Under the stage name “Piano Squall”, Michael Gluck performs videogame/anime music piano concerts to fundraise for charity.
Since 2003, Michael has given concerts in sixteen different states to benefit organizations such as the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Race for the Cure, Baltimore Reads, the Maryland Food Bank, the Matthew Foster Foundation, and Tsunami Relief. He has been a musical guest at twenty-seven anime conventions, including Sakura-Con 06 and 07, A-Kon 06, and Otakon 05, where he performed for an audience of three thousand people.
In 2007, Michael released his debut album, entitled GAME, which became the first videogame and anime piano solo CD to be published by an independent musician. Proceeds from GAME benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to fight the disease that destroyed the life of Michael's grandmother.
Michael’s music has been featured by IGN, MTV, Newtype Magazine, GamesRadar, GameDaily, The Otaku, Destructoid, VGMusic, RPGamer, RPGFan, The Armchair Empire, SquareSound, QJ, and Music4Games.
Hi!, how's it going? Just wanted to stop by and show you my sea turtle I did, this just about drove me nuts, LOL but as everyone around here say's that's a pretty short drive, =)
Sorry I haven't commented in like forever, I haven't forgotten about you, Really =)
Just wanted to share my last drawing, sorry it's so washed out, I think it's time for a new scanner...again. I have yet to name this piece, lol, I really need to do that.
KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no direct connection with the Western horror.
Manga, anime, movies and the subcultures developed around them competed in shicks and panic. If you really want to know why on the Japanese horror movies is written 18+, take a look at the next issue of Otaku Magazine. Nevertheless, is our duty to warn you that all who looked inside certain pages of this issue have disappeared shortly after. Still, it might be just a story to send the children to sleep for good.
