Join: Jul 25, 2008

Name: ssakamoto

Gender: Male

Hometown: Kalamazoo

Location: NYC

Videos Watched: 1462

Subscribers: 119

Channel Views: 6085

Writer who lives in NYC.

Videos (9)

The Wig Artist

  • Length: 4:29
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 3 people
  • View Count: 109
  • Author: ssakamoto

Tags: buyo  culture  japan  japanese  kabuki  katsura  nihon  traditional  wig 

Take a rare look into the studio of a Tokyo wig maker. The Wig Artist demonstrates how the traditional katsura is made, and shows off wigs that are used by kabuki actors, Japanese dancers, and performers of Japan's traditional arts.

The Art of Empire

  • Length: 6:33
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 7 people
  • View Count: 875' favoriteCount='7
  • Author: ssakamoto

Tags: Be  Christopher  Comic  Dark  Empires  Horse  I'd  Illustration  Iron  Moeller  Rather  Series  Web 

Christopher Moeller, creator of the Iron Empires, demonstrates his craft and talks about his work.

Nerds of New York

  • Length: 9:35
  • Rating Average: 4.68 from 19 people
  • View Count: 1434' favoriteCount='6
  • Author: ssakamoto

Tags: city  gamers  idratherbe  nerdnyc  nerds  new  nyc  rpgs  york 

NYC area gamers, nerds, and rpg game designers gather at Thanksnerding to game, gab, and geek out.

Favorites (6)

tiger lillies - flying robert

  • Length: 4:49
  • Rating Average: 4.89 from 66 people
  • View Count: 22749' favoriteCount='128
  • Author: imaraccoon

Tags: daumenlutscher  opera  peter  shockheaded  struwwelpeter 

tiger lillies performing shockheaded peter in new york.

The Tiger Lillies - Bully Boys

  • Length: 3:3
  • Rating Average: 4.88 from 445 people
  • View Count: 174110' favoriteCount='1085
  • Author: elkookooi

Tags: Lillies  Tiger 

The Tiger Lillies are a cult three-piece band, based in London.Their surreal style has been described as darkly humorous, Brechtian, gypsy cabaret.

Richard Thompson - Beeswing

  • Length: 5:5
  • Rating Average: 4.89 from 431 people
  • View Count: 135289' favoriteCount='1249
  • Author: patzu

Tags: Anne  Beeswing  Briggs  Richard  Thompson 

From a BBC Late Show Feat. Roots Based Artists.I was nineteen when I came to town, they called it the Summer of LoveThey were burning babies, burning flags. The hawks against the dovesI took a job in the steamie down on Cauldrum StreetAnd I fell in love with a laundry girl who was working next to...