{"id":16140,"date":"2011-01-14T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=16140"},"modified":"2011-01-14T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:03:11","slug":"bound-in-japan-the-amazing-flag-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/14\/bound-in-japan-the-amazing-flag-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound in Japan: The Amazing Flag Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Thien-Kieu Lam (Kagoshima 2003-2006), an artist who is producing <\/strong><strong>Bound in Japan<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>. <\/strong><strong>Bound in Japan<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> is a community book art project that aims to promote awareness about diversity in Japan and enhance intercultural understanding by engaging native and non-native residents in the creation and sharing of book art.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/erin-dani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16141\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/erin-dani-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/erin-dani-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/erin-dani.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pull open the covers and rows of \u201cflags\u201d pop up in salute! And thus  Hedi Kyle\u2019s invention became known as the flag book. With so many  pieces, it looks complicated but is relatively easy and fun to assemble.  The flag book structure was the focus of my second demo class which met  during November and December of last year.<\/p>\n<p>My five dedicated participants are all former residents of Japan. One  is a native Japanese, and the others had either taught in Japan or  studied there. Over the course of five sessions, the participants  created a model of the structure, did writing exercises to generate  content, and produced the final product.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the books can be seen in the above picture. Erin\u2019s book (left)  focuses on  the contrast between the calm and chaos she found in Japan,  and  Danielle\u2019s book (right) indulges in her love of Japanese  onomatopoeia and is  accompanied by English haiku.<\/p>\n<p>To see more photos from the class, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/boundinjapan.com\/2011\/01\/13\/the-amazing-flag-book\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bound in Japan<\/em> blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thien-Kieu Lam (Kagoshima 2003-2006), an artist who is producing Bound in Japan. Bound in Japan is a community book art project that aims to promote awareness about diversity in Japan and enhance intercultural understanding by engaging native and non-native residents in the creation and sharing of book art. Pull open the covers and rows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,304],"tags":[359,355,356,357,358,191],"class_list":["post-16140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-notable-jet-alums","tag-book-art","tag-bound-in-japan","tag-community-art","tag-diversity","tag-intercultural-exchange","tag-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4ck","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16147,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions\/16147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}