Category: Screencaps

  • New Google Translate Features

    Listening and watching… and trying to keep up with Asian entertainment means that I use Google Translate often. This is why I think these are new features. I knew Google Translate could read out loud English… and German, but this is the first time that I’m aware it can read Japanese, Mandarin and Korean too.

    Of course I chose BiBi’s Just to Meet You song to test, because that’s one of the songs that I butcher whenever it plays on my iPod. And it not only “translates,” but now you can also read it phonetically…

    and you can listen to it read it out loud. O_O

    Three very important things about this:

    1. This is amazing… if you’re starting out a language.

    2. A lot of sites that dedicate themselves to pinyin, romaji and Korean romanization just got their work cut down… or have some serious competition. With this, anyone can post lyrics…

    3. This just made a whole new generation of lazy.

  • Minami he (To the South)

    So… you don’t live in Tokyo? Or you live in Tokyo but don’t have the time or money to spend a couple of hours in the theater? Well, tough luck!

    Yu-chan’s at the theater in her brand new play with Satoshi Tsumabuki, as previously reported.

    Tsumabuki portrays a seismologist named Minami who is station at the foot of the fictional Mt. Buji, a volcano that is getting ready to erupt. Aoi portrays Amane, a woman found wandering the slopes of Mt. Buji. The only thing is she may not be Amane at all. Aoi’s character keeps changing the story of who she is, where she comes from and even what her real name is.

    via J-Film Pow-Wow (Chris MaGee’s awesome, non?)

    Check J-Film Pow-Wow for more information and a photo where Yu’s on the side looking different. Then there’s a video of Yu-chan commenting on the play, and inviting all of us (who can’t go) to see the play.

    But it’s not embeddable, so head over here for the video.

    But really, even if I were in Tokyo… and I had the time and money to go watch Yu on stage, it’d be for nothing! Because I’m not fluent in Japanese. It’d be like a wasted seat on someone who would just stare O_O and that’d be creepy.

    So… is anyone going? And does anyone want to share their thoughts on it?

  • Oscar 2010-2011 Watchlist

    I know, I know… I haven’t been blogging about any of the awards since I launched YAM. But hey! If you were following YAM on Twitter, you’d know I’ve been commenting on them~

    Did the Globes [Firth, Portman, Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Paul Giamatti, Melissa Leo + Christian Bale, + The Social Network wins for Movie+Score+Script+Director] Did the whole SAG Awards [Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Melissa Leo + Christian Bale (The Fighter) + The King’s Speech for Cast), and the Oscar noms aren’t really that surprising, but there were a couple of nice things.

    First, Yay Javier Bardem, Yay John Hawkes.

    Here’s my list of watched and not-watched films.

    Light blue – Watched
    Hot pink – Dying to watch.

  • Yu Aoi – Yogashiten ~ Daisuki Sweets – Best 88 ~

    I guess I could translate Daisuki Sweets to Sweets that I Love (the best).

    There’s a new special issue by Magazine House that has just been released. My understanding is that it’s got write-ups on Yu’s favorite pastries, and stuff like that. I even read something about her grandma’s banana bread?

    Obviously, this is to promote her upcoming film Yogashiten Coin de Rue, which opens on February 11th.

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  • Wow, That Was Good Casting: Grilled Cheesus

    I really meant to post this sooner.

    Remember that Glee episode in which we have a flashback of Kurt as a kid with his dad? That was amazing casting, and just to test my theory, I screencapped some bits and showed them to my mother. Her verdict? She thought it was really Chris Colfer as a kid!

    So kudos with the casting on this one:
    Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer & Robert J. Ulrich ~~~

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  • Jose Marti: El Ojo del Canario Poster

    When I wrote my review, I couldn’t find a proper poster so I grabbed photoshop and whipped my own, but I made note that it wasn’t any official artwork.

    However someone ended up using it xD

    You might like to know that YAM’s got a big resolution of the nifty poster designed by Giselle Monzon Calero.

  • Glorious Food Photography is like Torture xD

    Three new places I’m going to be visiting — hopefully with my stomach full, or it will be torture.

    Tasteologie~ from my fave peeps of Notcot ;D

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  • Yu Aoi + Juri Ueno for FRaU Magazine Covers

    Not together, because that would be too much awesomeness for one cover.

    And because Juri’s is the latest one — promoting her upcoming Taiga drama… CAN’T WAIT O_O — it goes before the break~

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  • Finally YAM Magazine Website

    I was beat last night. Full of anxiety xD

    But it’s finally out. Please, visit yam-mag.com leave a comment and subscribe ;P

  • The New York Times: Fourteen Actors Acting

    The New York Times’ got around 1min. clips of actors acting titled Fourteen Actors Acting. From Tilda Swinton to Chloe Moretz going through James Franco and passing through Michael Douglas, all the way to Jennifer Lawrence with a tinge of Noomi Rapace.

    And… I want to say it looks great, because I love black and white – but really?

    Even I can’t fangirl.