Trouble is your business; Shazam for something else

What is troublesome for some is someone else's bread and butter. But that will make our life butter better.
Sometimes people need to know what fonts is used on a book, poster, or web page. It's not necessary for me but I feel it would certainly be fun if I could recognize what the font is. Of course it's not only fun, but efficient for designers, adpeople and the like.
That kind of service, like font-version of Shazam would probably be enjoyable.
I think it probably exists already, but I only found a service for the Roman Alphabet, no Japanese version. Here it is.

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator

If someone makes a portal for fonts that enables customers to search and get them, it would be beneficial for both the business and its customers. Maybe the needs are too specific so it's not worth the effort to make a font pattern recognition system.

Japanese letters are far more intricate than the Roman Alphabet but I hope that service will be introduced in Japan for the sake of some people.

In Canada...
My friend's jaw dropped when I said I have memorized about 3 thousand sorts of letters, Kanji. We were drunk, so we couldn't help laughing after saying "3000 seems too many, but you don't have to memorize such a number. You can read a newspaper if you know 1000 of them. 1000 is enough."
We had a laughing fit for "1000 is enough".
Compared to Alphabet, it's totally insane! Please reduce it to 26!

Reading and writing are far harder than speaking and listening Japanese.
Due to the enormous numbers of Kanji, searching for Kanji themselves is quite difficult for people who don't have knowledge of radicals or the numbers of strokes, not to mention how to read it. It would be useful if there was a Kanji-version of Shazam.

Oops there already is.

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/kanji-scan/id418823916

Kanji-scan

Rikai-chan 

Thanks to CthuluFett and Raw64life's correction.

Memento Mori; I will die (an artwork)

I will die. Don't worry about me, it's not what I said.

People from different countries, of different ages and sex say "I will die(私は死にます)" one after another in the video installation on the wall.

I saw the installation art in Osaka national museum several years ago.
The artist asked people to say "I will die" and recorded how they were saying it.
The people uniformly had confused facial expressions and it seemed they didn't know how to intonate the words.

I will die, obviously.
Everyone knows death is inevitable for all.

The contemporary artwork forces us to face the fact which is concealed or that we avoid inadvertently thinking about it in daily life. We go through our day without thinking that we are going to die.
Indeed, this motif has been expressed repeatedly in art history such as so called Memento Mori, Danse Macabre in Europe, Rikudo-e, and Kusou-zu in Japan.
Although we know we will die, there is a difference between our notions of death. In other words, death of someone else, and death of one's self is like the difference between seeing thunder and being struck by thunder.
That difference was clarified in the art by the perplexity of people when they talk about death with the subject, I.
Death doesn't exist in our daily life so it sound truly awkward if it comes up there.

The artwork just showed their perplexity and put into the notion of death in a daily life but didn't criticize whether it is good or bad.
It's free what you might feel.
The audience might think about what is important is in life, or that everything is vanity, or now is the time to drink. I no longer remember what I thought at that time.

One more interesting thing.
In the video, only a baby didn't say anything. Only babies don't know we will die. Thus, an innocent baby sometimes appears more enlightened than men who are scheduled to die.
But there's nothing wrong with dying and knowing about death.

Thanks to Chibi-lang's correction.

Bohol and Kagoshima; Colonial Style houses from a long distance

I visited Bohol island.

I spotted this distinctive style of house many times on Bohol Island, Philippines.

They have big windows on the façade side, and the handrail under the windows is made of wood, but curved, resembling embellished pillars.

It reminded me of the old building I saw in Kagoshima, Japan. I felt that there were similar features on those two buildings from a long distance.

The building in Japan was built in the 19th century for British engineers' accommodation.

If my memory serves me well, the style was called 'Colonial Style' which was created based on European houses but adopted to a tropical climate.

Kagoshima area is the southern most area in Japan, so it might be built in that style.

I feel odd that I remember Japan rather than Europe when I see a style that came from Europe.

Which do you think is Kagoshima's?

Thanks to Chibi-lang and Madox's correction.

Gustavo Speridião; Adding a word, Making it art

Adding a word, Making it art

Several words are roughly written on a picture.

This is the artwork by Gustavo Speridião which I saw in the Kyoto city museum.

The picture itself was not taken by him but came from a magazine, LIFE.

He made it as an art by just writing or drawing on a published picture to add another meaning.

On the right picture, he drew the line between two youngsters and wrote 'new and old' and mentioned the class war.

By the line, two close friends are turned to people from different classes, and the person on the left seems to be trying to take another person from the old class to the new one.

Possibly it might be the opposite, it implies that they cannot be friends because they are in different classes.

A cheerful scene is suddenly turned into a picture with serious theme.

The left picture looks like it was taken from a moving vehicle.

Originally, the forefront building is clear and the rear ones are blurred but by adding just two words, the picture becomes the one that expresses modern society. Everything is changing.

It seems the buildings are literally moving and also seems like a fast-forwarding of history, like life flashing before your eyes.

What is more thought-provoking is that the blurred buildings are mostly high rises but the clear one looks traditional.

Does being still mean isolation or an immovable value?

Just by scribbling words, the artist can totally change the inherent meaning of a picture.

Thanks to MauricioEiji's revision.

Crouching Pollock

This is a contemporary artwork called "Crouching Pollock" by one of the most famous Chinese contemporary artists, Cai Guo-Qiang, transcribed in Chinese character 蔡國強.

Two shabby robots are spattered with vibrant-colored paints. There's a canvas but it's being splashed with pink paint. As you can see, it seems the electrical chords are connected to the robots to supply electricity. 

What for?  Of course, to enable the robots to do the painting. Using their mechanical hands, the robots are able to splash paints on the canvas from a paint container held by the other hand.

From the name of this artwork and the method of painting, you may realize that this style imitates Jackson Pollock, who is one of the most influential abstract painters in the 20th century and whose style is famous for spattering. The heads of the robots have pictures indicating Pollock in action.

Having the robots do the painting in the same as the renowned artist do his artwork is a radical criticism to his masterpiece.

The artwork questions the value of the artwork. I'm not exactly sure but  every Pollock masterpiece costs not less than 1 million dollar  (I'm sure the most extravagant of all is over 100 million dollars, which can be compared to the GDP of a small country). On the other hand, paintings done by the robots sold on the spot at about 50 dollars. Although they have similar method, and appearance, nevertheless there is no comparison between the values. It clarifies the usual but forgettable fact that the price of art is perceived not by its beauty but its value in the market in capitalism, in other words the demands. How famous its painter is, and how popular the painting is determines the value .

After you are stimulated intellectually, let's enjoy another aspect of this artwork. It is very lovely that the robots waving their hand and splattering innocently without caring of getting stained by spattering colors. Lovely! 

Crouching?  Pondering?

Thanks to Ezro's revision.