Misha Mihailova

Spotted at a BART station: this disgusting AI slop. If that's the level of quality control they maintain at Skechers, why should I trust them to make good shoes?

My fellow manga lovers in the Bay Area should check out the de Young's "Art of Manga" exhibition. If you teach comics/manga/anime, your students would enjoy it, too.

When the usual suspects (Cameron, Zemeckis) started shilling AI, it felt inevitable and fully on brand. But this? This is just deeply disappointing.

At some university reception today, another professor told me that she watched KPop Demon Hunters with her two children (aged six and nine) and kept pausing it to "make sure they understood that the lesson of this movie is radical self-acceptance." Anyway, academics shouldn't procreate.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Brit Marling in conversation with Sherryl Vint at SFAM 2025. Guess I'll finally watch The OA now.

Born to play Hades II, forced to attend an academic conference the weekend Hades II finally drops.

I'll be in LA Wed-Sunday of this week, taking part in this cool speculative fiction conference. I'll be doing double duty - panel talk on AI-generated media + roundtable on adapting Ted Chiang's “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” (ft. Chiang himself).

‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ slashes 26-year box office record and tops weekend box office | CNN Business “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – the Movie Infinity Castle” shattered the record for biggest opening weekend domestic gross for an anime movie, hauling in an estimated $70 million.

Entirely deserved! I've been skeptical about the strategy of turning this Demon Slayer arc into feature-length films rather than TV seasons but I stand corrected. Ufotable nailed this adaptation in every way that counts and then some.

This list is 🔥

Wow! Are y'all hiring? My office doesn't even have windows...

That's so valid and important! I've had my office for four years now, and there are still framed posters chilling in their boxes on the floor 🙈 Perhaps I should fail to write in there more often!

I'm only revising an article, but the struggle is real. It sounds like you're revising a book? I'm excited to read it! Good luck!

a man is holding a box with sticky notes on it in front of a poster of japan ALT: a man is holding a box with sticky notes on it in front of a poster of japan

Academics: I recommend minor revisions.
The minor revisions they recommended:

Always! But that usually goes against any academic goals, not in service of them 😆

My summer whats?

We can't believe it's been a week since the end of #SAS36! It was such a great event. We also can't stop thinking about the animation @joanna-quinn.bsky.social made during her keynote. Here is a version she created just for us! Thanks, Joanna!

I think people and institutions are constantly donating new objects, so maybe some of the stuff wasn't there ten years ago.

It's a great space (and it does screen films, still)! Very eclectic collection!

In other news, an edited volume on the computational image that I'm contributing to needs additional chapters. Please check out the CFP below and spread the word!

The #SAS36 crew visited the Cinema Museum and met its resident cat, Garbo 😻

David Sproxton (co-founder of Aardman) closed out this year's stellar keynote line-up at #SAS36

Extremely informative panel on environmental sustainability in animation at #SAS36! @drcriformenti.bsky.social

Very cool! Learned a lot! Pics coming later :)

Another super interesting AI panel at #SAS36

Some candids from last night's pub quiz at #SAS36 Our team, Duurzaamheid, strategically came in second to avoid accusations of Board favoritism and institutional corruption

Michael Dudok de Wit on the importance of subtlety and rhythm in animation #SAS36

Learned so much from this panel on Chinese animation at #SAS36

I don't doubt it! They are always great :)