A couple weeks ago, Kurt spoke with director James Cameron about his spectacular new movie Avatar. He told Kurt that while the technology he used to craft the movie is important, at heart it’s a love story: it’s just that instead of boy meets girl, it’s boy meets twelve-foot blue humanoid-cat… by posing as a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘“lisa katayama”’
Love Virtually
Posted in Design, Japan, Visual Art, tagged "lisa katayama", Avatar, beautiful girl, James Cameron, Japan, love, love plus, marriage, Nene Anegasaki, Sal9000, sticker picture booth, virtual girlfriend, wedding on January 8, 2010 | 27 Comments »
See Kurt Become a Beautiful Girl
Posted in Japan, Podcast, Video, tagged "lisa katayama", Kurt Andersen, purikura, shibuya, Tokyo on February 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Blogger Lisa Katayama took Kurt to Tokyo’s girl haven: the sticker picture booth. You can download the video here.
She looks like an axelotl?
Posted in Japan, Visual Art, tagged "lisa katayama", Erina Matsui, Tokyo, Visual Art on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I joined Lisa Katayama for her interview with Erina Matsui, a 24-year-old artist who’s already gotten the attention of Takashi Murakami and other art world big-wigs. Erina paints playful and surrealistic self-portraits, which she says should make people laugh. So as we walked into the Yamamoto Gendai galley, I have to say I was [...]
Kawaii Kurt
Posted in Japan, tagged "lisa katayama", addresses, Kurt Andersen, purikura, schoolgirl, shibuya, Tokyo on November 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The motto of a fictional character of mine was All Cliches Are True. As I was reminded twice, spectacularly, during my first full day in Tokyo. Of course I knew about the (cliche of the) Japanese schoolgirl subculture, and its devotion to cuteness, uniformity, pinkness, intense girl-to-girl friendliness, technology, and so on. But my visit [...]
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
Studio 360 from PRI and WNYCStudio 360′s Tweets
- Wow thank you! RT @rahulabhatia: This is - and there's no other way to put it - effing brilliant: wny.cc/LXYXw9 (cc @bartona104) 10 hours ago
Kurt’s Tweets
- As a voter, I've always been able to pick a lesser of 2 evils. Poor Egyptians: 1st democratic election of a president & may be no lesser. 5 hours ago
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