Hammer & Jack

Tag: japan

  • Bookshelf: My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1

    The loveliest reading experience that exists is the experience of coming across the right book at the right time, and feeling so completely understood by it, and feeling like you completely understand it. I picked up My Brother’s Husband, by Gengoroh Tagame, because I read that it was going to be adapted into a live action TV series,…

  • Mariachi Japonese

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoyMVxuvZi0] Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán performing Hibari Misora‘s “Kawano Nagareno Yoni” while on tour in Japan. I just eat this shit up. Youtube is full of these cross cultural moments; bands on tour doing encores with songs from the places they’re touring in.

  • Kick-ass Posters from Postwar Japan

    If you’re interested at all in graphic design, or just like cool images, check out this cool collection of posters for industrial exhibitions in postwar Japan.