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Honmaguro Oh-Toro from Mitsuwa
One of my first posts on this blog is about the public demonstration of cutting up a 680-pound bluefin tuna at Mitsuwa supermarket. It was posted here two months ago. Amy, Jason, Sue and I went to Mitsuwa, and I took pictures and videos of the demonstration. According to blog statistics, there are a lot
Louis Vuitton / Super Flat Monogram
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCn06bEl15A&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] Here is another anime made for LV by Takashi Murakami. My earlier post about his anime and LV is here: Super Flat First Love. This one shows one of TM’s cute character (a bamboo-chewing LV panda ?) swallowing a young Japanese girl whole and transporting her to a world of dancing LV monograms. It
eyeCandy #1: Super Fluids
Too tired to write. Knee deep in stuff. Turning home upside to get ready for the movers. Here is something catchy to look at. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f82TNyJ_pVw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1]
Pattern Recognition recognized
I finished reading “Pattern Recognition” by William Gibson (first published 2003) – thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended. It is less sci-fi furturistic than his early works. The story revolves around a quest to find the maker of a series of enigmatic online videos that rocked a certain corner of the cyberspace inhabited by otakus, industrial
