fast-travel there to make this ride shorter hop on your horse and follow the Pathfinder until you arrive in Miki and there's another one south of the others but in an area east of the Miki Docks and west of the Ruins of Sannomaru so the best strategy is to hit them when they raise the Japanese fan they're holding to prevent them from summoning a wave of fiery arrows Naoe returns only to learn that Bessho has no idea about the box she is looking for Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more the Bullhead’s popularity greatly increased which also raised the profile of Citizen’s modern Bullhead The new collab was done through Yamamoto’s forward-thinking Ground Y label which aims to create genderless and ageless styles There are two versions of the blacked-out chrono. If you really want to completely go over to the dark side, there’s a version with an all-black dial. Another version offers more contrast, with white subdials against a black dial for a classic reverse panda look Both versions feature white applied indices a date window at 4:30 and a white inner tachymeter scale Both also include a Ground Y logo on the dial but in different spots the logo is inside the 6 o’clock subdial Both versions of the Citizen Ground Y Tsuno Chrono feature closed casebacks with the Ground Y logo and are individually numbered The all-black version is limited to 300 pieces while the evil panda gets just 200 examples As there is no added functionality over the standard Tsuno Chrono the price increase of the Ground Y version is largely due to its scarcity and the involvement of a designer label … though it certainly doesn’t hurt that they’re also the best-looking takes on the modern Tsuno I’ve seen Our editors carefully select every product we recommend. We may earn a commission from these links. Learn more Based on the octagonal quartz Tsuno Chronograph already in Citizen’s lineup the limited-edition Group Y sports an all-black stainless steel case and matching bracelet giving this vintage-inspired chronograph a modern streetwear aesthetic The release consists of a reverse panda-style dial with a trio of white registers or a stealthier version with black registers — though legibility might be a bit difficult with this one The former sports the Group Y logo on the bottom subdial while the latter has it above the subdial These are a bit more expensive than the regular Citizen Tsuno Chrono but they also look pretty unique — and are admittedly still cheaper than plenty of other revered quartz chronographs on the market today Powered by the aforementioned quartz movement with about 2 years of batter life the Group Y x Citizen Tsuno Chrono has a highly wearable 38mm case with 10.8mm thickness and 50m of water resistance The solid black caseback also features the Group Y branding and edition numbering out of 200 (for the reverse panda) or 300 (for the all-black).  Available now for $575 — nearly $300 more than the regular Tsuno Chrono — the Group Y limited editions are expected to sell out quickly Head over to Yohji Yamamoto’s web store to learn more When iconic Japanese tradition meets modern fashion the new Citizen x Yohji Yamamoto watch is here to redefine everyday elegance but a bold statement that combines retro charm with modern street style Remember that feeling when you pull out a classic piece of clothing from your closet that is surprisingly still on trend We can feel the same way when looking at the new limited edition Citizen x Yohji Yamamoto Ground Y Tsuno Chrono watch it can easily be mistaken for something completely modern and urban This edition is based on the already known Tsuno Chrono model with a completely new look made possible by Yamamoto's brand Group Y known for its collaboration with Adidas (yes this brand is also behind the Y-3 collection) The case and bracelet are made of all-black stainless steel which maintains strength and durability while adding an urban flair While aesthetics may seem to be the key here the Group Y x Citizen Tsuno Chrono also brings a real technological underpinning The 38 mm diameter and 10.8 mm thick case ensures a comfortable and compact fit The watch is water resistant to a depth of 50 meters and powered by a precision quartz movement with a two-year battery life the caseback is stamped with a limited edition number – only 200 of the “panda” models and 300 of the all-black version are available The new edition Citizen Tsuno Chrono in collaboration with Yamamoto's Group Y is already available for around $575 USD – which is about $300 more than the base Tsuno Chrono but definitely worth it for its special look and limited availability it's time to hurry over to Yamamoto's online store before it becomes just an exclusive collector's item Citizen x Yohji Yamamoto Ground Y Tsuno Chrono is a combination of classic and modern An icon of Japanese design combined with fearless street style this watch is both a sophisticated accessory and a bold fashion statement From 2004 we research urban trends and inform our community of followers about the latest in lifestyle From year 2023 we offer content in major global languages From 2004 we research urban trends and inform our community of followers daily about the latest in lifestyle style and products that inspire with passion we offer content in major global languages © Copyright 2022 SNKRDUNK Magazine.All rights reserved The CITIZEN TSUNO CHRONO, a series inspired by the brand’s 1973 “Challenge Timer” Chronograph, has been stylishly revamped once again. After a previous collaboration with BEAMS this latest update comes from Japanese avant-garde designer Yohji Yamamoto the polygonal model from the series has been chosen blending Ground Y’s signature style with a focus on both fashion and functional beauty The collection features two versions with a sleek black dial paired with either white or black sub-dials Notable details include the Ground Y logo on the sub-dial at 6 o’clock and the case back Each watch is individually engraved with a serial number marking it as a unique collaboration piece while the black model is capped at 300 units Both models come in a special box with a graphic card featuring the Ground Y logo the Ground Y x CITIZEN TSUNO CHRONO Custom Limited will be available for pre-orders starting 1 October via Ground Y stores and THE SHOP YOHJI YAMAMOTO website An official launch will then follow on 18 October via Ground Y stores and THE SHOP YOHJI YAMAMOTO website at 10AM (JST) In other news, check out the Harry Potter x Crocs Classic Clog Pack you can also head to the SNKRDUNK App via the banner below and browse the latest and greatest in sneakers Growing up Japanese American in Los Angeles is like a scavenger hunt to find your kin You have to first wade through the history of the Second World War incarceration and plunder to discover that even less documentation exists about our community beyond these traumas Artist Alan Nakagawa is a conduit for these joyful stories For decades he has been rethinking how archives and oral histories are used He unearths and unpacks forgotten histories through meticulous research and his expansive he is interested in what the past and future sound like — he’s curious and patient It’s no wonder institutions like the Smithsonian Japanese American National Museum and CSU Japanese American Digitization Project are partnering with Alan — he is a connective tissue He mends together disparate experiences to strengthen the tapestry of the whole “I’m constantly thinking about time as a multi-existence reality,” he told me academic and organizer has been influenced by his generosity of mind Working outside of the mainstream commercial gallery economy Alan has created an alternative career model for artists that doesn’t include selling objects He has taught us how to be a partner in civic and community improvement and how artists can work with institutions to disrupt and alter the way they serve the communities they exist in exchanging family stories about being an artist and growing up JA (Japanese American) in Mid-City a few times a year he invites me over to his studio to hang out Our conversations are always two hours longer than expected and include some kind of unique meal with a layered story at every bite he served me a homemade lemon tart and cup of tea in a ceramic mug made by terra-cotta