Happy new year from all of us at Hatena! We wish all of you happiness in this new year, and hope that all of your dreams come true in 2010.
We'd like to thank you all for joining the Flipnote Hatena community in 2009, and we're looking forward to seeing more of your Flipnotes in 2010.
Let's have a great year together!
Today on Flipnote Central you can find a new Flipnote by Eiji Aonuma that was specially created to celebrate the release of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Eiji Aonuma is the producer of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, as well as many other great Nintendo games. You can view this new Flipnote on both the Nintendo DSi and the Flipnote Hatena website for all regions.
In this week's edition of the Flipnote Hatena news blog, we're going to show you some of our favorite Flipnotes based on last week's topic "Goodbye 2009", and introduce our new topic for this week which is "Hello 2010"
If you post Flipnotes about the weekly topic, we might feature yours here on the Flipnote Hatena Weekly News blog next week -- post your Flipnotes and join in the fun!
Lastly, scroll to the bottom of this blog entry to see Weekly Frog Sightings where we feature original frog photos and illustrations from users like you. Post your original frog photos to Hatena Haiku (post to the keyword "Frog Sightings") and we might feature it here next week.
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The best of last week's topic: "Goodbye 2009"
As of today, there were 4,210 Flipnotes posted by users from around the world for last week's topic. We've selected some of the best of those Flipnotes from the past week which we hope you'll enjoy.
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"Goodbye 2009" Flipnotes from the Europe and Oceania region:
★ A cat enjoys the celebrations for the new year in this Flipnote by Katana (id:KATANAs4n). We don't have any cats in the Hatena offices, but the honorary chairman of Hatena is a dog named Cinammon.
★ 2009 gets deleted in this cool Flipnote by moigus193m (id:moigus193m). Nice use of sprites, and we liked the fireworks too.
★ The fireworks to welcome 2010 continue in this colorful Flipnote by Rafaela (iid:Svenja-Rafaela). Good job!
★ This Flipnote by Simone (id:Skeptomai) features a hungry monster that eats time, then transforms into a clock. The Flipnote ends with fireworks to welcome the new year (Are fireworks a recurring theme for this week?!?)
★ Cats welcome in the new year in this cute Flipnote by x__iDz'__× (id:piixa). We especially liked the cat font used by this creator! (Cats seems to be a recurring theme for this week too)
"Goodbye 2009" Flipnotes from the Americas region:
★ Balloon boy returns in this end of the year Flipnote by fred (id:blankenburg). Fred's happy tunes always bring smiles to our faces, and we would like to thank him for all of the great stuff that he posted in 2009.
★ Mr.Fubbles (id:FubblesVision) sings a cute song and has a funny blue character saying goodbye to 2009 and welcoming in the new year. Nice work!
★ Uh, dude... 2009 is over. We'd like to wish SonicH3ro (id:SonicTh3Hedgehog), the creator of this Flipnote a happy new year and happy birthday too.
★ Cassie (id:crabby1997) kicks 2009 out of the way and welcomes the 2010. We feel the same way too, and wish you all a great 2010!
★ Melanie (id:Saint-Athena) made a short Flipnote with a character waving goodbye to 2009. This was a nice, subtle way to approach the weekly topic. Good work, and wishing you a happy new year!
"Goodbye 2009" Flipnotes from Japan:
★ Fanatics (id:fanatics) says goodbye to the year of the cow (2009), and welcomes the year of the tiger (2010) in this excellent Flipnote. Be sure to check out Fanatics other Flipnotes too.
★ Two cute characters cross the road into the new year in this Flipnote by Amino youichi (id:Amino_Sapuri-next)
★ The curtain is drawn on 2009 and 2010 comes to life in this Flipnote by syotaka (id:funky-1121)
★ 2009 comes and goes, and the year of the tiger (2010) begins, in this Flipnote by Tonmaruki∞ (id:ikoan-uotas)
★ The animal for the year 2009, the cow, sadly says "You don't need me anymore". However, the cow returns in the year 2021, which is the next year of the cow in the Chinese zodiac to find that he is loved again, in this beautiful Flipnote by Tsukushiro◆Yuuri (id:tukusiro-yuuri)
This week's topic: "Say Hello to 2010"
What do you want to achieve this year? What is your new year's resolution? Tell us about your ideas for 2010 in your Flipnotes and post it to channel 8 from Flipnote Hatena on your Nintendo DSi.
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Weekly Frog Sighting
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Please submit only original photos/illustrations that you have created yourself.
This week's frog sighting is one by myself (id:aaron). Usually I am busy translating the Hatena website into English, or answering your emails, but I also enjoy taking photos during my free time.
A few days ago I went to visit Mt. Tsukuba, located in Ibaraki prefecture in Japan. It's about 4 hours by train from the Hatena offices in Kyoto. Mt. Tsukuba is famous for being one of the highest mountains in Japan, and also for having frogs with 4 fingers on their front legs, and 6 toes on their hind legs.
I was very excited to check out these frogs and take some photos for the "Frog Sightings" section. Unfortunately, once I got to Mt. Tsukuba, I couldn't find these unique frogs anywhere. Some local people I spoke with told me that all of the frogs were hibernating for the winter.
Luckily, there were a variety of frog related items in the gift shops so I took a few pictures which you can find below.
This restaurant sign featured a frog eating some noodles.
Frogs everywhere, but they were all made of ceramic!
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