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I am a late bloomer when it comes to Twin Peaks. I was too young to catch it when it first screened in 1990, but I am attempting to make up for it now. Thanks to my friend Amy and the local video store, I have now watched the pilot (awesome) and the first four episodes. It’s amazing. (I am also a lynch virgin, never seen any of his works. Pretty sad for a film student, but I have these cultural black holes at times. I also just watched my first Coen Bros. film last week).

But the best thing about Twin Peaks is Twin Peak fanboys. Like this dude, who traveled all the way to Washington State and recreated some of the most classic shots from the show, see below.

Original Twin Peaks sign.

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Amazing. You MUST check out the blog.

We went to Tokyo this past weekend and were greeted with cute toys, cute boys and lotsa Christmas tree loving! Here are some highlights.

View from the Tokyo Government Offices, Shinjuku

Murakami Plushie from the Mori Art Gallery store. (His name ,Shacho, means company boss. Cute!)

Lovin’ in Shinjuku

Rockabilly babes in Yoyogi Park, Harajuku.

Kiddyland, Harajuku. 7 floors of toy amazingness.

Just a few pics from the weekend in Osaka, taken by our good friends Lia ‘n’ Kell. Club Noon, Umeda.

My dad collects old match boxes, he has around 200 from around Australia. So when I saw these puppies in a antique store on sale for 200 yen (roughly AUD$3), I had to grab them. Hon thinks the man was sad that I swiped his entire match collection in one go, but they have gone to a good home.

Hon has also documented them on his flickr.

The lovely Eugenia Lim (who appeared in the ‘art school dropouts’ issue of lovegeek zine) will be showing off her latest work at KINGS ARI in Melbs as of the 28th November. The exhibition features photography and video work that Eugenia has been working on throughout the year.

So, if you are in Melbourne pop in for a visit. Flyer below:

Photos from Yatanish, an area in South East Osaka where I teach one day a week. Now that the weather is getting cold, there are cute nanny style seat warmers on the chairs as Yata station. I also snapped this kid quickly as he couldn’t stop staring at me and he was damn cute!

The Portable Film Festival is doing a showcase on UK director Woof Wan-Bau’s work. He has done some really cool stuff, and there is an interview with him on the portable blog. I particularly like his take on software:

Portable: When animating, what software do you find yourself working with primarily? Any one program you could not live without?

Woof: For me, software is a means to an end. They’re also very specific tools, and I try to be aware of that, in that I make sure that there is a reason why I’m using certain software and the aesthetics that come out of them. I always keep an eye out for new technology, but I’m not very interested in participating in the whole ’space race’ of effects.

I was always stressed that I didn’t use software correctly, or that I was not up to speed on the latest and greatest technology. But I think if you use the software, like Woof says - as a means to an end - you can really make it work for you.

Go to the portable front page all this week to see his works.

Has a new fancy artsy space, reviewed here in RealTime mag. Boo that they didn’t have this “large green screen cyclorama for compositing work with the luxury of live keying to Final Cut Pro and three XDCam-Ex 3 High Definition Cameras” when I was a student. DAMN YOU! Damn you all to hell.

My friend La La lived in Japan for a year. She documented her time here with illustrations and writings, which has inspired me to do the same. Beginning today, I am going to capture images from around my area on Hon’s new camera.

Here’s what I got on my walk: