youtube.com/watch A wonderful featurette on Peter Jackson’s commitment to using real horses and real riders when filming the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy in New Zealand.
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Friday Favorites: Old-School Web Comics
From the early days of the Internet, where things either didn’t move or were animated with Flash (remember Flash?):
Boloquoy Farmhouse & Mill
A unique and sweet project in Orkney to restore an 18th-century farmstead as a way of preserving culture and memory on the island: youtube.com/watch
Building the Dohyō for the Grand Sumo Basho
youtube.com/watch Continuing on our Grand Sumo theme, here’s a great video about how the dohyō or competition ring is made. It’s a sloped platform made of clay and straw, and it’s constructed by hand by the yobidashi, the announcers! Amazing.
Friday Favorites
Here’s what I’m grooving to these days:
Billy & Molly
You absolutely must watch this: youtube.com/watch
ONE OK ROCK’s Tomoya explains the shouting technique on “Cry Out”
youtube.com/watch As you know, I ❤ Tomoya-san. And he’s got a great post out today to Tomoya Studio walking us through the drum line on “Cry Out,” one of my favorite ONE OK ROCK songs. They didn’t play it at their San Francisco concert that I saw in May, so I was psyched to seeContinue reading “ONE OK ROCK’s Tomoya explains the shouting technique on “Cry Out””
In which Gosha joins Aziza and Hormat for rose tea and rose-walnut rolls….
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Friday Favorites: Recent Audiobooks
A quick list of audiobooks I’ve enjoyed over the last several months: The Vegetarian and Human Acts by Han Kang. Both of these were a tough listen for different reasons, but I’m glad I had to really slow down and pay attention to the way that Kang develops her characters. Even in translation, Kang’s layeringContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Recent Audiobooks”
Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat
I’ve been watching Dear Hongrang on Netflix, and since it’s a costume drama, there are a lot of beautiful hanbok, hair pins, etc. But I swear the hats are like their own characters, they get so many close-ups in this drama. That started me wondering what they’re made of and how they’re made. And thenContinue reading “Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat”
The Rookery 