Posts from — February 2007

Asian-American restaurant workers turned rap superstars, Notorious MSG relaunch their website in advance of their forthcoming “Lunch money” EP.

For The Notorious MSG, having lunch money means more than just another meal…it means survival. Swing by the ALL NEW www.notoriousmsg.com and check out a NEW VIDEO documenting a moment of the “Lunch Money” experience. This exclusive video captures the MSG kitchen crew on a typical night, workin’ the street after dark for their own taste of lunch money. Featuring King Kon on the good foot and MSG drum-God Noodles.

NOTORIOUS MSG

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Ninjawords - a dictionary, fast like a ninja!

Ninjawords.com

From Notcot.org

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If you like your searches deadly accurate, you might like to use the Ninja search page.

Powered by Google, it doesn’t make that much difference to their usual search results, but the dark theme may give your consciousness stealth like concentration so you can appear to be doing more work than usual.

Ninja.com

From Notcot.org

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Here’s a Ninja-themed restaurant in New York, if you want to act out your darkest black-cloth-clad fantasies.

Ninja New York is designed to depict a ninja castle from the feudal days, with individual rooms laid out with the complexity of a maze. Apparently, the ordinary and the extraordinary mingles where one is able to experience the mysterious world in which the ninja lived.

Ninja New York

From Notcot.org

Technorati Tags: cuisine, Japanese, New York, Ninja, restaurant

Ping Mag has a great post on how to recognise Japanese fonts, which I’ve only just come across. It’s a nice little description of a few examples of different Japanese fonts, their characteristics and their typical use. A few good photographs of rustic packaging and Japanese type too.

How to recognise Japanese fonts

One of their more recent posts has lots of examples of Sake bottle packaging design.

Technorati Tags: design, Japanese

A doggie treadmill? It sounds so obvious, I’m surprised it wasn’t made any sooner. But what happens when the dog gets tired? Judging by the leash, it’s just going to fall flat on its face while the mat continues to wear out its underbelly fur.

This would have been useful when I had a Siberian Husky. They can run so far, it would probably have worn out the mat first.

Doggie Treadmill

Technorati Tags: Doggie Treadmill, gadgets, Japanese

The latest issue of Arts and Culture magazine, Juxtapoz, has a feature on talented multi-medium artist David Choe who is from Los Angeles. He has just had a short solo exhibition called Gardeners of Eden in New York, but he does sell a range of his work on his website.

David Choe has an inspirational versatile talent, experimenting with mixed media, sculpture and painting. His work portrays his adventures and experiences, inspired by being alive and loving life. When an artist demonstrates this kind of fluency through different media, you can appreciate that a personal style has developed, whether its through scratchy pen and ink drawings, smoothly rendered paintings, child-like outlined characters, or visceral compositions from his imagination.

David Choe

Technorati Tags: art, David Choe, mixed media, New York, painting, sculpture

Sony Style Japan are now selling a flash memory type Gachapin special edition Walkman. Like Hello Kitty, Pokemon and Doraemon, Gachapin is a favourite with kids in Japan. Available in limited quantities Sony will be offering the lime green E series MP3 Walkman  in quantities of 200 x 1GB and 300 x 512MB players only. It will be bundled with a Gachapin shaped cloth case and a carrying pouch. Direct sale from Sony Japan only, unfortunately.

Sony Style

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