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[(Anonymous)]

that treehouse is gorgeous
and the green roof! more information please..

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[kurenai-kaishin.livejournal.com]

Those workers, or whatever they might be, are going "samurai fashion"

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'm just flipping through Japanese magazines, or flopping through a Japanese city, and I see this stuff. Since I don't read Japanese, I have to supply my own context, and that's kind of fun. However, my beautiful assistant will sometimes supply me with additional information. "This padded jacket is called a chanchanko," she will say in an arcade where I've stopped to admire what I take to be a padded red tartan waistcoat. "It's to keep the top half of you warm when the bottom half is under a kotatsu table."

[(Anonymous)]

those are awesome!

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

I want to live in that treehouse.

[bricology.livejournal.com]

I like that "Timbertoes vernacular" police station!

[glowingwhispers.livejournal.com]

I see the images but they shares intangible qualities that I don't understand.

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

That roof is neat; looks like a true piece of wilderness.

Are those jockeys? or a new trend for Japanese gangs playing off the Clockwork Orange style with samurai tradition?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The jokey jockey / tunnel-digger look is by Belgian designer Bernhard Willhelm, more here (http://blog.takmas.main.jp/?eid=107971). It ties in nicely with a celebration of Japanese construction worker chic, as documented on PingMag here (http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/01/18/construction-worker-fashion/).

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

...always admired Japanese construction worker's uniforms, but have never actually thought that they considered themselves chic. What their uniforms reminded me of was St. Exupery's Little Prince -- perhaps my favorite book.

I like the [建設中の首都高トンネルでファッションショー開催] -- tunnel fashion show is all I can understand; but would prefer a version with more traditional japanese designs, or at least with more traditional kimono colors; the neons are a bit gross.

This reminds me of the gold kimono you wore at Che's.

Thanks for the links too...

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

Wow! ...and that one guy is wearing golden tabi. I want those!

I didn't know these fashions came in designer styles. ...didn't even know you could buy them in a store.

Now I wish I had gone to one of those workmans fashion stores.

Adendum

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was Club Que not Che's, and your kimono was kind of brown

Re: Adendum

[imomus.livejournal.com]

My White Archer (http://imomus.livejournal.com/2004/12/06/) look is more influenced by this stuff... the white hood actually comes from a carpentry outfitters here in Osaka.

Re: Adendum

[(Anonymous)]

That's not what I remember; this was 9/11, 2004; you were wearing a shiny golden-brownish kimono of some sort; please, tell me I wasn't hallucinating.

Edgar got me in with a staff pass that time.

That was me

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

...or maybe it was a yukata.

[marksound.livejournal.com]

What magazine were thos puma shoes in? Haven't come across those before- they look fantastic!

Also, I really enjoy your blog and some of the discussion that it generates. Thank you!

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

bambi (heart) bone

[(Anonymous)]

yesterday was the first and only screening of shibutani's bambi(heart) bone film here at the international filmfestival in rotterdam. I thought it was really good!

noriko shibutani was present at the premiere and before everyone started to walk in the theater you could here shouting from the back: it is my film! hihihi! and then she stepped forward to hand out stenciled leaflets she produced out of her carefully designed handbag! the leaflet contained a lengthy interview with herself about the film which provided a perfect "the making of".

I wondered cause some of the music made by mashcat seemed older than the film. did you make the music especially for the film or was it used later by shibutani as soundtrack?

Re: bambi (heart) bone

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

that was me


erik

Re: bambi (heart) bone

[imomus.livejournal.com]

We made the music specially for it. It's nice to see it doing so well (http://imomus.livejournal.com/143057.html) at the film festivals. Go, Noriko!

Re: bambi (heart) bone

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

at the Q&A afterwards someone asked about the reception of the film in japan but it seems it is very rare in japan for critics to write about independent films, so she did not have a real answer to that. the film has yet to get a theatrical running.

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

it all looks amaxzingly playmobil!

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

workers are weird. they might unite one day.