Blog - Weekly revue: 2012 week #15 (April 7 to 13)
Weekly revue: 2012 week #15 (April 7 to 13)
Outing: Little trip to Mashiko in Tochigi prefecture. Some good bread, looking around galleries for local ceramic works, and had some good soba! We also bought an "agneau pascal", a lamb-shaped bread eaten on Easter in Alsace (France). Really anything can be found in Japan!
New music: Vanilla Beans' new single "Choco Mint Flavor Time"! I love the title song of course, but also the B-sides were very good surprises. "hitotsu no uta" has a cool new wave synth phrase in the intro and used through the song, it's also a nice positive song about the feeling of many people enjoying the same song at the same place and time. The other B-side, "1969nen no Drag Race", is a cover of Ohtaki Eiichi (album "Each Time" (1984)). This cover works really well, and there's something about cute girls making car sounds! Would love to hear it live, hopefully at their one-man show on June 17.
Music events: - On Tuesday was Vanilla Beans' release event at Tower Records Shibuya. They played a generous set of 8 songs, and I got to shake hands! :)
Set list: Afternoon-a-Go-Go / Nicola / Choco Mint Flavor Time / toki no kakera / Question / Yes No / Tokyo wa yoru no 7ji / hitotsu no uta
- And on Thursday was Candles' event "Tokyo eleport 006", also featuring The Aprils, Cutie Pai and ExceNtRip. Report coming hopefully soon, meanwhile my photos are up on Flickr!
Playlist: Aside having Vanilla Beans' new single on repeat, I listened to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Dorian, The Aprils, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Frenesi, Aira Mitsuki, Nakatsuka Takeshi, Kinbara Chieko
Music release news: Ram Rider and Recoride
Tech: I've been having fun making a script that takes a photo for input, and outputs kanji depending on the calculated pixel brightness. It's kind of like ASCII art except that you can't say it's ASCII because it contains multibyte characters, so I call it JIS art (referring to the Japanese character set). See the example below.
JIS art sample and original photo
Posted on April 14, 2012 at 01:36 | Tweet
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