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February 08 2010

richiety
06:47

U900, a pair of crocheted animals that play music

TOKYOMANGO

Over on Boing Boing this weekend, Xeni posted this super-cute video of a crocheted musician duo that plays happy ukulele tunes on the beach. There are a lot of other U900 videos on their own MySpace page.

richiety
05:54

First Teaser For Studio Ghibli's KARIGURASHI NO ARRIETTY

Twitch

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Any time Japan's famed animation house Studio Ghibli releases a new film it is a big event and this is no exception. 

Adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, Karigurashi No Arrietty is the directorial debut of Hiromasa Yonebayashi - a key animator on a number of earlier Ghibli works including Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away.  But why talk about it when you can look at it?  The first t...
richiety
03:11

Takao Osawa stars in "Sakuradamongai no Hen"

Tokyograph

TBS has not yet officially decided on a sequel or movie for the popular drama series "JIN," but lead actor Takao Osawa (41) is already set to star in another historical piece - "Sakuradamongai no Hen " by director Junya Sato ("YAMATO").

Based on the novel of the same name by Akira Yoshimura, the movie retells the story of the Sakuradamon incident in 1860, in which the Chief Minister Ii Naosuke w...

February 07 2010

richiety
23:20

SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme

Smashing Magazine Feed

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Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.

It has 2...

richiety
20:05

「JIN」続編未定、大沢「いまは何とも」

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 俳優、大沢たかお(41)が、幕末の日本を揺るがせた歴史的事件を題材とする映画「桜田門外ノ変」(佐藤純彌監督)に主演することになり7日、茨城・水戸市内に設営された巨大オープンセットで会見した。高視聴率ドラマ「JIN-仁-」に引き続き、幕末ものを世に放つ大沢。時代劇映画に単独主演するのは初で、「国を変えようという当時の人々の遺伝子が自分にもある」と時空を超える熱演を誓った。
richiety
19:26

Scott Fujita, a white NFL player who feels culturally Japanese

Nice story in time for the big day.

(via TOKYOMANGO)

richiety
16:43

Liquid Scale: Content-Aware Image Resizing App for iPhone

Daring Fireball

Remember this video from 2007, demonstrating a technique for content-aware image resizing that didn’t involve cropping or distorting the central elements of the image? Savoy Software’s Liquid Scale brings this technique to the iPhone. Pretty cool.

February 06 2010

richiety
21:55

Make Your Own (Paper) iPad and iPad Sighting at NYC Starbucks

MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

While the iPad was officially announced in January, the iPad will not be available for purchase until late March. However, it seems some iPads have been seeded into the wild as David Vogler claims to have seen one in a New York City Starbucks (phot...
richiety
09:00

カマゴン

沖縄三線.com 店長のブログ

数日前でしたか北海道 占冠で最低気温が-34.4度とありました。その日の沖縄の最高気温は19度でしたからその差は53.4度です。同じ日本でこれだけ差があるもんですね。今日は特にこれといった商品の紹介ではありませんが、これから商品になっていくものを見ていただきたいと思います。画像はすべてカマゴンという種類で黒木に次いで良材とされているものです。次の画像はこれから棹に仕上げていく材料です。次の画像はこれから塗りに入るものです。次の画像は塗りを終えた棹です。今日はこれまで。...
richiety
07:53

Scott Fujita, a white NFL player who feels culturally Japanese

TOKYOMANGO

Sf20100206a1aDid you know that one of the tallest linebackers in the NFL is named Scott Fujita? He's a white guy who was adopted by a Japanese-American father (who, by the way, was born in an internment camp). He's never been to Japan, but he celebrates Oshogatsu and Children's Day, eats with chopsticks, and has Japanese grandparents in California who grow bonsai trees. I just think it's interesting and...

richiety
04:10
richiety
04:09
Play fullscreen

ngmoco:

Eager to see GodFinger in motion? Watch the new ngmoshow, starring GodFinger Producer Stephanie Morgan.

richiety
03:26

美人サックス奏者・小林香織が新アルバムPR

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 美人サックス奏者の小林香織(28)が、18日に大阪市北区のビルボードライブ大阪で開催するアルバム「LUV SAX」発売記念ライブをPRするため同市浪速区のサンケイスポーツ編集局を訪れた。

February 05 2010

richiety
22:07
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