{"id":311,"date":"2007-07-09T22:04:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T06:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2007\/07\/09\/blog-094-ghost-in-the-figure\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T22:04:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T06:04:55","slug":"blog-094-ghost-in-the-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/07\/09\/blog-094-ghost-in-the-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 094 > Ghost in the Figure!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPhotos 001-092 by xJAYMANx | Click for all 92<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n

Konnichiwa! For this massive 92-shot photoshoot, we step away from our Gothic Lolita Girls<\/a>, and welcome the 1\/7-scale “Purple Motoko”<\/strong> and approx-1\/10-scale “Blue Tachikoma”<\/strong> figures released earlier this year!<\/p>\n

Sculpted by Tuyoshi Takahashi, manufactured by a Vice & Alter collaboration, and released in January-February 2007, this faithful 1\/7-scale PVC rendition of Motoko — from the long-running cyberpunk epic series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex<\/em> — portrays her standing coolly and calmly in her gray combat suit with a black pistol hanging loosely from her gloved hand. Just as the Major should be, lol… Meanwhile, manufactured by Art Storm, and released in May 2007, this excellent approx-1\/10-scale Soft Vinyl version of the blue Tachikoma — also from the same Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex<\/em> series — depicts the bubbly Artificially Intelligent spider-like mini-tank in a joint-poseable bright blue armor. Just as slick as its animated counterpart!<\/p>\n

For this Canon<\/a> photoshoot, I saved 117 shots, then narrowed it down to these 92 shots. While I used Photoshop to clean up an annoying dust particle which reappeared in Motoko’s hair for many of the shots, no color or lighting adjustments were made. Now, without further delay, enjoy the photoshoot!<\/p>\n

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P.S. Internet Explorer has now officially pissed me off. If Firefox<\/a> can handle 90-100 images (4-10 MB total) per page without breaking, then why can’t IE? For instance, (1) both IE6 and IE7 erratically interprets pure black (#000000) in these images as transparent pixels, which results in white dots popping up through these holes (even if I change the [img] background color to black!), and (2) when using [div] tags, IE also fails to display the [div] content as the total number of images approaches 100. Ridiculous. So from this point onward, I can no longer promise my support of IE. Sorry.<\/p>\n

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Photos 001-092 by xJAYMANx | Click for all 92 Konnichiwa! For this massive 92-shot photoshoot, we step away from our Gothic Lolita Girls, and welcome the 1\/7-scale “Purple Motoko” and approx-1\/10-scale “Blue Tachikoma” figures released earlier this year! 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