Every now and then, I toy with the idea of getting a tattoo but I’ve never felt for any design so strongly that I could imagine keeping it on my skin for the rest. of. my. life.
Until now.
If I ever get a tattoo, this would probably be it.
But now I have a new problem to ponder — which text would I use?
(Found via Boing Boing )
Beautiful!
See this and more at Marian Bantjes’ website
I haven’t seen this at all in any bookshop. Either they’re all sold out (wouldn’t be surprised), or Wallpaper* has stopped distributing issues with limited edition covers commercially.
Oddly, GV doesn’t seem to be advertising Yasmin Ahmad‘s Q&A after the screening of her latest film Mukhsin on 31st March.
How? Buy a ticket to watch MUKHSIN
Where? GV VivoCity Cinema EUROPA only (MRT: Harbourfront station)
When? 4.20pm session on Sat, 31/3.
Yasmin Ahmad will be at this screening and will meet and greet the audience and to answer questions after this screening at GV Cinema Europa (VivoCity).
You can now book your tickets in advance at http://www.gv.com.sg
Mukhsin. In Malay, Chinese and English with English Subtitles. 97mins, 1.85:1. Dolby Stereo. Rated: PG
(from SGFilm)
(click image for full size version)
Kenny and Karen’s Birds & Co. line of handmade notebooks were featured in the April ’07 issue of Wallpaper* (Issue no.98, p.111). International exposure!
To celebrate, 10% off all books this Sat 31st March. Yes, Kinokuniya etc offer 20% discounts fairly regularly. But would you rather support a large bookstore chain? Or a local independent bookstore started by two 20-somethings with a dream?
Who’s Tadanori Yokoo (横尾忠則)?
Google helped dredge up this post from Anipages Daily:
But the fact is, the three shorts he contributed to the first and second festivals — Kiss Kiss Kiss and Anthology No. 1 in 1964 and Kachi Kachi Yama 堅々獄夫婦庭訓 in 1965 — are the only three he ever made. He is mainly known as a designer of psychedelic/collage-type posters, which have been shown in galleries everywhere including the Guggenheim and the Centre Pompidou.
Yokoo’s got an official site.
(via Paul Pope’s blog Pulphope)
From The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, translated by Ciaran Carson
And I replied: ‘Alas! What kind of thrill,
what longing led them to the sorry pass?
And when did they their vital souls imperil?’So I turned again to them, and asked:
‘Francesca, all your torments make me weep
with grief and pity, whether now, or past;but tell me, did you wake, or did you sleep,
and did you sigh, when Love breathed in your ear
of secret joys, so dubious and deep?’And she: ‘There is no greater pain I fear,
than to recall past joy in present hell;
and this is known by your overseer.But since you want so desperately to dwell
on how and when our passion was begot,
then I’ll be one of those who weep and tell.One day, to pass the time, we read of Lancelot,
who loved illicitly. Just the two of us;
we had no thought of what, as yet, was not.From time to time that reading urged our eyes
to meet, and made our faces flush and pale,
but one point in the story changed our lives;for when we read of how the longed-for smile
was kissed by such a noble knight, the one
who for eternity is by my sideall trembling kissed my trembling mouth. The man
who wrote this was a Galeotto; so was the book.
That day the rest of it remained unscanned.’And while one half of this fond pair so spoke,
the other wept so much I fainted. All
of me was overwhelmed by that strokeof pity; and I fell, as a dead body falls.
—–
In his introduction to his translation of Dante’s Inferno, Carson also muses on the similarities between his Belfast and Dante’s Florence, among other things.
Found on the Monocle website: All God’s Children Can Dance .
All God’s Children Can Dance is the first film adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story in the US. Director Robert Logevall cut a special trailer of the film for Monocle, which we’re delighted to present here.
I can’t recall what the story’s about though. Will have to reread it.
See? Not everyone has to surround their creations with bristling patents, trademarks, etc:
Sudoku’s popularity in the United States caught Mr. Kaji by such surprise that he did not try to get the trademark there until it was too late. As a result, Nikoli receives no royalties from sudoku-related sales overseas by other publishers.
In hindsight, though, he now thinks that oversight was a brilliant mistake. The fact that no one controlled sudoku’s intellectual property rights let the game’s popularity grow unfettered, Mr. Kaji says. Nikoli does not plan to trademark other new games, either, in hopes this will also help them take off.
Read the article: Inside Japan’s Puzzle Palace – New York Times
(Thanks psfk.com!)
Driving home, the sky accelerates
And the clouds all form a geometric shape
And it goes fast
You think of the past
Suddenly everything has changed
Spotted among Danny Choo’s pictures of the Tokyo Anime Fair. Independent anime produced by Anime Innovation Tokyo (the Japanese title sounds more quaint but less cliched. Douga Kakumei Tokyo — Moving Picture Revolution Tokyo).
Anyway, Cencoroll looks interesting.
Haven’t checked to see if other Anime Innovation Tokyo trailers are up on YouTube yet, but you can see all of them here.
writing without rhythm 