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Wallpaper: ANA’s Mattariina Hokkoriina Okinawa
All Nippon Airways (ANA), long a favorite airline of ours, has a number of calendar-style wallpapers up on their special Mattariina Hokkoriina Okinawa website. The latest, for the month of February, features Okinawa’s delectable suba. Just add a few drops of koregusu and I’m good to go! *slurp* 😀 (Via 壁紙fan!)
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Imaginative tilt-shift photo of a hut in Okinawa
Miniature Hut (Tilt-Shift) Originally uploaded by GoGoJingo Photo using the tilt-shift technique to create this wonderful effect.
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Aya Ueto set to star in an animation titled “Baton”
Sure to be on every film buffs need-to-watch-this-or-I’m-nobody list is the upcoming animation “Baton,” by directors (whose work I very much admire) Shunji Iwai and Ryuhei Kitamura. If that wasn’t enough, it was announced that Aya Ueto will be starring in the main role (of Michal) for the animated film. Aya starred in the film…
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Rinken Teruya’s latest solo album “Pause 2” now on iTunes (and more)
Rinken Teruya (leader of the O-pop band Rinken Band) has been one of the most tech-savvy of his peers—as evidenced by the rinken.gr.jp website which has been around for several years as well as his willingness to release his music digitally. Although he’s had numerous projects in the past (like Tink Tink, Mihanagumi, Tomoko Uehara’s…
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Simple Sanshin Source shares video of Sanshin playing robot
Simple Sanshin Source shares a video of University of the Ryukyus‘s (Ryudai) sanshin-playing robot. Has to be seen to be believed. The clip above shows the robot playing “Toushin Doi.” Not perfect, but pretty amazing.
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ティンクティンク (Tinku Tinku)
ティンクティンク Originally uploaded by alexbrn Wow, where are all of these photos coming from? Well, I guess that doesn’t matter as much as the wow, another beautiful photo of Tink Tink‘s Azusa. What can we say but keep ’em coming folks!
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Update: Ukulele Picnic 2009 in Hawaii
I posted an entry a couple of weeks ago about the upcoming Ukulele Picnic 2009 in Hawaii concert and it looks like we have a time slot for Keith Nakaganeku and BEGIN’s Masaru Shimabukuro. The special collaboration between these two amazing musicians is set to take the stage from 3:10 PM for a 15-minute set.…
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