Archives for January, 2004
2004.01.30 (Fri)
Mitsubishi Electric opened a café on the ground floor of their building in Marunouchi right on Naka-dori opposite the Maru Building. They do a bunch of stuff there that’s worth checking out if you’re ever in the neighbourhood.
2004.01.29 (Thu)
New Lego master builders chosen
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Wired is reporting on Lego’s three new master builders who will work at LegoLand in Carlsbad, California. Congratulations to the winners, and kudos to all the finalists.
2004.01.27 (Tue)
Leaf Shadow
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I’m showing you pictures of leaves until I think of something interesting to say. Bear with me.
2004.01.24 (Sat)
Crossing a street in Shibuya
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Well-dressed women wearing wires are among the intriguing sights to be seen in Shibuya.
Helmut Newton dies in car crash
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Just seeing this AP story on NYTimes.com: Photographer Helmut Newton Killed in Car Crash
2004.01.23 (Fri)
God and Messenger
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I’d been given the gift of being able to walk around a little bit without having to worry about being anywhere.
2004.01.22 (Thu)
Musical literacy
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What do you need to have heard to be considered musically literate these days?
2004.01.21 (Wed)
Another view to Komazawa
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I figured out what it is about this view that keeps me coming back.
Philippines photographs at etherfarm.com
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Make sure you take a look at the recent photographs from the Philippines at etherfarm.com.
2004.01.20 (Tue)
Bloggies
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Apparently this site has been nominated in the Best Asian Weblog category of the 2004 Weblog Awards. How these things happen I just don’t know.
2004.01.19 (Mon)
Simulated office building
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Not much to say about this one — I just liked the geometry. The light was also of a sort that made the building appear to be computer-generated, an idea of faded ’70s business glamour rendered through modern means.
2004.01.18 (Sun)
Steaming Fuji
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This news is a bit old now, but did I mention that Fuji may be about to erupt?
2004.01.17 (Sat)
A blank stare
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Friends in Australia sent my daughter this doll for Christmas. It has no face….
Almost snow
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Tiny little hesitant flakes like a skyfull of chicks leaving the nest for the first time.
2004.01.16 (Fri)
Acolyte displaying umbrella
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Without question, if I my culture had the greatest aesthetic legacy ever developed at any time anywhere, I’d be very proud of it, too.
2004.01.14 (Wed)
Konishiki getting married
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Former sumo wrestler turned TV talent Konishiki is getting married.
Spalding Gray Missing
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Last seen by his older brother over Christmas.
2004.01.12 (Mon)
I keep stumbling across religious processions
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I’m constantly stunned by the things we do for gods. As Randy Newman sings, that’s why I love mankind.
2004.01.11 (Sun)
Shedenfreude
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For a long time I’ve been wanting to do a series of photographs of men and their sheds.
The tofu seller’s bugle
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Recently a new sound has been added to the neighbourhood — the tofu seller’s bugle.
Lego returning to core market
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Lego is apparently expecting a pre-tax loss of over 200 million dollars this year — the worst it’s ever been for them. The good news is the company has decided to stop selling electronics and movie tie-ins and return to its core business of making some of the best toys for children ever.
2004.01.07 (Wed)
A procession of monks in lime green robes
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I’ve been to Mt. Takao several times and was a bit wary of visiting last weekend for our ‘winter holiday’ — the only day we would spend out of town. I’ve taken so many photographs up there that I wondered if I hadn’t fished the place out, but I resolved to find something that I hadn’t seen before.
I needn’t have worried: it found me.
2004.01.06 (Tue)
Seeds for the Pen
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Be sure to read the Morning News interview with Witold Riedel and then head over to his site to see some amazing drawings and photographs.
Wind Farming
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It’s one of those forgivable little hypocrisies of life that I find high-tension power lines and cell phone antennae heartbreakingly ugly while considering windmills and turbines simply beautiful.
2004.01.05 (Mon)
Axis of Advil
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My head has joined the Axis of Advil. I’ve been getting headaches migrating across the top of my head each evening like flocks of birds across a winter sky. Probably a brain tumour.
2004.01.02 (Fri)
Signs and Portents
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The final sunset of last year was a bit of a wash. A perfectly fine day clouded over mid-afternoon in a way that seemed promising, but the clouds thickened up to block pretty much all light by the time the sun went down.
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