Normally I prefer to cultivate my 'lurker' status, popping-up only occasionally - but while on a study break for my end-of-semester exams, it was hard not to notice the complete lack of action on the once sociable AB! I thought the following topic & question may hopefully generate some interest & discussion?
Recently I was introduced to a friend's new client, who happens to be an avid art collector - collecting pieces from across a wide range of different times & styles. They were extremely well-off which meant that obstacles that would prevent or delay a typical collector were easily by-passed. She had managed to build up quite an impressive collection, but what was really amazing was her dedication to her end goal; which is to eventually create a Art Museum/Gallery and then dedicate all of her collected pieces to it. There are actually more than a few Private/Family-run Art galleries scattered along the inner suburbs of Sydney.
This lead to me thinking - in a "Perfect World" where your access to funds is unlimited, would you create & curate your very own Art Gallery/Museum - be it for Animation Cels ('Western' & Anime), Comic, Modern, Contemporary art etc.
If so, how would you like to set it up - what series' & artists would you look to include? Remember, your Funding is 'unlimited'. Would it be for cultural or more historical purposes, or maybe both? Something along the lines of what Iceman has done or would you try a different style & approach? Would you look to acquire & preserve pieces for future generations?
Where would you like to set your Gallery/Museum up - in a Central Business District or similar town centre to generate large numbers of walk-ins, or a more 'quieter' locale located in the suburbs, maybe even further out, in the country - peaceful, away from the city pollutants that may damage the Cel & paper?
Scanning through the Rubberslug site, there are some on-line Galleries that already emulate a museum-type style, so it will be interesting to read any responses.
Your very own Museum?
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Your very own Museum?
My Cel Gallery can be found here:
http://celsphoenix.rubberslug.com/gallery/home.asp
A growing collection of Escaflowne, Evangelion, FMP, Fate/Stay Night plus other cels that are among my Favourites. No cheap & nasty stuff here.
Come, check out the cutesy female & Mecha madness!!
http://celsphoenix.rubberslug.com/gallery/home.asp
A growing collection of Escaflowne, Evangelion, FMP, Fate/Stay Night plus other cels that are among my Favourites. No cheap & nasty stuff here.
Come, check out the cutesy female & Mecha madness!!
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Re: Your very own Museum?
Actually, the museum I found myself desiring when I got my first cels is pretty much my Rubberslug gallery as it now stands. With unlimited funds, I'd want to hire a website designer to fix the inconvenient design of the RS template, notably to create a simpler, less fussy home page.
That would give first-time viewers a brief orientation and then a much smaller number of "doorways" to walk through. Then in these corridors single doorways for each series, leading to a "room" or perhaps another corridor with multiple "rooms" off these. Like Stephen Milhauser's "Barnum Museum" (one of my favorite essays), visitors could continue to wander, endlessly if they liked, with "wormhole" links zipping them from one room to another devoted to a different series but linked by a theme or artist. Yet if the experience got too much, or hunger or bodiliy needs called, a simple click on a "home" button would take them instantaneously back to the entranceway. Or perhaps a "bookmark" function would remind them how far they got in one visit and allow them to pick up at that point on a return visit.
I'd also like the display images to be clickable, so that viewers could zoom in as close as the scan would allow, viewing the bubbles in the trace lines or the way the pencil stroke highlights the hills and valleys of the sketch paper. Another click would show any related sketch, or even a reanimated version of sketch sets in the collection. There could be an option in which the two could be viewed side-by-side, or alternated rapidly in the same window to make revisions stand out clearly.
The nice thing is that all this is quite possible in a virtual museum, with the advantage that the cels and sketches could be viewed endlessly under good lighting conditions with no risk of damage to the art.
If we are talking real money, I'd like a "cool room" attached to my house, with the temperature permanently set to 55 degrees F and the air constantly dehumidified. The room would be windowless, and kept totally dark except when cels and sketches were added or inspected. A row of file cabinets would be devoted to the cels, so they could be housed in hanging folders open at the top and both sides. A constant stream of filtered air would move through these cabinets to allow vapors to dissipate. Another ventilated room would contain an "operating table" where celotape could be removed carefully and the fumes of the solvent cleared without health or discomfort issues (my wife has grown to dislike the scene of eucalyptus since my collection grew).
