Jean Snow [.net]

Month: April 2017

  • More Tokyo Interiors

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    The other day I mentioned Luis’s “Tokyo Interiors” prints on display in Shinjuku, and now the Electric Objects pieces are all available — looks like the device to run them is sold out at the moment though.

  • Our Little Sister

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Earlier today I got to talking about the films of Hirokazu Koreeda with a friend at work, and it’s only after looking him up that I realized he had directed Maboroshi, which not only was his first feature film, but also one of the first proper Japanese films I remember watching at a theater —…

  • Sunday Morning Cartoon Cavalcade Vol. 3

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in

    This weekend’s cartoon cavalcade was off to a bad start when I realized there was no new Samurai Jack this week. So instead I started with the first proper episode of the new Tangled series. I still mostly like this for the art style they’re using, but it makes for a pretty fun series so…

  • Ukiyo-e Manner Posters

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in

    There have been a lot of great posters promoting good manners in Tokyo transit over the years, and the latest series from Seibu Railways inspired by ukiyo-e is, well, quite inspired. See the rest of them in this Spoon & Tamago post.

  • Eight

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    This video produced for the promotion of an app to manage the exchange of business cards (called Eight) is pretty mesmerizing to watch. Via Tokyo Soup.

  • Yoko Taro

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in

    The latest episode of Toco Toco TV is definitely the weirdest one I’ve watched yet, featuring game creator Yoko Taro (Drakengard, Nier). It’s a fantastic episode, and fits Taro’s personality perfectly — from the strange scenes at home (pictured) to him typing nonsense on a computer at the studio (“I can’t see the cursor,” over and over again).…

  • Inori – Prayer

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in , ,

    It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of AyaBambi, and so not only am I happy to see them in this video, but this is just an amazing example of projection mapping, to a degree I’ve never seen before. It was done using a new kind of projector called the DynaFlash *1, developed at Tokyo…

  • Powerless

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in

    I was suddenly in the mood to check out Powerless, a sitcom set in the DC Comics universe that debuted earlier this year. I liked it so much, I ended up binging all 6 episodes that have aired so far. The cast is terrific — and I really quite like Vanessa Hudgens’s super genki character…

  • The Dream of Working in Games

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Shortly after the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, there was a story that came out about a non-Japanese programmer appearing in the game’s credits, Corey Bunnell (pictured), who it was later discovered had a long time ago written in a forum about his dream of working for Nintendo — read this Kotaku…

  • Sherlock Hound

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in , ,

    I was in the mood to start watching another old anime series, and remembering how much I enjoyed watching Future Boy Conan last year, I dug up another old Hayao Miyazaki series in the form of Sherlock Hound (or Meitantei Holmes). Miyazaki only wrote/directed the first 6 episodes before moving on (because of issues with the…