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This is a completely insane model. I am wordless.

“レゴで世界遺産の金閣寺を作りました。飛び出る絵本の様に飛び出します。 ”

Via The Brothers Brick

First a soumen shop for home…

…then a skill-free gyoza maker…

Photo credit: Pina Bausch (Photo by Atsushi Iijima)

My first experience with Pina Bausch was her 1997 piece Der Fensterputzer (The Window Cleaner) which was created in collaboration with the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society and the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong. I saw the premiere in Hong Kong just before the handover. A couple of years later, I was lucky enough to live New York and see every one of Tanztheater Wuppertal’s performances at BAM since then: Danzón (1995), Für die Kinder von gestern, heute und morgen (2002), Nefés (2003), Sweet Mambo (2008) and Bamboo Blues (2007).

It’s hard to believe that I will never see her new work ever again. It saddens me to think that I’ll never have a chance to take a brief glimpse at her timid and introvert self at the end of every performances at BAM. Each the piece that I was lucky enough to see had a very special place in my heart. They all moved and touched me tremendously. It makes me weep just by remembering the bodies have moved…

Guardian: Pina Bausch, German choreographer and dancer, dies

NY Times: Pina Bausch Dies

You can totally use it as a urinal at the same time. Brilliant!

Via Gizmodo

On December 18 last year, we went to a restaurant for dinner in the village, we eaves-dropped, trying to figure out who the party sitting next to us were: they were celebrating this familiar-looking older guy’s birthday. We knew he’s the guy we see around the city selling potato peelers, and the guy, who was obviously very interested in him, has to be a writer.

On the way home, we were extremely obsessed and tried Googling their names on the phone. And voila, we were right: writer Howard Kaplan was celebrating Joe Ades’ birthday that evening. It was Kaplan who wrote the article about Joe Ades’ amazing story for Vanity Fair.

Last Sunday, Joe Ades passed away. Obviously I don’t know Mr. Ades, I haven’t even bought a potato peeler from him. I might have seen him a few times in my years living in New York. Nonetheless, I feel sad. Sad because knowing I was right behind him when he celebrated his last birthday not even 2 months ago. And he seemed really contented that evening.

Pretty loaded

I just upgraded my Blackberry firmware from 4.2 to 4.5. Supposedly it’s going to support (finally) YouTube streaming, video recording, voice note recording, Office documents editing and HTML emails. Nothing new for other major platforms. Sill, it’s a major release! Though my Blackberry is so insanely sluggish now!

Looks like I do need to push myself back on to the Wii Fit balance board too, after the Holidays…

年末年始が過ぎると
成人男女の76.6％が
体重が増加した経験がある
というデータがあります。

nen matsu nen shi ga sugiru to
seiji danjo no 76.6% ga
taijuu ga zoukashita keiken ga aru
to iu “data” ga arimasu.