2010-12-06

Every Now and Then, I See an 'Aaron' たまに「ああろん」が見つかります

「ああろん」という物は写真、かんばん、オブジェー、景色などです。全部私の友達アーロンくんが好きそうなものです。They are sights, objects, pictures etc that I imagine my mate Aaron would like. This is an Aaron in Hokkaido:

This is called 'Condensed Dog'. It is a semi-Aaron. However, if he approves it, it will gain promotion to a full-Aaron.
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Here's another one:

2010-12-06

「であいその２７３写真と私の人生」招待　Invitation to the lecture "My Life in Photography" December 15th

京都市の中心である佛大キャンパスBUSECで１２月１５日で１pm〜２：３０pm。
入場無料。All welcome, admission free. Please drop by if you are free, if only to check out the spiffy Butsudai centre, at the junction of Shijo-Karasuma (NE corner, 4F).

であいその273 写真と私の人生
―My life in photography―
講師 John Ashburne（Freelance Writer, Editor, Photographer）
内容初めて自分のカメラを買って以来、写真は人生の大きな部分となっています。30ヶ国をカメラと旅し、世界写真コンテストに2度優勝しました。観光写真は撮らず、写真家でもなく強いて言えばフォトアーティストです。
開講日 2010年12月15日（水）
時間 13：00〜14：30
http://www.bukkyo-u.ac.jp/BUSEC/

2010-10-30

誰かに負けていない、日本の海上自衛隊が全力で頑張っています

Not to be outdone, the Japanese maritime self-defence force are developing their own new systems of 'aerial locomotion', with the aim of 'putting a sailor into orbit' within the next three years.
新型空中移動装置です。

2010-10-30

New Cut-Price Airline Starts Operations from Kansai International Airport 激安！大共栄圏航空KIX-HRB初便

Greater Co-Prosperity Airlines has announced a new service to Harbin, with one-way tickets starting at 500 sen. It is proving especially popular with young female 'OL' office workers, looking for an inexpensive getaway, and the opportunity 'to meet and colonise new Asiatic peoples'.
日本の哈尓濱〔ハルビン〕流ブームが来た！膨張的なOLで超人気！

内の会社は安全記録には非の打ちどころがない
Whilst initial flights have experienced certain 'operational difficulties', the safety apparatus is the finest modern technology can offer.

安全第一！万歳！

2010-10-30

Charlie Chaplin in Kobe in 1932　伝説に彩られた「ありふれた人」とハリウッドのスーパースターのチャーリー・チャップリン氏は、間一髪のところで神戸での暗殺を逃れました

In 3D, so they say! Looking happy. Before they tried to assassinate him, that is.　Well, they thought about it, anyway.

You can read about that here:
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五・一五事件の前日にはイギリスの喜劇俳優のチャールズ・チャップリンが来日し、事件当日に犬養と面会する予定であった。チャップリンが思いつきで相撲観戦に出掛けた為難を逃れたが、「日本に退廃文化を流した元凶」として、首謀者の間でチャップリンの暗殺が画策されていた。これには米英の日本に対する態度を硬化させる狙いが陸軍にあったと云われている。

Charlie had an interesting death as well as an interesting life. On March 1, 1978, some 46 years after the above picture was taken in Kobe, his body was stolen from his Swiss grave 'by a small group of Polish and Bulgarian mechanics'. When they recovered Charlie, they put him under six feet of concrete to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
That's the Swiss for you.
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Gone but not forgotten. Not least in Japan, where he reminds users of the Tokyo Subway Transit System to mind their manners.

The above is from Tokyo-based British designer Phil Couzens' very nice blog. You can find that here: http://philcouzens.wordpress.com/

2010-10-30

I was wondering if anyone... あなたが果たしてこれを読むのか考えています。

...reads this anymore?
And... Ou sont les pagodes d'antan?
そして、心弾んだ過ぎし日の仏塔はどこに脱出しましたか？

I like that word, 'antan' in French, by the way. It's a bit literary, so I suppose I read it in Racine, or some such like. In English it would be 'yesteryear'. Funny how we develop a fondness for certain words and phrases, isn't it?
cf 'Where are your pagodas now?' (Eng) and 'But where are the pagodas of yesteryear?' (Fre).