Being Yellow Menace’s resident ‘Asian Design Major’ (as Greg likes to call me), I found this interesting… What Do I Do With Those Damn Anime Kids? Excerpt: Introductions were made, and more chitchat was had about the problem at hand, namely, the Damn Anime Kid. “They just wanna draw the same stuff over and over again. The big eyes, the [...]
Brian Dunning tackles the Yonaguni Monument (aka ‘Japan’s Atlantis’) on this week’s episode of Skeptoid. As usual with Skeptoid, if you tune in expecting to hear about verified evidence of some lost culture off the coast of Japan you’ll be disappointed. About 25 meters beneath the waters off Japan lies a stepped pyramid. We don’t know who built it, or [...]
MetaFilter recently had a couple of cool links on Asian pop culture topics. A discussion of Japanese director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) Visual Kei band X Japan embarks on first-ever US tour An awesome gallery of posters using pop culture images (Superman, Marilyn Monroe) to promote manners on public transit Share and Enjoy!
Okay, it’s father’s day – so indulge me, y’all. I was nabbing the latest episode of Doctor Who for my son and I to watch after dinner and I started to wonder how hard it would be to knock together a life-size TARDIS – well, a police box, really. After a few minutes poking around on Google I was discouraged [...]
Some Caucasians living in China have reported making a little extra on the side by renting themselves out. Cool your jets — not that way, but to pose as visiting American businessmen and accompany entrepreneurs hoping to add an air of cultivated connections to their presence at business meetings. Recruiting fake businessmen is one way to create the image–particularly, the [...]
Here’s one for our resident Asian design major, Musashi: a nifty gallery of “creative infography” that presents complex information in a simple and visually appealing fashion. (via MeFi)
Some genius created an awesome stop-motion video of Mario making a two-dimensional journey around his school thanks to the magic of paper cutouts. (via BoingBoing)
BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin is right, the captions in this Flickr photoset are sometimes cringe-inducing, but its collection of photographic images from Meiji-era Japan is amazing indeed.
Wired recently posted a quick breakdown of what goes into recording a track in Trent Reznor’s garage studio. I thought it might be worth a link since we mentioned his new project, How To Destroy Angels, in the first episode of the new Yellow Menace Podcast. On a side note, Ed and I were joking this weekend that Toni Halliday [...]
I should preface this by saying that I am no expert in foreign relations; my only experience in that field is occasionally shooting up people from the U.K. in Modern Warfare 2 Xbox Live matches (well, and calling my relatives on the other side of the planet every once in a while). With tensions rising between North and South Korea, [...]
I suspect you don’t need me to explain to you what a horrendous douche-bag Glenn Beck is, so I’ll not waste any space ranting about him. But I do enjoy a bit of schadenfreude now and then, especially when the victim is the aforementioned conspiracy-obsessed shitheel. Enter Haiku Glenn Beck, which lets you craft your own terse Japanese poetry inspired [...]
Boing Boing’s Lisa Katayama posted part one of an interview with badass reporter Jake Adelstein (Tokyo Vice), who is equal parts Hunter S. Thompson and Bunta Sugawara. In April 2008, I was trying to figure out how Goto knew that I was writing a book about his liver transplant. There was a yakuza real estate broker; he was a good [...]
Check out this sweet gallery of vinyage posters from Japanese industrial expositions from the 1920s-1940s. (via BoingBoing)
Way back in 1999 or so, a year or two out of college, I started poking around with website design – nothing major, just picking up a little HTML here and there and knocking together a string of really forgettable crap sites that hopefully will never be found on Archive.org’s Wayback Machine. After a year or so of fumbling around [...]
We’d mentioned Nanaca Crash, a fun little Flash game featuring characters from the Japanese visual novel Cross Channel, in an earlier incarnation of the site, but since we haven’t reposted it at Yellow Menace yet, here goes. Incidentally, my current record is 3699.48 meters.