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It was revealed that the latest member of huge pop sensation AKB48 was actually computer generated. Eguchi Aimi is her name and you can get a look at her and how she was composited through this video. This isn’t exactly new, but the fun part is that the quality is high. But one step further. Why not make your own version? [youtube]aIpYpRobez4[/youtube] Click on the Glico sponsored page and you can take parts of all and seriously make your own. Click here. Use the upper right corner for eyes, nose, mouth, and you can adjust the positioning later. You can’t create a wacko monster woman, but you can make her look weird if you’re game. We made her! And her! Of course you can use their social networking widget to send your creation to your friends.
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This article name drops what has to be every South Asian actor in Hollywood. How many can you recognize? The best thing is, it’s probably every South Asian working actor. There’s a lot including the voice of Apu - Hank Azaria. For such a short article, they hammered in one fact, yes there are many but, “brown is the new black”? We’re not sure of that one. (Tribune – South Asians in Hollywood)
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If you’re one of the first 500 to raise $500 in donations, you’ll be invited to see them play in a small intimate venue in LA. Japanese group B’z will open up. It looks like a quick race to the finish line and one person already have $7000 donated. This seems like an easy idea, you’d figure every big band could pull this off to get huge donations. Imagine U2 – but instead make it 1000 people who need to raise 1000 dollars for 1M and do it in every “big” city? (Music for Relief – Linkin Park Secret Show) That’s Mike Shinoda crowd surfing for a previous show. Now he’ll be crowd sourcing for donating.
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The Japanese American National Museum is hosting an exhibition of the work of Stan Sakai, the creator of Usagi Yojimbo. The rabbit samurai character is an often forgotten about property in the scheme of educational comics. Perhaps it’s because it’s American created versus Japan, but it does use Japanese history. Maybe it’s because of it’s time period and it being overshadowed by Maus, and a slew of comics about WWII Japan. Yet JANM is covering it. It begins July 9th and he’ll be doing a talk at 2pm. Check out more at (JANM – Stan Sakai)
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