This engaging short film about Tokyo was created by W0W, a Japanese creative design studio, to enhance Citizen’s booth at the recent BASELWORLD 2009, the watch and jewelry showcase event in Basel, Switzerland.
The theme of the movie is infinite possibilities for Eco-Drive, Citizen’s new model in its range. We cohesively combined images and meanings of [...]
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A typical street in suburban Japan, lined on both sides with Sugi, silence broken only by bird calls. Female mannequins with foreign-sounding names skateboarding, hitting the pavement and disintegrating into undignified heaps.
The contrast couldn’t get more jarring than that.
Depending on your mood, this is either “upsetting, disorienting, dark, and mysterious” or “pretentious, incoherent and boring”. [...]
Koki Tanaka is a “mixed-media artist who uses video and found objects to create iconic reflections of everyday life”. His art “invests mundane objects and actions with meanings both amplified and understated“.
The main strength of Tanaka’s deceptively understated art is using ordinary objects in unpredictable and unusual ways to change our perception of everyday existence. [...]
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- 10 awesome views of Tokyo’s Giant Gundam
- Tokyo’s giant Gundam is geared for battle
- Shohei Otomo’s intense illustration art
- iPhone meets Denso robotic arm, coolness ensues
- Tokyo: even the rest rooms are claustrophobic
- Import anime car overload in Tokyo
- Lunar probe Kaguya’s final shots of the Moon
- Hina: nifty little humanoid robot makes coffee — and a cute face while offering it up to you
- memory, a short film by Junichi Yamamoto
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Pink Tentacle
- Ultra Monster paintings by Toshio OkazakiA pair of action-packed Ultraman Monster paintings by Toshio Okazaki were published in Shōgakukan's 1979 edition of Ultra Kaiju (Shōgakukan Nyūmon Hyakka Series #97). [+] [+] Alien Guts, Windam, Gyango, Black End, Kingsaurus III, Bemstar Alien Icarus, Gomora, Muruchi, Alien Baltan, Alien Magma, Kemular Dancan, Giradorus, Astromons Gandar, Gabora, Alien Metron, Agira, Antlar, Seabozu, Woo [...]
Japan Probe
- Japanese Police Shut Down Chinese Brothel Near Yokosuka BaseJapanese police have raided a Chinese massage parlor in Yokosuka and arrested 24 people: The parlor, which was located near an American naval base, had actually been a brothel offering illegal sex services to members of the American military. It managers and the women who worked there were Chinese. The Yomiuri Shimbun has reported the [...]
What Japan Thinks
- Aozora and electronic books in general in JapanIf you’re a learner of Japanese, or just wanting to get hold of classics of Japanese literature, the free repository Aozora is a good place to start, but judging by this survey from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into Aozora, it’s not that well-known. Demographics Over the 19th and 20th of August 2010 [...]
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