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I'm on pownce now http://pownce.com/mhegge/ *

I've got 5 invites to joost. If you're interested shoot me an email. *

Heavy metal umlaut: the movie The story behind the wikipedia page  *

Chino Otsuka Tokyo 4-3-4-506 Interview with Chino Otsuka  *

to make: hostess snack cake sushi *

Stuff On My Cat: Stuff + Cats = Awesome  *

Tokyo Love Hello - Chris Steele-Perkins  *

Natsukashi! The Tokyo VR Project  *

Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for up to $600 USD per pound. It's made from coffee cherries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet. *

I've got 15 invites to give away for virb. Send me an email and I'll send you an invite.  *

Masala peas are my new favourite snack. Brilliant with beer.  *

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Trailer  *

MID-TOKYO MAPS Tokyo maps and a bunch of other cool stuff *

Naoya Hatakeyama galleries  *

Baby Rock Records: Lullaby renditions of Radiohead, Nirvana, Metalica, The Cure, The Pixies, Tool and more. [via] *

On August 15, 2006 21:30 EST the United States will have been at war in Iraq longer than it was at war with Germany in World War II. *

Jonas Bendiksen - Photo Essays  *

More ugly furniture. Retch. *

Urban Barn Ugly Furniture Contest Finalists  *

An archive of chimes used at JR train stations. *

The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy. I'm in Pop country but soda sounds more natural to me. *

Slide show of Tokyo Kitchens  *

IndieKarma is an interesting way to support independent web content. [via] *

Retro The Nature of Things David Suzuki T-Shirt  *

How to setup Google Calendar to send SMS reminders to non-American mobile cariers. *

Polaroid Panoramas by Paul Schiek [via]  *

Grover is bitter -- The sad story behind that lovable smile.  *

Niagara - a photo essay by Alec Soth  *

The Corporation is viewable in full at Google Video  *

Scared of Santa photo gallery Nothing says Happy Holidays like a photo of sweet little toddlers screaming at Santa. *

REUTERS Pictures of the Year 2005. *

Trailer for Miami Vice. Heat and Collateral remain two of my favourite action movies of the last ten years. *

Passion of the Spaghetti Monster Bobby Henderson plans to put the proceeds from FSM towards a pirate ship to spread the word and cruise around doing missionary work. *

Bethlehem 2005, Vandalised oil painting #031 by Banksy. [via] *

Pimp My Nutcracker I guess it had to be done.  *

The Unpolishable Turd: A Review of Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! By Carter O’Brien  *

Essential Retro: The Vintage Technology Guide Drool.  *

A photo tour of the VW Phaeton assembly plant in Dresden  *

Check out the portfolio of German photographer Thomas Herbrich for an intriguing series of cigarette smoke photographs. *

Keld Helmer-Petersen Everyday colour "In 1948 photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen published a book entitled 122 Colour Photographs which established his reputation as an artist. Subsequently his work became central to modernist Danish design and architecture." *

Download the Illegal Christmas Compilation 2005 from Next Century Modern. [via]  *

PXN8 is an online photo editing tool. Crop, resize, upload directly from flickr, and apply filters including a lomo effect.  *

NWYH Stock Images is an interesting tongue-in-cheek take on stock images. *

Bush and Hume discuss the iPod during an interview on Fox News.  *

room and room is a photographic collection of rooms by Hiroshige Matsuda *

Lens culture brings us an audio interview with photographer Martin Parr. Parr talks about irony, searching for vulnerability, British humor, photo books, the secret history of photography. *

Great collection of photography from 1936 to 1980 from the archives of Consumer Reports magazine. *

American Photowork formed in 1999 and is now one of the largest international distributors of vintage photography. Currently offering 20% off everything sale. *

Robert Otter Black and white photos of 1960's New York City. (ignore the ugly copyright marks) *

Vintage supermarket photos *

Historical Anatomies on the web dating back to the 14th century *

Luke Stephenson Portraits and Landscapes  *

Ninth Issue of AK47.tv featuring Colby Katz, Stuart O'Sullivan, Paul Schiek, Eliot Shepard, and Jesse Chehak.  *

McGeisha - Japan through Hollywood's distorting lens [via] *

stereophonic photography by Katsura Komiyama *

Graphically disturbing crochet by Patricia Waller *

Rancilio Design 1927-1980 *

The Wenner Tapes: Portrait of John Lennon, told through the original audio of Jann Wenner's seminal 1970 New York interview with Lennon for Rolling Stone.  *

Hilarious documentary on Japanese sushi. [via]
Update: download a higher quality version (31 MB)  *

enjoying me some Groove Salad from SomaFM *

The definitive guide on setting up iTunes to stream via the internet from a Mac running OSX to ar PC running windows *

Tokyo Modern - a photoset on Flickr (by lil)  *

Outstanding long exposure photographs of Tokyo  *

Seu Jorge has released an entire album of acoustic Bowie covers in Portuguese from the film The Life Aquatic. *

Horrible experience dealing with abusive bait and switch retailer PriceRitePhoto. *

A timeline of punk rock from wikipedia *

Sith Sense - Challenge Lord Vader to a game of 20 questions. *

Photography by Philip Ullrich *

Detour - Asger Carlsen Photography Another sharp photography portfolio by adopt design *

Peter Funch Selected Works © 2000-2005 *

Can't get it out of my head, so, might as well infect others. Sorry. Peanut Butter Jelly Time! *

Portfolio of Polish photographer Pawel Fabjanski *

When I grow up I want to take photos like Olaf Blecker  *

The Thought Project - Life-snaps by Simon Hoegsberg *

Photography by Rebecca Steele *

Why Can't Anyone Tell I'm Wearing This Business Suit Ironically? By Noah Frankovitch *

Timmy's Torrid Tonic - Caffeinated Hot Sauce The world's first habanero hot sauce infused with caffeine.  *

Bruce Lee demonstrates his moves for a 1964 screen test. *

Panorama from the air of San Francisco post 1906 earthquake. [via] *

Liquid Sculpture High-speed and fine art photography of drops and splashes. Don't miss the pournography series.  *

While admiring the illistrations on joyent.com (recently joined forces with my web host) I made my way to the site of illustrator extraordinaire Paige Pooler  *

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes 3 volumes, 22.5 lbs, and 1440 pages of comic goodness. *

ostmoderne - documenting post-war socialist era architecture  *

The Instant Rapper bling kit comes with gold necklace, a three knuckle $$$ ring and a set of gold teeth. [via] *

Check out the just announced Metroblogging Vancouver  *

Top Thirty Chuck Norris Facts "When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Chuck Norris has not had to pay taxes ever." *

My Rejected Cooking Show Ideas - McSweeney's Internet Tendency *

Change depth of field and focus after exposure with the prototype plenoptic camera. You have to watch the videos to believe it.  *

A short film by Patryk Rebisz shot entirely with a Canon EOS 20D. [via] *

Photograph of Marlboro ad by Richard Prince sells for $1,248,000 at Christie's in New York. [via] *

Incredibly cool images created by a program that blends Flickr photos which share the same tags. Partially inspired by the work of Jason Salavon. *

Have a seat, relax and check out the work of Shannon Fagan. The office series would have to be my favourite.  *

Mitsugu Onishi - Wonderland 2005 [via]  *

Just discovered a stream of great links via the Gomma Portal. Photography by Clare Smith, Nathan Perkel, Gideon Barnett, Nguan Photography, and Paul Paper.  *

Issue #4 of Seesaw Magazine features photography by Edward Burtynsky, Sybil Miller, Martin Coyne, Aaron Shuman, Brian Ulrich and an interview with Alec Soth. *

James Deavin Photography  *

Old Tokyo - Vintage Tinted Postcard Images of the Japanese Capital From Around the Turn of the 20th Century  *

Guitar Shred Show Jam with Mr.Fastfinger on the mountain of the tapping dwarves. *

List of neologisms on The Simpsons "There's no such thing as Scotchtoberfest. You used me Skinner, you used me!"  *

I'm not a fan of SMAP, and that goes double for Shingo, but I couldn't help enjoy this SMAP Short Film - Rolling Bomber Special *

HoBO MAGAZINE A Vancouver based literary and pop culture publication touching on photography, fashion and travel.  *

Julia Fullerton-Batten personal and commission work  *

EDGE Reps - An Agency That Represents Photographers - Todd Hido, Jeff Lipsky, Christopher Anderson, Danielle Levitt, Gentl & Hyers, Dan Borris, Alessandra Petlin. I went directly to the Todd Hido portfolio that included work I had not seen before from Outskirts and Roaming. *

Stop motion like technique used to make music video with the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II  *

