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Textes, photographies et illustrations : Alexandre Bonnefoy Au Japon, après un hiver long, la floraison des cerisiers marque l’arrivée des beaux jours : c’est le ohanami. L’occasion pour la première fois de l’année de pique-niquer entre amis, en famille ou entre collègues. Deux semaines de toutes les attentions car la pluie et le vent peuvent détruire en quelques heures ces fleurs fragiles.

There’s a reason that chefs and enthusiastic home cooks the world over are so smitten with Japanese knives. Lovingly crafted from the finest and most durable materials, these sexy, slender blades allow us to achieve perfectly sliced sashimi, delicate chiffonades, and meticulously diced vegetables. Today, even the most famous European knifemakers have mostly abandoned hand-forging, yet the Japanese continue to offer extraordinary made-from-scratch tools, along with innovative hybrids that combine sturdy, factory-created handles with remarkably slender, hand-forged blades. The upshot is an instrument of uncommon beauty and elegance that’s still relatively affordable. Here you’ll find 10 knives that we use, and love, in our own kitchens. Whether you’re looking for an efficient little utility blade to go all day in the kitchen or a long, elegant chef’s knife to up your chopping game, you can’t go wrong with this collection of superior tools.

The ROK Espresso Maker is the antithesis of pressing a button on an electric machine.   The ROK is the artisan way to enjoy espresso - a non-electric, hands-on creative solution to making espresso the way you want it, without the waste and expense of capsules - there is no lock-in to buying pods. You choose the coffee, you select the grind, you provide the power. By using hand-powered pressure coffee making becomes a more involving pleasure. As you become more experienced you can fine-tune how you use the ROK espresso maker to produce espressos to your personal taste.  Watch the video made by our new distributor for US and Canada. See ROK featured in GQ magazine, here. Best stuff of 2012.

La forge d’un sabre est un processus entouré de bien des mystères. Au japon, une forte tradition mystique imprègne cet art. En occident l’éloignement géographique et culturel augmente encore par ‘exotisme’ cette émotion mystique.

“空の記憶” ( Memories of the sky ) is a mesmerizingly beautiful, richly comprehensive collection of background art from Shinkai Makoto’s animation films, dating back from his earlier works “Voices of a Distance Star” to his latest “5 Centimeters”.

his photographic story is the first subject matter that Hajime would challenge himself to portray. The trigger to his passion dates back to a decade ago, when he was just 21 years old. Sitting in the college library he stumbled upon a book that portrayed the life of an ancient Japanese people living in mountainous ranges, only 30 years ago. The tribe was described as being quite apart from the Japanese society as we know it today. The book left a deep impression that marked him for life...

The kit ships with paper documentation. (all available on the Guides page for download) The latest editions of: Grassroots Mapping Guide Balloon Mapping Quick Start Guide Balloon Mapping Flight Checklists and Packing Lists Kit contributors list CERN Open Hardware License Legal Indemnity & Safety warnings Welcome to Public Laboratory getting started page (not for first KS shipping, but for later kits?) a 1 page Flight Log

Once assembled, this kit -- developed by community researchers from the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science -- enables you to collect your own aerial photos from up to 1000 ft. Using the open source MapKnitter web-based software, you can stitch the resulting images into a web-viewable map -- your own "counter-cartography" Google Maps. Use it to tell a different story from the "official" map -- document contamination (it was used to map the BP oil spill) or wetlands loss, or to record a temporary condition like the Occupy Oakland encampment.