clay artist Wayne Perry Devon Tsuno: I remember my father telling me when he first moved into this neighborhood — Koreatown Mid-City — there were a lot of Japanese American folks I think most people in Los Angeles don’t really think of this area as Japanese or Japanese American Devon Tsuno stands in front of his paintings on display at Residency Art Gallery in Inglewood (Emanuel Hahn / For The Times) Alan Nakagawa: You’re talking about the ’60s and ’70s That moment was sort of the apex of Japanese people moving into this general area — from here to Crenshaw Leimert Park certainly from Rodeo — [now] Obama — to Martin Luther King and Crenshaw And there’s still a lot of Japanese people who live there Obama — still have the Japanese bonsai-looking plants in front even though the people who occupy the houses are no longer Japanese American Those are remnants — clues — of my childhood We never said “Mid-City.” We would always say “Midtown.” Nobody calls it Midtown anymore There used to be a lot of Japanese families He did many roles in his multidecade career teacher in the original “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” — the movie that was a big deal to have an actual Hollywood actor in the same neighborhood There used to be this green truck that would show up once a week Just a regular van that you could actually walk up into This is before any of the Japanese markets AN: It was like an ice cream truck but get rid of the ice cream and put Japanese food I was wondering if there was any community-building for Japanese folk in a space like that How did that fit within the ethos of Koreatown and Mid-City as most people know it AN: When it gets brought up that my family owned that restaurant, it’s usually met with very, very fond memories. There were several Japanese restaurants. But I believe ours was one of the most popular ones. We actually got write-ups. Not write-ups in the L.A. Times; back then we had the Herald Examiner, Japanese magazines and the local Japanese paper. DT: I think that a lot of these stories you’re telling me are really important stories about the cultural fabric of Los Angeles, about the people here, about all this history. But when we think of what’s in an archive and what’s normally valued, you don’t learn about the green truck selling Japanese food. That’s information that isn’t documented. AN: It’s not. I would like to document that somehow. DT: Can you talk a little bit about your general approach to archiving? Image plus the memories surrounding them and their thoughts on what makes a party hit AN: Let’s start with growing up in this community The community I grew up in was more Japanese than it was Japanese American obviously — many of them were born here; some of them were in the camps — but most of my family’s friends were Japanese immigrants So there’s a richness that I constantly tap into that‘s like a flame that I try to keep alive in my life It’s everything from the language to the food to friends and family in Japan My art training started with Shizue Yamashiro She happened to come to Los Angeles with her husband She’s part of this Abstract Expressionist group of Tokyo And I guess she put an ad in the Rafu Shimpo and said “I’m starting art school for kids.” I start when I’m like 9 Every Saturday my mom would drive me there Alan Nakagawa in his home music studio (Emanuel Hahn / For The Times) DT: Wow My grandma used to give me those oil pastels AN: I’m bringing her up because — I wasn’t aware of it at that moment — in hindsight it was really important to have a Japanese mentor And then she often talks about her community — like this guy might actually want to become an artist “You should go to Otis because my friend Mike Kanemitsu teaches there And he’s really well respected.” I applied for Otis and got in And then my friend invited me to a dinner at Mike Kanemitsu’s He was good friends [with] — that’s where I met — Gajin Fujita They were in high school doing spray-can art Hip Hop Video Volume One.” Because of Paul and Gajin But the who’s who of that time of spray-can artists are all there I think the most important thing about that video is Carmelo Alvarez We interviewed him and he talks about Radiotron Radiotron is opened by Carmelo and his friends across the street It was a big building with a huge basement Carmelo’s friend either owned the building or managed the building You want to do something with it?” He says “Can I start a youth center?” And the youth center turns out to be Radiotron And Proposition 13 had been passed maybe four or five all the muscle that Proposition 13 pushed is already part of the culture: the lack of services for kids all of the after-school programs at the public libraries are all gone And then kids start to latch into breakdancing One kid — out of hundreds of thousands of kids breakdancing — cracked their neck The City Council passes an anti-breakdancing thing for LAUSD Like no one could do breakdancing on school property anymore There’s all these anti-youth things happening it’s one of the only places — or perhaps the only place — where you could learn how to pop It’s really when it’s all starting to bubble up to the popular surface And in our little video Carmelo maps it out There’s a really young Laurence Fishburne — he’s a bouncer at one of these hip-hop places “I’m constantly thinking about time as a multi-existence reality.” DT: When you’re telling me this story about how the L.A City Council police the solidarity between our two communities through these urban forms of creative expression But it also makes a lot of sense — those types of things are still happening today Politicians and police are definitely still finding ways to police us and to keep these type of energies outside of institutions like LAUSD what’s the difference between that and the sign at public parks DT: It’s cool to learn about cultural organizing back then But I think we should talk about the archiving part too Buy a copy of Function It’s true what they say: ain’t no party like an L.A. party. 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Times Store Having mentors who look like you; being in situations where it’s more multiethnic for lack of a better term; the sort of inclusivity that has to happen if you’re going to get access to broad knowledge — having that base allows you to bring it to the next step So there’s this idea that it’s not just me at this moment I don’t think I could ever be an existentialist because I’m constantly thinking about time Because it’s played such a part in my artmaking in my life I think I’ve gravitated toward situations where the art is about history Whenever I give a workshop about oral history “I am not interested in interviewing anybody who’s already been interviewed.” Then I go the next step and I say “I actually hate interviewing people who are used to being interviewed.” Because their answers are usually canned There’s nothing more frustrating as an oral historian than to get a canned answer to a question My joy is when I discover something with somebody — discovering it together is the most tasty thing I always go back to the one I did with Mike Winter, who’s an amazing composer, co-founder of the wulf and then he and I did an oral history session I never realized that had such an impact in my artmaking practice.” That’s what you want There’s no point in interviewing people who’ve already been interviewed I shouldn’t be so black-and-white about that But as an oral historian it’s more interesting to find those moments you actually empower the person you’re interviewing because they find out more about themselves And they anchor themselves to not just history but also their history I don’t have anything to say,” that’s probably the first person you want to interview Devon Tsuno and Alan Nakagawa at Alan’s home backyard “K-Town Butterfly Sanctuary” (Emanuel Hahn / For The Times) DT: As an artist and as an oral historian We’re definitely trained completely different Now that I have had this fairly privileged life of training I’m at that point where I want to celebrate certain things or stories that I think are important — just like what you just said I didn’t know about the green truck.” I mean the green truck is not going to change the world But it anchors us — you and I as Japanese Americans — just that much more in our neighborhood Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map a member of popular Japanese rock band Akaiko-en The 29-year-old guitarist and songwriter for the four-member female band was taken to a hospital on Sunday morning A person who went to see her in Tokyo made an emergency call Tsuno's death follows other recent cases of Japanese celebrities committing suicide or apparently doing so The band was formed in 2010 and became widely known with songs it released in 2012 Tsuno is also known for having composed "Joy!!" for now-disbanded popular male pop group SMAP as well as for her appearances on TV and radio who won numerous awards for her roles in Japanese films committed suicide or apparently killed themselves earlier this year Emergency service in Japan: 119If you are having suicidal thoughts To have the latest news and stories delivered to your inbox, subscribe here. 