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Kyoto: days 1-3 -- drinking beer

3 hour train to Kyoto. Saw Fuji finally. It was a mountain for sure. Man I can’t wait to type with a real keyboard again! We watched Grave of the Fireflies to pass time. That is a fucked up movie — Ghibli tricked us! Good though. Kyoto is interesting. It’s small and easy to navigate but end up in the wrong area at the wrong time and it seems like a ghost town. In the right...

May 15th

Tokyo Day 6 - culture and leaving

Pretty touristy day but awesome regardless. Our last day in Tokyo before we return before leaving. Kohtaro’s mom wanted to meet us really badly and they bought us Sumo tickets for the day. She didn’t speak any English but it didn’t really matter she spoiled us to the point of no return. But that’s customary of the people of Japan. We went to the Edo Tokyo Museum then Sumo....

May 15th

Tokyo days 4 and 5(?): Fish

Worst day. Best night. Changed hotels so we are in Tsukiji now. So hard to get here from Shinjuku even the information people were complicating things. Couldn’t check in til 3 so I decided we’d kill a few hours by walking from Tsukiji to Daiba and Palette Town. Turns out that was a two hour walk… along a highway. Big sight is the “rainbow bridge” then we realized...

May 11th

Tokyo days 2 and 3: Ninja Gaijin

I’ll try to keep this short. On Wednesday our schedule was all messed up and we woke up at 7 so we tried finding some Japanese breakfast but aren’t certain it is a thing. So we ended up in Shinjuku Park which is huge, dense and cool. From there we walked in circles for an hour before realizing we were looking at the map upside down. So Gaijin. We went to Tokyu Hands which is a cool 8 floor...

May 10th

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Tokyo -- Day 1: WTF

This has to be the worst city in the world to arrive in after a 13 hour flight. Being exhausted and disoriented, this place is sooo confusing and overwhelming. I really doubt their could be another place more alien to me and Lynne than Tokyo. Every single thing we’ve come to know about how to operate in society is worthless here. Everything is done differently. So we look for a train/bus at...

May 7th

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Directed By: Exploding Motor Car Produced By: Winston Hacking Editor: Brett Long DP: Ian Carleton Lead Puppeteer: Brett Long Puppeteers: Winston Hacking, Nikki Woolsey Puppet Design+Fabrication: Brett Long, Winston Hacking and Yukiko Hara SFX Makeup: Kevin Hutchison Film Transfer: Frame Discreet

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Produced By: Exploding Motor Car Directed By: Winston Hacking and Andrew Zukerman Editing, Painting, Scratching, Bleaching: Winston Hacking and Andrew Zukerman Film Transfer: Frame Discreet

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Interview/making-of here.

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An adaption of the Aesop’s fable the Frog’s that Desired a King. Director: Jesse Ewles Sets and Animation: Winston Hacking and Brett Long Music: Dean Tzenos Producer: Geoff McLean

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