I once visited such a "cool room" at a major university archive, one devoted to paper and recording tape materials. So it's not a total pipe dream. Perhaps some of my collection will eventually go to an archive where conditions are that favorable for long-term preservation. In the meantime, I do the best I can to keep my collection in good condition and make the images as accessible as possible to interested viewers.
That would give first-time viewers a brief orientation and then a much smaller number of "doorways" to walk through. Then in these corridors single doorways for each series, leading to a "room" or perhaps another corridor with multiple "rooms" off these. Like Stephen Milhauser's "Barnum Museum" (one of my favorite essays), visitors could continue to wander, endlessly if they liked, with "wormhole" links zipping them from one room to another devoted to a different series but linked by a theme or artist. Yet if the experience got too much, or hunger or bodiliy needs called, a simple click on a "home" button would take them instantaneously back to the entranceway. Or perhaps a "bookmark" function would remind them how far they got in one visit and allow them to pick up at that point on a return visit.
I'd also like the display images to be clickable, so that viewers could zoom in as close as the scan would allow, viewing the bubbles in the trace lines or the way the pencil stroke highlights the hills and valleys of the sketch paper. Another click would show any related sketch, or even a reanimated version of sketch sets in the collection. There could be an option in which the two could be viewed side-by-side, or alternated rapidly in the same window to make revisions stand out clearly.
The nice thing is that all this is quite possible in a virtual museum, with the advantage that the cels and sketches could be viewed endlessly under good lighting conditions with no risk of damage to the art.
If we are talking real money, I'd like a "cool room" attached to my house, with the temperature permanently set to 55 degrees F and the air constantly dehumidified. The room would be windowless, and kept totally dark except when cels and sketches were added or inspected. A row of file cabinets would be devoted to the cels, so they could be housed in hanging folders open at the top and both sides. A constant stream of filtered air would move through these cabinets to allow vapors to dissipate. Another ventilated room would contain an "operating table" where celotape could be removed carefully and the fumes of the solvent cleared without health or discomfort issues (my wife has grown to dislike the scene of eucalyptus since my collection grew).
I once visited such a "cool room" at a major university archive, one devoted to paper and recording tape materials. So it's not a total pipe dream. Perhaps some of my collection will eventually go to an archive where conditions are that favorable for long-term preservation. In the meantime, I do the best I can to keep my collection in good condition and make the images as accessible as possible to interested viewers.
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Re: Your very own Museum?
I used to daydream of having a museum for my collections. I always dreamed of something similar to the Frick museum in New York - a large converted residence. I'd have a rotating set of themed exhibits, since I have too much to display at once, and it would keep people coming back as well as help protect the artwork from damage due to permanent display. I'd also love to have a little in-house reference library of books and videos (would be even easier now with digital references rather than my VHS-tape storage nightmare that intruded into my daydreams in the past 
I wouldn't want to have a huge gift shop or cafe, but a little coffee bar and outdoor garden and patio seating area might be nice too.
The biggest problems with my museum dreams is the fact that no one would ever come see my stuff. There isn't enough interest in the shows I like.
I wouldn't want to have a huge gift shop or cafe, but a little coffee bar and outdoor garden and patio seating area might be nice too.The biggest problems with my museum dreams is the fact that no one would ever come see my stuff. There isn't enough interest in the shows I like.
Hector the Collector loved these things with all his soul,
Loved them more than shining diamonds, loved them more than glistenin' gold.
Hector called to all the people,"Come and share my treasure trunk!"
And all the silly sightless people came and looked...and called it junk.
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Re: Your very own Museum?
I have a really big dream of setting up an animation history exhibition. My ideal location would be close to home, so I will have ample opportunities to go in and enjoy them on a beautiful display wall. In fact, once things finally settle down in the next couple of years, I plan to finish work on the exhibition for the art gallery. 
Re: Your very own Museum?
Well, in fantasyland…
For an American exhibit of Japanese animation art, I would like to be able to go farther back than my collection of production art allows. I think I’d start with a piece from “Taro’s Train” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYyeT9PMNXo), shown with some contemporaneous and older “Felix the Cat” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbX-BeSY_18).
There would be mention of the American Occupation of Japan following World War II, with examples of artwork found in Kashihon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Fi5Jkioso8#!) juxtaposed with American comic and dime store paperback art of that era.
I would have work from manga to anime master Tezuka:
“Astro Boy” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3UbaB7oPTw),
“Dororo” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07cyiNcvMYY), and
“Princess Knight” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_8PJ4Wqjo)
shown with Fleisher Brother works like:
“Gulliver’s Travels” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRV_8u09Cg)
There would also be art from Toei’s oeuvre of theatrical movies of the 1950s-60s like:
“Panda and Magic Serpent” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OYPDwv1Afo),
“Little Prince and Eight Headed Dragon” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvi5wuttw-o),
“Little Norse Prince” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGl-boEScV8), etc.
I’d have signage that would juxtapose the execution, and ideas in these works with Disney films from the same time period.
I’d have art from Tatsunoko Studio classics that were adapted in America , like:
“Mach Go Go Go/ Speed Racer” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIu61s2PDo),
and “Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets(G-Force)” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuN5Bn-RCo)
Leiji Matsumoto works, like:
“Captain Harlock” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OveqlXkvEm4),
“Galaxy Express 999” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvx-XW5m6Ok)
“Yamato/Star Blazers” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOW8uJxLlUQ)
I’d definitely include lots of older giant/”real” robot shows starting with
“Gigantor” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNEKhxvEvlc),
but mostly coming from the 1970‘s leading into the 1980‘s,
especially the works of Go Nagai, Yoshiyuki Tomino, and Ryosuke Takahashi like:
“Mazinger Z” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRoF689VRE),
“Getter Robo” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzs1D3M-9CA),
“Gaiking” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozgzy5rkdjA),
“Zambot 3” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ-jJWWVyIo),
“Gundam” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qq-N4R-SB4),
“Ideon” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSPgn8R6nIM),
“Votoms” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hwDQJRU7E),
“Layzner” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPALe1jTRzk)
and Mamoru Oshii’s “Patlabor” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ei6W-bY5WU)
There would be examples of anime titles being revisited for following generations like:
“Neo-Human: Casshan” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqJDiYZTWb4)
to “Casshan: Robot Hunter” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py2pHcZLIKE)
to “Casshern Sins” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdOubGFnfG8)
“Tekkaman the Space Knight” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgAbn9Dtd2o)
to “Tekkaman Blade/Teknoman” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bS765funp0)
to “Tekkaman Blade II” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbfTBpZ8Xsk)
“8th Man” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTiysOs-91w)
to “8 Man After” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-aLFheyM2o).
“Cutey Honey” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeohefRJiQc)
to “Shin Cutey Honey” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CQOFQUjxVM)
to “Cutey Honey F” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMTAhKNTCnw)
to “Re: Cutey Honey” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVbUttIfzzk)
“Devilman” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVj-4uiOt4)
to “Devilman OVA” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9etm5NYGv4)
and after a side trip to “Chibi-Chara Go Nagai World” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22xlyb670A)
on to “Amon: Apocalypse Of Devilman” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81kupaEbxS8)
As it would be an American show of Japanese production art, on some signage I’d mention Carl Macek and his selling of Anime cels at his gallery in Orange, CA, and then again later when he was part of Streamline Pictures.
I’d have examples of the “reverse importation” later Japanese influence on American comics, like
Frank Miller’s “Wolverine” (http://comics.ign.com/articles/709/709496p1.html)
and “Ronin” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_(DC_Comics)) mini series.
