You might say that Vincent van Gogh was one of the first Japanese pop-culture otaku (geeks) in Europe. With the 19th-century japonisme craze in full swing, he coveted ukiyo-e woodblock prints like modern-day collectors hoard rare manga. Japanese art deeply influenced his work, from his flattening of perspective to his […]
Obsessed
Screenshot: The Night time Nurse This week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is hunting wistfully again on the era of the Motion Picture Generation Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set of censorship benchmarks Hollywood rigorously adhered to from 1934 by […]