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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Mar 3, 2016 0:21:59 GMT -5
Stained glass window depicts the storied saintsFrom the Hatena diary of pootiThe Osamu Tezuka Manga MuseumTakarazuka City's Tezuka Manga Museum pageFor any true fan of Tezuka, this looks like a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage. These are all Japanese-language links, but if you feed the URLs to Google Translate, you get something usable. Travel-guide writeup with photos. We learn that the exterior of the museum is based on the castle in "Princess Knight." I went to the Osamu Tezuka Manga MuseumIn 2014 August 08-14 on a visit home to Takarazuka City in Hyogo Prefecture, my daughter and I went together to the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum. During his lifetime (he died 1989 February 09 at the age of 60), Osamu Tezuka is said to have produced around 604 manga issues.Magazine-like article by SORI-san at the Black Kurosuke events blog. "Just a casual kind of blog." Black Kurosuke are those little sootballs with eyes from Studio Ghibli's Totoro and Spirited Away films. Printed visitors' guide. Three floors of exhibits with a dome skylight. In a child's cartoon paradise, visitors with inadequate training can sweat over turning a pencil sketch into a CG animation sequence! Slave-galley seating with supervisor on a platform. Hyper-realistic! There's a separate drawing area for pencils. CG tweening, Black Jack to Kimba For best results, start from a good placeAnother photo tour from the FC2 blog of SAMmomApparently the mother of child skateboard sensation Isamu Yamamoto. Sam loved the museum. About halfway down the long, long page. Today's Japanese phrase: アニメ工房Anime koubouAnimation studio I remember watching a news item about it, several years ago, when it first opened, looks as if it has expanded since!
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Post by tangerinesun on Mar 3, 2016 17:21:40 GMT -5
Naoko reminds you that March 3 is Girls Day — Hinamatsuri — in Japan.
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Post by tangerinesun on Mar 11, 2016 23:27:52 GMT -5
Manhole cover artManhole covers and other utility access plates are a vital part of your engineered world, so a lot of thought goes into them. Most of that is functional: don't break, don't fall in, don't come out randomly, be manageable, be durable, be informative, be non-skid. Some of the thinking is purely decorative, because making them ugly never saved much effort. It might even be harder. Manhole Cover article at en.wikipedia.orgTill lately, their design has been by unsung individuals at engineering companies, public works departments, iron foundries. These have been good in their way, but rather… industrial. Historic manhole covers at the Ephemeral New York blogRoughly around the middle 1980s, when Design became a Thing that applied to whatever wherever whenever worldwide, a quiet revolution took place. Manhole lids became public art, and then part of the regular business of making infrastructure. Custom manhole covers product page at Neenah Foundry, Neenah WIPublic works for private enjoyment in 2014 from Union CreativeNowhere do they take that more seriously than Japan, which AFAIK has been first with location-specific designs, first with licensed commercial designs, first with color. The Japanese for "manhole" is… MANHŌRU. https://www.instagram.com/p/BC1J04Ho6R6 tobetobetenmade at Instagram神奈川県横浜市野毛 マンホール Colored manhole cover at Nogeyama Park, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture Design by "Nakamichi from Noge" Photo by Yuko Saito (@tobetobetenmade) とべとべ天馬で, tobe tobe ten made, I would translate: "Dead last (place in the ranking), until Heaven" PARADE OF THE URLS More internet manhole fandom: Random manholes collected by Helen P. ReillyHelen is a Australian living in Kansai who likes rock bands and manholes. The Art of the Japanese Manhole at Kuriositas.comStreet Creativity: The Art of Japanese Manhole Covers at noupe.comThe Beautiful Manhole Cover Art of Japan at Twisted SifterJP manhole cover art at Amusing PlanetManhole Covers pinboard by Patricia Nowogrodski at pinterestThe Beauty of Japan’s Artistic Manhole Covers by Johnny Strategy at the Colossal blogManhole Cover Street Art That Is Far From Pedestrian at Web UrbanistMinneapolis manhole covers at Atlas ObscuraSeattle manhole covers at Seattle.govSubmissions to the City of Vancouver's “Ironclad Art” Manhole Design ChallengeMANHOLE COVER ART search string at TumblrManhole covers of the world at Dan Heller PhotographyOwn your own: Collectible prefectural manhole cover medallions at Union CreativeMANHOLE COVER search for baubles at etsy.comBooks about: Drainspotting: Japanese Manhole Covers by Remo Camerota at Amazon.comManholes, a book by Mimi & Robert A. Melnick at MIT PressDesigns Underfoot: The Art of Manhole Covers in New York City by Diana Stuart at NY City Store
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Post by jaicee on Mar 17, 2016 4:05:54 GMT -5
Then it was breakfast time, when you'll see what should never be done with chopsticks. Is there a thread for Japanese food? I think it would be neat to post some recipes and cooking techniques, and pretty much anything else pertaining to Japanese cuisine.
