Jean Snow [.net]

Month: April 2003

  • Golden Week

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    My Golden Week holiday has now officially started. Ten days off. Oh yeah.

  • Mori Art Museum

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    I’m getting excited about the upcoming Mori Art Museum, which only opens in October.

  • Canadian Animation Festival

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    Since I’m Canadian, I really should mention this. There will a Canadian animation festival taking place at the Tollywood theatre in Shimo-Kitazawa from April 29th to May 23rd. Here’s the description from Real Tokyo: With such prominent representatives as Norman McLaren or Co Hoedeman, the standard of animation made in Canada is extraordinarily high. After…

  • Neighborhood

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    My neighborhood. Picture taken just down the street from my apartment.

  • Thermal Imaging

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    From Japan Today: A Narita airport staff member stands in front of a thermal imaging camera. The camera is used to detect feverish passengers from SARS-infected Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou and Toronto.

  • Yuko

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    Yuko studying very hard. What you see near the bottom of the picture is her new pride and joy, an electronic Chinese-Japanese-English dictionary. She got a nice communist red cover for it.

  • Ongoing Vol. 2

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    I’m sort of late on this (the event covered the month of April, so only one week left), but this Ongoing event seems interesting. From the RealTokyo description: This month, a number of bars, coffee shops, restaurants, etc. around Kichijoji station are turning into art spaces. As part of a project aiming to “create occasions…

  • Norio Kobayashi

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    This is just great. Norio Kobayashi has documented the ins and outs of his kitchen with a digital camera. Enjoy the huge amount of pics at his site, which are also being shown at an exhibit in Hamburg right now. Link found via esthet.org.