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● Rob Pongi featured on MetaFilter: robpongi | MetaFilter: Meet Rob Pongi (sometimes known as Evil Pongi) an american, doing something different in Japan. Sometimes he's chillin with some sexy and beautiful Japanese women enjoy a very exciting Tokyo dance party! Other times he translates North Korean soap operas into english for our edification. He just finished his first Hollywood movie, and he's very proud of it. Join his fan club here. You can watch all of his videos here posted by bigmusic (11-14-07)

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● The Japan Fertility Festival Video featuring Rob Pongi from TokyoDV was selected as "Multimedia Feature of the Week" on Bowienet the official website of Mr. David Bowie (Discovered 10-30-07) You can see the Japan Fertility Festival Video by clicking on the Bowienet screen shot below:

● Partly Cloudy by Rob Pongi was selected as "Nomad of The Week" on Bowienet the official website of Mr. David Bowie (Discovered 10-30-07) See an even bigger and more brilliant version of this 3D Composite by clicking on the Bowienet screen shot below:

● Rob Pongi recently published a popular pre-release review of the remastered New David Bowie Album: The Buddha Of Suburbia and it was also quickly syndicated by the world famous Buzztracker News Headlines Media Aggregator Site (Discovered 10-04-07):

● DISSING+WEITLING - Eventyr i Japan: Bon Odori (Discovered 09-30-07) BON ODORI 11. september 2007

"Bon Odori" betyder så meget som Bon danse og betegner en traditionel japansk danse som vises i den buddistiske Obon-festsæson i august måneden.
Obon-festen blev stiftet i den senere Muromachi-periode og stammer egentlig fra Kina. Festen holdes til at ære anerne og til at besøge deres graver, men i nyere tid har festen fået en stor betydning som familiefest og det er en tradition at man tager til hjembyen og holder festen med familien.
Dansen selv er en gruppe danse og skal udtrykke dansernes taknemlighed til deres forfædre. Dansen bliver kun vist om natten, fordi man tror at anernes sjæler kommer først tilbage efter solnedgang. Til dansen spiller man musik som skal være glædelig for at byde sjælerne vedkommen.

en lille film (med lyd!) finder i her: Bon Odori

Indsendt af jan

● Rob Pongi recently published a very popular video blog post: Tokyo Police Club Live - David Letterman and it was very quickly syndicated by the world famous Buzztracker News Headlines Media Aggregator Site (Discovered 09-22-07): About Buzztracker: Thank you for checking out our Beta launch of BuzzTracker! We are proud to be launching our new design which we hope makes the site more readable and user friendly. As you may notice we also have a new bee, which after much debate, is friendlier though he may have put on a few pounds. Our goal has been to launch a news site that leverages the power of the “head of the long tail” of the blogosphere to automatically generate news pages for a multitude of topics, both broad and narrow. We are currently tracking more than 1,000 different topics and 90,000 blogs. In the next month, we will be launching a create-a-topic feature to allow you to create and manage pages that are of the most interest to you. We will also be launching many new features in the coming months. Stay tuned! On each page of BuzzTracker, you’ll see five content elements. The main content element is called Most Blogged — this analyzes the top blogs to determine the most blogged about story for that particular topic. This element is a great proxy for the “wisdom of the crowds” in terms of what is important for that topic. After the Most Blogged section we feature the Latest News, relevant stories for the topic sorted by recency. We have a search box which allows you to search throughout BuzzTracker to find items that may be of interest; both topic areas and individual posts and articles. Finally, we’ve integrated with both Flickr and YouTube to provide recent pictures and videos that match the topic in question. We recently sold BuzzTracker to Yahoo! You can read about our announcement here and Yahoo!'s announcement here Thanks! And we hope you will become a regular visitor to the site to stay current on All the News the Buzz Approves.