Planned in America / Made in Japan series and movies like
“Thundercats” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qd_IsxgAf8)
“Silverhawks” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAQu23t19A)
“Flight of Dragons” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWiZs4NsJY4)
And “The Last Unicorn” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxoJLJx-mJw)
Miyazaki’s movies imported, thus given an “imprimatur”, by Disney/Miramax:
“My Neighbor Totoro” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuLX50_5UAI)
“Princes Mononoke” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY)
et al.
There would be cels from the popular and/or influential 1980s- early 90s shows that were available to US audiences on TV, in theatres , or on video tape, like:
“Voltron” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uS5b8aQ6z8),
“Robotech” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWlcZRuiVI),
“Urusei Yatsura” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5HxIlzHCb0)
“Ranma ½” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9BapLxwkw)
“Robot Carnival” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_TpDpJICk),
“Neo-Tokyo” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wLTSgfNOA),
“Akira” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQnw35kR6Pw),
“Bubblegum Crisis” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOYZhUlISt8)
“MD Geist” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxHgVBpKNEo),
“Genocyber” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXZ2bTigdGY) NSFW,
“Urotsukidoji” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la8wB1onNog) NSFW,
“Wicked City” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTZ3QMoE9w),
“Ninja Scroll” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prqnIxmXru0)
Additional shown on American TV and available on VHS mid to late 1990s titles such as:
“Ghost in the Shell”(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZVmcBZzpbY)
"Perfect Blue" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Rj7nn0ZVs)
“Trigun” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHe4U5c5Oc)
“Cowboy Bebop” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zDfxZ4NcE)
“Gundam Wing” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qrks07Yoas)
“Kenshin” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU1tnFg2ZV8),
“Fushigi Yuugi” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-spe3sv5OKo),
“Card Captor Sakura/ Cardcaptors” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiVethCTQVY),
“Escaflowne” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJZATeQvwpo)
“Berserk” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e2x4_XIokk)
“Slayers” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmYWWB_kMvQ)
“El Hazard” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0WWZwDqG9M)
“Tenchi Muyo” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k4yU0CvTy0)
“InuYasha” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUZ8dGgYEg),
Widely popular in America titles from the 2000s:
“Bleach” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSsjo-sb9hY),
“Naruto” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzq2bBNWXX8),
And the US/Japan amalgamated film “Animatrix” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx_jlOb5sbw)
Seemingly “evergreen” American general fan favorite titles would have to include:
“Dragon Ball” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c8FzDm4Gbo),
“Sailor Moon” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6_RZhh44NY),
“Transformers” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQn--1m7cnY)
“Pokemon” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUnlh-Air2w)
“Hello Kitty” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a14-PCzofqI)
And for the “Otaku”:
“Evangelion” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A62011nyXNI)
“Revolutionary Girl Utena” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92rN79cbOg)
Perhaps a “popular in Europe, but never caught on here” section with:
“Lupin III” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm99tmzmXkk),
“Rose of Versailles”(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LDsvM-1Fzw)
“Saint Seiya”(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSqOuhJMOKM),
“City Hunter” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0ALBPSbtA),
“Fist of the North Star” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDmELx2q3LE),
Or “tops in Japan” itself:
“Sazae-san” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pZxDkJPL7A),
“Chibi Maruko-chan” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6yI16yA-kQ),
“Ashita No Joe” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzG31qq41eA)
“Slam Dunk” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4atnm_5h0)
“One Piece” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFoerqM0BA)
In addition to the more or less permanent exhibit, I’d have the main gallery with a changing theme, showcasing the works of different studios (Toei, Tatsunoko, Sunrise, Madhouse, Production I.G, Studio 4°c, etc.), or directors (Rintaro, Dezaki, Tomino, Takahashi, Kawajiri, Oshii, Kon, Omori, etc.) or character designers (Amano, Sonoda, Mikimoto, etc.), mecha men (Okawara, Izubuchi, Kawamori, Obari, etc.) , or animators (Itano, Morimoto, Sadamitsu, etc); or grouping different anime based on literary themes like “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, “Saiyuki” , “Tale of Genji”, classic children’s novels, or even works of Shakespeare; shows that trace the development of genres like, “Shonen Action Heroes” or “Magical Girls” or Yaoi; WW II revisited; Eastern or Western religions; Post Apocalypse; Robo-Girlfriend; Psychic Powered protagonist; Sports; video game adaptations; Boom Era one-shot 80s OVAs….and on and on and on…With the main exhibits designed to be as familiar as possible, this would be where even experienced fans might find something new to them.
