now that summer is approaching and im not scared of stepping outside anymore, ive decided that i really need to get my shit together and start running again. to help me overcome this fear i have enlisted the best writer in the world haruki murakami. his latest english translation is a series of journal entries as [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘japan’
October 25, 2008
what i talk about when i talk about running
May 23, 2008
animated stick men
there are 700 of these animated gifs on this site and are excellent to just watch, all at once.
May 17, 2008
sushi kitty
mobile phone dangly things featuring hello kitty masquerading as a piece of sushi…
April 19, 2008
how do you say ‘all aboard’ in swedish?
my biggest regret of the moment is not visiting the new ikea store when i was in perth last week.
however, i now realise that the perth store is not the biggest thing in ikea land right now – it’s the kobe store in japan which is celebrating its opening by redocorating a monorail train completely ikea [...]
April 19, 2008
library war 図書館戦争
Put my two favourite things together and this is what you get – TOSHOkAN SENSOU. The action comedy anime adapts Hiro Arikawa’s popular novel about battles fought to preserve libraries when a new law threatens to clamp down on freedom of expression in 2019.
See the trailer here.
I hope they translate this into english.
April 6, 2008
this is why
this is why i think that my ikebana teacher is the best in australia and i can only aspire to reach the levels of creativity that she has. look at the amazing composition of the container, the materials, the background screens and the wooden poles to the side.
this was shown at the recent melboure international flower [...]
April 4, 2008
square fruits
i can’t believe that i lived in japan for so long yet NEVER encountered the phenomena that is the square watermelon, which was brought to my attention the other day. the square watermelon is not new – i am told it has been on high end japanese fruit store shelves for at least the past decade and even earlier [...]
March 23, 2008
origami book
this youtube origami looks a bit tricky. havent tried it yet though. the nick drake musical accompaniment makes what could be a pretty daggy origami instructional video quite ‘cool’.
February 7, 2008
vend-o-mania
you name it, there is a vending machine that dispenses it in japan.
probably the biggest vending urban myth is the ONE vending machine in inner city tokyo that dispenses used women’s underwear. no one has ever seen it but everyone talks about it. well apparently this is it:
vending is a national passtime, as seen by [...]
February 1, 2008
cellphone novels – segoi!
why wait for expensive ebook readers like kindle or whatever when, like in japan, you can download an ebook into your mobile phone. apparently over there one of the fastest growing genres is the cellphone novel. writers, young kids who have grown up using cellphones, are actually writing them from the phone keypad and uploading to websites [...]
