Tag Archives: Japan
Hina Aoyama
Insanely fine paper cutting art. Not much information to be gleaned by the non-Japanese speaker, either on the main site, nor on Hiroshi’s blog, which is where I found it — but there’s lots more in this Flickr slideshow…
links for 2007-12-07: string vests, punch bags, robot violinist, henge tunneling, lyrical terrorist
eBay Seller: crystal passion dezigns ltd: Men’s Clothing, Men’s Accessories items on eBay.co.uk String vests not becoming historical garb, despite the Guardian’s daft story. I do not own a string vest, alas. (tags: string-vest ebay BBC daft) Store withdraws man-shaped … more…
more tentacles
I haven’t discovered any information from the site this came from. The relevant information is displayed as an image, and there’s no alt text provided. (via FFFF again. I am thinking that perhaps I should be looking at setting up … more…
links for 2007-11-06: Charlie in Japan
Charlie’s Diary: Japan: some impressions “Puroland is like Disney World, if you compressed it to bonsai proportions, installed it inside a huge squash court and pickled it in saccharine….” (tags: future Japan Hello-Kitty)
links for 2007-10-26: Shintaro Kago
gallery: Guro Manga Visceral manga by Shintaro Kago – probably NSFW (tags: comics horror manga)
links for 2007-08-29: graphics tablet, reefer madness, Cecil Taylor
Bongofish – DIY Cintiq homebrewed graphics tablet / screen, step by step… (tags: howto graphics tablet hardware DIY) AlterNet: DrugReporter: Pot Growers Are New Target in “War on Terror” Under Bush, terror has become a justification for any and every … more…
Kwaidan (1964)
A VHS copy of Kwaidan (1964) came my way a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t get to look at it until this weekend. It’s a portmanteau of four ghost stories, rather uneven as regards the quality of the … more…
Original Kanji Names
– guess what I’ve been doing, when I should be shopping for hardware?