Month: April 2003
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Moblogging
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Thanks to a new service offered by Kevin Cameron called mfop (Moblog for Other People) I am now able to join the ranks of mobloggers. For those not in the know, moblogging refers to mobile blogging, meaning blogging while on the go, usually through a mobile phone. You write a message in your phone as…
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My Grandmothers
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This is rather original. From the site: The “My Grandmothers” series is a project which visualizes the self-perceived notions of several young women when asked to imagine what type of woman they themselves might become fifty years later.
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We Love Copy
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Lots of examples of plagiarism in design from Hong Kong. The image above is stolen from the Air album cover.
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The Candidates
I just went out and took a picture of the posters for the 4 candidates of today’s election. At the top is Dr. Nakamatsu (in an extreme pointing pose), underneath is Keiko Higuchi, next to her is the Japanese communist candidate, and beneath him is Tokyo’s one and only Shintaro Ishihara!
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Election Day
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Just got back from the polling station with Yuko. Today are the elections for Tokyo’s governor. There are 4 choices on the ballot: ultra-conservative ex-actor Shintaro Ishihara (the present governor), a representative of the Japanese communist party, ultra-feminist Keiko Higuchi, and Dr. Nakamatsu, the inventor of the device to transfer gas from one container to…
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Gyoza Stadium
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My friend Patrick came over to Ikebukuro for a visit yesterday, and since he had some free passes to go to the Gyoza Stadium, that’s where we went. The Gyoza Stadium is sort of theme park for gyoza (pictured above), like the ramen museum in Yokohama, and collects about 12 famous gyoza shops in a…
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Taipei House
This picture was taken not far from my apartment. The vertical green sign on the left indicates the address of the block. The grey sign in the middle has the name of the building behind the wall, Taipei House.