Archive for January, 2009
Illustration by Aoi Nishimata
Moe Food Weapon
Things looked bad for Ugo city (Akita Prefecture), but the situation seems to be getting better thanks to a clever idea hatched by a local otaku named Takanori Yamauchi. Manga illustrators were hired to design labels that gave Ugo’s agricultural products a unique moe image.
Otaku tourism [...]
Minorin’s DecoDen* ~ Toradora! ep03
Satsuki Hiraoka
Satsuki Hiraoka, a designer and businesswoman whose specialty is covering items with tiny, colorful rhinestones,… is regarded as having inspired the recent boom among young Japanese women to glue rhinestones on cellphones and other items.
Is glitter art the next wave in ’soft power’?, Asahi, 2009/1/31
* DecoDen = Decoration Denwa [...]
Gentosha already publishes the Hetalia manga in two compiled book volumes, which have sold over 500,000 copies.
Hetalia’s Himaruya to Start Chibi-san Date Manga, ANN, 2009-01-30
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00:21 – N.Italy
00:22 – N.Italy, Germany
00:26 – Japan, N.Italy, Germany
00:35 – Prussia, Germany, Austria
00:42 – Hungary, Austria
00:47 – Hungary, Prussia, Austria
00:56 – UK
00:59 – UK, France
01:05 – UK, US, France
01:13 – UK, US, Canada
01:20 – Cuba, Canada
01:26 – (Canada), Sealand
01:33 – Iceland, Sealand
01:40 – Latvia, Sealand
01:47 – Latvia, [...]
“From this rostrum, we heard the words of American representatives about the fundamental stability and cloudless prospects of the US economy. But today, the pride of Wall Street – the investment banks – have virtually ceased to exist.”
Putin calls world crisis a ‘perfect storm’, The Canberra Times, 30/01/2009,
When the Persian military officer Tigranes “heard that the prize was not money but a crown [of olive], he could not hold his peace, but cried, ‘Good heavens, Mardonius, what kind of men are these that you have pitted us against? It is not for money they contend but for glory of achievement!’” [...]
Mood : Fukken bored
Via /a/, Courage Wolf. Great Imageme.
Kakeru and Gigolo ~ Akikan
Teaching robots
The teaching robots, or, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are computer systems that provide personalized instruction and feedback to students without human intervention.
Using facial expression recognition — which allows a computer to react according to expressions a user makes, Whitehill made a video change speed by altering his expression.
Human remote control [...]
Paddy field Art in Inakadate (Aomori prefecture,2007)
Hokusai ’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa and Red Fuji (1832)
Instead, by precisely planting four varieties of rice with differently colored leaves in fields their ancestors have farmed for centuries, the people of Inakadate Village have this year grown remarkable reproductions of famous woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).
Homegrown [...]
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