aq-ui-line, adj. Of, relating to, or having the
characteristics of an eagle.
(Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
You've managed to find the homepage of Aquiline Studios,
the home of the anime music videos of Scintilla and Cyanna.
Enjoy your stay, and check out the videos while you're here.
Please use the links on the left for navigation.
12/15/23:
The USDA has FINALLY updated its
plant hardiness zone map to reflect 1991-2020 climate normals, and it turns out that almost all
of the New Jersey Piedmont is now in USDA zone 7! To celebrate, I've updated
Scintilla's Plant Database to add 46 new woody plants that may work
for us now (Carolina cherry-laurel, coast redwood, dwarf palmetto, winter daphne...), bringing the
total of plants listed to 541. Whoo hoo! As always, if you spot anything that looks amiss,
feel free to drop me a line.
(I'm still impatiently waiting for the Sunset folks to update the Sunset National and/or
Northeastern Gardening Books though...)
8/19/23: Besides AMVs, did you know Scintilla's also been making bootleg songs for 20+ years (in other words, ever since they were still CALLED bootlegs)? It's true, even now in 2023 when people call them "mashups", and he still keeps finding new ideas for songs to join in unholy unions -- and you can hear them all, including the newest, Jennifer Lopez vs. Carl Douglas in "If You Had Kung Fu", on the DJ PTW's Bootlegs page. Happy listening!
6/7/22: Another major update to Scintilla's Plant Database, adding information from three new primary sources by Richard Bir, Kenneth Druse, and Michael Dirr and Keith Warren respectively. Also, the tags are now color-coded to show those that are unequivocally good or bad traits, for ease of identification. Check it out!
6/11/21: I've finished making the first major round of updates to Scintilla's Plant Database, adding information from the USDA's PLANTS database -- thanks to Dr. Glenn from RCSJ for the suggestion!
5/19/21:
It has absolutely nothing to do with AMVs, but I've just made a significant new addition to the site:
Scintilla's Plant Database, containing almost 500 plants as of this typing
(almost all woody ones, that is, trees and shrubs), painstakingly compiled from numerous independent
sources in an attempt to provide the most complete and objective information possible.
Putting this together with no help has occupied a ton of my time over the past four months, so I'm
glad to be able finally to announce its completion (at least as far as woody plants are concerned;
if I get really bored I might add herbaceous perennials at some point). I'm already finding it to
be more convenient than constantly cross-checking half a dozen different sources for any given plant
(I had enough of that in building it), plus I learned more about PHP and Ajax along the way. If you
find anything that needs correction, please
let me know!
4/6/20:
If you haven't already, go check out Cyanna's
"A Song for Our Time"
(Aggretsuko set to a delightfully apt little
banjolele ditty),
which ripped up the convention circuit in 2019 and currently holds a glistening star rating of 4.71
(out of 5) on A-M-V.org! It's not listed here quite yet, but it will be as soon as she gets me some
appropriate site assets to use.
Also, even though this has nothing whatsoever to do with AMVs, I've started documenting my
experiences with growing trees and bushes. You can check it out here.
6/4/18: Now for the SEVENTH year running, Scintilla will be running the AMV department at AnimeNEXT (June 8-10 in Atlantic City, NJ). Besides the ever-popular contest (the only contest where YOU, the audience, get to decide the winners of the coveted AnimeNEXT medals), we'll also have the fourth annual AMV Sing-Along and, brand new for 2018, a Dance Under the AMVs. (Here's the full schedule.) Come on out and let's have some fun!
8/11/14: Party like it's 2006 with the latest video from Scintilla, "Gibberish in Motion: When AMVs and Animutations Collide", otherwise known as two and a half minutes of flashy randomness and pre-Web-2.0 jokes set to a DDR song infamous for its awfully pronounced (and therefore easy-to-amusingly-mishear) English. If you're a fan of DDR or (F)Animutations, then you're especially likely to actually get the jokes here. Made finals at Otakon 2014.
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