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Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Start your free trial with Shopify today—then use these resources to guide you through every step of the process Roz Campbell set out to create a better product for periods This is the story of how she used her privilege to help others She was studying industrial design at the time but shifted her focus from designing furniture to designing pads She wanted to create a better product for periods and Her first step before diving into her business was to understand her cause more intimately she replaced commercial period products with items like newspapers Roz says she made the “rookie mistake” of using it right out of the package not realizing that kitchen sponges are treated with a chemical to keep them soft “I was standing in front of the class and I had to leave the room and go and put some toilet paper in there instead Although the One Girl Challenge was difficult and uncomfortable “I can just imagine what it’s like when you don’t have access to those things.” Having plenty of optimism but no experience in business, she committed to donating half of Tsuno’s profits to the cause. “I was very naive,” says Roz, who made no profit in her first year. “That was very depressing.” She did, however, have a triple-car garage full of sanitary napkins. That’s when she realized she could meet her charitable goals in the early days of her business by donating product instead of money. A friend of hers mentioned that the Asylum Seeker Resource Center in Melbourne needed sanitary pads. “It was something that was often forgotten in the donations,” says Roz. “They’d have to go into their fund money to buy pads.”  Nearly four years later, and with the addition of organic cotton tampons to its product lineup, Tsuno is generating profits. Roz still donates product via a matching program from donations through her website, but she also supports One Girl with monthly donations based on a percentage of the sale of each box. In August 2018, that amount was over $2,000, up from $1,300 the month before—enough to send three girls to school. “It doesn’t sound like much,” says Roz, “but when you’re a small business that’s run from your house, I’ve got to remind myself that, yeah, it’s pretty good.” In 2019, she's set an aggressive goal for herself: send 100 girls to school, which amounts to $30,000 in donations. Roz is working hard to get her message out to more people and, fortunately, there’s space for honest and frank conversation about periods these days. It wasn’t always this way. When she started contacting press in 2014, Roz was met with rejection, even from indie magazines geared toward women audiences. “People told me, ‘Great story, but we don’t think that our audience wants to hear this,’ ” she says. They told her that stories about periods and sanitary products alienated their male audiences. “I was like, ‘You’re a girls’ magazine. What male audience? And also: no.’” But in 2015, after a debate moderated by Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump referred to the TV anchor as having “blood coming out of her wherever.” That was also the year that the Tampon Tax—a tax imposed on menstruation products that’s at odds with other tax-exempt basic necessities—became a political sticking point in both the U.K. and Australia. Suddenly, the media was talking about periods. Cosmopolitan magazine called it “the year the period went public,” and #PeriodsAreNotAnInsult erupted on Twitter. In February, the Oscar for best documentary short film went to Period. End of Sentence.—a story about Indian women who fought the stigma of menstruation. If Roz’s customers aren’t buying for the cause, they’re sold on the product and the branding. Either way, the charity wins. And customers seem to be winning as well. Roz often receives emails from women who have been helped by her products. One such email stands out. The customer, who suffers from endometriosis and sensitive skin, explained that most pads cause pain and discomfort but that she found relief with Tsuno. Even so, Roz is now working closely with her manufacturer to experiment with different materials to produce less waste and make her product even more sustainable and comfortable. In 2019, she launched a subscription box to make the ordering more comfortable, too. At every step and over every manufacturing hurdle, she takes time to pause and remember why she started. “Checking in with the charities and the work they’re doing really helps bring me out of my spreadsheets and back to the reason,” Roz says. “Sending one girl to school is better than none.” Join millions of self-starters in getting business resources Unsubscribe anytime. By entering your email, you agree to receive marketing emails from Shopify. By proceeding, you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Unsubscribe anytime. 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By proceeding, you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy and explore all the tools you need to start Offering a contemporary refinement with a striking design BEAMS has entered the fray of fashion and watch collaborations The Japanese lifestyle brand has teamed up with watchmaker CITIZEN to reimagine the iconic TSUNO CHRONO The iconic TSUNO CHRONO receives a modern makeover with updated features This special edition boasts unique sub-dials with circular reflecting BEAMS’ commitment to design excellence The stainless steel mesh band ensures versatility making it suitable for both casual and formal occasions The case is offered in two finishes: the “Silver” with a polished look and the “Two Tone” with a matte hairline Pre-orders for the BEAMS x CITIZEN TSUNO CHRONO have started on the BEAMS website with an official launch scheduled for 4 October 2024 Head over to grab yours for 28,600 JPY (~US$204) per piece now In other news, check out the WHO.A.U x QWER Apparel Collection Print Word has been out for some time now: A freeway is anything but free If you don’t believe the literature or the FasTrak tolls whether in the movies (think “La La Land”) or on your morning commute the freeway is a creation that tells on itself it is a form of conveyance limited as much by engineering and politics as by its own promise: efficiency bro.” The memes always contain at least a grain of truth beneath the hilarity give it more of your efforts and more resources until it works as it was designed Press the delete button on their freeway of choice mined their lived experience and pulled from the vast troves of source material to liberate the freeways from themselves Their genius works are an open call to keep the good times rolling If we said when you woke up tomorrow that you could vanish the freeways — be it the 10 The call is coming from inside the house to free the freeways and look directly at the brave new world What if We Had More Basketball Courts!” 