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Month: November 2004

  • Howling Box Office

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    Looks like Miyazaki has another hit on his hands. Famed director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest animated film “Howl’s Moving Castle” chalked up 1.48 billion yen in box-office revenue and attracted an audience of 1.1 million people during its first two days of release, a record for a domestic film, Toho Co said Monday. For its first…

  • Torisu Koshiro

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    Torisu Koshiro’s site has an amazing array of fun and colorful flash animations (like this one for the band Juicy Panic). He’s got some nice illustrations there also. Link via Screenhead.

  • Earplugs on Airplanes

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    Anyone know if the following is true (from Gizmodo): I’m fairly sure you’re not supposed to use earplug headphones on airplanes, something about permanent hearing damage When I went to Taipei earlier this year, I had a cold and listened to my iPod (with earplug headphones), and my ears ended up being plugged the whole…

  • Kiiiiiii Rock Komaba!

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    This afternoon, after catching a Resfest program in Harajuku, I was off to the Tokyo University Komaba campus to watch a performance by Kiiiiiii — who I’ve been meaning to see for what seems like ages now. Oh man, what a show! I’ve rarely seen that much energy on a stage. The whole Kiiiiiii thing…

  • Shorts #02

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    I didn’t wake up early enough to catch the RESMIX Korea program this morning, but I made it to Shorts #02, and really enjoyed a lot of the shorts presented. Stefan Nadelman — director of last year’s great TERMINAL — was on hand after the program to talk about his contribution this year, ONE STEP…

  • Takadanobaba on Acid

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    I truly loved Kozyndan‘s opening sequence for this year’s Resfest, and KOHAKU publisher Chin Press Music’s Craig Mod lets us know that they’ve produced a new poster based on the chapter they illustrated for the book — see parts of it here. You can order it directly from Kozyndan’s website here.

  • More Designers Block Pics

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    The Designers Block website has a bunch of pics up from the event, taken by various designers that were in attendance. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Tokyo Q Mobile

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    I forgot to mention that Tokyo Q features a mobile version of their site, where you can also read my columns. The link is here, or point your QR barcode-enabled phones to the following:

  • Girls of Todai

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    A TV crew from TV Tokyo approached Yuko today at school, asking her to be part of the segment they were shooting for a “Girls of Tokyo University” bit. I’m not sure on the name of the program, but it airs Saturday nights.

  • An Interview with Puffy

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    Nicholas D. Kent sends me news that he’s just posted online an interview he did with the group Puffy back in 2002. Done to provide quotes for a magazine article, it wasn’t originally planned as a published interview. While on the subject of Puffy, I know that they’ve recently developed a following in America with…