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Musical Interlude
His cover of the Rolling Stone's Brown Sugar is pretty good too.
An excerpt from his blog:
Even though I'm a ukulele player I don't own a Hawaiian shirt. It's not like anybody made a rule that if you play the ukulele you have to wear one. I never wanted one so I've never bought one.
But this [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Japanese Only
A link to this video showed up on BoingBoing today. In the 18 years I've lived here, the only establishment I've seen that refused foreigners and wasn't a shady pub or run-down love hotel in a neighborhood full of foreign prostitutes or massage parlor-type place was a pachinko parlor on the outskirts of my hometown. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony & Andy’s favorite YouTube videoI can still remember when Tony was a baby who only knew how to drool, eat, sleep and poop his diaper. Now he surfs the web all by himself. He even knows how to switch the keyboard to Japanese input mode and type out words in romaji. I have no idea how or when he [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vader SessionsI think this might be the funniest video I’ve seen on YouTube. Someone lovingly remixed a few scenes from the first Star Wars movie with audio snippets from other James Earl Jones movies. A lot of work must have gone into this, and the tie fighter scenes at the end are the best part. What’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy National Hugging Day (Jan 21)By far, the best thing about having kids is the hugs. It more than makes up for the all the lights left on, the water pitchers and ice cube trays left empty, and the pee left on toilet seats.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dolphins create and play with bubble ringsThis has to be seen to be believed. I wish the clip were an hour or two longer.
Dolphin Play Bubble Rings
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Sofa King We Todd Did -
Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maitri, mudita, karuna, and upeksanamThe Buddhist definition of true love, which to me sounds a lot like true friendship.
Maitri: Loving kindness; the ability to make someone happy. That "someone" can be:
Yourself
Someone you're very fond of
Someone you have sympathy for (I forgot to mention that one)
A neutral person
An enemy; someone you perceive as the cause of your suffering
Mudita: transformation of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Daily Commute(February 7, 2006, Part II.)
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Typical Morning(I'm going through all my old video tapes this weekend.)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canned OxygenAs far as a 500 yen can of air goes, there's not a whole lot you can do with it that's interesting. But there you have it.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Wiltshire draws Tokyo from memoryIn 2005, Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic British artist, toured Tokyo by foot, bus and helicopter, then drew the entire city from memory. (Like Motoki, at age three he still wasn’t talking.) You can see the entire panorama here.
I watched the YouTube video with the volume off. From the comments it sounds like the voiceover is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Pwnzors OliverSponsored By: Jobs In Japan
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I can just picture all the people in the control booth and behind the cameras, completely speechless.Maybe you can tell, but I have the utmost respect [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Koga Lantern Festival
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Another video created from source material that has sufficiently aged like a fine cheese.
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Seemed a shame to let all that raw video go to waste, especially considering that it sat on my hard drive for over a year.
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We ate at a new Chinese restaurant where all the main dishes on the menu was too spicy for my boys. They tried their best to eat it anyway.
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Arthur is a weekly book and educational toy series. Every week we buy a new piece of him. (This week he gets his left lung and his voice box, I think.) Some day I’d like to meet a preteen kid who can hold a camera still for more than an eighth of a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MouthCam(TM) Frisbee
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Self-explanitory.
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We went yesterday, but we also went in January of 2006, which is when I filmed this.
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Taken with Tony’s VcamNow2.0. Edited by Daddy, who gave up on the subtitles after two hours of sparring with Sony Vegas.
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We duct taped a Hasbro VcamNow 2.0 to a remote control jeep to test the theory that you people will watch damn near anything.