2023 Archival Inkjet Print (William Camargo / For The Times) I’ve always lived adjacent to the 91 Freeway It’s also the freeway that I drive the most on and that my family grew up driving on to visit relatives in L.A is one of the densest places in the neighborhood I thought it was a pretty big park; it wasn’t until I went to other cities that I realized it’s actually a tiny park that’s between the 91 and the neighborhood So I’ve been thinking about the possibilities of having more space — having something to replace the freeway The name of the series in which I started using signage is called “Possibilities.” Borrowing from Afrofuturism I’m always thinking about what is the possibility of the future For this piece I’m thinking of spaces that can be used for businesses One of the ideas that came to mind was an outdoor swap meet I miss that we used to have near Angel Stadium that was something that we used to do as a family — spend two and sometimes leave without buying anything or just with tennis balls to play with in the neighborhood And the other thing is green space — more park areas especially noticing that there were a lot of kids in my neighborhood that had asthma I myself have sleep apnea — I don’t know where I got it from but I’ve noticed that when I’m in greener areas my sleep apnea kind of dissipates I can’t sleep sometimes now without that buzzing freeway sound Archival Inkjet Print (William Camargo / For The Times) I’m an adjunct professor at three universities But if I had the option to take public transportation get work done on the train and not waste too much time sitting there just staring into the massive traffic that we have which taps into the mental exhaustion spent on the freeway the pollution — it’s always lingering with me when I go somewhere else freeways are kind of ugly; there’s always construction going on which is always trying to expand the freeways “One can understand every single social and environmental issue by contemplating the East L.A digital rendering (3B Collective / For The Times) Why the East L.A we’ve been working on an idea that began with a show in San Diego called “By Way Of,” centered around the freeway connections from L.A From physical and psychological health effects to environmental impact we wanted to draw attention to the effects of these massive interchanges As we delved deeper into the impacts of freeways Interchange quickly became the most significant interchange we could find in Los Angeles because of the vast amount of people and communities it has affected We continued this with our exhibition “Highways & Byways” at Residency in Inglewood and most recently with our mural “Aguas” at UC San Diego where we again highlighted the massive barriers so we can start to reimagine land use especially land that is currently taken up by freeways Our approach is different from the typical Western way of thinking which often prioritizes development over sustainability We’re looking to make something sustainable to minimize the effects of carbon carcinogens and other environmental pollutants using different plants to help clean the soil and investing in public transportation rather than massive infrastructure projects prioritizing individual modes of transportation It’s important to note that there’s already a clear path toward sustainability These changes are not imaginary or impossible to implement We already have a clear example up in Chico There is a brewery that is almost zero-waste on site thanks to their innovative use of rainwater and natural resources We believe that we should move away from Western thought and instead focus on Indigenous ways of thinking that use natural resources to promote sustainability which often prioritizes development over sustainability,” says 3B Collective (3B Collective / For The Times) Part of what has influenced us greatly is the story of the South Central Farm where developers and communities clashed over land use and pass that knowledge on from one generation to the next All of this was very clear within the South Central Farm which was ultimately wiped away and bulldozed We hope that some of that spirit can be brought back to the community and the land that freeways occupy could be the key we could pull them apart and bring the communities on separate sides of these walls back together (Alexandre Ali Reza Dorriz / For The Times) In this work It’s also known as the Ronald Reagan Freeway It’s the freeway that we took frequently to visit my great-grandmother who lived first in Pacoima She moved to Lake View Terrace after the 118 Freeway disappeared her home and disappeared Pacoima There’s also a deep irony that I’m disappearing a freeway named after Ronald Reagan he is probably the president who single-handedly created the infrastructure for mass incarceration and overpolicing in communities across the country specifically in Pacoima area and the communities that I grew up in Los Angeles I’ve been doing a ton of research on the history of Pacoima Before the Spanish colonizers came to Pacoima The community that lived there precolonization was a Tongva community that resided in these really beautiful dome-like structures the Indigenous community said that there were these waterways that would run through Pacoima so they were able to use water — the water was so available and resilient Cullors envisions the “Black and Indigenous village” that might have existed “if colonization didn’t happen if the redlining communities didn’t happen.” (Alexandre Ali Reza Dorriz / For The Times) I’m developing a village that is a visual landscape using mud cloth — which is a textile material that I’ve been using from the Mali people — with yarn and cowrie shells that’s creating the landscape It’s essentially one of the Tongva homes and then my grandmother’s home the Black and Indigenous connection — sometimes folks call it the Black and Latinx connection — is so important and visible and I just thought it would be beautiful to imagine what it would have looked like to have this Black and Indigenous community live hand in hand with each other if colonization didn’t happen if the redlining of communities didn’t happen My work in activism started as an organizer for climate justice One of the big moments that you have when you’re a climate justice person living in Los Angeles is the role of the car and its impact on climate and greenhouse gases — how much freeway lobbyists are in favor of not stopping climate change because auto has been such a lucrative business and the freeway is the engine that continues to allow that business to thrive Part of the many demands of growing up in Los Angeles as a climate justice organizer was to challenge the auto industry and the lobbyists who focus on the highway versus a first-class bus system in L.A and that was one of our biggest demands: Let’s make a first-class bus system so we don’t have to rely on the auto here in Los Angeles It feels like it’s tying back not just to my roots and my family but also the roots of my organizing in which the disappearing of a freeway is a literal demand of many people Spray paint and acrylic on canvas and digital collage (Courtesy of the Artist and Residency Art Gallery photograph in collaboration with Byron Victa) I feel like freeways are a negative thing that tear us apart from our communities because we have to spend so much time on it the freeways — and the ability to move from one place to another — are a function of capitalism Anywhere that’s within an hour of where you live there’s an expectation that you should be considering the freeway for school I was an adjunct professor for about a decade I spent so much money on gas and time in the car — like 300 miles a week that distance has been really traumatizing You spend so much time playing connect the dots to survive in the city. Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno have worked to expand public access to electronic media through the Downtown Community Television Center in New York City and faculty engage in groundbreaking scholarly research and scholarship that has a global and social impact Our 34 academic centers and institutes defy disciplinary boundaries to address the world’s most pressing problems The groundbreaking research and work done by our students and faculty expand and redraw conventional boundaries Explore work defined by rigorous methodology your intellectual and creative journey moves seamlessly between the classroom and the city of New York Discover a community that will inspire your interests and passions New School students graduate with creative problem-solving skills that change how they investigate Explore inspiring stories from our entrepreneurial alumni and learn more about how we help prepare you for life after graduation Since 1972, Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno have worked to expand public access to electronic media through the Downtown Community Television Center in New York City Driven by the belief that citizen access to media production strengthens democracy the pair have provided free or low-cost production courses to diverse communities Now, Alpert, a 16-time Emmy Award winner, and Tsuno are sharing their passion for expanding public access to media arts with The New School community as the School of Media Studies 2017 Hirshon Artists-in-Residence As part of their residency, Alpert and Tsuno will lead master classes for media and documentary studies students and present a public lecture, Five Decades of Community Media from Canal Street to Cuba which will feature a retrospective of their work is free and open to the public with a reception to follow “Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno’s DCTV community media project and filmmaking achievements are unparalleled in US community media education,” said Media Studies Dean Carol Wilder “Their steadfast 45-year commitment to youth media and to progressive documentary filmmaking establishes them as the gold standard for community media engagement.” Named for the late New School Trustee Dorothy H the Hirshon Artist-in-Residence program was established through a bequest in 2003 to promote excellence and education in filmmaking arts To apply to any of our Bachelor's programs (Except the Bachelor's Program for Adult Transfer Students) complete and submit the Common App online Learn more about How to Apply or to apply to the Bachelor's Program for Adult and Transfer Students complete and submit the New School Online Application WATCHPRO Citizen has unveiled a fresh reissue of its classic bullhead chronograph just after the Japanese company had brought out its first mechanical chronographs and Citizen’s watch earned the nickname “Tsuno Chrono” – tsuno meaning ‘horn’ in Japanese Citizen celebrated with a 50th anniversary watch last year and this latest model is a sign there is ongoing appetite for variations on this classic from its back catalogue.  It has a 43.5mm case made from the proprietary ‘Super Titanium’ alloy which Citizen tells us is five times harder and 40% lighter than steel along with higher scratch and rust-resistance There are polished chronograph pushers at 11 and 1 o’clock along with a crown at 12 o’clock for setting the time and one at 5 o’clock for adjusting the alarm There is a flat sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective coating It is powered by a solar-powered Eco-Drive movement that has a power reserve of eight months on a full charge It comes on a race-inspired perforated black leather strap and the watch is water-resistant to 200m The Promaster Tsuno Chrono Racer is limited to 2,500 watches worldwide and costs $1,195 citizenwatch.com This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page doctors in white gowns huddled around a critically ill patient in an overcrowded emergency room at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn Lacking adequate medical supplies and functioning […] Lacking adequate medical supplies and functioning equipment has just had a heart attack,” said Jon Alpert who moved his video camera closer to the scene “He has already stopped breathing.”   the disparity of health care services for the rich and the poor in the United States was at times straining to keep its patients alive Spinelli’s death was “the direct result of a broken medical system that favors wealthier patients over poorer ones.” Alpert shared the clip from his classic exposé, Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life, during a presentation to the New School community on the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) an organization founded by the Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and Keiko Tsuno that produces documentaries exploring pressing social issues The filmmakers have traveled all over the world from Iraq and Afghanistan to Vietnam and Bolivia and produced documentaries about everything from U.S Army medics who fight to save the lives of American soldiers and Iraqis (Baghdad ER) to residents of a hard-luck Massachusetts town who turn to drug use after its economic collapse (High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell) through a candid telling of their daily lives reveal the complex social strata of a diverse city (Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive) Alpert and Tsuno have shared the tools of the trade providing free or low-cost production courses including an estimated 75,000 young New Yorkers “that public access to electronic media strengthens democracy.” “Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno’s DCTV community media project and filmmaking achievements are unparalleled in U.S community media education,” said Media Studies dean Carol Wilder The high caliber of their work is exemplified by the Emmy Award–winning Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life. A moving example of DCTV’s advocacy journalism and a milestone in cinema verité documentary the film puts the viewer in the middle of life-and-death dramas that unfolded in Kings County Hospital during the 1970s this indictment of the economics of the American medical system is articulated through the voices of the victimized patients and beleaguered hospital personnel that anyone had died on camera,” Alpert told an audience gathered at the Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street “It shows the effects of budget cutbacks on health care which is an issue we’re still talking about today.” detailing the lives of the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad but also the extraordinary costs of the wars we’re fighting especially the people who pay the ultimate price,” Alpert said Alpert and Tsuno have come a long way since the release of Healthcare When they first moved into their headquarters — a landmark firehouse at 87 Lafayette Street — in the 1980s that shoestring approach benefited them in  unexpected ways we never got the opportunity to think we were hot stuff and our attachment to our community remains strong,” Alpert said “We came from the streets and we’re still in the streets.” Alpert and Tsuno showed that media production wasn’t only the domain of major broadcast networks and film studios They imparted lessons on their approach to the community offering master classes to students as the 2017 Hirshon Artists-in-Residence is to use this equipment to give power to people who don’t have it to help people express themselves,” Alpert said “Within the context of our current political environment we’re going to depend on people to capture our everyday reality and communicate that to other people and advocate for improvement and the students coming out of The New School will have an important job to do.” the Los Angeles-based artist Devon Tsuno will give the curving façade of the College of the Canyons Art Gallery a makeover with his largest public art project to date “California Seedlings” will cover 702 square feet of the COC Art Gallery’s exterior with a graphic film wrap a project that will mark the beginning of the gallery’s new initiative to activate the college’s public space through dynamic contemporary art “There are so many issues and ideas that Devon is investigating with his art practice that are relevant to our time and our community,” said Pamela Bailey Lewis “This work will not only be exciting to look at but it will provide an opportunity to engage our students in new ways in discussions about contemporary art and social practice projects focusing on native vs 19th century Ukiyo-e woodblock prints and fabric densely layered works are inspired by the vigorous and dynamic flora competing for space in our urban environment “California Seedlings,” will be on view through Friday A public reception for the artist will be held from 4:00 p.m This project is generously supported by the COC Foundation Patrons of the Arts The College of the Canyons Art Gallery is open 10 a.m Those unable to visit the gallery during normal hours are welcome to contact the gallery to schedule a viewing appointment All gallery exhibitions and related events are free and open to the public For more information, please visit the COC Art Gallery web page You can be