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[phosfate]

The temperature should hit 104 today. We comfort ourselves by telling each other, "In six months, we'll be saying, 'Gosh, I hope it gets up to 0 today!' Har har." Kill me.

The BJD Orbyrarium, the book on ball-jointed dolls from Haute Doll, arrived yesterday. Really pretty, full of swell toy porn, and in English. Of course, since it's from Haute Doll, you're guaranteed at least one brain-bending bit of sentence construction on every page, and the organization is random, but I suppose that's just part of their charm. Aimee off denofangels.com did a fantastic wraparound cover illustration. Bonus points for giving it one of those crimp-edged vinyl jackets, so it'll keep that lovely new book smell for quite a while, and possibly give me cancer. *whiff*

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[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Of course, since it's from Haute Doll, you're guaranteed at least one brain-bending bit of sentence construction on every page, and the organization is random, but I suppose that's just part of their charm.

Are you trying to tell me that Karen Caviale is the world's crappiest editor? Noooooo! Say it isn't so.

(sorry, it's like waving a red flag at this bull)

Is the book good though? I was thinking of getting it, actually. Even though I don't have any BJDs. Yet.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Shoot no -- there are any number of much crappier editors*, and her obvious love for her subject really does go a long way to make up for it.

I don't know how the book stacks up against any of the Japanese BJD books. But there are a bunch of patterns, some face-up and blushing instructions (sadly heavily dependent on one owning an airbrush), and other stuff, and the photos are lovely. The subject being what it is, some of the information is already out-of-date, and the tutorials bring up as many or more questions than they answer. And some of the patterns are printed over color, which could be a giant pain in the ass when it comes time to enlarge them on a photocopier. It doesn't succeed as BJDs 101 -- if I were an even bigger n00b than I am, I'd be pretty dang lost -- but it's pretty and shiny and in English, and I'm glad to have it.


*To name a couple: wossname at Pocket who thoroughly fucked up and blandified the Star Trek line; and anyone who hires Rob Liefeld.