Friday Jams

Track of the Minute – Shiver by George Benson

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:09:04 +0000

Free Akihabara Station Jingle Ringtone

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:35:08 +0000

By popular demand I have created the Akihabara (秋葉原) Station Jingle Ringtone

Drag it into your iPhone ringtone directory in iTunes and be better than people who haven’t installed it yet.

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In case you missed it I have created other ringtones, such as the Yamanote Line, Retro Video Game, and Super Mario click here to see those. As always every single ringtone is free.

Track of the Minute – Hummin’ by Roy Ayers

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:38:55 +0000

Hummin’ by Roy Ayers

Kamakura, Japan

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:21:36 +0000

Here is a few quick shots of Kamakura, which is about an hour away from Shinjuku station. I took these in April of 2010. I highly recommend making the trip out here if you are spending any time in Tokyo. Here is the wikipedia entry for Kamakura.

Shopping street right off the train

The stairs leading to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine

Hasedera Temple

Daibutsu at Kotokuin

A small shop in Kotokuin sells Kamakura brand Cider and it is excellent.

Tokyo Travel Forum

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:59:50 +0000

I just launched Tokyo Travel Forum, a message board to help travelers to Japan. Please register!

http://www.tokyotravelforum.com

Header artwork by Peter Hainer

Track of the Minute – Daisy Lady

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:22:17 +0000

7th Wonder – Daisy Lady

Stream Japanese TV

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:06:17 +0000

UPDATE: I built a streaming page for this.

I have found a better way to stream Japanese TV than Keyhole TV. As many know, the quality of Keyhole TV was horrible. Beware, during Japanese primetime it does slow down considerably because of all of you freaks watching JDramas Enter this list from Baidu:

東京電視台mms://stream.gundam.eu/tvtokyo

TBS電視台mms://stream.gundam.eu/tbs

富士電視台mms://stream.gundam.eu/fujitv

朝日電視台mms://stream.gundam.eu/tvasahi

日本電視台mms://stream.gundam.eu/ntv

讀賣電視台mms://stream.gundam.eu/ytv

每日放送mms://stream.gundam.eu/mbs

大阪電視台mms://stream.gundam.eu/tvosaka

1-NHK G=mms://stream.gundam.eu/nhkg

WOWOW Japanese pay TV service

These will all play in Windows Media Player and the KM Player on PC. I don’t have a Mac here to test it on, so if somebody would like to leave that tip in the comments it would be greatly appreciated.

There are many more, but I haven’t had much luck with anything except the gundam.eu links.

For the full list click here.

Via

Netflix iPhone app streaming over 3G

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:20:26 +0000

Demo of the Netflix iPhone app streaming over AT&T 3G. Streaming via 3G works surprisingly well.

Karaoke Terror (2003)

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:51:35 +0000

From the book by Ryu Murakami, this odd movie is about a group of middle-aged women and a group of men in their 20’s that are all karaoke enthusiasts. One of the men murders one of the women and it becomes an eye for an eye after that, growing more violent every time. Starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Kayoko Kishimoto, Masanobu Ando, Kanako Higuchi, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Yoshio Harada, Shungiku Uchida.

Japanese title: Shôwa kayô daizenshû

Malaysian Graffiti Artists in Shanghai

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:18:52 +0000

Great video of 2 Malaysian graffiti artists and their trip to Shanghai to paint the Malaysian Pavilion at the World Expo.