Patrick Macias has a couple of rare photographs of the original Godzilla, circa 1954/55, at a photo shoot at Toho Studios in Tokyo. Link ( Lisa Katayama is a guest… Read the rest of the article: Photos of Godzilla on set, circa 1955

Designer Laura Cahill wanted to make art without wasting new material. She did a bunch of research, and found out that used books are the most common unwanted objects; they're… Read the rest of the article: Furniture made out of used books

Today on TokyoMango, I wrote about a newly found stack of Occupation-era letters written by an American woman in 1940s Japan; a robot that will help you find cool t-shirts… Read the rest of the article: Today on TokyoMango

Do you feel like biology and physics have done more for you than Allah or Jesus? Observing that "the essence of religion is stained glass and song," San Francisco-based artist… Read the rest of the article: SF artist makes a temple to science

In Japan, when you want to get off a bus, you press a little button with the words "will stop next" on it. The button lights up, a beep goes… Read the rest of the article: Mr. Bus' bus buzzer collection

I'm working on a series of short fiction stories/vignettes that explore real human issues through my dog Ruby, which I'm hoping will be fodder for my next book. I thought… Read the rest of the article: Ruby was Angry: A Short Story

Back in 1984, Japanese manga artist Mitsuru Sugaya wrote a fun comic book for kids about the birth of Apple. It was originally published as a two-part series in a… Read the rest of the article: 80s Japanese comic strip about Wozniak, Jobs, and Apple

Today on TokyoMango, I wrote about musical instrument cell phones; an eraser with 28 corners; a bikini model who wore her swimsuit backwards; and a woman who is obsessed with… Read the rest of the article: Today on TokyoMango

My mom just sent me this delightful little Japanese book called The Almanac of Weird Hobbies, which I first read about on my friend Ichiru's blog a couple of weeks… Read the rest of the article: The almanac of weird hobbies

Waterproof cameras are no big deal these days, but in the 1930s, Bruce Mozert was the only person in the world who had one. Mozert pioneered underwater photography in Silver… Read the rest of the article: Bruce Mozert's amazing 1930s underwater photography

For his upcoming exhibit in Tokyo, designer Tokujin Yoshioka is making a natural crystal chair from scratch. He'll do this by submerging a nucleation-inducing fiber structure in four giant tanks… Read the rest of the article: Chair made out of natural crystals

Today on TokyoMango, I wrote about a new web site that lets women vent and seek advice anonymously; why the Japanese don't cheer out loud at the Olympics; and the… Read the rest of the article: Today on TokyoMango

Chenman is not a man. She's a Beijing-born twenty-something woman who has become one of the most well-known fashion photographers in China. She does a lot of high profile work,… Read the rest of the article: Chenman's Great Wall fashion photography

Every day for the past seven years and nine months, designer Negse has been taking photographs of his hair in the morning. ("Neguse" literally bedhead in Japanese.) He started documenting… Read the rest of the article: Man documents bedhead every day since 2000

This month, the editors at Wired are trying something new with their ordinarily super-confidential production process–they're letting it all hang out. Senior editor Jason Tanz sez: We at Wired are… Read the rest of the article: Wired editors unveil their feature-editing process in a new blog

I wrote an article for today's Japan Times about the history of urawaza. Urawaza is the name of a book I wrote; it's a collection of lifestyle tips and tricks,… Read the rest of the article: The history of urawaza in the Japan Times

Today on TokyoMango, I wrote about ToastGirl, a crazy-cool female artist/performer; why anime director Hayao Miyazaki does all his drawings by hand; and artist Ryohei Tanaka. ( Lisa Katayama is… Read the rest of the article: Today on TokyoMango

Musashi Miyamoto is the famous 17th century samurai who wrote The Book of Five Rings, a classic text on martial arts and military strategy. Takehiko Inoue is the genius manga… Read the rest of the article: Calligraphic manga featuring famous samurai Musashi

A Michigan couple decided to get married at a local funeral home. Part of it was because the husband was a funeral director there. But also, he points out, just… Read the rest of the article: Couple gets hitched at a funeral home

As a tribute to sixties pop star Claude François (he wrote the original tune for Sinatra's My Way and many other mega-hits in France), quirky Japanese musician Kenzo Saeki made… Read the rest of the article: Japanese technopop music video of a French sixties tune