Ronnie Rocket Blog
A personal blog about Arts, Business, Culture and Design (and a lot about Japan!) by Media DJ Ronnie Rocket.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Nirvana @ Roskilde Festival 1992
I was at this concert. Denmark had just won the European Championship in football. I will never forget this day.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
I want to win!
Wallpaper* and Sony Ericsson are offering you the chance to win one of the new, soon-to-be-released 5mp Sony Ericsson K850 Cyber-shot™ phones. Not only that, but the overall winning image from Wallpaper* magazine will be put forward to compete against images from across the world to win a prize worth £10,000 and the title of 'World View with Sony Ericsson 2007' winner.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate
I am watching this documentary right now. Yama-san rocks.
Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election? Perhaps – if he is backed by the political giant, Prime Minister Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In the fall of 2005, 40-year-old, self-employed Kazuhiko “Yama-san” Yamauchi’s peaceful, humdrum life was turned upside-down when Koizumi’s LDP party chose him at the last moment as its official candidate to run for a vacant seat on the Kawasaki City Council. With zero experience in politics, no charisma, no supporters, and no constituency, Yama-San has one week to prepare for an election critical to the future of the LDP. Adhering to the campaign tactic of “bowing to everybody, even to telephone poles,” Yama-san visits local festivals, senior gatherings, commuter train stations, and even bus stops to offer his hand to everyone he sees. Can he win this heated race? Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate offers up a microcosm of Japanese democracy. Director's blog.
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
Tokyo Is Fighting Crime With Fashion
Aya Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers — by disguising herself as a vending machine!
Read the full article in The New York Times here.
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Norick Abe R.I.P.
Former Moto GP and World Superbike star Norick Abe has been killed in a road accident in Tokyo aged 32.
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Kaho Watanabe
Kaho Watanabe (right) poses after winning the "best hips" competition sponsored by lingerie maker Triumph International in Tokyo on Tuesday. Watanabe, 18, beat 112 rivals for the title and will represent Japan at Triumph International's world finals.
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