Category: Snapshots

  • Stockholm Icebar

    icebar

    NOTCOT got a sneak peek at the Absolut Icebar re-design. I was talking about it with my dad this passed weekend — talking about the iced-shots and how they would melt in this weather, so I ended up mentioning the icebars, and then he said how the people would complain is cold. I told him there are coats, and then he said that those must be stinky. HAHAHA.


  • Vogue Nippon: Women of the Year 2009 + Yu Aoi!!

    Was this announced before? Because I remember talking about Yu with Vogue for some November issue.

    vogue-nippon-women-2009
    From left to right – Ai Tominaga, Yu Aoi, Yukie Nakama, Shinobu Otake, Yayoi Kusama, Rie Miyazawa, Aya Ueto, Yukiko Motoya, and Ai Sugiyama

    I’m not sure if it’s a women of the year, or the decade though xD
    but I’m so happy for Yu (though not sure, since she didn’t have many projects out this year), and Happy Yu is so cute because you can’t help but smile when you see that smile.

    vogue-women-yu-aoi-4 vogue-women-yu-aoi vogue-women-yu-aoi-2 vogue-women-yu-aoi-3

    Check out the MyCom Journal Gallery [jp], Oh No They Didn’t,
    and a full Yu gallery over at Walkerplus!


  • Komomoto – Peruvian/Japanese Fusion in Barcelona

    If we’re talking Fusion food (which I usually love), you can’t get more
    than a Japanese-named Peruvian/Japanese restaurant place in Barcelona,
    Right? xD that’s a lot of places into one.

    photo via Flickr.

    I dunno what it’s like, but the typographic use is pretty cool no?
    More photos and talk via EazyFood (French)


  • Love Lego Stuff

    Can you imagine a house built entirely out of Lego?
    you don’t need to imagine any longer~~~

    Lego House by James May

    and here is more nifty Lego stuff~
    Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring,
    DaVinci’s The Last Supper, and dear Mona Lisa
    Warhol’s Marilyn, and also… there’s American Gothic~

    There’s more here.


  • Sudden Yu Aoi Searches

    Wowza~
    There’s been a 500% (or even more, I suck at math) in Yu searches today. Like in the last minutes of last night, there was a sudden 1/4 rise in total visits, so I wondered. I have found nothing extraordinary, so if something has indeed happened regarding Yu, please leave a comment. LOL

    In my search, I found two nifty stuffs~~~

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  • Yu Aoi’s Gakuya on NHK

    Crap! And it’s not on NHK World Premium…
    whatever~~~

    If you haven’t missed my past Yu posts, you’ll know that she worked on a play called Gakuya this past May and June. Well, Yu’s site was updated saying that Gakuya will be broadcast on NHK next month.

    October 9th, 2009 at 10.30pm

    get more Japanese info here.

    There’s also some text saying that there will be some more info on Yu’s new 2010 Calendar, which looks kinda Hansel-y and Gretel-y… ja? Do you wanna know my opinion? Yu’s Message page has only been updated twice this year. Once with that cryptic message from Venezuela [part1][part2], and the other announcing Portugirl. Before those posts? There was a 2009 Calendar post. Am I complaining? Yes, I am. LOL

    But damn, I can’t ever stay too mad.

    They’ve also posted photos off-shoots from the So-En shoot.

    Yu Aoi - So-En - Off-shoot

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  • A day in the life of… Yu Aoi by Libraryman

    where did this come from?
    and when did it happen?

    About “A day in the life of…”
    In the limited edition series A day in the life of… photographers are portraying a day in their lives, fiction as non-fiction. The fourth publication in this monthly series is completed by Stockholm based artist Jenny Källman where she assembled pictures of young peoples everyday lives. She blends documentary shots of the social games of the street with more or less pre-arranged scenes. – from Libraryman Co., Ltd.

    A Day in the Life of... Yu Aoi

    Found out about it here. You can get the book here. Roughly $15-ish USD.
    Maybe Julyssa can scan bookstores in Sweden for it…


  • Bibi on Rong Chen Blog

    A new interview with Bibi came out… yesterday!
    Or actually… two days ago considering they’re like 14hrs ahead of me~

    Bibi Zhou @ Rong Chen Blog

    Very cute interview, where they look back a bit on her singing…
    Bibi’s mom is also there! And she’s got dimples!!! LOL
    And Bibi doing celebrity impersonations~~~ xD – She is very good, if she weren’t singing, she’ll be doing that, I bet. Also pointing out the difference between herself singing, and doing impersonations.

    Sorry, no subs… but still fun to watch.

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  • Another Sweet Bike~

    Call me crazy, but… do I seem to want to get a bike?
    Any of those would be out of the question here, but would
    love to get one for I dunno… San Francisco, or Vancouver~~~
    Taipei? Are there any good bike cities? Stockholm?
    Designed by Dominic Hargreaves, this bike really REALLY folds.

    Folding Bike by eyetohand.com

    look how it folds below the break,

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  • More Bibi PBs!

    :O

    ZOMG!
    a la Juri! DVD + Photobook!

    Mainland pop star Zhou Bichang (a.k.a. BiBi) turns movie director! Since signing with her new record company, the 2005 Super Girl first runner-up has directed three shorts that were first released on the Internet. They are now collected on DVD, allowing fans to witness her developing visual creativity and narrative flair. The first one, “Hide and Seek”, was highly popular in the 3rd Global Awards of Chinese New Media competition. BiBi plays an angel in the second chapter “Angel’s Corner”, which expresses her concern for various social issues, while the final piece “One Half Each Person” is more self-reflecting.The DVD comes with a 210-page full-color photobook, in which the bespectacled singer appears entirely without makeup. The book also includes photos she has taken around the world, as well as excerpts from her diaries written between April to December of 2008.

    Ooh la! Short films~~~

    Bibi Chow - Make Up Remover, Good to Be Myself

    Too bad it’s not subbed. But still, would be interested to see it.
    And it’s okay-priced. Would you consider? LOL