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Awesome Things
Mochis in TV Japan Ad
Nov 17th
Just before my show opening last month, I was fortuitously connected with a producer for TV Japan, which is a Japanese-language network available in the US and Canada. She was making a commercial promoting the upcoming season of programming from Japan, and was looking for some cute models to create a fun city scene to intersperse between the show clips. It just so happened that I had recently created an entire knitted world for my show, so she borrowed almost the entire installation for the commercial!
Because the ad includes clips of shows that I don’t have rights to use, I unfortunately can’t show the finished product here (it aired in mid to late October on TV Japan), but the producer sent me some photos from the shoot!
They did a live-action shoot of the little world, using something (wire or magnets, I think) to make toy cars move around. Aside from the cars, they also incorporated characters that the producer handmade herself.
I wish I could have been there just to see how it was all done!
It was very cool to have my toys involved in a commercial project, and I would love to do more things like this in the future.
Super Happy Pumpkin Mail
Oct 29th
I got the most fun mail the other day! Madeline shares my passion for knitted tiny stuff, and she was sweet enough to send me a tiny knitted pumpkin of her own design.
I love it!
The inspiration for the pumpkin came from Madeline’s workplace—she manages the store housed in the giant pumpkin that you see in the photos.
Madeline referred to her package as “fan mail,” so I guess this is my first-ever fan mail—thrilling! Thank you, Madeline!
New Glasses, Old Camera
Aug 12th
I have new glasses! I wear glasses pretty much every day, and I buy new ones infrequently, so it’s a big deal. I think the style of the dark blue frames is somewhere between librarian and superheroine.
Since my camera is also in the picture, I thought I’d mention that I LOVE this camera. It’s a Canon PowerShot Elph that I’ve used for everything over the past few years. I takes most of my blog pics, it goes with me on vacation, and I even used it to take all of the technique photos in Knitting Mochimochi. I got a more professional SLR camera earlier this year, but this point-and-shoot is still my go-to camera for most things.
Ghostbusters Car
Aug 10th
This car is frequently parked on my street and gets lots of attention from passersby.
As the Xed out rodents symbol indicates, it’s owned by someone with a business trapping animals. I have to assume this is a pretty effective marketing campaign, if only for the surrounding neighborhood.
Every time my mother-in-law Bonney visits us, she insists that this car should make an appearance on my blog. Since it’s her birthday today, she gets her wish!
Vinyl Hokusai Bunnies
Aug 9th
Remember the Hokusai bunnies by Kozyndan that I posted during Bunny Week a few months back? I just saw on the Munky King website that it will soon be available in vinyl form!
So cool.
Speaking of Bunny Week, it’s about time we did another themed week on the Mochimochi Blog. Any ideas?
