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Month: September 2004

  • Pepsi-fu

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    I really like the following Pepsi commercial, that uses Japanese bunraku art. You can watch some more examples of this type of stuff, as seen on Japanese TV, here (one of those segments, the ping-pong Matrix one, did the internet rounds a while back). Link via Newstoday.

  • W21S

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    Thanks to help from Yuko’s mother, I was able to replace my lost phone with the Sony Ericsson W21S phone from AU, the “future white” model. This is one of the WIN phones, which is the high-bandwidth line from AU. What it means, is that I have a flat-fee unlimited 2.4Mbps connection to the internet.…

  • LiveJournal Feed

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    A reader pointed out to me that there is a LiveJournal feed to my site (don’t know how it got created though), so I’ve added it in the list of feeds that you’ll find in the sidebar. Speaking of feeds, I’ve finally started getting into RSS feeds (of other sites) after having discovered the recently…

  • Kiiiiiii and Tokumaru at Uplink Gallery

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    If you can, try to catch the gig tonight at Uplink Gallery that features Kiiiiiii and Tokumaru Shugo. Present finances won’t let me go, which bums me out, but I’m consoling myself with the thought that I’m sure I’ll get to see them another time. I just noticed that there’s a matsuri (festival) outside my…

  • Barnbrook Design 2

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    Another shot from the Barnbrook Design exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery.

  • Synth Music

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    Nicholas D. Kent has quite the exhaustive site on synth music from Japan.

  • Inamura Shinya

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    Lots of visual goodness to be enjoyed at graphic designer Inamura Shinya’s portfolio site. Link via K10K.

  • Vertical Sales

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    Vertical, the American publisher that releases English translations of Japanese fiction (as well as a few manga books, like Tezuka Osamu’s classic BUDDHA), now sells its books online from their site.

  • Net Ramen

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    Ramen enters the internet age. Yahoo Japan Corp said Thursday it will start selling across the country later this month “ramen” noodle soup it has developed on the basis of the results of a popularity contest conducted via the Internet. The product, dubbed “Samurai Ramen,” features soup made from scorched “miso” fermented soy bean paste…

  • Keitai Gone

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    Just a quick note to say that I lost my mobile phone today. I think it dropped out of my pocket on the train. I’ve just had the number disactivated, and don’t know yet what’s going to happen after that (when Yuko gets back from university, we’ll check with JR and the police to see…