Stonekite

Hulu.com has some Wallace and Gromit shorts up.

The latest from Albania is in: ‘Black Win’. A victory for me.

• 1. g4 d5
• 2. h3 e6
• 3. Bg2 g5
• 4. d4 b6
• 5. Qd2 Nc6
• 6. e4 Nf6
• 7. e5 Ne4
• 8. Bxe4 dxe4
• 9. Qe3 Bb7
• 10. Qxg5 Nxd4
• 11. Qxd8+ Rxd8
• 12. Na3 Bxa3
• 13. Kd2 Nb3+
• 14. Kc3 Nxa1
• 15. bxa3 e3
• 16. f3 Rd1
• 17. Bb2 e2
• Black Win

My feeling is that they were put off balance by the ambivalence my pieces held towards actually following through with a tactic.

Now, Hong Kong.

• 1. d4

Alejandro Jodorowsky, who directed The Holy Mountain (the trailer of which is below), apparently encouraged the french comic book artist Moebius to go into science fiction illustration.

Moebius went on to help spawn a minor revolution in science fiction, along with a few other French illustrators. Ridley Scott cites Moebius and Enki Bilal as the two great inspirations for Blade Runner’s atmosphere.

Moebius (otherwise known as Jean Giraud) named his daughter Nausicaa after Hayao Miyazaki’s character in the eponymous movie. The two artists are friends, and have exhibited work together.

Enki Bilal, meanwhile, authored the Nikopol trilogy. The Nikopol trilogy describes the sport of Chess Boxing. Chess Boxing has since become a reality:

And the trailer for a separate film, this one from the seventies:

It was apparently funded to a large degree by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.