‘The Puppetmaster’ — “Avatar: the Last Airbender”

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417299/]

Water

Earth

Fire

Air

Long ago, the four nations lived togeth­er in har­mo­ny. Then every­thing changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, mas­ter of all four ele­ments, could stop them. But when the world need­ed him most, he van­ished. A hun­dred years passed and my broth­er and I dis­cov­ered the new Avatar, an air­ben­der named Aang. And although his air­bend­ing skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he’s ready to save anyone.

But I believe Aang can save the world.

Back­ground: in “Avatar: the Last Air­ben­der” Aang is a boy with a des­tiny and a his­to­ry: he is the Avatar, the cur­rent incar­na­tion of an eter­nal chain, the one who pos­sess­es the pow­er to wield all four of the ele­ments, fat­ed to restore the bal­ance of nature that was bro­ken by the Fire Lord and the con­quer­ing of the world by the Fire Nation. Except, a cen­tu­ry before, when he was sup­posed to stop the Fire Nation, he dis­ap­peared, and only now has returned. The prob­lem is that he’s still a young boy, not even a teenag­er, and his com­pan­ions are lit­tle old­er than he is. Its a pret­ty heavy bur­den to shoul­der, espe­cial­ly when he’s also hunt­ed by the Fire Nation and hunt­ing those who can help him mas­ter the four elements.

⇒ Con­tin­ue read­ing “‘The Pup­pet­mas­ter’ — “Avatar: the Last Airbender””

January 15th, 2012 | Tags: , | Category: Cartoons and Anime | Comments are closed

New Year’s Resolution Scorecard — Week 02

Work, work and more work. That’s about all I have to say about this last week. Very lit­tle research or writ­ing but a lot of thought of what I would write when I had the time. (Work is large­ly mind­less which gives me the time to think things over and plan what to do: unfor­tu­nate­ly I don’t always have the ener­gy after­ward to put those thoughts down as soon as I would like.)

How­ev­er, in com­plete­ly unre­lat­ed mat­ters, I did go to watch “Young Frankstein” here in town last week. It was cer­tain­ly wor­thy of all the Tony Awards it won and very faith­ful to the spir­it of the orig­i­nal movie. The ‘Puttin’ On the Ritz’ dance num­ber is the real show stop­per, in more than just one way. It was also my Christ­mas present to a good friend, of which (and of which all my oth­er local friends) I have seen lit­tle of this sea­son and so it was nec­es­sary for me on a main­te­nance basis.

I was able to locate copies of a cou­ple of ani­mat­ed series of which I will be writ­ing in the future, so that at least is a plus.

January 15th, 2012 | Category: The HiM Collection | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

New Year’s Resolution Scorecard — Week 01

This is the first of what I will try to make a week­ly series, updates on how I am sat­is­fy­ing my New Year’s Res­o­lu­tions this year. How­ev­er, this is going to be short: I just spent the last half-hour writ­ing this post only to have Word­Press sig­nal some kind of “error” when try­ing to save it and there­by los­ing every­thing I wrote.

Essen­tial­ly, I have been too busy with work (I worked 26 days out of the 31 days of Decem­ber, includ­ing New Year’s Eve, and Jan­u­ary has been just as busy so far) to have any time oth­er than what I call the “sta­tion keep­ing” tasks of pay­ing the bills, buy­ing gro­ceries and gas, prep­ping my car­ry-along meals for my pri­ma­ry job, etc.

About the only I have done is start research­ing the folk­lore regard­ing the vam­pire’s mes­mer­ic gaze, pri­mar­i­ly by start­ing the out­line for my research, and even that’s only in the pre­lim­i­nary stages.

January 8th, 2012 | Category: The HiM Collection | Comments are closed

“Private Psycho Lesson” (1997)

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488019/]

In “Pri­vate Psy­cho Les­son”, psy­chol­o­gist Sara Iiji­ma has a sin­gu­lar approach to help­ing her clients over­come sex­u­al hangups using hyp­no­sis and a sin­gu­lar (and quite sen­su­al) style in induc­ing hypnosis.

Warning

The ani­me here is def­i­nite­ly adults only: it is high­ly sex­u­al and explic­it in nature and the cor­re­spond­ing descrip­tion below does refer to adult themes and images.

⇒ Con­tin­ue read­ing ““Pri­vate Psy­cho Les­son” (1997)”

January 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Cartoons and Anime | Comments are closed

My 2012 New Year’s Resolution for the HiM Blog

I am mak­ing the fol­low­ing res­o­lu­tions for the year 2012 in regards to the Hyp­no­sis in Media blog:

1 ) Reading

I resolve to fin­ish read­ing at least one unread book a week from the Col­lec­tion. There are a lot of books in the col­lec­tion, fic­tion and non-fic­tion, that I haven’t even opened after I bought them. This is espe­cial­ly true about the non-fic­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly the late 19th and ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry stuff, which I am expect­ing to be very boring.

2 ) Writing

I resolve to increase my post writ­ing. I have a only cou­ple of blog posts already writ­ten and ready to pub­lish if I can’t get any­thing else done by the pub­li­ca­tion dead­line. I would like to have at least three times the num­ber I have now, which means not only research­ing and writ­ing the reg­u­lar post but a sec­ond or third one each week.

3 ) Research

a ) I resolve to seri­ous­ly start my research into the top­ic of the ori­gins of the vam­pire’s hyp­not­ic gaze. Its not in the orig­i­nal Stok­er but it was a part of vam­pire lore by the time of the Bela Lugosi “Drac­u­la”. I expect it is also strong­ly asso­ci­at­ed with the folk­lore of the “Evil Eye”. My effort will have to start with first tying down the first appear­ances of the sub­ject in the media, which will be dif­fi­cult as that may include stage per­for­mances (such time being before movies were wide­ly popular.)

b ) I resolve to con­tin­ue my research into the sub­ject of the var­i­ous social con­ven­tions that affect the suc­cess of hyp­not­ic induc­tions, with the even­tu­al goal of com­plet­ing the book I am cur­rent­ly writ­ing and even­tu­al­ly self-pub­li­ca­tion. I’ve already iden­ti­fied a very large (and diverse) num­ber of these con­ven­tions and my major task now is ade­quate­ly describ­ing them in such a way that can be applied by any prac­tic­ing hyp­no­tist. I do not expect to be able to fin­ish it this year but I hope to at least dou­ble the word count (now some­where around 35,000 words)  this year. Plus I want to get what I have writ­ten in the hands of peo­ple I can trust to review and cri­tique it as I write it.

5 ) Recreation

I resolve (and hope to able to afford) to attend a cou­ple of hyp­no­sis-relat­ed con­ven­tions and events this year, one that I have almost a stand­ing invi­ta­tion to attend and present at, and one of which I may actu­al­ly be asso­ci­at­ed with.

As part of these res­o­lu­tions, I also resolve to post peri­od­ic updates on how I am ful­fill­ing these oth­er resolutions.

January 1st, 2012 | Category: The HiM Collection, Website Information and Maintenance | Comments are closed
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