● The Japanese Bon Odori Dance Video 2007 #2 was selected as "Multimedia Feature of the Week" on Bowienet the official website of Mr. David Bowie (Discovered 08-28-07) This is the 19th time one of Rob Pongi's videos has been featured by David Bowie's official website. You can see the "Japanese Bon Odori Dance Video 2007 #2" by clicking on the Bowienet screen shot below:

● KINKAKU-JI - The Golden Pavilion Video is featured as the editor's pick for Japan on Travercial | A World of Dreams Through Streaming Travel Videos (Discovered 08-28-07):

● Dance traditionnelle : le Bon Odori - Japan Swap (2007-08-10)

J'ai commencé à faire quelques recherches, et je suis tombée sur une petite vidéo assez charmante... Je vous laisse juger :

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J'ai fouiné un peu et trouvé une définition de cette danse sur http://www.clickjapan.org Les "Bon Odori" (盆踊り) sont des danses d’origine religieuse pratiquées lors des fêtes de l’O-Bon (お盆).). « Odori » signifie danse. L’O-Bon célèbre le retour des morts sur terre. Cette fête se déroule tous les ans à travers tout le Japon du 13 au 15 août. Ces danses portent le nom de « Shichigatsueisa » dans les îles Ryû-Kyû. Elles proviennent de la fusion des pratiques Shinto d’Ise et de danses bouddhistes louant Amida (nom japonais du Bouddha Amitâbha). Elles avaient comme vocation première la consolation des âmes des défunts. Ces danses perdirent leur caractère religieux et vinrent à être des fêtes liées à l'été avant de devenir simplement d’importante réjouissance populaire durant l’ère Edo (1603-1868). Aujourd'hui encore plus qu’hier, le côté festif prend le pas sur le sacré. Ce jour là, forains et camelots s'activent à monter leurs petites échoppes pour profiter de la manne que représente ces festivités. En général ces danses se pratiquent en rond autour d’une estrade de bois nommée « Yagura » sur laquelle se trouvent les musiciens. Il n’existe pas une seule danse mais toute une multitude. Les danses, la musique les rythmes et les instruments varient d’une préfecture à une autre." Vous en avez déjà vu des bon odori? Je trouve ça superbe! A force de regarder la vidéo, j'en ai presque appris la chorégraphie...

Edit : pour en savoir un peu plus sur la fête de l'O-Bon, la fête des ancêtres, rendez-vous sur sa page wikipédia.

Posté par sandee - Articles : culture japonaise - Commentaires [2] - Rétroliens [0] - Permalien [#]

Commentaires Ca nous... ...change de nos chrysanthèmes annuels !! (ceci dit, c'est une fleur que j'adore...)
Pour revenir à la vidéo, c'est effectivement superbe , ça donne envie de danser avec elles...

Posté par MariVé, 10 août 2007

J'adore cette vidéo !!! Wahou, c'est génial et la musique hummmmm!

Posté par Athenarottweiler, 11 août 2007

● The Japanese Bon Odori Dance Video 2007 was selected as "Multimedia Feature of the Week" on Bowienet the official website of Mr. David Bowie (2007-08-06). This is the 18th time one of Rob Pongi's videos has been featured by David Bowie's official website. You can see the "Japanese Bon Odori Dance Video 2007" by clicking on the Bowienet screen shot below:

● Rob Pongi was recently included as a celebrity caricature by the world-famous weblog Google Blogoscoped (Discovered 08-05-07):

About Google Blogoscoped

Google Blogoscoped covers Google and the tech world, more or less daily since 2003......Google Blogoscoped has become a true community effort over time through the participation of many, many people, including Tony Ruscoe (co-editor), Ionut Alex. Chitu, Colin Colehour, /pd, Mambo, Orli Yakuel, Manoj Nahar, Sohil, David Hetfield...

The blog and the forum cover new Google product releases, contain tutorials and tips, information on Google censorship methods, and 20% random weirdness (the blog also spawned a book). Google is the focus here because the company and its tools have a growing impact on people's life – for better or worse. The Google search engine serves as a pair of eyes in a virtual world, and I think we'd all like a clear view.

This blog is featured in charts such as the Technorati Top 100, is a Google News source, and is also available in Chinese. Mark Draughn of Windypundit.com once called it "One of the most interesting technical sites on the web," and Vittorio Del Percio from Lugano, Switzerland, said it's "... the first source of info I check daily in the morning when I arrive at my desk in the office."

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● WeShow (Edição Brasil) - Vídeo: O Pavilhão Dourado de Kyoto (Notified July 22, 2007)

"WeShow is honored to announce that this video has been selected among millions on the internet to be ONE OF THE TEN BEST videos of the month in Brazil. Check it out this week on the WeShow Awards BR Edition (the biggest worldwide online video award), shown on channel Viagens & Destinos>Outros Destinos>Ásia, to watch your video and other competing videos – and vote on your favorites. Our congratulations and good luck!" The WeShow.com Team