Of course, since I don’t plan to collect from all of these series, I would need to have some of the artwork on loan from other collections. But that would never be a problem for my critically acclaimed, well attended, climate-controlled, perfectly secure, beautiful fantasy museum!
Oh yeah ... And, I'd locate it in Downtown Los Angeles in Little Tokyo near the Geffen Contemporary and the Japanese American Museum.
For an American exhibit of Japanese animation art, I would like to be able to go farther back than my collection of production art allows. I think I’d start with a piece from “Taro’s Train” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYyeT9PMNXo), shown with some contemporaneous and older “Felix the Cat” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbX-BeSY_18).
There would be mention of the American Occupation of Japan following World War II, with examples of artwork found in Kashihon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Fi5Jkioso8#!) juxtaposed with American comic and dime store paperback art of that era.
I would have work from manga to anime master Tezuka:
“Astro Boy” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3UbaB7oPTw),
“Dororo” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07cyiNcvMYY), and
“Princess Knight” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_8PJ4Wqjo)
shown with Fleisher Brother works like:
“Gulliver’s Travels” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRV_8u09Cg)
There would also be art from Toei’s oeuvre of theatrical movies of the 1950s-60s like:
“Panda and Magic Serpent” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OYPDwv1Afo),
“Little Prince and Eight Headed Dragon” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvi5wuttw-o),
“Little Norse Prince” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGl-boEScV8), etc.
I’d have signage that would juxtapose the execution, and ideas in these works with Disney films from the same time period.
I’d have art from Tatsunoko Studio classics that were adapted in America , like:
“Mach Go Go Go/ Speed Racer” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIu61s2PDo),
and “Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets(G-Force)” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuN5Bn-RCo)
Leiji Matsumoto works, like:
“Captain Harlock” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OveqlXkvEm4),
“Galaxy Express 999” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvx-XW5m6Ok)
“Yamato/Star Blazers” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOW8uJxLlUQ)
I’d definitely include lots of older giant/”real” robot shows starting with
“Gigantor” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNEKhxvEvlc),
but mostly coming from the 1970‘s leading into the 1980‘s,
especially the works of Go Nagai, Yoshiyuki Tomino, and Ryosuke Takahashi like:
“Mazinger Z” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRoF689VRE),
“Getter Robo” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzs1D3M-9CA),
“Gaiking” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozgzy5rkdjA),
“Zambot 3” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ-jJWWVyIo),
“Gundam” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qq-N4R-SB4),
“Ideon” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSPgn8R6nIM),
“Votoms” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hwDQJRU7E),
“Layzner” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPALe1jTRzk)
and Mamoru Oshii’s “Patlabor” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ei6W-bY5WU)
There would be examples of anime titles being revisited for following generations like:
“Neo-Human: Casshan” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqJDiYZTWb4)
to “Casshan: Robot Hunter” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py2pHcZLIKE)
to “Casshern Sins” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdOubGFnfG8)
“Tekkaman the Space Knight” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgAbn9Dtd2o)
to “Tekkaman Blade/Teknoman” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bS765funp0)
to “Tekkaman Blade II” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbfTBpZ8Xsk)
“8th Man” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTiysOs-91w)
to “8 Man After” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-aLFheyM2o).
