PUBLIC MARKS from user karlcow with tag japon

L’Empire du désir, films érotiques japonais

Du 15 au 26 juillet 2009

My post "Extraordinary early 20th century book covers from Japan" got a good response so I'm doing an immediate follow-up, this time featuring magazine covers.

The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space. Third shell creates a smaller interior space. Residents build their life inside this gradation of domain.

"A Kiss From Tokyo", Theatrical Trailer (1964) - Yuki 7 dashes around the world in hot pursuit of the tantalizingly tricky Diamond Eye, who is stealing parts and plans and leaving behind a path of murdered scientists in her quest to build a missile inside her volcanic lair.

“Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called ‘Gunkanjima’ that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Long ago, the island was nothing more than a small reef. Then in 1810, [with] the chance discovery of coal … people came to live here, and through coal mining the reef started to expand continuously. Befor [sic] long, the reef had grown into an artificial island of one kilometer (three quarters of a mile) in perimeter, with a population of 5300. Looming above the ocean, it appeared a concrete labyrinth of many-storied apartment houses and mining structures built closely together.

BAZAR AU PRINTEMPS 2009 DU CCCJM

Samedi, le 23 mai 2009, 11h30 - 16h00

Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes:

3 Films by Shohei Imamura

Youth in Japan, which seems to document a day and night in the life of a group of scooter kids in 1964.

Akira YOSHIMURA

Le Convoi de l'eau

Romans, nouvelles, récits

Textes japonais

Traduit du japonais

YUTAKA MAKINO (Traducteur)

janvier 2009 / 10 x 19 / 176 pages

ISBN 978-2-7427-7150-9 / AS5516

He is part of Japan’s 2,400-strong Rural Labor Squad, urban trainees dispatched to the countryside under a pilot program to put Japan’s underemployed youth to work tilling its farms.

Cette maison de Kiso a une histoire assez extraordinaire…

De fait, l'ethnlogue Jane Cobbi a reçu cette maison de la part de ses propriétaires japonais il y a près de 10 ans. Je vous engage à écouter son témoignage sur le site de Pierre Bongiovanni…

Cette maison à été démontée en 1999, convoyée en bateau, stockée (près de 8 ans dans une dépendance de l'arboretum de Chèvreloup), puis installée en janvier 2007 dans cette pièce du Musée de l'homme par une équipe de charpentiers Japonais sous la direction de l'architecte Makoto Furihata. Le tout sponsorisé par des Japonais, dont en premier lieu, le groupe Shiseido. Toutes les péripéties ont été relatées dans un article du Monde 2, le n°259 du 31 janvier 2009.

Et maintenant…?

Le vrai souci désormais, alors que des travaux importants et indispensables sont lancés dans cette partie du Palais de Chaillot reste : que fait-on de cette incroyable maison, de ce trésor ethnographique…?

Really clever and adorable (!!) stop motion video about a wolf who wants to eat a pig… the whole thing is constructed of photos in developed film, involving multiple mediums and layers of reality. Kind of meta-meta. Also, last I saw it was in the popular section of saved bookmarks on Delicious!

History and Archives Committee of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (JCCCM)

“They are not performing for tourists,” said Mr. Yamamoto. “They are simply traveling to and from the venues of the party where they are working.”

“We are not like a Mickey Mouse in Disneyland,” said Mameharu, another maiko, walking along Hanamikoji street.

TAKEI Takeo, author/artist. A collection of 138 twentieth-century artist's books by the Japanese author/artist TAKEI Takeo (1894-1982).

Japanese Home Design – a glass home hangs on a steep slope like a bird nest, not for the faint of heart! Like a bird nest, this cool Japanese home by TNA Architects isn’t for the shy. Providing as equally an impressive view of the outside as of the inside, this amazing house is enclosed in a perimeter of windows nestled on a steep slope among the Karuizawa, with almost no support beneath it – looks like this bold, modern design isn’t for the faint of heart either!

Taro, a 46-year-old man fired from his job at an iron manufacturing company, hoped to fade into the blackness. "My will to live disappeared," said Taro. "I'd lost my identity, so I didn't want to live on this earth. That's why I went there."

japan exposures

a personal introduction to Japanese photography