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Jocelyn Warner: Leaf Metallic Wallpaper

Updated Apr 8, 2008

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This wallpaper is super-cool and can make a room feel totally different. Almost has some sort of neo-feudal Japan thing going on, like the Shogun's pad in the Matrix.

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Murakami- retrospective on his work

Updated Nov 28, 2007

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Murakami is a totallygenius Japanese artist who has built a small empire by creating highly commercial- but very original and compelling- art that he then productizes by putting his images on fashion items, luggage, t-shirts, and vinyl figurines, as well as manga/anime and TV/Movies. I totally admire Murakami's work because I think he has done an amazing thing by seamlessly blending his business and his art into one coherent- and apparently quite profitable- whole! Achieving such an integration of my passions and my career is a personal goal of mine and seeing Murakami do it in such a visually compelling and ground-breaking way is awesome. This book gives a great overview of his work and contains several very worthwhile essays about the importance and method of his work/business. If you dig Japanese pop culture or consider yourself to be a "cultural creative," you must check out Murakami's work.

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shu uemura | PREMIUM RADIANT BLUE FALSE EYELASHES

Updated Sep 1, 2007

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If Trinity from the Matrix was going out on the town dressed to metaphorically kill (as opposed to slaying agents), she would definitely sport these super-cool false eyelashes from Shu Uemera's Tokyo Lash Bar collection. I ordered a pair these eyelashes for my wife. I think these Shu Uemera lashes are so next-gen, a real precursor to bio-engineered beauty we have all read about in posy cyberpunk and steampunk novels, as well as seen running around in Anime for a few years. Shu Uemera Tokyo Lash Bar: life imitating art.

BTW, these are supposedly re-usable but don't forget to buy the adhesive

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)

Updated Nov 18, 2006

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Wind Up Bird Chronicles is one strange but terrific book. It is a weird tale of existential angst and isolation in modern Japan but peppered w/various flashbacks and other side vignettes. (The Mongoliasection is particularly potent)

Highly recommended for those who like inventive, twisted, but very smart and enduring novels (via kxgen)

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