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The view from my living room
This is what I was watching while drinking coffee last week. While the use of pesticides outside my window does concern me a bit, it’s also pretty nice to see real farm work from the comfort of my living room. I thought about the farmer’s life. Even though we occupy a similar geographic space, we [...]
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Siphon coffee on the weekends
Siphon coffee: what a luxury. When I have enough time, I love making it at home. Usually, as the title of this blog suggests, it happens on the weekends because it’s such a messy, labour-intensive way to make coffee. But it’s also the nicest-looking way that I’ve ever seen coffee made, and it yields such [...]
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Tags: :), clover coffee, coffee, Japan, siphon
Brasstronaut was supposed to have a new album out this month, but it’s been delayed until early 2010. Instead, there is a new video for Old World Lies.
Aaron Read, who you might recognize from the Sunday Service, is the guy in the boat. Apparently the open ocean is his biggest fear, and he almost drowned [...]
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Tags: Aaron Read, Brasstronaut, great music, Sunday Service
What’s wrong with this poster?
What “revolution” is this phrase referring to? While advertising generally uses punctuation in the most liberal way possible, this is still too much. I think the point of those quotations is to draw attention to that one word. And that’s wrong.
Michael Cera does appear on this blog a lot, and yes, he does have a [...]
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Tags: advertising, grammar, Michael Cera with mustache
Tofu can be cool
Tofu. The word conjures up images of bland, mushy food, vegan hippies or those yoga and nature are all you need for good living types… none of them are particularly appetizing. Tofu needs a good marketing campaign.
Enter: Manly Tofu!
Simply the best marketing ever. They could be selling anything and I would want it. Check [...]
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Tags: Japan, marketing, tofu
My favourite blogs are purely observational. I like knowing the little details of things, stories, and people that few people care to think about. If I’m meeting someone for the first time, details are what compell me to remember facts and places and keep me interested in what they have to say. Tell me a story and I will interrupt [...]
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Low-fi is the new high res.
Ever see those people holding their cell phone out at arm’s length, trying to take that perfect picture. With a cell phone. What are they thinking? Get a real camera! A decent camera can make anything look good, right?
Maybe not.
This blog is strictly low-fi pictures, and they all look amazing. The compressed format and [...]
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Moose
Spatula +
Deer =
Moose..?
ヘラ +
シカ =
ヘラジカ
So, in Japanese, a moose is a Spatula Deer. Awesome.
-j.
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