ドミノ倒シ

Another video, another Miku.

I find this song to match up to the video quite nicely. The song in itself isn't bad, but I think I sort of like the matchups and sudden transitions used in the video to give the song more emphasis on certain parts. I think even the general artwork is not bad yet not great (similar to the song), but put together I think the collaborative work in this one is quite nice.

The title (much thanks to the fact that it was written in English right at the beginning :V) is "Domino Taisho", and judging from what the Kanji means in chinese and how the video plays out, it probably means the action of knocking the dominos over, causing them to "fall". :V

Pixiv Statistics

For the number of images favorited by over 1000 users, in the following categories, at the current time:

Original: 747 Images
VOCALOID: 877 Images
Panty and Stocking (< 1 year old since debut): 159 images (8 pages)
K-On (several years since already): 110 images (7 pages)
Gurren Laggan (>3 years old, obviously had remarkable popularity afaik): 1 image

I don't even want to bother with Touhou.

Note that these are only images where over 1000 users had added as their favorites, and obviously that number doesn't reflect the total number of fanart on Pixiv (many of these same categories hold images in the ten thousands, 100 thousands (probably vocaloid) or even millions (I think, maybe for original)) but its still amusing to see how some supposedly well-distinguished trends and fads do not necessarily correlate to fan artists drawing amazing or stunning art for it (or just the other fans not liking the drawings that much). As shown in Vocaloid vs Original, I think it helps to have some kind of basis or trend to go along in producing an concept of an image that will appease the fanbase looking for images on Pixiv, but just because it seemed popular doesn't mean drawing fanart of it will make you popular.

I think in the end though it presents a reasonable idea of what genre people look for when they go to Pixiv, therefore the general distribution of trends in the Pixiv population. What exactly gets popular is still a mystery; we have weird concepts like Hetalia, Touhou, and Reisz from Seiken Densetsu 3 that just seemed to "be" popular... for no apparent reason... what separates them from other trends? THAT's a research topic worth looking in to. :V

EDIT: I also forgot to add, popular artists have IMMENSE power in governing over what gets popular. If you have a guy with a bunch of touhou images that at least 1000 users have favorited, most likely many of those same users have that artist bookmarked and will favorite almost ANYTHING s/he comes out, whether it was popular at the time or not.

...I think this was the only reason that one Gurren Laggan pic got over 1000 favorites (it doesn't even look that great imo :V).

どういうことなの！？

Another song where I like the stanzas better than the chorus, but it has rubix cubes and cute miku shakings so I guess its not bad. :V

The particular odd part about the song (which I would otherwise like) is exactly what the title says. I think from a direct translation its something like "How is it?" or "How is this?", I'm guessing, although they do a play on words with "Dou iu" >> "Do you??"... Well I really don't know, I'm just watching it for the cubes and flashiness. And oh yes Miku. :V

Chat Logs

...are amazingly awesome references.


SELF-REFERENCE: http://falcon4ever.pcsx2.net/kinect/logs/

妄想スケッチ

Well, its not the first time but I sort of notice particularly in this one for whatever reason, there's a very distinguished trend in the structure of the song within a lot of the music pieces I listen to. Such as the first stanzas and the build up to the chorus, the chorus (obviously), and the eventual intermission in the middle... again I knew about this before, and I'm not unhappy about the lack of originality (it works, and I like it, so its fine), but still something I noted to point out.

Also, I don't particularly like the chorus in this song... but everything else is pretty good, including the PV. :V

Our title for today means something along the lines of "forgetting memory sketch" if that even makes sense. !

Inaccuracies

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/fuzzy-logic-0103.html

Actually, I think this concept of imprecision is possibly a key to many other subjects being studied. First off, we already understand the power of probability (within computer science, simulation research and etc) and how by just sacrificing a little bit of accuracy we can get good results so much faster. On the other side, we can argue that many factors of the human brain use and practically depend on imprecision. Take protein synthesis and the general structure of DNA- in most of the DNA, none of it actually corresponds to ANY factor in protein synthesis ("Junk DNA"). Even those that do correspond, we generally can afford a few mutations or errors before any gene truly becomes dysfunctional. Add in the sheer number of cells within a human body and you can come to realize that even though the human body is a remarkably amazing subject, it is vastly imprecise and imperfect in a lot of what it can do. Hence, I do support the notion of imperfection not just a way to speed up certain actions, but as a general rule of nature where we can afford a little less than perfect in order to better our system as a whole.

