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Holidays From Being Human By Momus →
“A Japanese female artist in her 20s, Sako Kojima, transformed herself, in 2004, into a gigantic hamster. For a week she lived in an art gallery equipped with straw and a big wooden hamster house. She wore a hamster costume and ate large sunflower seeds, sending darting, wary looks at the people staring at her.”
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Emotional Iconography →
“What does it mean when an anime or manga character gets a bloody nose, or grows a giant sweatdrop next to her face? All these are uniquely Japanese symbols used in anime and manga, intended to communicate a particular emotion.”
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Interview with Takashi Murakami (NY, 2000) →
“I express hopelessness.”
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Figure Moe Zoku →
“Figure moe zoku (フィギュア萌え族) (literally “Figure Budding Tribe”) is a coinage made by Japanese journalist Akihiro Otani who claims “Otaku” are potential criminals, based on the 2004 Nara 1st grade girl’s murder. Otani also uses the term “moe zoku” interchangably. Some Otaku have begun to use the expression “moe zoku” in a self-mocking...
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Shutting Themselves In By Maggie Jones →
“After years of being bullied at school and having no friends, Y.S., who asked to be identified by his initials, retreated to his room at age 14, and proceeded to watch TV, surf the Internet and build model cars - for 13 years. When he finally left his room one April afternoon last year, he had spent half of his life as a shut-in. Like Takeshi and Shuichi, Y.S. suffered from a problem known...
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17 Favorite Movie Demon Children →
“The tagline for “Orphan” says that “something is wrong with Esther,” but looking through movie history she ain’t the only one. Through the years there have been many troubled children in movies and we take a look at our 17 Favorite Movie Demon Children.”
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The Cute Factor By Natalie Angier →
“The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar, researchers said, that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof, and so ends up including the young of virtually every mammalian species, fuzzy-headed birds like Japanese cranes, woolly bear caterpillars, a bobbing balloon, a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock, a colon, a...
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What Would Godzilla Say? By Hank Stuever →
“You’re lost, you’re hopelessly lost in a crowd of cuteness and valor and candy, where simplicity is inherent but noise is everywhere and the favorite color is hot pink—so very Japan.”
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