Jean Snow [.net]

Month: February 2004

  • Monster

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    Yuko just read the news that Urasawa Noaki’s terrific manga thriller MONSTER is going to be made into an animated TV series this April. Urawasa will be working on the adaptation, and it will be written for the screen by the guy who wrote Hayao Miyazaki’s SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI (SPIRITED AWAY). The budget…

  • Porter iPod Case

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    I want this. There’s a white one also. I’m really getting into Porter bags lately. Too bad they’re so expensive.

  • Coin Coin

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    Coin Coin is a “life entertainment magazine from Paris and Tokyo.” Link via Click Opera.

  • Shibuya Passage Part 3

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    So, I’m trying to make the point that the passage was long… Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

  • Morning Musume's Audience

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    A friend of mine who works in the media recently attended a Morning Musume (the idol group that has been dominating the J-pop charts for a few years now) concert, the one that featured the “graduation” of one of its older members (Abe Natsumi), and he was just blown away by the makeup of the…

  • The Long Passage

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    Still at Shibuya station. See, I told you it was a long passage. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

  • Ghost in the Shell Is Not for Kids

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    Yuko is watching an episode of GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX right now, and she just made the comment that she’s amazed at how complicated the vocabulary is, and that kids would not be able to understand a lot of what is being said. They use words that she writes in her Masters…

  • Changing Times in China

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    A few observations from Anna-Sophie Lowenberg, “former editor at BEIJING SCENE and bassist of Beijing grrl punk band Bieniu,” about a recent return to China at Danwei. Definitely interesting, and things that I also admit having noticed on my last trip to Beijing.