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Yes, that's right. Videos! I'm planning to keep most of them in quicktime format (.mov) cause the files are smaller and work nicely with iMovie. If you have any problems viewing them, let me know and I'll see if I can give you a hand.
- Settling In - a little compilation video of my first japanese habitat 6:09 (mov) [hi-res] (7.5MB) [lo-res] (3.8MB)
- Fry Me to the Moon - I snapped this one at my first jazz night at Soul Dyna in south Gifu. I thought it was just too great that they were singing "Fly me to the moon" 0:49 (mov) [view] (1.9MB)
- Street Band - This was something else. I followed the sound of these guys from about 5 blocks away during the Tanabata festival in Ichinomya. Dig it. 0:49 (mov) [view] (3.9MB)
- Back the Woods - I managed to find some good woods in Gifu. I never did make it to the outlook I was trying to get to. Maybe another day... 0:40 (mov) [view] (3.0MB)
- Gujo Bon Dance - Japanese line dancing. Who knew? 0:50 (mov) [view] (3.9MB)
- Train Crossing - Just so ya know. They really do make that sound like they do in Evangelion. 0:16 (mov) [view] (1.3MB)
- Train Driving - Meitetsu has certain trains you can sit at the very front and see out the front of the train. How cool is that! 0:14 (mov) [view] (1.1MB)
- Asimo - Saw him in Tokyo at the Future Museum. Just on face tracking mode, but it was still pretty impressive. 0:32 (mov) [view] (2.4MB)
- Chinese Drum Performance - This was right up the street in Gifu one night. Cool stuff. At the end they handed the drums to the audience and had a big jam session. Great fun. All happened to quick to get many photos though. 1:05 (mov) [view] (5.0MB)
- Koto Performance - I saw this performance at a temple that one of my students lives in. Not traditional Koto, but really amazing stuff. 2:00 (mov) [view] (9.0MB)
- Player Piano - in McDonalds. Found this when I went to Nara to see the giant buddha statue. 0:10 (mov) [view] (878kB)
- Demon Dance - Saw this at the Palace in Kyoto. Should have some still photos of this available as well. 0:52 (mov) [view] (4.0MB)
- Robots! - well, not really. Just a mechanized store sign that I thought was priceless. 0:13 (mov) [view] (962kB)
- Elephant Song - Saw this in Thailand. Pretty amazing what elephants can do with some custom-made bamboo chimes 0:31 (mov) [view] (2.4MB)
- Thai Boxing - The title bout. I even caught the final knockout on video! 0:24 (mov) [view] (2.0MB)
- Monkeys! - The Monkey Valley in the Inuyama Monkey Park. These were Yaku monkeys, gettin crazy. 0:28 (mov) [view] (2.1MB)
- Jammin' - Me and Greg playin on open mic night at Bierhall. A bar around the corner. 0:20 (mov) [view] (1MB)
- Mobile Shrine - This was a hand-carried shrine at a spring festival in Gifu. 0:13 (mov) [view] (1.5MB)
- Drum Solo - A drum performance at the Aicho 2005 World Expo. From the people from Sri-Lanka 1:01 (mov) [view] (6.6MB)
- Conveyor Belt Sushi - Ryan took this at the local "Kappazushi" a 100-yen conveyor-belt sushi place. 0:11 (mov) [view] (1.4MB)
- Surreal - I took this in a random patch of woods during my tour in Kyushu. Note the music. 0:38 (mov) [view] (4.1MB)
- Cats! - A rather odd store in Yufuin, Kyushu. Specializing it cat paraphernalia. 0:16 (mov) [view] (1.9MB)
- Taiko Drumming - A wonderful children's Taiko performance I saw in Ise (Mie prefecture). 2:39 (mov) [view] (17MB)
- Ogaki Festival - Some impressive moving and spinning festival floats from the Ogaki festival in early summer.. 2:59 (mov) [view] (16.9MB)
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