Anime, Manga, and All Things Otaku: Japanese Doujinshi Artist JohnHathway
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.
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Tenured in Japan
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.
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QR (Quick Response) Codes?
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
Tragedy in Akihabara
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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.- Cathy Davidson's blog
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Cell Phone Bestsellers
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?
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Maid in Japan
Akihibara is the electronics capital of Tokyo, if not the world. It is also a hangout space for otaku, and Maid Cafes . . .
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What Japanese Women Talk About When They Talk to Their Computers
Do young Japanese women really talk to their computers? Do young Japanese men? What grammar do they use?
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The Page 99 Test
"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford
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