the first one to leave a comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Citizen have revealed the Star Wars Tsuno Chrono Collection of four watches coming this Autumn with designs inspired by R2-D2 all based on the 1972 Citizen Chronograph Challenge Timer which appear at the top of the case on either side of a crown at 12 o’clock looking like a pair of horns Each of the quartz-based watches has the Star Wars logo and an illustration of each character engraved on the back of their 38mm cases and dial designs that pick up features of the characters they represent The dial has a raised design echoing the panels on R2-D2’s body and the white dial is accented with R2-D2’s distinctive blue The sub-dial at the 6 o’clock position also has a miniature R2-D2 The dial features C-3PO’s gold colour and dual layered structure provides an almost three-dimensional version of C-3PO’s face The sub-dial “eyes” feature a lume that glows in the dark The design incorporates the distinctive red and black of Darth Maul’s face and his yellow horns on the dial The watch evokes the powerful and dangerous nature of Darth Maul with a colourful The design evokes different aspects of Darth Vader’s story – the colours of the chronograph hands echo Darth Vader’s transformation from Jedi™ to Sith™ and the sub-dials feature design elements from his life-support system Noah Baumbach’s ‘Jay Kelly’ Gives George Clooney & Adam Sandler An Awards Spotlight This November ‘John Wick 5’: Chad Stahelski Says “New Story” Is “Not A Continuation With The High Table” ‘Run The Night’: Chris Pine Is Hunted By Dutch Mob In New Lionsgate Crime Thriller ‘Squid Game’ Season 3 Teaser Trailer: 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Clothing is ‘a means of communicating with an invisible world’, she declares in an interview Having worked as a psychiatric nurse since 2013 the designer began studying fashion in 2016 at the Coconogacco Fashion School in Tokyo aim to ‘pay homage to people who believe in the existence of an invisible world’ the fantastic became the driving force behind her pieces dresses lend themselves to science fiction designs capture the attention thanks to their fluorescent colours and their extremely careful finish Seiran Tsuno wished to ‘capture Japanese spirits’ her creations are not put on over the head Her inventiveness can also be seen in her advertising campaigns who broke her legs just before the shoot took place In 2017, the designer was a finalist in the ITS Platform Contest an Italian competition that rewards young talent in the fashion world More information about Seiran Tsuno’s latest collections  can be found on her Instagram account The Heritage of Issey Miyake’s Itajime Shirt The series 'Hysteric Ten' by photographer Sawatari Hajime revisits one of the most sulphurous relationships in Japanese art Traditional tattoos were strong signifiers; murderers had head tattoos Nagisa Oshima made Sada Abe the heroine of his film defying the codes of 'pinku eiga' that make men the focus of attention This rice soup seasoned with miso is served by a monk to Ashitaka one of the heroes in Hayao Miyazaki's film we interviewed its founder and chief representative Collaboration Site | Physics Results Soshi Tsuno didn’t know much about particle physics until he met professor Hiroshi Takeda in his fourth year at Kobe University in 1996 ATLAS collaborators there were already developing the thin gap muon chambers (TGCs) that reside in both the large and small wheels Soshi admits: “I had no strong feeling to decide why I've chosen high energy physics.” Many of us can cite a good teacher who captured our interest and influenced our career path he moved on to Tokyo University for his Masters course looking for the optimal wire spacing and strip width as well as choosing a gas to fill the chambers His PhD work took him to Tsukuba University in 1999 he was faced with the choice of working on LEP just as it was closing down or run II of the Tevatron as it was about to begin joining CDF and travelling to the US in 2000 who he met at Kobe University and married in 2000 The first year in a new culture was difficult but they made friends and came to love life in the US Soshi helped with the installation and developed the calibration monitoring tool the run met with delays and didn’t start until 2002 he had very limited data available for his thesis “My original thesis topic was the search for MSSM Higgs to four bottom quarks,” Soshi explains my doctoral thesis was settled to be a measurement of W+jets process.” With help from Michigan State University’s Joey Huston and CERN’s Michelangelo Mangano Soshi remained at Fermilab for another two years as a post-doc on CDF working on Monte Carlo simulations before coming to CERN in 2006 Now working with the tau trigger group in ATLAS he is an editor in the search for a Higgs boson decaying to two taus Soshi says that he and his family prefer Europe He is also glad to take up downhill skiing again He used to ski in the mountains of Hokkaido but the land around Fermilab is relatively flat including his seven-year-old daughter and four-year-old son The kids are both too young to understand Dad’s work although he has shown them some of his plots “My daughter thinks I’m an artist!” says Soshi whose physics analysis is cleverly disguised as computer graphic design He also harbours a secret talent – building with Lego his favourite achievement is a car with a working transmission built from a set when he was around the age of twelve hope to one day build a models of the ATLAS and CMS detectors Organisational chart Few media arts centers last 50 years, let alone in Manhattan, where sky-high rents drive most out of business. But DCTV has survived for half a century no celebration can be planned as long as Omicron is raging in the city and be as relevant going forward as we have been for the last 50 years The reasons behind DCTV’s success are many But foremost among them are owning the property where they’re housed and the dedication of its founders—the husband-and-wife team of Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno the couple was trying to oust a corrupt school board in Chinatown “The basic building block of American democracy is the school board; this is the level at which people begin to engage in politics,” Alpert says His father had been a school board president this was the cathedral of American democracy as far as I was brought up.”  Alpert and Tsuno made no progress until they brought an early black-and-white Sony portapak to a board meeting and police stood in the wings ready to haul anybody out who protested But the resulting videotape brought the parents’ complaints to life and that video made all the difference; the school board was ultimately thrown out.  “That was the Kool-Aid for us,” says Alpert “We saw the power of media to accomplish things we’d been unsuccessful in doing in all our community organizing we went on to use video to try to improve health conditions The couple bought an old mail truck and set up in Chinatown parks and street corners showing videos in various languages to help the community learn English All we knew was that documentaries should be one hour or less especially the empty sidewalk.” Tsuno continues “We’d come back home and start cutting shorter and shorter and shorter Alpert and Tsuno started offering free courses out of Tsuno’s loft on Canal Street the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs got wind of what they were doing and paid a visit in 1972 “They saw community video for the first time,” Tsuno recalls You have to establish a nonprofit organization.’ ” So that night she and Alpert did the paperwork to create DCTV Alpert and Tsuno affirm that owning the firehouse where DCTV is based is a big reason the organization has survived neither had paid much attention to the abandoned 1895 firehouse on Lafayette Street despite its unique Loire-chateau appearance and soon after they were renting the second floor for $500 a month The classes increased ten-fold,” Alpert says Eventually they were able to buy the entire landmarked building which is vast enough to allow the expansion of services to this day The other key to survival is this: “DCTV is different [from other media arts centers] in that a majority of its finances are self-generated through our productions,” Alpert states and other outlets for Alpert and his teams’ documentaries produced under the banner of DCTV.  