Here's a short fun video of a night out in Panorama. This was taken on a mobile phone so the sound quality isn't so good. パノラマ?楽??夜?video??。???。(?帯?video??ら音質??ん?りよ????。）Chika Yoshii's homepage

Alex and Rob set off on their excellent JR Osaka Loop Line bicycle adventure at 1:59 pm., on 15 November 2005, at the corner of Shin-Naniwa suji and Amidaike suji, in front of Ashiharabashi Station. This segment will take you from Ashiharabashi Station to Taisho Station. Along the way you will cross the Nankai Line, see one of Osaka's many canals ("Osaka, the Venice of the East"), stop outside Discobeans (which was closed), learn how to operate a beer vending machine, hear the grating noises of pachinko, sample sata andagi outside Ichariba, witness total distruction just across the street, gaze upon the saintly face of Junichiro Koizumi, hear about okama hostesses downstairs from Pierot and be serenaded by the lovely music played by Osaka's pink garbage trucks!

All this before the first station on our first of eight segments! Stay tuned for more adventures...

Enjoy!

Edited by Alex.

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Alex Brooke, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo, Osaka, JR Loop Line, Japan, cycling, bicycle, ciclismo, velo, cyclisme, Ashiharabashi, Taisho Station, Ichariba, sata andagi, 大阪, 芦原橋, 大正, いちゃりば

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We love Disco Beans. Only the best food, music and art. check it out. や??りDisco beans?大好??。音楽も芸術も食?物???ら????。 〒551-0002 大阪市大正区三軒家?1-13-7 1-13-7 Sangenya-Higashi,Taisho-ku, Osaka-shi Tel : 06-6553-8890 e-mail : info@discobeans.com JR/地下鉄『大正駅?より徒歩５分。 大正通りを??下り?三軒家?交差点を左折???100m。 5 minutes walk from JR & SUBWAY Taisho station Head south down Taisho dori. Turn left at Sangenya intersection and walk 100m.

Alex and Rob chillin' at Café Barbès back in the day, before it moved from Minami Horie to Higobashi, near Utsubo Park. We order cous cous and mutton burgers, and pass on the ika (squid). I tried to recall the lyrics of King Missile's My Heart is a Flower and managed only part of them, which sounded quite un-poetic coming from my mouth, I admit..

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Café Barbès, Alex Brooke, Rob, El Gringo, Minami Horie, Osaka, Couscous, King Missile, poetry, poem, mutton, lamb, hamburger, squid, ika, ??, ?堀江, 大阪, ?ルベス

This is a 24 hour timelapse movie of Alex trying to clean the uncleanable apartment. If you have any cool, weird or wacky video you want to get seen, send it along to us. アレックス?部屋?掃除?video??。??り???????も??も???video??れ?是?????????。???乗????よ????。Posted by Alex.

A huge shout out to Nori, Danyk and Ivan at Tin's Hall ! Thanks for letting us film you guys ! 是?Tin's Hall?行??見??????。サファー?世界?待????。When you're done watching this video, check out Will Spin's new D'n'B song using samples from nearby Tennoji Station: JR Song.

This is the already famous famous ALT rap with well over 5000 downloads on podcasts like Learn Japanese. 既?有??????ALT rapを楽?ん??????。4???ヒットを超???英語教師?生活?????爆笑??るvideo。 Link to all versions of the ALT Rap on MySpace. Posted by Rob.

Introduction: This podcast is a collaboration which started out as an MSN Community by the same name sometime back in 2001. Roberto El Gringo (also known by numerous other aliases) had just returned from a trip to New Zealand, where he'd visited his JET Programme buddy Andrew in Auckland, and where he'd met several others who would later end up in the NFTOS mix.

New Year's Eve 2000 Rob met Okha on a bus from Greymouth bound for Queenstown, South Island. Okha was keeping a journal full of vivid colors mysterious hangul writing. They both promised to keep in touch, and also agreed to start painting when they got home to Japan and Korea. They encouraged each other by posting new artwork on NFTOS, and this exchange eventually led to joint art shows in Osaka, Seoul and Tokyo. It also took Rob to Korea 4 times and Okha to Osaka and Tokyo countless times!

FFWD to 2009, and another art show is in the works for this May at The Pink Cow in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Image by Okha (a.k.a. flying koala), video by Alex Brooke.

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Tags:  NFTOS, Osaka, Japan, Seoul, Korea, art, events, blog, podcast, video