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Reading PingMag Make…it’s the sister site to PingMag, a Japanese pop-culture magazine. The “Make” version…a dubious name and mission considering Make magazine here in the States… describes themselves this way:

We use an interview format to put the spotlight on a wide range of people active in rural areas. We document the voices of these unknown heroes and broadcast them to the world. It’s the Japan-based magazine about people and making things, coming out once a week. We’re passing on the passion, ideas, skills, and life stories of people who are building today and exploring tomorrow: craftsmen, engineers, entrepreneurs, and inventors.

This article on “Dr. Mold” is pretty interesting. The pictures are really beautiful…in that odd sort of living-thing-that-eats-your-house sort of way. Could have definitely used some of his product post-K…

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