The first breakthrough was Cuba: The People in 1974 the first independently produced color documentary “That was our toe in the door to public broadcasting,” he says noting that PBS and other broadcasters kept independents off the air by requiring color video Alpert and Tsuno knew nothing about film and couldn’t afford to learn.  But Tsuno’s connections in Japan gave them access to the latest video gear “Keiko’s brother would literally go to the factory and as the first color portapak was coming off JVC’s assembly line we’d get serial number one of everything,” Alpert says Cuba: The People led to a run of five documentaries on PBS But relations soured after Your Money or Your Life a film on the disparities of health care between rich and poor in two New York City hospitals Alpert found himself blacklisted—a “negative milestone,” he says.  Being familiar with Vietnam from their 1977 documentary Vietnam: Picking Up the Pieces Alpert and Tsuno suspected that war would break out between Vietnam and China over their border “The day the war started was the day our visas came in,” Alpert recalls the filmmakers caught a break from George Page vice president of WNET and a former NBC correspondent Despite being neophyte war correspondents and facing resistance from their Vietnamese handlers the couple managed to get to the front line where they were the first to document the killing fields on video We basically hit six home runs at two times at bat,” Alpert notes “We went from war zone to war zone to war zone.” For their war reportage Alpert and his co-producers earned multiple Emmys fruitful relationship with HBO began with 1989’s One Year in a Life of Crime a portrait of three drug-addicted criminals in Newark one of DCTV’s many collaborations with HBO youth and student productions at DCTV have been racking up awards as well these productions have won prizes at Sundance Tribeca Film Festival and Tokyo Video Festival Our Stories on WNET and 2020’s COVID Diaries on HBO “I’d say that’s the first time any youth program in the country got nationwide distribution on a major network,” Alpert says about the latter.  But Alpert is proudest of their on-going success story—the fact that the vast majority of high school students who enrolled in their Youth Media programs have continued on to college Since a good percentage of them are lower income from Title 1 public schools that’s “a demographic you would not normally have a statistic like this in,” Alpert observes DCTV offers college counseling and portfolio reviews in preparation for the college admissions process They also provide students with opportunities for professional development including internships and job placement with DCTV productions for shows on HBO and elsewhere and as part of PA training programs throughout the city.   DCTV also offers MFA-level classes for adult filmmakers that are designed to make professional filmmaking education affordable and accessible Some recent works that have gone through their free Docu Work-in-Progress Lab include Nathan Fitch’s Drawing Life (online premiere on The New Yorker) Anthony Banua-Simon’s Cane Fire (MoMA’s Doc Fortnight) Anthony Svatek’s .TV (New York Film Festival) much of their 50th anniversary celebration would have been planned around events in their brand new theater it will be a much-needed downtown arthouse for documentary film showing both DCTV productions and outside programming (including DocuClub’s work-in-progress screenings in conjunction with IDA) Publicists and filmmakers can host four-wall screenings; the theater could also be used for filmmaker services like color correction and audio finishing The idea is that the theater will pay for itself which could potentially result in a profit Initial funding for the theater came from a 9/11 stimulus package but the city’s red tape bogged things down for years.   The upcoming National Youth Media Center is another project that’s long in the works When the Bloomberg Administration sold The Clock Tower Building two blocks south of the firehouse part of the deal was that the developer had to create a community resource The Department of Cultural Affairs asked DCTV to run a media center “It’s astonishing this is going over three administrations,” Alpert says “But eventually we’ll fix that place up and make a really nice media center.” They have 16,000 square feet to do so and plan to move all of their youth programs there.  But DCTV faces a new threat: a 300-foot-tall “jailscraper,” approved in 2019 as part of a plan to close the notorious jail on Rikers Island and replace it with four high-rise correctional facilities in the boroughs The plan entails tearing down the Chinatown jail “This is an existential threat to DCTV,” Alpert insists it was exactly because of this local construction because they draw the water table down in order to be able to construct “It’s one full circle in 50 years,” Alpert says “We were powerless in those days to accomplish the things we needed to do to make our neighborhood better—until we began making films.”  “This was not 50 years of smooth sailing for DCTV But we really believe in what we’ve done and can do because we’ve basically given our lives to the organization.” Patricia Thomson is a longtime film journalist and a contributing writer for American Cinematographer Would you like to receive event invitations and other updates from the International Documentary Association © 2024 International Documentary Association Privacy Policy By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy It’s been five decades since Citizen first unveiled its original Tsuno Chrono watch to the world. In celebrating the model’s 50th anniversary, Citizen has prepared the Promaster Tsuno Chrono 50th Anniversary Edition, released in a limited run of 3,000 units only. The anniversary edition pays tribute to the original “bullhead” variant from 1973, which was distinctively remembered for integrating the chronograph pushers on the top of the watch case. Its 45mm stainless steel case arrives in a golden hue, where it houses four black subdials in a bullhead aesthetic. Each of the subdials is outfitted with red hands that offer a sporty touch to the timepiece’s overall retro vibe. Print Artist Ron Athey stands on the steps of his Silver Lake apartment building during the second week of California’s stay-at-home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 He is decked out in a billowing velvet gown that once belonged to performance artist Leigh Bowery “I don’t want to die in my pajamas,” Athey says with a laugh “I’ll be looping in eternity in a bad look.” Previous pandemics — smallpox in the Americas, the plague in Europe — reshaped the ways artists worked. It’s too soon to know the long-term effects of the current coronavirus on the art world closing public institutions and sending artists retreating into studios artists (from a distance) to record the ways in which they have continued to work: in homes and in garages not to mention a healthy dose of gallows humor The show is scheduled to travel to the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles next spring — “if the world is open,” he says landed on the national stage during another pandemic: the HIV/AIDS crisis but instead raised “philosophical questions about the nature of healing,” he says — ideas that couldn’t be more poignant at the present time “This parading around while healing or talking in tongues She could have hardly imagined that a month later it would be shuttered trapped in a suspended animation like all of her other projects Aguiñiga has had to lay off two longtime studio assistants and is trying to home-school her daughter as she writes grant applications “I’m trying to figure out what I can keep going as everything gets postponed or canceled,” she says But she has nonetheless found the time to make work — in an improvised studio inside a Volkswagen camper she has parked in her backyard she says: “It’s therapeutic and meditative to continue.” Painter Monica Majoli in her Highland Park home studio she continues to work on prints for her “Blueboys” series Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) Painter Monica Majoli’s latest series