“Cutey Honey” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeohefRJiQc)
to “Shin Cutey Honey” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CQOFQUjxVM)
to “Cutey Honey F” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMTAhKNTCnw)
to “Re: Cutey Honey” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVbUttIfzzk)
“Devilman” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVj-4uiOt4)
to “Devilman OVA” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9etm5NYGv4)
and after a side trip to “Chibi-Chara Go Nagai World” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22xlyb670A)
on to “Amon: Apocalypse Of Devilman” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81kupaEbxS8)
As it would be an American show of Japanese production art, on some signage I’d mention Carl Macek and his selling of Anime cels at his gallery in Orange, CA, and then again later when he was part of Streamline Pictures.
I’d have examples of the “reverse importation” later Japanese influence on American comics, like
Frank Miller’s “Wolverine” (http://comics.ign.com/articles/709/709496p1.html)
and “Ronin” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_(DC_Comics)) mini series.
Planned in America / Made in Japan series and movies like
“Thundercats” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qd_IsxgAf8)
“Silverhawks” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAQu23t19A)
“Flight of Dragons” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWiZs4NsJY4)
And “The Last Unicorn” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxoJLJx-mJw)
Miyazaki’s movies imported, thus given an “imprimatur”, by Disney/Miramax:
“My Neighbor Totoro” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuLX50_5UAI)
“Princes Mononoke” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY)
et al.
There would be cels from the popular and/or influential 1980s- early 90s shows that were available to US audiences on TV, in theatres , or on video tape, like:
“Voltron” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uS5b8aQ6z8),
“Robotech” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWlcZRuiVI),
“Urusei Yatsura” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5HxIlzHCb0)
“Ranma ½” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9BapLxwkw)
“Robot Carnival” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_TpDpJICk),
“Neo-Tokyo” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wLTSgfNOA),
“Akira” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQnw35kR6Pw),
“Bubblegum Crisis” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOYZhUlISt8)
“MD Geist” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxHgVBpKNEo),
“Genocyber” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXZ2bTigdGY) NSFW,
“Urotsukidoji” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la8wB1onNog) NSFW,
“Wicked City” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTZ3QMoE9w),
“Ninja Scroll” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prqnIxmXru0)
Additional shown on American TV and available on VHS mid to late 1990s titles such as:
“Ghost in the Shell”(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZVmcBZzpbY)
"Perfect Blue" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Rj7nn0ZVs)
“Trigun” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHe4U5c5Oc)
“Cowboy Bebop” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zDfxZ4NcE)
“Gundam Wing” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qrks07Yoas)
“Kenshin” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU1tnFg2ZV8),
“Fushigi Yuugi” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-spe3sv5OKo),
“Card Captor Sakura/ Cardcaptors” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiVethCTQVY),
“Escaflowne” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJZATeQvwpo)
“Berserk” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e2x4_XIokk)
“Slayers” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmYWWB_kMvQ)
“El Hazard” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0WWZwDqG9M)
“Tenchi Muyo” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k4yU0CvTy0)
“InuYasha” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUZ8dGgYEg),
Widely popular in America titles from the 2000s:
“Bleach” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSsjo-sb9hY),
“Naruto” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzq2bBNWXX8),
And the US/Japan amalgamated film “Animatrix” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx_jlOb5sbw)
Seemingly “evergreen” American general fan favorite titles would have to include:
“Dragon Ball” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c8FzDm4Gbo),
“Sailor Moon” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6_RZhh44NY),
“Transformers” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQn--1m7cnY)
“Pokemon” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUnlh-Air2w)
“Hello Kitty” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a14-PCzofqI)
And for the “Otaku”:
“Evangelion” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A62011nyXNI)
“Revolutionary Girl Utena” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92rN79cbOg)
Perhaps a “popular in Europe, but never caught on here” section with:
“Lupin III” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm99tmzmXkk),
