Archive for the 'japan' Category

Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters

"Yōkai Daizukai, an illustrated guide to yōkai authored by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, features a collection of cutaway diagrams showing the anatomy of 85 traditional monsters from Japanese folklore."
 

Origami spaceplane to launch from space station

I can't even begin to imagine why.
 

Toypography

" It will transform in the Chinese character or the English character of the same meaning. You might feel it mysterious." Worth nothing that at least when I learned digital typography, the method for making various letterforms was very similar. via bb.
 

BABIES TEAM UP WITH SUMO WRESTLERS FOR CRYING GAME

Further evidence that CNN is no longer capable of or interested in reporting on actual news of any importance. I'm not convinced it's a bad thing. Maybe the funniest part of this link is the url.