KID ETHNIC IS WRITTEN BY:
saleem
who is currently moving around East Asia.
kidethnic@gmail.com
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100JapaneseThings
A collaborative site to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff.
The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you <em>need</em> a song about alpacas, don’t you?
The Whiteboard Videos
Music+Whiteboard Markers+Friends=Good ways to spend weekends
The Annual Kid Ethnic Valentine
Because I love you so much.
SEAWEED BREAKFAST
A weekly column about Japan that I wrote for Glimpse.org.
A Brief Shoutout to Shanghai Chemical Smog · 12 days ago
Controversial though you may be, on a clear day you are just enough to give digital photos that vintage look.
Let’s work together again in the future, please.
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The Japanese Drink Machine Project: Song. And Video. And Photos. · 94 days ago
Japanese drink machines have crazy amounts of drinks:
I always wanted to buy one of every kind of drink in a machine. Filmed it with my friend Kaji-san ( olvis-one.blogspot.com ), then made a song. And here you are.
Photos of all the drinks (part of this flickr photo set, click any to enlarge):
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That’s a lot of drinks.
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We shared them with friends.
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Japanese Cracker Time: Cheeza 51% is 100 Percent Ridiculous · 99 days ago
Local snack makers, I applaud your love of accuracy. Not with my hands, but with my video camera and some markers.
Every time I see these crackers, I buy them. Seriously.
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Video: Paper Planes on the Pool Deck · 139 days ago
At sea there is no TV.
You must make your own fun.
A man named Joe invented a little dance. I had a little camera. And so went another afternoon on the pool deck.
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In Peru: The Chicken of Great Ambition · 155 days ago
A truth: I saw this chicken in Peru.
A lie: After this photograph, he leapt from the ledge. He soared. He became the Emperor of All Chicken.
We should all be so brave. King Chicken, I salute you.
Spotted in a very tiny village on top of a mountain a few hours outside of Lima. And, yes, back to back chicken posts. I do it for my people.
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The Phillipines: In the Day a Chicken, and in The Night Some Kites · 196 days ago
I watched a wedding in a church, and beside the church a beautiful chicken.
He could not wander, but I wandered…
…until the night, a park with kites:
All in the streets of Manila…
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En Route to Namibia, My Knowledge Knows Bounds · 222 days ago
I sat down to write a list of things I knew about Namibia.
But first, South Africa.
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Photo: Media Killings, A Poster · 239 days ago
Spotted in a Manila train station, day-glo as a skating rink.
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Manila: About the Crinkles and the Ube Bar · 239 days ago
I saw the Ube Bar.
And then I saw the Crinkles.
We bought them from a lady.
And they were good.
Donut-like.
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PHOTOS: The Keelung Shine · 239 days ago
Keelung shine on for always please.
For we love cities that love themselves.
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MEANWHILE: Across the harbor…
Our ship waits, never sleeping.
SIDENOTE:
A ship-tour of the world is, of course, a tour of port cities. A tour of noise and scrambled grit. Which I love.
NEXT UP:
Manila, Philipines.
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