“Rose of Versailles”(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LDsvM-1Fzw)
“Saint Seiya”(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSqOuhJMOKM),
“City Hunter” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0ALBPSbtA),
“Fist of the North Star” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDmELx2q3LE),
Or “tops in Japan” itself:
“Sazae-san” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pZxDkJPL7A),
“Chibi Maruko-chan” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6yI16yA-kQ),
“Ashita No Joe” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzG31qq41eA)
“Slam Dunk” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4atnm_5h0)
“One Piece” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFoerqM0BA)
In addition to the more or less permanent exhibit, I’d have the main gallery with a changing theme, showcasing the works of different studios (Toei, Tatsunoko, Sunrise, Madhouse, Production I.G, Studio 4°c, etc.), or directors (Rintaro, Dezaki, Tomino, Takahashi, Kawajiri, Oshii, Kon, Omori, etc.) or character designers (Amano, Sonoda, Mikimoto, etc.), mecha men (Okawara, Izubuchi, Kawamori, Obari, etc.) , or animators (Itano, Morimoto, Sadamitsu, etc); or grouping different anime based on literary themes like “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, “Saiyuki” , “Tale of Genji”, classic children’s novels, or even works of Shakespeare; shows that trace the development of genres like, “Shonen Action Heroes” or “Magical Girls” or Yaoi; WW II revisited; Eastern or Western religions; Post Apocalypse; Robo-Girlfriend; Psychic Powered protagonist; Sports; video game adaptations; Boom Era one-shot 80s OVAs….and on and on and on…With the main exhibits designed to be as familiar as possible, this would be where even experienced fans might find something new to them.
Of course, since I don’t plan to collect from all of these series, I would need to have some of the artwork on loan from other collections. But that would never be a problem for my critically acclaimed, well attended, climate-controlled, perfectly secure, beautiful fantasy museum!
Oh yeah ... And, I'd locate it in Downtown Los Angeles in Little Tokyo near the Geffen Contemporary and the Japanese American Museum.
Re: Your very own Museum?
This made me think of The Art of the Steal. At least in America, it might be taken away after you die....
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Re: Your very own Museum?
I've always thought that donating my collection to a museum would be spectacular and the way I'd want my collection to end up. Realistically, unless I win the lottery, the ability to buy a place in a large city to house my collection in a conservation environment is not going to happen. But, there are a couple museums near me (The Asian Art Museum and Cartoon Art Museum, both in SF) that showcase animation art and properly care for their antiquties. The Asian Art Museum once hosted the large Osamu Tezuka exhibit that has travelled around the world, so I don't think it's farfetched that they wouldn't want to acquire Sailor Moon artwork for exhibition.
I don't know if my collection has any viability, though. Usually, an exhibit should have a good variety of artwork displayed, and not just from one particular era of an artist's life. Excluding the shikishi sketches, most of my collection is dedicated to Sailor Moon, with the remainder being mostly CCS and Inuyasha. So unless an exhibit plans on focusing on one particular show, the collection is lacking. I definitely can't organize a "1990s Magical Girl" exhibit simply because I don't have artwork from the remaining MG shows from this era. My original sketch collection probably has a better chance of being displayed because it includes artwork from a variety of different artists from a variety of different media.
Every time these topics come around on this board, I always mention that I should contact these places and look into offering to exhibit items from my collection there, and every time, I decide not to do it. I think it's a combination of worrying that there will be massive line fading on displayed items, and the prospect of driving large chunks of my collection into the city.
I don't know if my collection has any viability, though. Usually, an exhibit should have a good variety of artwork displayed, and not just from one particular era of an artist's life. Excluding the shikishi sketches, most of my collection is dedicated to Sailor Moon, with the remainder being mostly CCS and Inuyasha. So unless an exhibit plans on focusing on one particular show, the collection is lacking. I definitely can't organize a "1990s Magical Girl" exhibit simply because I don't have artwork from the remaining MG shows from this era. My original sketch collection probably has a better chance of being displayed because it includes artwork from a variety of different artists from a variety of different media.
Every time these topics come around on this board, I always mention that I should contact these places and look into offering to exhibit items from my collection there, and every time, I decide not to do it. I think it's a combination of worrying that there will be massive line fading on displayed items, and the prospect of driving large chunks of my collection into the city.