Tag: japan
A culture of sorrow
Orhan Pamuk describes a collective sorrow that permeates his native city but this cultural meme seems to have taken root everywhere.
Grotesque
Kirino’s painful critique of the enormous pressure put on Japanese youth to conform and succeed needs no advertisements.
After Dark
Not in the same league as Murakami’s best work. Not that his English language publisher would have you believe that.
Audition
Book a reunion with your last meal: Takashi Miike turns a love story into a horror gorefest within minutes.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
French exchange
Blast from the past: on the trail of a 1992 school French exchange trip to Arras.
- Originally published: 3 May 2009 in Europe
Rotterdam
Second city of the Dutch, Rotterdam makes much of its brutalist architecture and its famous art museum.
- Originally published: 10 Mar 2009 in Europe
PANTONE swatch
As a leaving gift from my current business, I received a PANTONE swatch. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? Thanks, J Limited!
- Originally published: 29 Jun 2005 in Personalia
Andalusia
In search of a great power whose sun has long since set behind these hills.
- Originally published: 11 Apr 2008 in Europe
Ars Electronica
Is it a museum, an exhibition space or an annual festival? Or is it all three? We were none the wiser after our visit!
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.