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Japan link roundup Aug 07

By Ian | August 14, 2007

ToykoMango: Superflat Panda Swallows Cell Phone, Then Girl, a great little animated short mostly made up of Takashi Murakami’s graphic work for Louis Vuitton. It’s like the crazy, postmodern, luxury, Japanese version of Alice in Wonderland.
Jean Snow: How to Wrap with a Furoshiki, a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth which is used repeatedly in a stylish [...]

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Recent Links for August 10th : the ProtoType Way; Superflat Panda; Nefertiti

By Ian | August 10, 2007

A prototype-checklist : doing common things the prototype way (or taking advantage of those extra 100 KB in your page) – A great set of code examples of doing things the Prototype way. – Javascript
TOKYOMANGO: Superflat Panda Swallows Cell Phone, Then Girl – Great little animated short mostly made up of Takashi Murakami’s graphic work [...]

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Links for the first week on July 07

By Ian | July 7, 2007

Amazon Web Services; Rails For Linux; Really DRY; eBay’s answer to 20% of itself; All the News That’s Fit to Wiki Out; the dreaded non-coding architect; Ajax Rain; Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling go to Hormiga Canyon; Arthur C. Clarke’s Maelstrom II: the movie; Kanye West Is Akira;
Is Tokyo a virtual world inside Second Life; HP Kawaii Horror.

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Tales of the BunnyFish : Kozyhdan Solo Show @ Magic Pony

By Ian | June 15, 2007

Tales of the BunnyFish is a new exhibition for Kozyndan at West Queen West’s Magic Pony from June 28 till July 29 2007.
So What’s a BunnyFish?
The bunnyfish is a unique being from a highly sentient race that has lived in the seas for many thousands of years unbeknownst to man. We have been following [...]

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CosPlay Cafe comes to Toronto

By Ian | December 2, 2006

Restaurants and Cafes devoted to “costume play,” or cosplay as the Japanese call it, first appeared in Akihabara, Tokyo’s discount electronics store district, in the late 90’s.
Well during the summer, iMaid Cafe opened in Toronto’s east end at 1883 McNicoll Ave. (at Kennedy Rd close to Pacific Mall.), to provide the french maid variation of [...]

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Flight Club at Magic Pony Oct 2006

By Ian | September 14, 2006

Magic Pony is pleased to announce Flight Club : Solo Show with Moira Hahn. A stylized menagerie of classic Japanese deities and demons blended with contemporary anime culture. The exhibit will run from Oct 5 – Nov 5, 2006. The opening reception will be held Thursday Oct 5th, 2006 from 6-10pm.

Last Feburary, Magic Pony had [...]

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Japanese Kimono designer Mamechiyo vists Toronto via Magic Pony

By Ian | February 26, 2006

Celebrated throughout Japan for her textile design and kimono styling, Mamechiyo has only recently gained recognition in North America. ‘Mamechiyo : the Art of Kimono’ will be Mamechiyo’s first solo exhibit in North America and her first appearance in Canada.
Magic Pony is hosting the solo show of Modern Kimono, from Mar 9 – [...]

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The Flowering Nose will flower no more.

By Ian | February 6, 2006

Japan based artist Seth Fisher passed away Monday, January 30th, accidentally from a fall.

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Cthulhu Antenna Ball

By Ian | January 28, 2006

Cthulhu Antenna Ball
It’s cute. It’s an Antenna Ball. It’s an earthly representation of the ultimate evil from beyond the stars.
It’s the Cthulhu Antenna Ball™.

via SF Signal! see also Dear Cthulhu. Time to start a cthulhu category?

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Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi in Canada

By Ian | January 14, 2006

I just discovered that They (Ami & Yumi) are showing in Canada on YTV, Saturday mornings at 10:30, and were showing the last Episode of season 1 (# 16: Hungry Yumi; The Oddyguard; Song Sung Bad). Hopefully they will repeat.

I discovered them last year November, 2004.
This is NOT a Japanese import,and nor [...]

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