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Post by jaicee on Mar 17, 2016 4:07:24 GMT -5
Itty bitty living spaces:
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Post by thegl0r on Mar 17, 2016 10:43:58 GMT -5
Is there a thread for Japanese food? I think it would be neat to post some recipes and cooking techniques, and pretty much anything else pertaining to Japanese cuisine. I'd certainly be interested in hearing about Japanese cuisine, especially any vegetarian stuff. I've watched loads of vids on YT and keep telling myself I'll try that one out some day. But it seldom happens. If people posting can say that they've tried the recipe and say if it works even better. I've had a few complete disasters with recipes that I've followed from the net. Here's one type of cake that I keep promising to try out and now that I've admitted in public that I want to have a go at it, I may actually get round to trying it out. The main reason I've not risked one of these so far is that I've got a rather poor oven. Its gas and cooks stuff very unevenly. So go on, start something. In the mean time I'll stick this recipe here and perhaps it can get moved somewhere more suitable later... Must get round to trying to make a real Shonen Knife rock'n'roll cake one day. Now where's that 10" square cake tin and the silicon baking sheet sheet...
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Mar 18, 2016 1:34:39 GMT -5
Then it was breakfast time, when you'll see what should never be done with chopsticks. Is there a thread for Japanese food? I think it would be neat to post some recipes and cooking techniques, and pretty much anything else pertaining to Japanese cuisine. The girl's English, is excellent! I love Miso soup, but, not sure I want to try Natto.
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Mar 18, 2016 1:36:00 GMT -5
Then it was breakfast time, when you'll see what should never be done with chopsticks. Is there a thread for Japanese food? I think it would be neat to post some recipes and cooking techniques, and pretty much anything else pertaining to Japanese cuisine. Japanese food is part of the culture, I don't think it needs it's own thread
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Post by jaicee on Mar 18, 2016 4:26:31 GMT -5
While I agree that the food is part of the culture, I feel like there might be enough food-specific posts to give it its own thread. It could be a place for videos like above along with recipes and such. Thoughts?
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Post by tangerinesun on Mar 18, 2016 7:33:49 GMT -5
While I agree that the food is part of the culture, I feel like there might be enough food-specific posts to give it its own thread. It could be a place for videos like above along with recipes and such. Thoughts? You're making me kind of hungry. There could be recipes. No fugu, though.
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Apr 10, 2016 7:49:38 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 10, 2016 11:37:02 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on May 3, 2016 12:59:43 GMT -5
https://instagram.com/p/BEqOYMMMa9C Bisen's always good, but if you watch this one 50 times in a row you automatically become a better person. On the one below, she had a moment's hesitation on the last stroke and played it safe, so it came out weaker. https://instagram.com/p/BEpJ7ViMa7E It's going so good, don't screw it up, don't screw it up, don't screw it up, don't... well, it's still fine anyway.
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Post by tangerinesun on May 3, 2016 15:47:09 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 10, 2016 3:52:45 GMT -5
What's so Japanese about this? Just look. Hisaji Hara & Natsumi HayashiPhotographic collaborators sharing a web presence and certain projects of Hara's, for which Hayashi acts as photographer's assistant and favorite model. Hara by Hiyashi, Hayashi by Hara, and Hayashi by HayashiHara is a photographer in his fifties, famous for having done a series of photographic studies that recreate well-known paintings of the 20th-century French artist Balthus. Discussed here, for example: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/feb/26/hisaji-hara-photography-hoppen-review The Salon I (1941-43), and its recreationHara and Balthus are both interested in a kind of representationalism that makes ordinary reality more weirdly symbolic than a surrealist's fever dream. The middle-period works of Balthus that are the subjects have been described as "languid and erotic" but I find them ominous and tense to the point of hysteria. 〜〜〜 "We did not know how to see reality and all the disturbing things our apartments, our loved ones and our streets conceal."
— Albert Camus, in his introduction to a 1949 Balthus show in Paris〜〜〜 Gallery exhibition notice in Japanese dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/culture/exib/361387.htmlAnyway, while I have to salute Hara and his masterwork, I am a little more interested in his junior partner Natusmi Hayashi. She's famous in her own right because sometime in 2010 she veered off her usual program of cat portraits and slice-of-life shots, into a series she called Today's Levitation. Thu.08.19.2010 — just plain jumping, not levitatingSat.12.18.2010 – an early levitation that worksPlenty of people have done this, but none better. She learned from her mentor how to take pains, how to compose a shot, how to achieve a sense of stillness which is totally unlike the familiar high-speed frozen frame. Mon.02.14.2011 — (3D) screw this shot up, land in hospitalMon.03.14.2011 — I can't tell how she did it eitherWhen Natsumi realized she was onto something, she got much, much better at it. Her skill as a model is no less important that her skill as a photographer. She does these by jumping in the air, apparently sometimes at a risk to her health. Mon.04.18.2011 — this one is the one, if there has to be just oneThe leviation project may have played itself out, but the photos still get onto book jackets and public walls. Shared homepage: hisajihara-and-natsumihayashi.comNatsumi's old photoblog: Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary yowayowacamera.com/Her Twitter: twitter.com/yowayowacameraHer Instagram: not much happening, but still instagram.com/levitationpics/
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