Selvedge refers to the self-binding edge of a piece of denim made on a shuttle loom. The common myth among denim-heads is that when Levi’s upgraded their manufacturing after WWII, they sold off their old shuttle looms to Japan, who continue to make selvedge jeans in the old-school way. But the real story is that, like a lot of other borrowed culture, the Japanese have taken denim, perfected it and made it their own. This is kinda true and there are amazingly curated vintage stores all over Tokyo that do sell old Levi’s. You may have heard before that Japanese go nuts for American blue jeans. This Spring, I returned for the Sakura but I had something else I wanted to explore while I was there…Japanese Denim. I went again to see the Sakura cherry blossoms bloom in 2012. I went back two years later to film my senior film thesis-a 22 minute short about the underground indie rock scene called Tokyo Below. I was even president of the Japanese Club! My first trip was to visit a friend there in 1998. I was lucky enough to take two years of Japanese in high school when they first offered it. Ever since I was a kid, all my favorite things seemed to come from there-Transformers, Godzilla, Nintendo. But The Indonesian Internet Service Provider Association (APJII) said other ISPs simply had not received the ministry’s latest update.I’ve always had a magical love for Japan. Telkom began blocking the site on Sunday, but Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata and First Media had not. The latest update was made on Friday.Īs of Monday at noon, though, not all Indonesia-based ISPs had blocked Vimeo. Updates to the list of blocked sites are distributed continually to local Internet service providers so that they may block access, the ministry said. “Based on the aforementioned considerations, we’ve included the site in our TRUST+ Positif List, which currently contains 119 other pornographic sites,” the ministry said. The site, founded in 2004, was the first video sharing site to support high definition, and became widely used by independent musicians and filmmakers for that reason.Ĭiting Indonesia’s controversial anti-pornography law, passed in 2008, the ministry said pornography included displays of “nudity or nudity-like features” and human genitals, and that all sites allowed in Indonesia were banned from running services offering such materials. Vimeo, in its terms of service, prohibits videos displaying sexually explicit content or pornography, but the New York-based site did not include nudity in its definition of pornography, the ministry said. The ministry said its research had uncovered the site had 7,712 videos tagged as “Nudie Cutie,” another 6,915 “Art of Nakedness” and 1,186 as “Beauty of Nakedness” videos, among others. “From the results of our investigations we’ve found categories or channels containing pornographic videos on .” “We’ve recently received several reports from the public about websites containing negative or pornographic elements… including the site ,” the ministry said in a press statement. Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Information on Monday announced it had banned video sharing site Vimeo, claiming that it hosted “pornographic” content, causing an outcry among local users.
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