

…and wanted to see if any enterprising chefs had decided to make similar bento based off Studio Ghibli’s films. So I did a quick google and found the delightful blog of Anna The Red, which not only featured beautifully crafted Ghibli bento, but also Ghibli-inspired snacks and “feasts.” Here are some of my favorites!

Kaonashi Bento (annathered.com)

Spirited Away bun (annathered.com)

Totoro chocolate (annathered.com)

Nekobus Bento (annathered.com)

Kiki's Fish Pie (annathered.com)

Things have been pretty quiet around here, mostly because I went on a month-long vacation, came back for about two weeks, and will be off traveling again tomorrow for a week :D Can’t complain, for sure, but all this fun has killed off most of my motivation to wall. Anyways! Pixel Ellipsis will be down for a brief period of time after July 10th. Hopefully it won’t be longer than a day at most, but I’m not exactly sure how long it will be. The reason for this downtime is really silly – my hosting provider assigns “free domain credits” on a yearly basis, and for some reason they can’t give me the new credit for the next year until the day AFTER the domain expiration date… I don’t know why they can’t just give me credit for the whole 3 years if I’ve signed up for a 3 year hosting package, but anyways, that’s that. I’ll be back from my trip on July 10th so I do plan to monitor the situation closely.

On a more cheerful note: Miyazaki Lego awesomeness by Ochre Jelly

Miyazakitopia by Ochre Jelly

And “Steampunk Raku Howl’s Moving Castle” by lizzomarek

Steampunk Raku Howl's Moving Castle by lizzomarek

Yay for epic Ghibli-inspired works! More photos and behind-the-scenes notes available via the original source links, so definitely give those a look! :D

I originally wanted to make January Studio Ghibli Month in honor of Hayao Miyazaki‘s 70th birthday, but as I started browsing through scans I realized that I had too many wall ideas and not enough time to deliver. So I figured, why not make this a year-long personal project? Expect to see a lot more Ghibli-related blog posts, tweets, and of course, Ghibli/Miyazaki walls from me throughout the year! This is not to say that I’ll only be making Studio Ghibli walls in 2011, but I will be prioritizing those WIPs. In the meantime, if there are any Studio Ghibli films that you’d like to see more walls for, please let me know!

P.S. Just realized that I’d forgotten to enable multiple selections – you can now vote for more than one Ghibli films that you’d like to see more walls of!

Studio Ghibli Logo (from theanimeblog.com)

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One of these days I swear I’ll stop texture whoring ; D;

Haku

Hayao Miyazaki / Spirited Away / Haku <3

kaonashi-spirited-away

Of all the hidden symbolism and meaning that I read into (or made up) from Spirited Away, I never thought that the sex industry would have anything to do with such a charming movie, but apparently it does! From cering.tumblr.com:

…I read interviews with Miyazaki. This was all put in intentionally. Miyazaki’s stories are filled with underlying themes and metaphors. He said he was tackling the issue of the sex industry rapidly growing in Japan, and that he felt children being exposed to it at such early ages was a problem.

Who would’ve thought?! Thanks tates for the tip!