Absolutely beautiful, I don’t know where this competition was held, but hopefully this Japanese team made it into the finals at the very least. More like watching a ballet than a gymnastics exhibition, the athletes coordinated almost flawlessly.
This is a nice story about a boy’s love of Morning Glories, and his mother’s love for him, which she spreads to the tsunami survivors through seeds from the flowers he grew just before he died, and which he never lived to see bloom. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ2011092612223
I’ve never heard of this game, but then I’m not a gamer, but this is really neat traditional-style Japanese music, played with authentic instruments on a traditional stage.
Now that I found a good tutorial on it, this may work out better. Adjustment layer, clipping mask, gradient fill and gaussian blur for the win! I did this in 1/10th the time it took the previous version, and I think it works a little better.
Thought I’d try out my Photoshop “skills” (as if I had any!) to see if I could take a photo from my set of Otakon pics and try to simulate the “tilt-shift” effect. Â True tilt-shift involves a fancy $1000 lens, but since I’m not going to have one of those… Continue reading
So cool! Umeji Narisawa of Sendai, Japan, 99 years young, plays her favorite videogame, “Bomberman”, like she has every day for 26 years! In Japanese, videogames are called “famicon” (ファミコン), which is Japanese shorthand for “family computer”, because it’s the computer that the rest of the family plays with, as… Continue reading
Maru, a cat in Japan, really loves to play with boxes, especially climbing or jumping into and out of them, over and over! If you check the other YouTube links, he’s done this ever since he was a kitten, and his owners have videotaped his antics for a few years,… Continue reading
I posted the first set of photos (not the first ones I took) in an album! Look on the Asakusa photos page…