RT @butdoesitfloat: Japanese album covers from the late 70s-early 80s http://butdoesitfloat.com/Don-t-you-think-dreams-and-the-internet-are- similar-They-are-both
November 2012
June 2012
Shall We ダンス?
January 2012
#IFFR film 6: Tokyo Playboy Club (Yosuke Okuda, JP): 4/5
Masahiro Kobayashi, director of Women on the Edge, on the roof of De Doelen
September 2011
music discovery of the day: Sgt., japanese post-rock: http://myspace.com/sgtofficial
one week until this year's @CAMERAJAPAN film festival in rdam.. http://camerajapan.nl/2011/films.html
July 2009
February 2009
December 2007
June 2007
October 2006
August 2006
June 2006
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April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
hagelslag
December 2005
November 2005
sunlight hits the Gojūon
I pasted a katakana table (gojūon or 'fifty sound' ordering) to the right and a hiragana table to the left of my monitor a while ago, helps me a little when deciphering certain short bits of Japanese text. Plus it looks kinda neat when the sun hits it a certain way.
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
furusukuriin karaapikkaa
This dhtml colour thing, which I made 6 years ago, still gets new bursts of hits every now and then... Last week it was Chinese MSN Spaces, currently it's making the rounds on a number of Japanese blogs, and I'm having some fun trying to decipher what people write about it.
In the case of lucky-bag.com, I recognized most of the Katakana in the title, and I know it's used to represent foreign words, but it still took me quite a while to realize what on earth furusukuriin karaapikkaa
could mean. Pronouncing it out loud finally revealed the answer.
June 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
September 2004
June 2004
May 2004
August 2003
Going My Way: The Japanese map which is seen with just the text (Babelfish translation) - from what I can gather this is an ASCII/Kanji map of Japan where each element is actually the name of the area it represents; pretty cool.
December 2002
Antipixel: Kanji months and days of the week
That would make today "Mokuyöbi, Jyüni-gatsu Go" (or Go Jyüni-gatsu?)
All the Dutch days of the week:
maandag, dinsdag, woensdag, donderdag, vrijdag, zaterdag, zondag
July 2001
Japanese Anime smilies - b ^_^ [via Field Notes]