http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp www.newyork-tokyo.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:09:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alright, let's see here. I love beer. And I definitely love robots. So when I found out that Asahi has unveiled it's very own beer serving robot (dutifully named Mr. Asahi), well, I started wondering if Asahi's marketing guys had been sneaking into my apartment and reading my diary. Now, ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/07/03/this-beerbots-for-you/ Want a collective eight minute look at two of the six animated short films in the upcoming Batman: Gotham Knight DVD? Of course you do. This thing still doesn't hit for another two weeks, unfortunately (July 7, to be precise), but it keeps looking more and more fantastic with each ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/26/eight-minutes-of-batmanime/ On a hot summer Thursday in June, throngs of eager MGS4 fans spent hours in front of UNIQLO's flagship SoHo store in wait for a glimpse of the creator of the famed Metal Gear Solid franchise, Hideo Kojima. As part of the MGS4 world tour, Kojima Productions and ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/25/mgs4-kojima-autograph-signing-uniqlo/ Coming together like Voltron, four Japanese companies are joining to step up the competition with South Korea in the field of robotics. Try and quell your immediate fears of a Matrix or Terminator-esque takeover though, most of these robots will mainly be serving the young and elderly sans-humanoid form, at ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/19/japan-to-robo-duke-it-out-with-korea/ You may remember our posting from some time back about Kali's veiled tribute to Mega Man 3 on Big Dada, and now another indie MC named Random has made an entire album in homage to the the blue bomber. Entitled Mega Ran, Random takes loops from some of the ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/18/indie-hip-hop-loves-mega-man/ © Madhouse, Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. All Rights Reserved. Director Satoshi Kon, famous for such twisted classics of Japanese animation as Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers, will be in New York for two film showcases. Along with the Beyond Imagination retrospective at the Lincoln Center, New ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/17/free-screening-satoshi-kon-paprika-rsvp-now/ Check out this video of robot band The Trons performing "live." Guitar, keys, drums, and something vaguely resembling vocals are all covered by this ragtag group of modified appliances and unfinished robotic hands. They even have their very own Myspace page! I wonder if a spam bot created it for ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/16/daft-punk-has-nothing-on-these-guys/ For those of you who are not familiar with Sandy O, Sandra Day O’Connor is an American jurist and was also the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Since the average American apparently can’t even name the three branches of the United States government, many may not know ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/12/sandra-day-o%e2%80%99connor-makes-a-video-game/ Metal Gear Solid 4 hits this week and I honestly can't remember the last time I was this unbelievably stoked for a video game. Metal Gear Solid is my favorite game of all time and this final entry in the MGS series looks to answer every question and tie every ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/11/get-primed-for-one-last-metal-gear/ Japan Cuts, a festival focusing specifically on Japanese film, has announced their lineup and released a wicked promotional trailer by NYC based visual artist Motomichi to help spread the word. Click above to view it. Japan Cuts will be taking place at the Japan Society from July 2nd to July 13th, ... http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/06/10/japan-cuts-and-motomichi/