And here it is, the traditional post-haircut moblog shot. I don’t know why I keep doing these, but I do, so there. Feeling nice and light for 2006!
Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.
The Superfuture Superguides are a series of PDF travel guides to some of your favorites cities, updated monthly, and obsessively compiling the best places to shop, eat, and drink. The Tokyo guide is edited by Jean Snow.
Jean Snow is the design/culture editor at Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx, here.
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japanese haircuts can look really unsuitable on western folks, but it looks pretty stylin on you.
anyway, as far as kanji goes, at some point you are going to have to hunker and rote memorize kanji. It’s something i put off for years, usuall learning through any other method I could. I bought a joyo kanji book, and I did 15 kanji a day for over a year. Can’t say they’re all in there, but it certainly did help! I even had a littl cafe at that point I went to, and the workers there were usually happy to answer my question.
natural, comfortable and clear.
Happy new year^-^
Yeah, I realize the kanji learning is not always going to be “fun,” and that eventually I’m going to have to do a lot of memorizing, but at least this has got me into the groove again.
Is it just me, or are you looking younger? Must be the stylish do.
Lots of people told me today that it makes me look younger, yeah. But alas, I’m still 32…
hey jean….nice du. c’est comment le upkeep sur ça?
Nothin’ but a bit of wax!