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Some of my fondest memories of living in Japan involve the great food. Nice trip down memory lane, thanks.

I fondly recall enjoying these at Japanese stores. They were full of sweet bean paste.

I just finished watching sky crawlers, very good movie. Bittersweet, sad, exciting and really the air of dread is just enough that you really feel for the characters. The climax was wholly unpredictable and poignant.

Move along, nothing to see here.

Mundane tasks are a long held tradition for weeding out the unworthy in martial arts training. It's something massively lacking in the money minded schools here in the USA. Nice to see how they approach it in Japan, Kyudo.

Another great post here on this excellent site, very nice, and the tip to watch Sky Crawlers is appreciated. Just put it in Netflix.

What I said above is correct and is the standard opinion of the industry. On cam pop up flash is the worst possible lighting solution.

That black marker thing is the standard operating procedure in any and all Muslim countries, they're religiously oppressive and make no apologies for it. My Dad worked in a Muslim country for years and would often bring home a Playboy or two just to...

For a little more money you could have had it all with a 5D Mk2. The sensor, the ISO, the megapickles. You do get better AF and Speed on the 7D - but at the cost of real quality. Unless you do pro-sports work, why not go 5D Mk2? It's a vast diffe...

Great little toy. Did someone mention the real 5D Mk2 has no on-board flash? That's a dead tip off you're a rank amateur - thank god it has no on board flash. Everyone knows on-board flash serves but one purpose and that is to make your subject lo...

Looks great, they should have incorporated the Syd Mead designs. JMO.

Have the winners been announced yet?

[K21+K24]

Great images, love to see Japan. Really NOT liking the Flickr notes showing up here now. I also erase them on my own work in Flickr.

I've walked into to the wrong rest room of the wrong or opposite "sex." usually drunk. If I walked into the wrong "gender" restroom I would be in a room constructed of language application and use since gender only applies to the male or female or n...

Great pics as always. The NOTES are tragic, the stupidest idea ever on Flickr. Photo's capture a moment, peoples opinions and notes should appear below and not ruin the continuity of the image. Flickr's biggest mistake was the whole idea of the NO...

On the second video of original vs Special Ed, the rebel x wings taking off at 58 sec into the video. That was an amazing scene in 1977 and Lucas utterly destroyed it in the fix up. Those garish x-wings pulling up in the special edition look stupid...

I stumbled onto this test while studying Japanese as a hobby. I got a tutor and really started to set a goal of getting it done. I gave myself a year to get ready and really tore into it. I fell ill and lost the goal. This makes me want to try aga...

I'd take being bullied over living in a culturally repressive Nation any day. You live in a repressive semi-theocratic society - we can agree on that right? I mean you don't burn people at the stake lately or anything, but "caning" is far too cruel...

Bullying is a shame and should be discouraged, but adults are also over protective and over compensating for what they suffered as kids - which made them who they are ultimately. Kids interact and have a pecking order. A mistreated kid is still sma...

Why not say it, it's true. Darwin applies to nature and man alike. I'm a perfect example that this statement is true. I was a skinny weakling who had to man up or get left behind. I lived in a neighborhood where you had to fight to earn the right...

Same here, I loved Misawa. Three years - 89 to 92. Peace out.

Oh, I was referring more to the 2nd Appleseed than the pic above, it just reminded me of it.

Great stuff, but Shirow would have never had a character hold two guns like some silly hollywood poser, perhaps that has changed, but he's all about as much realism in his fantasy as possible.