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“Maledict Car” – Jemapur

Posted in YouTube, music, tagged , , on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Glimpses of Tokyo at night, kaleidoscopically manipulated and set to an electronic track. Visually very cool.

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An evolution: Japanese language and “connectivity”

Posted in Japan, fonts, history, tagged , , , , on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Looking forward from a point in time: not too long ago, people used to think of that the Japanese had extremely advanced and sophisticated mobile device networks and habits, but not as advanced internet tools e.g. they paid their bills through their keitai and chatted with others using BBSes.
Looking backwards from a point in future: [...]

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The Diary of Tortov Roddle (或る旅人の日記)

Posted in YouTube, animation, tagged , , on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

According to the Anime News Network:
Follow Tortov as he journeys through very surreal, magical, picturesque landscapes, meeting interesting characters and circumstances on the way. Accompanied by his long-legged pig friend, Tortov takes us on an on-going adventure of peaceful contemplation.
A bit surreal. The pig-steed that Roddle rides looks like it came from The Temptation [...]

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Kokiriko Bushi

Posted in YouTube, animation, music, tagged , , , , , , , on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Too good not to post.

From Pink Tentacle (via How The World Works, Ectoplasmosis etc).

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Foto Friday

Posted in NYT, Singapore, film, obsession, photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

6ixth – Jeff Chouw’s photo exhibition of Opposition MP Chiam See Tong campaigning in 2006 — is now online on Chouw’s site.
(Found via Tan Pin Pin’s blog. And coincidentally: Yisheng’s just posted his review of the 2006 exhibition up on his blog.)
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An extract from the NYT feature on Yoshiyuki Kohei’s series on park voyeurs (picked [...]

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Yamamura Koji

Posted in Japan, YouTube, animation, anime, tagged , , , , , , , on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’d like to see Yamamura’s latest animated short — an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Country Doctor.
Anti-whaling video for Greenpeace

Atama Yama — about a miser who has a cherry tree grow out of his head

Yamamura Animation – English version website.

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Randomess #406V

Posted in random, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The Japanese Film Festival’s still on btw. Last day 23 Sept. Most of the Imamura films have been screened, but we haven’t started on Ichikawa Jun’s and Yoshiyuki Kazuko’s yet. In other words, come watch
TimeOut writeup on JFF 2007
Steven Levitt explains why you don’t get much good analysis of current public policy.
Charles Landry [...]

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