SparkPlugged has recently featured album art a couple times. Well, here’s more.
A fan has his collection of 60’s & 70’s Asian pop record covers online. David Greenfield’s collection features some 130 Asian pop record covers. The collection consists of records from the 60’s and 70’s from Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand.
I must [...]
Quite a bit has happened so far this month dealing with the Space Race 2.0 or whatever you want to call the recent surge of interest.
First off is the most exciting, Google and the X Foundation just teamed up. They are offering $30 million in rewards for the first privately funded rover to [...]
Check out this retro photo of a super cool robo:
This is photo taken in the early 1930s of Mitsui Yasutaro and his “own steel humanoid”. Very impressive. The robot is the one on the left by the way.
…the fascination goes back this far? Oh yeah, much much further. I have some questions though. What [...]
Premiering last night on the Discovery Channel was “The First Emperor”. Known by its full title, “The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China”, the show offered a very great viewing experience. Essentially the show was a 2-hour long docu-drama that focuses on the man who united China and what he did. The show [...]
Upon talking to my friend Daigo about heavy metal music, he told me something I never knew. We were watching a clip from crazy-cool guitarist Steve Vai live in Tokyo. My friend pointed out and began talking about the guitar that Vai was playing. It was an Ibanez. What Daigo then said suprised the [...]
I recently took up a more substanstial interest into Kabuki. I am actually interested in all the major Japanese play types, Noh, Bunraku, & Kyogen. But Kabuki strikes me as particularly intruiging. The hanamichi, mie, kata dances, and kumadori make up…so cool.
Specifically, I’ve been interested in a particular Kabuki play. The play is titled [...]
Most renowned for his woodblock print “The Big Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa”, Japanese artist Hokusai’s art is coming to America. The Smithsonian Institution will be showing the “Hokusai” exhibition come March 2006. The 500 piece exhibit just wrapped up at the Tokyo National Museum. It is unknown how many pieces will be [...]
I cannot help but applaud Dreamworks and Columbia Pictures on this endeavor. It is great to see an American film with a non-American cast. I can only imagine the dimensions of complexity that this adds to production. Arthur Golden’s novel being brought to the international silver screen has me all excited.
The movie brings together [...]
