I’ve always been a fan of Radiohead, so I’m always interested in anything related to their work and so it was that I came across these 8-Bit renditions of classical Radiohead albums by QuintonSung. You can listen to them in their entirety below.

(Via, The Verge)

The latest newsletter from Terracotta mentioned that during the London 2012 Olympics the Southbank will be playing host to a hundred day festival called ‘All Eyes On Korea‘ starting 1st June running until the 9th September.

People often refer to Hayao Miyazaki as the Japanese Walt Disney, he makes incredibly beautiful animated classics and if you haven’t seen any of his films — I envy you — as you’ve yet to witness all the magic for yourself. So it’s no great surprise that I found these reimagined posters a delight!

(Via, Chongweikk)

I’m a sucker for Daft Punk, so it goes without saying when I came across Da Chip’s chiptune cover albums I was totally stoked. Incredibly these two albums are free to download, so what are you waiting for?

(Via, The Verge)

In hindsight my love for Japan definitely stems from my love for video games, so what could be more awesome than this short film about Super Potato the most awesome retro game shop in all of Japan! I’m gutted that I never visited it whilst I was in Japan but it would definitely go on my list of places to visit should I return.

Aside from it’s brilliant name, Super Potato holds in its collections a smorgasbord of limited edition retro consoles, accessories and games. The sort of stuff I remember reading about in Magazines such as the Japan-only sequel to one of my favourite games EVAH Secret of Mana.

So it goes without saying that I’m grateful to CheapyD and Scott Popular for paying homage to this legendary games store and inspiring me to make the pilgrimage someday soon.

(Via, Kotaku)

Thankfully last year was peppered with news of the end of many of the worlds tyrants and dictators including Kim Jong-Il. With all the associated media attention on North Korea, an award-winning British photographer Charlie Crane has found his work documenting this closed off country thrust into the spotlight.

If you watch Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe Review of the Year, you’ll realise how chaotic and memorable last year was. I can only imagine what 2012 has in store for us, especially considering that it signifies the end of the Mayan calendar. Leaving that doom aside for a moment though, my hopes are a little more simple:

I’ve already had a few lessons and I feel that I’m on the road to achieving this ambition finally!

I had an impromptu swimming lesson from my girlfriend whilst we stayed at Haven in Clacton-On-Sea this summer, it’s encouraged me to seek out professional instruction.

Having always enjoyed running and being re-inspired to run by Haruki Murakami’s ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running‘.

I wanted to keep my resolutions simple this year, so that I might have a realistic chance of achieving them this year, so wish me luck kids!

(Image Credit, Veerle Pieters!)

Being the avid Akira fan that I am, I was intrigued by the release of a limited edition leather jacket fashioned after the one worn by Kaneda in the film as well as a number of collectible pins. I’m pretty sure the coat would look diabolical on me but that doesn’t stop me from thinking it’s kinda cool.

Notice the plural in the title, I’m a huge fan of World Cinema, particularly Japanese and Korean (as evident in my last post). However something needs to be about the cluster-bomb of film festivals and seasons during October and November.

First there was the BFI London Film Festival featuring a number of Japanese films. This is then overlapped with both Zipangu Fest and New Japanese Cinema at the Barbican.

There’s only so much time one can dedicate themselves to such activities so I hate to complain about the number and quality of film festivals in the capital but I ask perhaps they share their Google Calendars to avoid the general compression of films that we’re seeing this year.

This years Korean Film Festival has already started so I’m sorry that I haven’t posted about it earlier but better late than never, eh? It seems that the festival has spread its reach this year to Cambridge, Sheffield and Newcastle so don’t fret that you don’t live in the capital you might still be able to enjoy the event. Visit the official website for all the relevant details.