Traditional sushi rollover. Podcast & article by Trevor Carson of The Atlantic
Text of The Atlantic article here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/sushi
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lost in a moment | dennis wheatley video
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Mesmerizing.
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one take impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean.
We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo.
Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey.
I'd taken a cannibalised record turntable with me from the UK with the idea of filming slow panoramas but it was painfully bumpy and stopped every minute.
Then we had our eureka moment and filmed this.
A few years later I was working on a piece of music and married the two together.
The music is all about that feeling when you're half asleep in the sun.. the ambiance of foreign voices becomes a lullaby to dream away.
There's something beautiful in not understanding a language.. it becomes abstract, musical.
Opera is so much better when you can't understand the words!
What we loved about watching this film back was the space that the camera was able to enter.. extremely personal and scrutinising but not too lingering.
dennis
The music is 'lost in a moment' by 'shrift' from the album of the same name.
myspace.com/shriftspace
more trivia: film was originally taken in 1998... married with the music much later.
Thanks for all the positive comments.. will upload a better quality version soon.
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Speak Fluent Japanese Without Saying A Word (domo arigato to Twitter friend @raykwong)
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2092&feature=player_embedded
Came across this amusing video through Twitter and Twitter buddy @raykwong. It reminds me of my son saying that during his summer internship at a Japanese marketing firm (in Hawai‘i), the office could communicate entirely through grunts. This video does not display the full spectrum of these monosyllabic, non-verbal but totally audible expressions, but you will get the gist. Or maybe the h-s-s-s-s of it.
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Hinone Mizunone
Not too many minutes later, we zipped into the parking lot, through the front door, and were promptly seated in Hinone Mizunone’s spacious and very casual dining room. My husband asked, “Is this the same size as Taco Bell?” Hmmm, how to answer that one…
The windows on the way into the restaurant boasted pans topped with large wooden covers, while framed posters next to the windows proclaimed “Ono!! Kamadaki Gohan.” Turns out kamadaki gohan is a special traditional method for cooking rice – no rice cooker involved! – and when we tasted it, served in individual covered containers complete with single serving rice paddles, all we could say was oishii!!!
Dylan said the restaurant reminded him of a restaurant he had been to in Japan the year he went to school in Nagoya. His better-tuned Japanese taste buds also proclaimed the food pretty authentic. He ate everything on his teishoku and finished off some of mine, too. He really wanted the Japanese hamburger steak, which he said is very different from any other hamburger steak (also pronounced “hom-buh-guh”), but sadly the restaurant had run out for the evening. Guess that means we’re going back. Maybe even before Dylan returns in May.
Two entrée teishoku $14.95 proportioned right, but limited in selection. A la carte menu is more extensive.
Hinone Mizunone
1345 S. King St.
Honolulu, HI
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Fufilled: Imagawa-Yaki Japanese Pastries in Beverly Hills
Fulfilled in Beverly Hills is a contemporary pastry shop serving sweet and savory versions of the traditional Japanese treat known as imagawa-yaki. These waffle-like pastries are normally filled with sweet azuki bean and are Japan’s version of comfort food. Still very popular today, imagawa-yaki originated in Tokyo in the early 1800s and are often enjoyed at various festivals throughout the year in Japan.
Owner Susumu Tsuchihashi, grew up in Los Angeles. He has traveled to Japan more than forty times and has also attended cooking school there. With his new shop Fufilled, Tsuchihashi's is modernizing this nostalgic comfort food by creating new flavor combinations.
Fulfilled Japanese Pastries
9405 S. Santa Monica Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
310.860.0776
http://www.fulfilledpastries.com/
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