Crying

Seeing enough moe trends I would argue against this argument. A good population in Japan seems to get turned on by women crying, for whatever reason... :V

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/01/a-womans-tears-the-anti-viagra.html

Well, I would agree that in the general case sadness would be a passion-killer and opt for a person to comfort the depressed individual rather than anything else. Hmm still I'm not sure their research can be general enough to apply to everyone... If I was REALLY interested I guess I'd look into their paper, but naaah. :V

Insect Consumption

Yup, clearly the way to solve global warming that will have everyone agreeing with each other is to eat bugs. :V


http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/01/to-fight-global-warming-eat-bugs.html

I can see everyone agreeing to it now! Bugs for dinner! Worm sandwiches for everyone! HURRAY!

Eyes

Clearly ANIME CHARACTERS are so realistic and humanlike because of their huge eyes.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/12/dead-or-alive-the-eyes-hold-the-.html

Megpoid Extend

Not too long ago, I saw a 4Koma discussing something about a concept of "Megpoid Extend", and I didn't know if this was a reality or just some parody of Miku Append. I tried doing some research but since my only source was pixiv and my japanese knowledge was limited, I couldn't reach a concrete conclusion.

However, thanks to Vocaloidism, I now know this is an official announcement.

HOW SO EXCITING I do hope that Megpoid gets... a better portrait at the least. Maybe improved soundbank too! Although not sure how much more you can improve to GUMI... :V

コトバトラボラト

MORE HAPPY MUSIC!!

FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hi, I'm back from Las Vegas. Most unfortunately I found this song more enjoyable than the entire vacation. The music is so happy and poppy! The video is sooooo much fun, even though its just lyrics! This is fun stuff, in all sorts of senses!

And the title... "kotobatoraborato" kotoba can mean "words", but as for the others... my japanese fails!

ステキナコト

A quick Miku post before I leave for the night.

This one has... a unique (probably annoying to some people) rather consistent tone which is pretty obvious from the beginning of the song. But overall, I think it turns out to be quite a fun song to listen to. Also, this title seems to sound something more japaneselike (sutekinakoto) than some type of english phrase, so I'll just assume that's what it is (which I think in japanese means something like "wonderful things"). :V

うたうたいのうた

Christmas is having cute Miku sing for us!

I don't think this song is anything extraordinary, but the video is quite cute so I like this song. Although it makes me wonder, technically if it weren't for Miku's hairstyle the character could be androgenous enough to pass as a boy as well as a girl... :V

I think... the title has to do a lot with songs. Maybe. V:

Christmas Eve

Mine was full of losing at card games and playing Project Diva 2nd in anticipation for the 2nd Dreamy Theater coming this summer (*waku waku :3*).

Hope everyone has a (more) enjoyable holiday! :V

Trees In Our Homeland

The title is in English again! Hurray for no translation!

Tranquil, peaceful song by Miku. Appropriate for Christmas. Then again you can make any tranquil, peaceful song pretty appropriate for Christmas. :V

6th

I think one of the interesting things about Luka is that sometimes she can sound like Miku, and other times she can sound like GUMI. Consequently it becomes kind of hard to figure when I believe is her own actual voice style, but at least her character design looks nice. :V

This song isn't something extraordinary, but the video is SO SEIZURE INDUCING THAT IT'S FUN!! :V Also, hurray for titles I don't need to translate!

niconico Medley "Fall to or from Spring"

Nico's medley for the season. For those who don't know its like some tradition where they put a bunch of recognized songs (recent and past) together and make it sound pretty good. :V Consequently since this one is the most recent there's a lot of new-season stuff that I'm not familiar with. Seems like I recognize all the GUMI songs, although I really couldn't recognize "Yowamushi mont blanc" at first, it sounded really different. :/

SPiCa PV

IT'S SPiCA!

IT'S TOKU-P!

IT'S REFEIA!

IT'S HEADPHONE TOKYO!

...IT'S A PV!!!!!

Man I want to get the DVD they are probably selling at winter comike this year. :( Miku's SPiCa outfit is really like the best outfit for Miku I've seen. :(

インヴィジヴルコクピット

A Kaai Yuki song with VERY DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTALS.

VERY, DRAMATIC. It's certainly nice to listen to.

WITH SOME HELP OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE (didn't really translate it though, just couldn't figure out what the "u" katakana was) WE CAN CONCLUDE THIS TITLE IS "Individual Cockpit".

モノトーンコレクター

Fresh GUMI only 14 hours in! Looks like it will be another good one!

THIS TIME WITH THE HELP OF THE SPATULA, WE HAVE DETERMINED THE NAME OF THIS SONG IS "Monotone Collector" ISN'T THAT RIGHT?