Design and Engineering Ph.D. // Assistant Professor somewhere // Eng/日本語/Por/Esp // Making art sometimes

Japan
Joined June 2009
I haven’t announced it on here yet, but in November I’ll host an event with Yuri Kasparyan of Kino (Viktor Tsoi) in Fukuoka. It’s free and anyone can join! It’ll be his first time in Japan and first open event in English.
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Back from Mongolia. Every single white person I saw in Ulaanbaatar had some kind of safari/exploration outfit on, with sports backpacks, no matter the age. Do you think you're coming to a modern city of 1.8m people, and it will be rough terrain with only gers and animals?
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Time to rebrand “Latin America” as “America (excluding USA and Canada)”. Then eventually America becomes the standard for Latin America (where the majority of the people on the American continent live), and you need to specify USA whenever talking about the US.
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Eu sou brasileira e super fã de Kino e do Viktor Tsoi. Fui em São Petersburgo visitar os lugares, fui no show deles na Tailândia também. Super recomendo!
❁ Os coreanos russos, divididos em dois grupos (os Koryo-saram e os coreanos de Sacalina), possuem uma cultura totalmente distinta da Península Coreana. Inclusive, o célebre compositor russo Viktor Tsoi, líder e cofundador da banda Kino, era, por exemplo, de origem Koryo-saram.
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Of course everything in Japan is cheaper, just compare national salaries. To me, the main difference is just the culture around the events. Japan runs everything not for profit, while the US does for profit+
i’ve been seeing a lot of chatter about 🇯🇵 vs 🇺🇸 artist alleys.. imo a key factor in why they’re so different is rooted in how the USA lacks the public transit infrastructure + population density that japan has the cost to BE at a show is the most expensive part of vending
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The fundamental question is: can you allow yourself to do it for fun or as a hobby?
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The regular booth at a Japanese event has a handful of products, sometimes just 2 or 3 doujin. Because the table fee is low, so people can do it just for fun. Meanwhile in the US the table fee is high and that leads to the need for profit. To change this, one side needs to budge.
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First building is the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and walking around there feels like a different world. I love brutalism done right.
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Been a while since I've done some fanart, but time for Viktor Tsoi of Kino again.
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When you meet your favourite 60 year old soviet musician but you’ve also been living in Japan for 7 years
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Then there’s me, the most awkward person in social situations in Brazil, and in Japan everyone says I’m a natural speaker and extrovert 😭
Random thought: Latin America is the most SOCIAL region of the world. Lowest percentage of awkward people who can't hold a conversation (of any continent/culture)... everyone is very socially calibrated.
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Currently building parasocial relationships with my AliBaba manufacturing lady.
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Me in an alternative reality with my PhD in limb prostheses
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The TV you watch passively, the computer you use for some contact with other people, and the phone was made for contacting and connecting people.
The phone is the most evil screen. The computer is somewhat evil but less so than the phone. The TV is benevolent.
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Had a “character creation” workshop at work and basically made an Amazon from the Amazon.
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Grande dia! 👍
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Recently found out that my hate for networking (why would I need to “befriend” someone I am not personally interested in just to have them as a work connection? Sounds like using people) is a very autistic trait and yep, that checks 🤓
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I went to school once and liked it.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
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