This movie is interesting one. He is multi artist Daito Manabe, he did many interesting art and music works. This one is his newest project "electric stimulus to face -test3"
Shigeru Komatsuzaki is a well known illustrator before ww2. After the ww2, his near future and military illustration was used for various things. Tsuburaya used his design for Ultraman series. Here is the his site and we can see his a lot works in this page. Here are SF illustration, Military illustration, etc,. very nostalgic! check it out!
Today is Halloween in Japan! Then I am wondering foreing people will do the Halloween Yamanote. Here is an another video of party. JR put warning posters on station. What will happen? :-)
Hi there! thank you for commments. Halloween seemed to be fun for me. Heidi, I sent a mail to you about it
Posted by: mari | Thursday, November 06, 2008 at 09:53 PM
Tasukete kudasai
I am sorry if this post is off-topic, but I am hoping Mari-san or others who post here can help me.
My two very good Japanese friends are taking a vacation to Nassau, the Bahamas in two weeks. They are currently living in the US (3 years on business). Their reading and writing skills in English are ok, but they are currently working on improving their conversation skills (I am their teacher). Nassau is very British, so communicating in English while there is likely their only option!
We/they can't find any travel brochures/information about Nassau in Japanese (I emailed the Official Office of Tourism for Nassau with no response).
Any ideas where I can find travel info/websites about Nassau in Japanese?
Domo arigatou!
Posted by: Heidi | Monday, November 03, 2008 at 01:23 PM
As a fan of Halloween, I think that Yamanote Halloween Train to be insulting--to the holiday spirit. Being a drunken douche in public while wearing a generic costume is distracting from the spooky heritage and disrespectful to the Great Pumpkin.
Posted by: Michael | Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 03:43 AM
Halloween has never been as scary as the elections this year!! Good gravy this past week of campaigning has been an eternity - the incessant political TV ads are pure torture!! At this point, I don't give a rats @ss who wins - just get it over with already! It's like getting a root canal!!
Thanks for the diversion, Mari-san! ^-^ chiisai yaumi...
Posted by: Heidi | Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 03:43 PM
The "party" already happened and hardly anybody showed up, maybe even more 2ch-ers were there than partyers: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=6868
Joe, thanks for the link to the video. I watched it carefully. I notice that it focuses more on short shots, a lot of it not on the train. In fact, you can see policemen in the back in some of the shots. So I think the Japanprobe article is correct: the party was stopped by police. But very tricky editing by "RoninDave"....
RoninDave also seems to think the police were there to protect partygoers....I'm sure that must be it. It couldn't be that they were there to make sure drunk people didn't get violent.
Posted by: | Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 12:43 AM
Those foreigners who have the halloween party on the yamanote line are morons. If a bunch of foreigners came to New York City and tried that, they'd get knocked out by the locals. Sometimes I wish the Japanese would have a little more backbone.
Posted by: Jeff | Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 12:16 AM
They already had the party: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v-jNaKHVnTw
maybe they'll have another one though i dunno.
that video is great! although alot of people have said its fake...i dunno
Posted by: Joe | Friday, October 31, 2008 at 11:42 PM