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...realm of Hollywood films. Today's high-end video games often feature unreleased tracks or already famous compositions from established artists.Before its recent leap into the broader music world, game music was an insular genre, one which made the careers of aspiring composers like Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka and Koji Kondo in Japan. Only in his early twenties when he joined Nintendo in 1983, Kondo brought his classical training (and his love for Western rock music) to the "Mario" and "Zelda" franchises, and crafted some of the most memorable tunes to grace early consoles, even with a drastically limited palette.With only...
...suburbs, Grant was inspired by his grandmother, a dressmaker whose restrained palette and love of old-fashioned fabrics have become the hallmarks of his style. Using the seamstress' mannequin as his sculptor's block, he fashions clothes from the inside out. In London he learned bespoke tailoring from Koji Tatsuno, and today his cut is tellingly clean (the French say d?pouill?), from the topstitch seam of a Napoleon jacket or the diamond pleat of a corset dress, to the fluted sleeve of the Anna coat from his most recent collection. "He understands subtle things that add something to the wearer...
...Kahn's Hurva Synagogue Kahn, one of the 20th century's greatest architects, died in 1974 before the synagogue was built in Jerusalem, and the project died with him. Yet now it exists, virtually, thanks to a stunning act of digital cyber-architecture by architect Larson and computer expert Koji Tsuchiya. They have concocted 20 uncannily realistic ''views'' on a Silicon Graphics workstation. Even the materials are authentic, since Larson digitized photos of the concrete, stone and wood from Kahn's Center for British Art at Yale and used them to ''build'' the synagogue...
...things from their employers but not from their spouses. The divorce rate may fall when women attain in the home the kind of power they have gained in the workplace. But it will take time because we all have to change our thinking and traditional roles, especially in Japan. Koji Yamazaki Toyohashi, Japan...
...parking feature in the new Prius that uses software to allow a car to parallel park itself while the driver doesn't even have to touch the steering wheel. This technology will be a big seller, especially for drivers like my mother, who faces many difficulties in parallel parking. Koji Yamazaki Toyohashi, Japan...