Lost Snake has made an idiot out me for the last time

Big Snake got-out
Harmless no Bite/5 foot
Easy to Pick-UP
He's Made a idiot out me 4 last time.


I saw this mysterious sign today in Los Angeles.

Big Snake no bite.

Is it real? or is it some kind of street art?

I am not sure. Maybe I will call the number.

I'm kind of worried about this big snake. Will he be ok? What does he eat? If I see a snake, how do I know this is the snake from the sign. What color is he? What kind of snake? What name does he answer to?

Does he run away a lot? Or has he made an idiot out of his owner in other ways? What do you mean he has made an idiot Out of you for "the last time"? Are you threatening the snake? If I find him, maybe I should take him to some kind of sanctuary like a church or kindergarten.


Have you seen this Big Snake?

Doko Demo World Song by Ken Tanaka Band どこでもワールド

EArlier this week we posted our song Doko Demo World. I wrote this song 11 years ago, but I only had the chorus (part sung by the girl in this) and the music. Last Fall Polo and TEruko and I got together in Polo's studio to record a version of Nanatsu no Ko (karasu) and when we finished, I mentioned this song. We played around and this is what we got.
I met Polo surfing in Los Angeles, and I met Teruko when she was working at an art show I had work in.

Youtube was kind enough to give me some credit at BH camera earlier this year, and I used it to buy the canon SLR rebel t2i camera. It's a bit hard to shoot on for me, since I'm used to making videos with a camcorder or flip. Takeo is a professional photographer and cinematographer though, so he was able to make the Rebel T2i work great for this video.

We shot for 3 days in Los Angeles. We were lucky that the flowers were in bloom :-) They don't last very long. Most of the footage is shot on a 50mm lens, but some is also on a 18-120 zoom lens.

I'm very happy with how the video looks and I hope it makes you happy.



This is the studio version. This was us recording with my Flip the day we were first working on the song. We recorded it with Polo a few days later. Polo is a master producer and did all the recording and sound editing.





I Lately I've been very satisfied by getting to make this song, and also my book Everybody Dies, and the gallery show that is up now. It goes till July 9th, so if you haven't seen it and you are in LA, please stop by. We will have a closing, signing party on July 9th (SAT) from 2-4pm

Hanging tomorrow's Everybody Die's Show at Lebasse Projects

Today I stopped by the gallery to drop some things off and check out how it looks. The paintings are all hung handsomely. the above is a photo of the last few pages of the book.

Tomorrow's opening will start with a book signing from 7-8pm and then reception from 8-10pm. The show will run till July 9th.



They are even making little buttons with the skull from the books cover

Friday, June 10th, Everybody Dies- A Children's Book for Grown Ups art show in Los Angeles

Friday, June 10th, Lebasse Projects Chinatown in Los Angeles will hold an art show featuring the original work from my book Everybody Dies- A Children's Book for Grown Ups.

All pages of the book will be on display in their original form. There will also be a pre-release book signing, with preview copies of the new, soon to be released deluxe edition of the book. It's 32 pages, full color, printed on heavy art paper.

If you can't make it to the gallery, you can still get signed copies at my website.
http://www.everybodydiesbook.com

The show will run till July 9th.


See me read aloud the first half of the book here

Engrish in TAiwan

This video shows some handsome Engrish i saw during my trip to Taiwan.
I never noticed Engrish in Japan and Asia until I moved to the US, and went back home.
I found a few funny things.



I also just uploaded this video with some footage of handsome temples in TAipei, and the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall




I also did a video a while ago about Engrish in Japan.




What is your favorite Engrish?