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Halloween 2009

31 October 2009 · 1 Comment

『吾輩は猫である』
Cat + Keytar = Catar (sounds like Qatar, the country in the Middle East)

Fun · Holiday · Japanese · NYC · New York · Photography · Pictures


Procrastination: TranslationParty.com

10 August 2009 · 0 Comments

TranslationParty.com is a simple and amusing procrastination tool that demonstrates the hilarious quirkiness of machine translation. Enter an English phrase and TranslationParty will automatically translate it into Japanese, then back into English, then back into Japanese, etc. Until a Zen-like equilibrium is reached…

From Twitter via @myGengo.

Fun · Japan · Japanese · Links · translation


Free the film, Free dolphins

10 August 2009 · 3 Comments

Today, I went to see The Cove, a documentary centering around the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan.  As some reviewers have already said, the movie marries spy-thriller suspense with compelling investigative storytelling.  Because of the Japanese government and whaling interests not wanting the story to get out, the filmmakers had to secretly (and perhaps [...]

Activism · Animals · Japan · Japanese · Movies · News · Video · YouTube


ICM: Sakura (Revisited) and Koyo

5 October 2008 · 5 Comments

This week in Intro to Computational Media @ ITP, we learned how to add text into a Processing sketch.  I used my Sakura (cherry blossom) sketch from week 3 as a departure point and added the Japanese characters for sakura さくら into the new version of the sketch (above). I wanted to create a kind [...]

Art · ICM · ITP · Interactive · Japan · Japanese · NYU


Izakaya Oni

5 June 2008 · 0 Comments

Izakaya Oni
141 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003, US
A mediocre Japanese gastropub (izakaya) in the East Village. Located behind Ramen Setagaya in the space formerly occupied by Pasta/Sushi Wafu and Oriental Spoon before that.
Kris and I went last night (4 June 2008) after the Forum on Participation and Politics Online at NYU Law School. [...]

Cuisine · Food · Japan · Japanese · NYC · New York · Restaurant