Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 21, 2009, 11:16 PM

I spent yesterday touring Harajuku and Akihabira, Tokyo.  For a part of our day, we were accompanied by JohnHathway, the pseudonym of a stunningly original and talented physics graduate student who devotes himself to the most painstaking kind of anime, where he layers literally thousands upon thousands of layers of images, using Adobe computer photoshop layering, to produce a final image that he then sells in self-produced manga.   You can find his work at http://mots.jp.   You can buy it, you can tell your friends.  

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 16, 2009, 04:25 PM

This posting from Japan comes somewhere in the middle of a night (jetlag rules!) in Osaka, before moving to Tokyo where I will be conducting several interviews for The Rewired Brain:  The Deep Structure of Thinking for the Information Age, the book I'm finishing on cognition and digitality and that Viking Press will publish in either late 2010 or early 2011. 

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Aug 17, 2008, 05:26 PM
On the Cultural Studies list serve today, Glen Fuller asked a question about QR (Quick Response) codes and I said I'd post it to the HASTAC site and see if he got any responses from our readers. Feel free to use the comment box below this posting for anything yo want to say to our friend in Australia

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 09, 2008, 09:41 AM

 

Trying to comprehend the meaning of the recent tragic stabbings by a young factory worker in Akihabara while writing a paper on "digital youth" for a conference in Tokyo.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 22, 2008, 08:06 AM
The NY Times had an article this week about the surprising appearance on Japan's bestseller list of several cell phone novels--novels written on cell phones and read on cell phones. What's next?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 24, 2007, 10:27 AM
Akihibara is the electronics capital of Tokyo, if not the world. It is also a hangout space for otaku, and Maid Cafes . . .

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 25, 2007, 09:42 AM
Do young Japanese women really talk to their computers? Do young Japanese men? What grammar do they use?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 01, 2007, 03:28 PM
"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford