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READERSVOICE.COM aims to collect a few interesting reading tips. Cindy Yang is an animator studying at CalArts. Check out her 2d animation Noon on Youtube. It's a dreamy, relaxed short about a woman sleeping at noon in her quiet apartment, while the noisy bustling street life of Taiwan goes on outside. There are some very interesting manga and anime recommendations in this interview.

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Animator Cindy Yang mentions some favorite anime....

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Cindy Yang talks about her 3:50 minute animation Noon, a slice of life in Taiwan, and describes studying animation at CalArts...

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Animator Cindy Yang talks about her black and white comics and some very short animations she sometimes makes...

Alli Sinclair p1

READERSVOICE.COM aims to collect a few interesting reading tips. For this issue, author Alli Sinclair talks about her novel Burning Fields, a romance set in the sugar cane country of far north Queensland just after WW2. There are a lot of good travel related and other reading suggestions in this interview...

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Author Alli Sinclair talks about researching her novel Burning Fields...

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Ascendant p1

The reading of the members of ambient group Ascendant, Don Tyler and Chris Bryant, has a large influence on their music. There are a lot of reading tips in this interview, from science fiction novels to esoteric and zen philosophy, to anthropology and to Beat generation writers. Their ambient soundscapes and other electronic music on albums like Meridian and Particle Horizon are written to themes or ideas, and take the listener on a journey of discovery.They also founded Synphaera, a record label which releases some of the best ambient music available today.

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Chris Bryant and Don Tyler talk about writing music to a theme or concept...