Markus Henttonen netportfolio  *

How to Brew Beer in a Coffee Pot. 'nuff said.  *

Amazing black and white photography by Stefan Rohner.  *

Zen Sekizawa Photography I digs.  *

50 years of World Press Photo - See the whole picture.  *

Clandestina - Artists in Conflict. Illustrations, photography and more. *

Polanoid - Seach your archives and attics and reactivate your instant cameras. *

If you've never seen breakdancing sushi, and care to, then I suggest checking out DIET RIOT - EAT WAR!  *

Alain Astruc's photoblog from the south of France. And don't miss his portfolio, and flickr site.  *

Plenty of great galleries, including nudes at our eyes photography  *

Ashtray Mouth TV Spots A dead tie between creepy and disgusting. [via]  *

Chaos Press Photography [via]  *

As Yet Unrecognized by Microsoft Windows. - McSweeney's Internet Tendency *

Live from Vancouver comes the CoffeeGeek Podcast. (link opens in iTunes) *

Six Drinks That Changed History Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola.  *

How to get free calls using SkypeOut and a free 411 service. Unfortunately only works in the U.S. *

Starbucks in Canada to offer Wi-Fi to Bell subscribers. So not only do you have to be a Bell subscriber, but you have to pay extra on top of that for access. [via] *

Movable Type turns four. I've been using MT for two and a half years and can't imagine using anything else. *

Issue #1 of Lightleaks, a magazine for toy camera users, is now available. *

Issue 3 of Theme Magazine features some great photography, specifically a series "Sunday Morning" by Flora Hanitijo.  *

Palla on Flickr. [via] *

Road Zero - A beautifully presented travel-log of photos from across Europe. *

"Suppose your mom is skinny, then there exists a domain her ass fits in. Contradiction, hence she has a huge ass." Geeky code, math and physics your mom jokes. *

The photography of Nadav Kander. Take it all in, and don't miss the series with Japanese love hotels. *

Dirt Press Issue 2.2 features photographs from Gloria Chung, Eliot Shepard, and Brian Sweeney. *

Detailed post on how The Billboard Liberation Front created their Johnny Walker art. *

I'm pretty sure I've linked tokyoplastic in the past, but it's so gosh darn entertaining that it deserves another.  *

Unique food/miniature model photography by Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle.  *

Cheap Beer and their Slogans: "Schmidt's is "Brewed in the Tradition of Schmidt's Brewery for 125 Years." So I guess they still use child labor & not pasteurization. It could be traditional to flick cigarette butts into the brew at Schmidt's for all I know." *

Talk to that Stewie kid from Family Guy.  *

Hayao Miyazaki's first interview in 10 years. I'm guessing that's just with the foreign press.  *

Tokyo Art Beat celebrates their 1st year anniversary. *

"You're kidding me?!" is a wireless voice-based service that helps users simulate a mobile phone conversation. The automatic service is designed to assist people at conferences, gallery openings and other places where being socially disconnected is no fun.  *

DNA 11 creates abstract art from a sample of your DNA. [via popgadget] *

Photography by Alec Soth. Also see his book Sleeping By the Mississippi. *

Death by Caffeine - How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? After 217.34 cans of Diet Coke, I'd be pushing up daisies. Also see Death by Penguin Mints. *

espresso porn - a photoset on Flickr  *

The Observer magazine on universe Muji. Oh how I miss having a Muji 5 min from my apartment.  *

Colours and their trademark holders. I knew pink was a Owens-Corning fiberglass trademark, but blue and green?  *

With 26 Star Trek titles under his belt, Toru Kanamori was - at the height of his career - one of Tokyo's most in-demand illustrators. *

Sony Pictures has admitted using fake quotes to promote its films, including Vertical Limit, Hollow Man, The Animal and A Knight's Tale.  *

Photoshopping Katrina Original photo here. *

Absolut's Tokyo inspired Metropolis campaign photographed by Nadav Kander. [via we make money not art] *

Helena Kvarnstrom Photography *

The Art of the Archive: Photographs from the LAPD  *

Stuckism is a radical remodernist art movement originally founded in 1999 to advance figurative painting, however since then, the Stuckist philosophy and ideolgy has been applied to all manner of media.  *

Camerapedia.org, a free-content encyclopedia of camera information. *

Horrible choice of logo for a dental clinic. *

Check out the eighth issue of AK47.tv  *

An interesting video of a moonwalking bird. *
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