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02 January 2010

Entretien avec Hiroshi Toda, réalisateur japonais - [Webzine Eurasie]

by karlcow

Eurasie : C’est lui qui s’est proposé de jouer dans vos films ?

Hiroshi Toda : Oui. Il se retrouvait dans mon travail. Dès que je lui ai donné le rôle dans Snow in Spring, il est tout de suite allé se documenter dans un hôpital et étudier le comportement des personnes âgées. Il était passionné. Je me suis rendu compte à ce moment-là que nous partagions la même passion.

Hiroshi TODA | index

by karlcow
réalisateur de Snow in Spring

k*iro: Happy New Year, Bonne Annee...

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01 January 2010

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by gregg
Aokigahara Forest - One Of The Creepiest Places On Earth

31 December 2009

30 December 2009

Japanese Dolls on the Western Toyshelf

by karlcow

Dolls from Japan were very popular in America and Europe through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On these pages, I have collected illustrations and references that suggest the place of the Japanese doll in the minds of American and European children, and of the adults who bought them toys and moralized those toys.

19 December 2009

colectiva » Motoi Yamamoto

by karlcow

Motoi Yamamoto is a Japanese artist who does installations made of salt. These huge, and incredibly meticulous labrynths are site specific, and the end result is nothing short of amazing.

18 December 2009

15 December 2009

14 December 2009

Essay - Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese? - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

As Haruki Murakami, Japan’s best-known living novelist, wrote via e-mail, “My personal view on the Japanese language (or any language) is, If it wants to change, let it change. Any language is alive just like a human being, just like you or me. And if it’s alive, it will change. Nobody can stop it.” There is no such thing as simplification of language, he added. “It just changes for better or worse (and nobody can tell if it is better or worse).”

BibliOdyssey: Ainu Komonjo

by karlcow

The woodblock illustrations below were cherry-picked from a Wisconsin University collection of about forty books presenting the earliest depictions - from the 18th and 19th centuries - of the Ainu people by the Japanese. The images are in haphazard order and are primarily of the Sakhalin Ainu (pronounced eye-noo)

13 December 2009

click opera - Overwhelmed by milk

by karlcow

The first word that occurs to me is "motherlove". But perhaps a better term would be "ambient impersonal tenderness". Japan is a society shockingly full of ambient impersonal tenderness, overlapping with tender-mindedness, shading into tweeness.

a-small-lab: creative collaboration, consulting, research → ideas, making, doing

by karlcow

A-SMALL-LAB

focusing on research and practice in creativity

based in Tokyo

contact: chris@a-small-lab.com

(Chris Berthelsen)

click opera - A passion for polished concrete

by karlcow

"The existing floor was uneven from inaccurate construction," writes Schemata architect Jo Nagasaka, "so we poured epoxy mixed with pine ash on the floor to create a flat surface. The transparent black liquid made different shades of black, following the uneven surface on the floor. It looked like gradation of color on a gradually shoaling beach."

09 December 2009

Placing Memory: Observatory: Design Observer

by karlcow

Today the forced relocation of 120,000 innocent U.S. citizens to camps in seven states of the American West has been condemned as immoral and unconstitutional. In 1988 the federal government paid restitution to survivors and issued an apology, while official reports acknowledged that the policy arose from racism and irrational fear.

05 December 2009

01 December 2009

LE SHIN-HANGA C’EST QUOI ÇA ? - La boîte à images - Blog LeMonde.fr

by karlcow

Une estampe est une impression, la reproduction d’un dessin par l’intermédiaire d’un support gravé (métal ou bois, principalement). L’intérêt de ce support, c’est qu’il permet de reproduire l’image à de multiples exemplaires. Pas toujours exactement identiques, en plus !

26 November 2009

japan brand

by topdos
"Au Japon, le rapport de 1 sur 2 a été adopté traditionnellement au cours des siècles. Cette équation dérive du sens esthétique et de la sagesse du style de vie qui se sont développés au cours de l’histoire du pays et elle est utilisée comme dimension du quadrillage pour les nattes appelées tatami et les portes coulissantes en papier dites shoji. Le logo de la marque a été conçu à partir d’un sceau ayant ce rapport, et sa couleur rouge évoque l’image du Japon et les tampons encreurs vermillons. Son design est symbolique, éliminant toute émotion extrême, son rôle étant de soutenir et de faire ressortir le meilleur des marques, des produits et des services régionaux, qui sont les principaux intervenants."

22 November 2009

wish jar : real life tweet #4

by karlcow & 2 others

i am a big fan of Ozu. link.

we can learn a lot from his films. a quick list:

1. life and people are impermanent.

2. slow down.

3. look people in the eye.

4. drink tea.

5. be kind.

6. simple things hold the secret.

21 November 2009

トクサツヒロインハリツケマニア

by karlcow
site dédié aux images de crucifixion dans les films japonais

13 November 2009

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