Sunday, December 31, 2006

"Stop Woman Flow"

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Seeking Tattooed Participants for Portrait Book

    Two weeks ago I was contacted by Professor Kip Fulbeck of University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) about a tattoo portrait book project.

    For those who are interested, here are the details:

    SEEKING TATTOOED PARTICIPANTS

    We are looking for individuals who may have had incorrectly translated (or applied) Chinese calligraphy tattoos for our upcoming book Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck to be published by Chronicle Books in 2008.

    If you are in the Southern CA area and are interested in being photographed for the book please email to



    Anyone with interesting or unusual (by subject, style, or just plain bad) tattoo work is also welcome to contact us. Please note: We have PLENTY of tribal, Japanese sleeves, lower back butterflies, kanji, mid-scapula crosses, and mother's names already.

Friday, December 29, 2006

CNBC - Game On

    On Nov. 15, 2006, CNBC aired a special titled "Game On" talking about the history of video games and its $25 billion financial impact.

    During the show, an American businessman was quoted "I was told the only Japanese I needed to know was , which meant 1,000,000 units." At the same time, CNBC showed 百万台 on the television screen with last two characters upside down.


    video: 917 KB Windows Media (thanks to Yang Zongbao)