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Nate's PechaKucha moment

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.02.24

Nate Jensen, who did the layout work on our diamond buyer's guide, have a presentation at PechaKucha tonight.

As I've previously mentioned, PechaKucha is a series of interesting presentations put on around the world. It's been running for some seven years now and despite that remains a charmingly disorganized series of unrelated presentations by "creatives".

Nate's presentation was about the frequency of appearance by different kanji in the Japan Post address database. It was a blast.

Here is the original slideshow.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov