It’s Autumn and yesterday we had the Japanese Society-East Asian Society annual Halloween party. I had been thinking of dressing up as Jack Skellington, but the price of pin-stripe suits and copious amounts of white make-up required for a full-body purge put me off. Instead, I opted for a last-minute Battle Royale tribute, since I already own a gakuran (the special black jacket school boys wear in Japan) and only had to make the collar worn in the film to complete the costume! I’m pleased to say that most of the Japanese students and my classmates recognised the costume! See below for instructions on how I made the collar.
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Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng by Mike on Wednesday, October 29th 2008 @ 9:43 pm | No Comments » |
お久しぶり！最近日本語能力試験の勉強に励むはずだけど、なんとなくウエブサイトの管理することになってしまった・・・orz だけど、いよいよ「knowing nothing」の本当の日本語版が完成しそう！以前、日の丸の旗を押したら、日本語のみの投稿が出たんだけど、サイト全体は普通の英語版のままだった。でもそれがもう終わり！これから旗にクリックしたらサイト全体が変わるんだ！
まだ管理中で、完全に完成できていないけど、そろそろかな。今だと日の丸の旗を押しても、サイト全体が変わるけど日本語のみの投稿は出てこない。もう一つクリックしないといけない。それを一つだけのクリックにしたいと思う。それに、「アバウト」のページ(このサイトについて）や、「404」のページなども、日本語で書き直していない。エッセイと試験の勉強で忙しいけど、いつか近い将来に完成すると思う。ただ前の同じように、時間と面倒のことで特別な記事以外、日英の翻訳はしない。これはたぶん一生のことだと思う（そんな余裕がないんだもん！）ご理解お願いします。
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Filed under: Website, ウエブサイト, 日本, 日本語 by Mike on Sunday, October 19th 2008 @ 6:43 pm | 1 Comment » |
I don’t quite know what hit me, but I was suddenly overwhlemed with the urge to re-design my website a couple of days ago. I’ve been busy with Photoshop and enduring headaches over niggling coding issues, but finally it’s done. It’s just as well too, as I haven’t the time to be making websites, what with JLPT1 less than two months away and plenty of essays to do!
Still, I figured I’d make the best of the inspiration and just do it! I had visions of cartoon jellyfish, waves and the deep abyss. I wanted to tweak the colours, but not stray away from the bioluminescent image. I also wanted to keep the work I’d done on the site until now, like the JLPT vocab widget and language buttons, so the core of the site hasn’t changed too much.
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Filed under: English, Website by Mike on Wednesday, October 15th 2008 @ 6:24 pm | No Comments » |
Finally, at long last! I made it to the green island of Yakushima, tucked snugly away below Kyushu in the South of Japan. It’s a chunk of land covered mostly in sugi (cedar) trees, and awesomely huge ones at that, with sage-old weathered limbs gnarled and warped bearing thickets of leaves, all the way up to the highest point on the island - one massive climb at 1935m! Now designated a World Heritage site, it is said to rain 35 days a month, and as such is pretty much a fantasy land for moss-lovers like myself. The wet greenery sparkles and twinkles; it glistens and glows around you, even along the well-trodden tourist routes. This is one heck of a forest, and if I may be cliché about it, really did contain something magical that captured me. It was every bit as beautiful as I pictured it. But enough fantastical waffle. You want pictures! And stories! Right? Read on…
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Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng, Photography by Mike on Sunday, October 5th 2008 @ 4:27 am | 9 Comments » |
Protecting images (or at least attempting to). That’s been my most recent mission in dabblings with digital media. I umm-ed and ahh-ed about doing it for a while, but decided to go ahead with it as I seem to be using more and more of my own photography and images lately. Hopefully I’ve done it correctly and it’s not too distracting!
I experimented with various fonts and ways to incorporate my logo into the watermark without too much trouble. (Actually, I was up all night fiddling with it, but that’s besides the point…) I ended up combining my luminescent jellyfish favicon with a smooth font to stick in the corner of my images.
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It’s Autumn and yesterday we had the Japanese Society-East Asian Society annual Halloween party. I had been thinking of dressing up as Jack Skellington, but the price of pin-stripe suits and copious amounts of white make-up required for a full-body purge put me off. Instead, I opted for a last-minute Battle Royale tribute, since I already own a gakuran (the special black jacket school boys wear in Japan) and only had to make the collar worn in the film to complete the costume! I’m pleased to say that most of the Japanese students and my classmates recognised the costume! See below for instructions on how I made the collar.
