Now this movie was a pleasant surprise! Lost in Translation is the story of two strangers meeting in an upscale hotel in Tokyo, both being there without really wanting to be there, bored out of their minds, discovering each other and sharing each other’s lifes in a very honest and tender way. The two main [...]
Satoshi Kon’s second movie “Millennium Actress” is a fascinating trip through the life of an actress and her life-long love for a stranger she met when she was still a girl. It is also a rollercoaster ride through Japanese history and the history of Japanese film making. Ultimately, it is a mediation on love like [...]
James Meehan built himself a high-altitude weather balloon with a computer running Linux attached to it. His homebuilt balloon flew to more than 79.000 feet while the onboard Linux system took pictures, recorded GPS data and broadcast its location via packet radio. From 79.000 feet the payload descended with a parachute and landed safely, to [...]
My Private Tokyo is the weblog of a Australian photographer living in Tokyo. He takes digital pictures as well as on film with a wide array of cameras. Many of his shots are very personal snapshots of life in a metropolis that never goes to sleep – or at least only very reluctantly…
Yamanote 29 is a site project dedicated to an urban rail line. Doesn’t sound like much, but the Yamanote Line encircles the inner city of Tokyo and since its tracks are raised it allows for a great one-hour tour of the city, rumbling through busy shopping districts, along parks and graveyards and quiet residential sections. [...]
If you were already hooked on computers in the 80s, chances are good that you played at least one text adventure. Maybe more than one… Maybe you can only remember the summer of ’84 as the time you played Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on your Apple… Well, then this site is for you: Classic [...]
TypeNow.net has a very good collection of free fonts that recreate the typefaces used for movie posters, CD covers and product names. Now you can improve your correspondence with well-known fonts like “Atari”, “PacMan”, “Looney Tunes” or “Jurassic Park”.