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Shinkansen Scenery: Shinosaka to Tokyo

June 25th, 2010 | Author: andy | Filed under: Architecture, Art, Music, Video | 1 Comment »

Shinkansen ver.2 from daihei shibata on Vimeo.

A friend of ours found this captivating video of one man’s Shinkansen journey from Osaka to Tokyo.
The creative twist he put into the video makes this Jhype worthy.  Have a good weekend, Jhypers.

Tokyo Glow, a stop motion short film

March 1st, 2010 | Author: andy | Filed under: Art, Japanophiles, Video | 1 Comment »

Tokyo/Glow from Nathan Johnston on Vimeo.

House H by Sou Fujimoto

November 26th, 2009 | Author: andy | Filed under: Architecture, Technology | 1 Comment »

Sou-Fujimoto-House-H-02

House H is the latest project by Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo. The house is an “experiment to find a balance between volumes, spaces and light”.

The non-designer crowd usually cringe at fancy designer phrases like this, but I have to say that Sou’s House H is pretty spot-on with that phrase.

There’re a lot of stairs in this house too, and where are the bedrooms?

More pictures after the jump.

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