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Maniackers Design Fonts →
Lots of fun Japanese/English share & freeware fonts at Maniackers Design, in case you’re looking for some!
When I was a design student I was always enamored by contemporary Japanese graphic design because it presented you the chance to design with four alphabets — hiragana, katakana, roman letters and kanji. Kanji itself is already highly pictographic. Each kanji is like a logo in...
January 2011
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お知らせ
Eeep, I’m having a minor blogging identity crisis, so:
This blog that you’re reading now is for stuff that I do/make/see/think while I’m in Japan, and life thoughts, etc.
This blog is for links to stuff that I like on the internet: http://ryelikes.tumblr.com
Both are on tumblr, so follow whichever one is relevant to your interests. Or BOTH, because I’m just that...
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The Japan Times: Subculture Inspires Young Male... →
I came across this article and wanted to post it, not for the purpose of making people say, “oh, hey Japan is messed up.” But to emphasize how different gender roles and sexuality are expressed here than where I came from. One might have the former reaction upon glancing at that headline, but read the article, and your response may change slightly (or not, but at least you’ll...
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On New Year’s Eve I got to make Soba (buckwheat noodles) with the super cool people at the hostel/guesthouse I was staying at in Okinawa. It’s a tradition to do this, the long noodles suggesting long life.
Shot with my Canon EOS 60D and my 50mm USM f1.4 Lens.
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Maps, by Simon Parkin →
A good read for anyone who has ever played a JRPG.
“Because, while the battles may be random, the war’s outcome is always predestined,” I continue. “You’re predestined to succeed. Just so long as you keep going. And jeez, that may be escapism or a gross oversimplification of the reality we live in, but isn’t that sense of… of justice the yearning of...
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
Happy New Year, 明けましておもでとう!
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Everything’s got to end sometime, otherwise nothing would ever get...
– The Doctor
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