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• Norwegian WoodDirected by Tran Anh Hung 2010I am likely the slowest and worst...

  
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  Norwegian Wood Directed by Tran Anh Hung 2010 I am likely the slowest and worst reader ever and haven’t gotten around to reading this book so I can’t speak on how good of an adaptation it was, but even with how slow and boring it got, there were so many good atmospheric shots thanks to the cinematography from ...
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• Scene from Norwegian Wood (2010)

  
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  Scene from Norwegian Wood (2010)
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• Independent 1481010 - Takashi Murakami Hiropon Limited Edition

  
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  When the Citizen Independent 1481010 range was released, they did several sets of limited edition watches in collaboration with famous Japanese artists. You can find lots on the 1481010 watches in my overview page. This watch today is one of the two watches that was designed by the founder of the Superflat postmodern ...
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• Murakami in Translation

  
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  Yes, Roland Kelts is ostensibly writing about the ins-and-outs of translating Japanese author Haruki Murakami from his native tongue into English. But, even within that narrow literary chore are several interesting nuggets about the cultural literary (and otherwise) differences between Japan and America. It’s ...
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• 4 Reasons Not to Buy an “It Bag”

  
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  The Murakami. The Motorcycle The Birkin. Since the ‘90s, it seems that every major design house from Chloe to Coach has marketed a signature “It Bag” at one time or another. And although it’s true that luxury accessories always attract ...
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• What They Were Reading: Haruki Murakami

  
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  "When someone asks, “Which three books have meant the most to you?”I can answer without having to think: The Great Gatsby , Dostoevsky’s TheBrothers Karamazov  , and Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye . All three havebeen indispensable to me (both as a reader and as a writer); yet if I wereforced to ...
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• Haruki Murakami on Translating The Great Gatsby

  
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        “To fully grasp its essence, I had to plunge into its heart—then and only then could his writing burst into bloom.”—Haruki Murakami on translating The Great Gatsby In the Translator’s Afterword, Haruki Murakami’s essay in In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means, the novelist ...
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• Boston, From One Citizen of the World Who Calls Himself a Runner

  
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  Boston, From One Citizen of the World Who Calls Himself a Runner : POSTED BY HARUKI MURAKAMI Many people were physically injured at the site of the explosions, but even more must have been wounded in other ways. Something that should have been pure has been sullied, and I, too—as a citizen of the world, who calls ...
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• FIRST LOOK: KAWS’ “OHHH…” AT KAIKAI KIKI GALLERY

  
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  Supertouch buddy KAWS (aka: Brain Donnelley) opened his show of new paintings, "Ohhh...", today at fellow artist Takashi Murakamis Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition features a beautiful array of large and small canvases showcasing his current artistic mode of character abstraction in which the artist ...
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• Stop Stopping Me: An Essay on Passion, Murakami and Me

  
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  The older I get, the harder it is to remember how old I am.   I can remember the year I was born; it happens to be a nice round number. But it’s the age. How old am I? That’s the hard part, but honestly, not because the age thing bothers me all that much (yet). I still feel like I can do a lot. But the ...
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• Minotaur by Benjamin Tammuz

  
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  The keen readers amongst you will have noticed a few Europa Editions posts amongst my reviews of late; this, the third, is  Minotaur by Benjamin Tammuz . Minotaur, an Israeli novel originally published in Hebrew in 1989, is the story of a handful of individuals who form the ...
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• Takashi Murakami (February 1, 1962)

  
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  Tan Tan Bo Puking - a.k.a. Gero Tan 2002 Ive decided to introduce a very popular new style today: Superflat. Superflat was created by Takashi Murakami as a way of modernizing the Japanese art world. In most cases the influences of the  various  works are not rooted in classical Japanese art, such as ...
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• An Unusual Dining Experience

  
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  To press pause on todays fast food cycle, São Paulo and London-based designers Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine designed a fast food restaurant where the diner is taken on a journey picking vegetables and baking buns to construct a hamburger before reaching the dining table. As a result, the act of ...
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• “That’s as far as they go. They can’t take it any further. And why not? Because they won’t put in the effort”

  
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  A brilliant passage from Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood on talent. There just happen to be people like that. They’re blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can’t make the effort to systematize it. They end up squandering it in little bits and pieces. I’ve seen my share of people like that. At ...
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• To Pin Down Reality As Reality

  
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  Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible ...
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• Graduation animated.

  
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  Graduation animated. [IMG: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1qzt5jP6P1r14ie4o1_500.gif]
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• I Was Robbed

  
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  Call the police, I was robbed.  While most of you were enjoying all the beauty of a gorgeous weekend, I was holed up indoors, pacing back and forth between the bedroom and the living room. I’m approaching the one week mark on a cold that won’t leave me alone. All I could do was sleep, eat, watch TV, and nap. I ...
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• TAKASHI MURAKAMI PREMIERES HIS FIRST FILM “JELLYFISH EYES” IN TOKYO

  
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  Hot on the heels of the opening of his incredible new show in LA ( here ), last weekend saw the master of Japanese Pop, Takashi Murakami, premiering his first feature film, "Jellyfish Eyes"—which has been in the making for over a decade now—in his native Japan. Opening in posh Rippongi Hills, the premiere was ...
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