marlow moves

looks like as of today i'll be abandoning blogger and moving "marlow makes art" to tumblr. thanks for all those who followed me on this blog. why the sudden move you might ask? tumblr just seems to be easier to share media and network which is what i'm trying to focus on. you can continue to follow me on tumblr.

thanks everyone!

chikatetsu

here are more recent subway photos taken with hipstamatic for iphone. pretty nifty results. my friend mike suggested making a small coffee table book after a while of the good ones. i think i might do that. let me know if you want a copy. enjoy this slideshow for now.

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benito middle's japanese food and culture questions

this is the first video response to questions about japan sent from students from benito middle school in tampa, florida. these are their questions about japanese food and culture. if you're here in japan already then watching this 10 min video might be a bit of a bore. if you're abroad and curious about what japan is like then take a look.

e shiritori

i learned this new picture game recently from one of my students. shiritori is usually a word game. you say a word and then say another word beginning with the last letter of the previous word said. you can add themes to it too. we usually use 'food' as a theme a lot cause i'm super hungry in class all the time. e shiritori (picture shiritori) takes the game a step further by drawing pictures instead of just saying words. here are a few examples. my students all draw pretty well!

rocky

here is another video by antonette. a tribute to our new italian greyhound puppy, rocky. check out her original post here.

antonette on the runway

antonette has been getting a few modeling gigs lately. here is a video she put together of her recent modeling job at a famous fashion school, here in nagoya. we should be getting a dvd of her going down the runway later. for now, watch this video of her and some friends getting dolled up by the fashion school students and check out her original post here.

snow day

believe it or not these pics are from the 2nd floor view of ECC's headquarters in kanayama, nagoya. it's a residents, but also a "business." it's a holy place where couples bring their newborn children to get blessed. it also happens to be the home of one of my students. as you can see it snowed a good amount this morning during my commute to work. snow is still very mysterious to me because i grew up in florida. this is only my second winter in a place that snows.

the photos were taken and color processed entirely on my iphone using autostitch, camerabag and photo fx.

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antonette and takeshi

so i mentioned earlier last month that antonette was in an ad campaign with kitano takeshi along with a few other of our coworkers. this video is of the posters and billboards she appeared in all over town and on the trains and subway. check out the tv commercial if you havent already.

what's in the bag?

here are some photos. all of them were taken, processed and uploaded through iphone apps only. the first pics are of my 10th floor class room by nagoya station and are made by using autostitch then color processed with camerabag all on the iphone. last few are made with hipstamatic. all photos were uploaded using flickr for iphone. shhuper shhweet!

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Odani Misako 小谷 美紗子 - Who - Cover by Fatblueman

new addition to our new fatbluetube channel. this live performance was filmed friday, jan. 29th, 2010 at john's place and edited by yours truly. take a look. i recommend taking advantage of youtube's new 1080p HD option if your computer can handle it. also, check out this neat mobile video of them practicing i shot on my iphone just before their performance.

daichen, take my heart

here is a quick video done by a pretty popular jvlogger here in aichi and fatblueman's #1 fan, daichen. you might have seen him recently on my channel in the fatblueman's "a fat blue christmas" music video. he was kind enough to give me a shout out for the album art that i did. you can see it beside him as he plays.

R.I.P. Rodger Swan

fellow jvlogger, Rodger Swan, has suddenly passed away. it's amazing how fast you learn things on twitter. i wish i knew him better than just a guy i subscribed to on youtube. i wasn't a huge fan of his, although he did have many. thousands even. his videos may have been a little too cute and cheesy for my taste, but they were always good, well edited and just fun to watch. if you're checking out my blog for a foreigner's perspective of living in japan you should check out his youtube page. Rodger has a lot more experience than i do and his youtube page would be an excellent resource page.

Koshoji temple.

Holy crap, I haven't blogged in awhile. It's because of combination of being sick for most of a month and then recently moving into a new place (huge headache because of the language barrier). Lots of stuff to come.

Here is a pic taken from a near by park. It's actually part of a huge temple complex (koshoji temple). Some pics of that to come later as well.



-- mobile post from my iPhone

digital traffic

it just makes sense.

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sumo in nagoya (slideshow)

here is the photo slideshow of my first sumo experience.

mini cooper bikes

after a year of walking like common folk, antonette and i finally got around to buying a pair of bicycles. take a look.

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super lemon soda?!

super lemon is one of my favorite japanese candies and i just found out they make a soda version of it. fantastic!

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On the way to a clinic

Another auto stitch test
-- mobile post from my iPhone

Summer is here

Our summer vacation officially starts tomorrow. I have a ton of videos to edit and post so keep a look out for those. In the meantime I'm trying out this new panoramic software for the iPhone called "auto stitch." it seems to be a lot easier to use than the previous application I've been using, panolab pro, but it also seems to lack the manual controls that panolab has. I think I'll stick with it though. Here's a sample.
-- mobile post from my iPhone

Kirin lemon

Best lemon soda... Ever!
-- mobile post from my iPhone