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Month: September 2003

  • Origami and Urbanism

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    I am all over the new Mark Robinson album, ORIGAMI AND URBANISM, and what a fitting title for this site. Get thee to the TeenBeat website and order this as fast as humanly possible. While you’re there, also order his excellent CANADA’S GREEN HIGHWAYS. This came as a total surprise this week as I had…

  • No Meaning French

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    From Japan Today: People who give their store a French name don’t worry about the meaning. All they care about is how it sounds. – Jean Dacher, head of the French department at Nova, on the current trend for many retail outlets to adopt French names. (Reuters) This is so true, you see it everywhere.…

  • Gungrave

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    An anime series based on the game GUNGRAVE is going to be making its debut on TV Tokyo October 6 at 25:30 (which is the Japanese way of indicating after midnight). So that’s what will be replacing LAST EXILE, which ends next week. Looks like it might be good.

  • Go Fish Pictures

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    Satoshi Kon’s MILLENNIUM ACTRESS is getting distributed in North America through a new Dreamworks label called Go Fish Pictures. They’ve just launched their site. And in other Satoshi Kon news (from AICN): Satoshi Kon, whose anime movie work has included Perfect Blue and Millenium Actress will be writing, producing, and by some reports directing TV…

  • Kim Jung Il in Comics

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    Oh yeah, a new comic hero for our age. From Yahoo! News (click on the link for the whole article): A newly published comic book depicting the bizarre life of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-Il has proved a runaway success with Japanese devotees of manga cartoons.

  • Andrew W.K. Versus Tamori

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    Oh man, Andrew W.K. was just on WARATTE II TOMO. He was participating in a game with the regulars where they show two images, and one person says the Japanese word, and Andrew and a bandmate had to guess what it was. Everytime he got it right he was freaking out, jumping up and down…

  • Up

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    The numbers are still going up on this site, and I’ve added an average of about 200 daily visitors this month. I found this out while checking out the stats for the first time this month, and got surprised to see that I was already getting ready to pass my bandwidth usage quota. I’m presently…

  • Rain

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    It’s been raining almost non-stop since last Saturday, when our daily temperature average jumped down 10 degrees (and it’s staying there). Sure, I was complaining about the hot weather, but I didn’t ask for all this rain! The above picture is of my neighbor’s roof.

  • Kill Bill Bootleg Trailer

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    I don’t know where this comes from, but at the WBCD site you can download a bootleg trailer for KILL BILL. It’s a mix of cheese and good stuff, and shows off somes sequences I hadn’t seen before. The countdown continues, only a few more weeks until the release… Link via Arne Schmidt.

  • Ziboy

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    Another reminder that you should be checking out Ziboy‘s photolog of Beijing. We might be heading back there this winter.