Posts Tagged ‘japan’

The top tea leaf

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

I was going to write about the new book I got: Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe, so I googled it and found the cutest Japanese commertcial on Matthew Forsythe’s blog:

Ojingogo looks so nice. I will write something as soon as I get a chance to read it.

Cat Cafe

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Jeremy Brautman of Josh Spear writes about the Tokyo cat cafes.

For $8-$12 an hour you get to play with one of dozen resident cats, listen to soothing music and read comics.

Kokoriko Bushi

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Kokoriko Bushi, tune of the Kokoriko, an ancient string instrument, is a remix of the oldest japanese song by Japanese electro-pop collective Omodaka.

The animation is directed by Teppei Maki.

via boing boing

three little pigs and little red ridinghood mugs

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

stacking mugs from Japanese company Otogicco via art effect