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Today the train I switch to on the outskirts of Tokyo was just slightly more crowded than usual. I was smashed into the people sitting down, and someone’s briefcase was wedged into my ass. But overall, I’d say this shows a typical commute. Fill out the survey/link to me/gimme money to watch the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verklempt in the carTony, Andy and I are in the car in this episode talking about various stuff, including my stories about when Tony and Andy were born. I had a binaural mic clipped to each visor. You can hear my voice crack as I remembered a little too vividly how hard it was to watch my wife [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MouthCam(tm): Ride to WorkClick to PlayTitle says it all.Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (protected) (.m4v)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pachinko VideoClick to PlayTo accompany the 40 minute long podcast of just sound. So you know what you’re listening to.Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (protected) (.m4v)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Purely PachinkoSome caveats:
This is 40 minutes long. That’s how long it took for me to lose 1000 yen. Some will love it being that long, some won’t.
I completly disown the part where I said, “Yeah Baby! Keep puttin’ out!” It didn’t sound as funny as I thought it would. In fact, I sound quite pathetic. I [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Binaural Recording EquipmentClick to PlayJust showing my binural mic and headphone setup at the beginning of a podcast.Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (protected) (.m4v)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The lost episode that wasn’t lostIt turns out I did hit the record button.
My annual mohawk. It only lasts for about ten minutes. Just long enough to freak out my wife and kids.
Bonus photo: Me without the goatee. I started growing it back right after I took the pic.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunch run to convenience storeClick to PlayNow that I have a mobile phone that takes decent video (320 X 240 @ 15 fps) I’ll try to put out crappy little videos more often. I envy vloggers like Richard Bluestein, the man behind Madge Weinstein’s makeup, who can put out any old video and not be self-conscious about the quality. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A podcast with the new micsHonestly, the background sound is so clear I wonder if anyone will care what I’m talking about.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Used Panty Vending Machines and other Bulls#!+In respone to the comments to this post on Digg.com:
Repeat after me: There are no used panty vending machines in Japan. The third most common vending machines after soft drinks and smokes aren’t the ones for porn. We don’t have supermarkets staffed by robots. You don’t see “many many bars and other services that have [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Used Panty Vending Machines and other Bulls#!+In respone to the comments to this post on Digg.com:
Repeat after me: There are no used panty vending machines in Japan. The third most common vending machines after soft drinks and smokes aren't the ones for porn. We don't have supermarkets staffed by robots. You don't see "many many bars and other services that have [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How I Became a LiferFor someone who hardly ever talks, I sure talked a lot tonight. I found a printout of some questions someone e-mailed me back in January. Did I already answer them? If I did, did I give the same answers this time as last time?
Someone is going to mention this, so I’ll do it first. You [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How I Became a LiferFor someone who hardly ever talks, I sure talked a lot tonight. I found a printout of some questions someone e-mailed me back in January. Did I already answer them? If I did, did I give the same answers this time as last time?
Someone is going to mention this, so I'll do it first. You [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sounds of ShinjukuListen
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I hope people find this amusing instead of creepy.
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Why no subtitles? Because they take forever to do. If enough people complain, maybe I'll add them.
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At six years old, is he the world's youngest vlogger?
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My First MovieThis is the first movie I ever edited on a computer. It was a 300MHz. PowerTower Pro Mac Clone. It cost me a fortune to upgrade that computer so I could use it to edit video. But it was still too slow to write back to the DV camera, so I hardly ever did any [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bug VideoIt's been so long since I've posted a video on my blog that I've forgotten how to do it.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom There.comI'm a little concerned that this might turn out to be fun only for me. But when it's all said and done, this whole thing is about what's fun for me, right? My time, my money, my blog. It's only fair.
OK, OK, I'll admit it, I feel guilty. I will get back to the regular [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walk To Work: The PodcastThis is the audio from the WTW video, for the video challenged members of our audience.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walking To Work: The MovieI recently bought a $400 video camera and a $400 wireless mic for work and needed to test it out, so what better way than to use it for purely personal reasons, right? It's almost like getting paid to videoblog.
I think our company needs a big screen HD plasma TV next.
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Part one of a three part epic saga of what Tony (8), Andy (5) and I did on January 8, 2006.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |