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SarurunKamui
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[2008-07-24 00:26:49 +0000 UTC]
"Modo fac."
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 3604; Deviations: 422; Watchers: 546
Watching: 365; Pageviews: 55442; Comments Made: 7962; Friends: 365
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Takeyasu Sawaki, Alphonse Mucha, Hasui Kawase, Maruyama Okyô, Tsukioka YoshitoshiFavorite movies: Once, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, LoTR, assorted Disney movies, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaä, House of Flying Daggers, Chushingura, Monkey Goes West
Favorite TV shows: Community, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, FMA: Brotherhood, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Nova, Reading Rainbow
Favorite bands / musical artists: Kalafina, Kagrra, Rei Kondoh, Epica, Azam Ali, Dvorak, Florence + The Machine, Loreena McKennitt, Enya
Favorite books: Bride of the Water God, Dragon Sword and Wind Child, Cromartie High School, Brave Story, The Journey to the West, Mistborn
Favorite writers: Clare Bell, Miyuki Miyabe, Noriko Ogiwara, Wu Cheng'en...
Favorite games: Ôkami, Katamari Damacy, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Pokemon, Tales of Symphonia, Solatorobo, Skyrim
Favorite gaming platform: PS2, PS3, Wii
Tools of the Trade: Whatever I feel like using.
Other Interests: Writing, reading, other cultures, Asia, science, choir, piano, cooking
# About me
Helloooo.I was an exchange student in Japan for a month and a half in summer 2010, and now I really want to explore the rest of Asia... and the world. What does it have to offer? What can I offer? One of my life goals (aside from seeing Japan in every season) is to teach Americans about other cultures... many of us just don't seem to get that there's a whole other world out there, not just outside the country but outside of your house or car, and that it deserves respect. I also believe that peace is achieved through understanding. If we understand each other, we can avoid conflict. I think studying abroad is an important and incredible experience and I wish it were more widely available. To live life in another culture, not just to look at it. It does a lot for understanding them--and oneself...
The world is getting smaller, so we might as well get to know our neighbors.
As an artist, I'm almost entirely self taught. I took classes throughout high school... I learned a lot in photography, but the other classes I ended up ignoring to the best of my ability. I'm best at doing what I want to do. (I got a 6 on the IB art test anyway...) I've been drawing since before I could remember, as evidenced by a piece my mom kept from when I was two--she says it's a dragon, but it looks like an awkward rainbow-shaped unicorn demon. Obviously I've figured a few things out since then.
Current Age: 20, Current Residence: Oregon, US, Favourite genre of music: Symphonic Metal, soundtrack, Operating System: Mac OS X, Personal Quote: Vescere bracis meis.
Wind in the Bamboo Grove: A Tumblog of Things Asian
# Comments
Comments: 1421
Dear User, we need some help because Sora (Pancake-the-Pikachu) is in trouble. The link has all the information we know. soradefensesquad.deviantart.co… So please, if your A friend, Admirer or Ally of them please help in anyway you can. Thank you.
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I played Okami HD on my friend's console, and I have to say its pulling me back to reading those rarely-told, perhaps better, inspiration of Okami lore.
but I wish there is a complete source of Ainu mythology like how Issun came from Issunboshi tale; by chance, have you ever find it yourself?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka-ush… 'Okikurme' has been requested for an article.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOPE ALL YOUR WISHES AND DREAMS COME TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hot damn, Incense is awesome at beating this dead rat stench in my room.
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Dead rat stench? Do you have dead rats around??
Incense is lovely, though. I wish it weren't banned at my school. XD Fire hazard and all.
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most likely, in my inaccessible attic
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Kamui! *3* You've been featured in 's August Journal! Drop by and take a look at some of the other works that have made it too, if you'd like. Keep making those awesome art. *3*
we-the-artists.deviantart.com/…
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Wow! Thank you so much! X3
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where do you get your fans from? I love the wood color.
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I get them from a site called Asian Ideas.
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How would I go about getting a commission from you? I love love love your paper fans!
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I'm not currently taking commissions because I'm in Japan until the end of August. 
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Great! Thanks for the information! I'll definitely message you then ^^
Enjoy your time in Japan!
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Hey Saru-chan, did you ever get to see those videos about the myths and legends behind Okami that I had sent ya the links for? :>
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Ah, I completely forgot! I haven't been feeling well recently and I can't keep track of anything anymore... XP
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Oh, fun x.x Well, if you still have the note with the links, feel free to watch them; I think you'd like 'em :3
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I just saw the link for your fans on Reddit! They are beautiful!
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Figured you might be interested in this, Saru: It's not exactly clear if this is the case or not, but a post by Capcom and a tease by Famitsu is making it certainly sound like a new Okami might be in development o.o [link]
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Yeah, I saw that. I hope it's not a game. I want more books. XD
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Hey Saru, random question: do you have any Okami fabric wall scrolls, like ones that are supposed to hang on the wall?
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Like the ones they sell for cheap on Ebay? I don't, but I have a friend that does. She loves them.
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I dunno about eBay, but I got mine off of Amazon; stuff like this: [link]
The problem - beautiful though the scroll is - is that the hooks designed for hanging the scroll on a wall have no immediately visible way to hang it, and there are no instructions for how to set it up. Any idea if this is the same sort of thing that your friend has?
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I think she got hers on eBay, so I'm not sure. Do you have one? I have no idea what the hanging hooks are like, so I don't know how to help. Maybe you need to hang them from hooks on the wall, like command strips or something?
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Yep, I got the exact one in the link I showed in that last message. It's... odd: there are two hooks, but despite it being labelled a wall scroll, the hooks are shaped like they should be hanging something from a ceiling. The set-up for the plastic rods that hold the fabric scroll is almost impossible to describe, but there's no instructions that were sent with it and nothing that really indicates a place for the scroll to hang from the hooks =/
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If I had a diagram or some sort, I could probably help, since I tend to be good with things like that. Are the hooks attached to the scroll itself?
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Nope; the scroll is held on each side by these hollow plastic tubes; I'm assuming that the hooks go in those somewhere, but there's no real indicator of exactly where they should go x.x
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That's so weird. >< And the internet provides no answers either?
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None that I've found; a comment in the review for another such scroll just said that it was a complicated set-up, which I say is putting it mildly ._.
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Ugh. I would probably just commandeer the whole setup and find another way to put it up. <.< Attach some ribbon to it and hang it from there, idk.
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Nvm, I found out how to XP
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