captures the blissful ecstasies of living as an epidemic looms on the horizon Titled “Blueboys,” her alluring white-line woodcuts are inspired by the 1970s gay porn magazine of the same name expressions of ebullient male sexuality before HIV/AIDS was part of the social equation The painter was chosen to show works from this series at the Hammer Museum’s “Made in L.A.” biennial followed by an exhibition at L.A.’s Hannah Hoffman gallery next year But she worries about the effects of isolation on Angelenos who already live in a state of perpetual separation “It is making people who are too busy stop and reflect,” she says who is inspired by ancient indigenous painting techniques is spending her time testing new materials (such as acorn inks) that she’ll use to tell the story of this life-giving tree The artist began the piece weeks ago for a summer show at Descanso Gardens some of whom were held at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah He has a steady job (as a professor at Cal State Dominguez Hills) and a home studio “I’m thinking about what it means to be a painter isolated in that space — and how it’s different when you are forced to do it that affects the decisions I make in the studio.” Entertainment & Arts Culture in plague times: The Florentine Codex, an encyclopedia on Mesoamerican indigenous life, was created as Mexico was ravaged by smallpox Carolina A. Miranda is a former Los Angeles Times columnist who focused on art and design, with regular forays into other areas of culture, including performance, books and digital life. Entertainment & Arts Travel & Experiences Hollywood Inc. Television The TimesA member of a popular Japanese rock band has killed herself the latest of a series of suicides by young mostly female celebrities that has raised questions about the intense pressures on those in the country’s entertainment industry Maisa Tsuno, 29, a guitarist and songwriter with the band Akaiko-en, was the fifth prominent entertainer to have taken her own life in the past five months. The others included Hana Kimura a professional wrestler and reality television star who reportedly killed herself in May in despair over online harassment The greatest shock was caused by the suicide of Yuko Takeuchi The manga launched in the Young Ace magazine in February 2021 and will release the second compiled book volume on February 21 The president of Toyota Motor Corporation said he was so thrilled when the Japanese automaker became the top-selling automaker in the US in 2021 that he started dancing a 13% fall from the previous year's 2.5 million Better management of its supply chains was generally seen as the reason.  On top of nearly 1,500 dealerships in the US Toyota has 10 manufacturing and engineering plants and 14 in North America they produced just over one million cars in 2020.  Despite its relative success to date, supply chain shortages are starting to bite. On Thursday, Toyota announced it would make 50,000 fewer cars than it originally forecast in October This was due to it slowing down production in some Japanese plants due to a shortage of semiconductors Toyota said it now expects to make 750,000 cars globally in the month it's still on track for its target of 9.7 million by the end of 2022.  Toyota did not immediately respond to Insider's request for further comment which was made outside of standard business hours.  Citizen has revealed a series of four Star Wars-inspired Tsuno Chrono models dropping later this year While R2-D2 and C-3PO might not sound like much of a match for Sith Lords Darth Vader and Darth Maul Citizen has clearly sought to bring balance to The Force with characters from both the light and dark sides of the Star Wars universe © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices Citizen watches will have a booth at Star Wars Celebration to showcase their newest Star Wars x CITIZEN timepieces retail space for buying your favorite Star Wars x Citizen timepieces Citizen will also be unveiling three additional new Star Wars styles during Star Wars Celebration You can find them in Hall C at Booth #2743 The Star Wars x CITIZEN Tsuno collection will appeal to Star Wars aficionados who want to bring their fandoms into their everyday style These wearable timepieces are both collector’s pieces and a fashion statement and showcase the essence of each character with an extreme amount of detail enabling the wearer to feel more connected to the Star Wars galaxy than ever before They are subtle and elegant enough that at first glance people may not even recognize that they are Star Wars-Themed they are a way of keeping your fandom close This vintage design is inspired by the Chronograph Challenge Timer CITIZEN’s first watch with a full-fledged chronograph function The model was appropriately known as the Tsuno Chrono thanks to tsuno (horns) placed on both sides of the 12 o’clock position I am kind of obsessed that the horns combined with the clock hands on the C3PO watch give the face some attitude The same could be said for the horns that mirror Darth Maul’s actual horns Each watch features the Star Wars logo and an illustration of each character engraved on the case back there is the iconic bullhead design with the crown at the 12 o’clock position with push buttons on either side Its rounded form and smooth lines of the case contrast with the sharp edges of the bezel The R2-D2™ watch  – The dial has a raised design echoing the panels on R2-D2’s body and the white dial is accented with R2-D2’s distinctive blue and red The C-3PO™ watch – The dial features C-3PO’s gold color and a dual-layered structure providing an almost three-dimensional version of C-3PO’s face The DARTH MAUL™ watch – The design incorporates the distinctive red and black of Darth Maul’s face and his yellow horns on the dial The watch evokes the powerful and dangerous nature of Darth Maul with a colorful The DARTH VADER™ watch – The design evokes different aspects of Darth Vader’s story – the colors of the chronograph hands echo Darth Vader’s transformation from Jedi™ to Sith™ and the sub-dials feature design elements from his iconic armor This new line will be available in the fall and will range from $350-375. Citizen currently has an existing line that you can purchase now. Unboxing Everything in ColourPop’s 1977 ‘Star Wars’ Inspired Collection The Asmodee booth at Star Wars Celebration will showcase 9 new games Loungefly’s Star Wars Collection lands in time for May the 4th Monica is the Editor-In-Chief at Temple of Geek She also serves as Executive Producer of The Temple of Geek Podcast Lover of all things geeks but especially sci-fi like Doctor Who This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. by January 16, 2023Source: YouTube "No more depressing movies from Japan," is Tsuno's motto for this project What should have been a young man's emotional journey to find his missing brother turns into a nightmare when he gets embroiled in a monster cats' revenge massacre against evil humans who abused them Unfortunately there's no shots of any cats in this trailer but there's plenty of other kick ass glimpses in this upbeat I wasn't sure if this would be really worth it Will definitely be keeping an eye out for it Here's the first look teaser trailer (+ teaser poster) for Reiki Tsuno's Mad Cats, direct from YouTube: I had wondered why Japanese movies are so sad Budgets for indie movies in Japan are actually much smaller than ones in overseas It is very difficult to make something exciting and flashy because they simply cost a lot I wanted to change that." –Director Reiki Tsuno making his feature directorial debut after working on many short films and working under director Lloyd Kaufman previously The film is premiering at the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival (running at the same time as Sundance) this month The film is still seeking distribution - stay tuned for more Find more posts in: Foreign Films, Indies, To Watch, Trailer Woodge on Jan 17 New comments are no longer allowed on this post Add our RSS to your Feedly +click here+ Latest posts now available on Bluesky: Get the latest posts sent on Telegram Want emails instead?Subscribe to our dailynewsletter updates: Join our newsletter for daily jewellery news Check if you already have access from your company or university