Jemapur - Maledict Car (Dir. Kosai Sekine)
Tokyo gets mirror-tweaked to kaleidoscopic effect in Jemapur’s “Maledict Car” video directed by Kosai Sekine (produced by W+K Tokyo Lab). Sekine’s previous work includes the quirky “Right Place,” which won the best short film award at Cannes in 2006.
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Pukka (pronounced “Pucka”) is a clean and simple desktop client that allows posting to services like Delicious. It integrates smoothly into the workflow and makes accessing delicious even easier.
You can also access Pukka via an installed bookmarklet in your favorite browser. Once installed, adding pages to Delicious will only take a few keystrokes.
Pukka is a bit pricey at $16.95 but if you often access social bookmarking services, I think you’ll find it money well spent.
Pic from Code Sorcery Workshop
Comments rss TrackbackMexican tattoo artist Dr Lakra is known for drawing macabre designs on found objects and images. During a visit to Japan last year, he inked hardcore tattoos on some fine antique ukiyo-e woodblock prints purchased at used bookstores. Some of these works were included in the “Goth” exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art in March, but a few of the more provocative tattooed shunga prints were refused because they offended museum officials.
Untitled (Hiroshima Tomonohira Take-Emon)
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Untitled (Yokohama doll)
Untitled (Shunga IV)
[Images: Kate MacGarry]
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Smooth nylon shrimp (Heterocarpus laevigatus) inhabiting the dark depths of the Pacific employ a brilliant method of defense. When threatened with attack, the creature spits a cloud of bioluminescent blue fluid from its mouth, temporarily blinding its predator and allowing escape.
This rarely seen footage of the smooth nylon shrimp’s defense mechanism in action was shot at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium.
See also:
- Video: Tremoctopus defense mechanism
- Video: Three bioluminescent sea creatures
Comments rss TrackbackThese ferociously awesome custom rides were spotted in a parking lot near Tokyo.
Check out photographer ch.knuckles’ Flickr photoset for more.
[Via: Bouncing Red Ball]
See also:
- Extreme Japanese custom vans
- Japanese custom scooters
- Dekotora photo galleries
- Itasha: Pimped rides, otaku style
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Due to some kind of deal, you can now get your hands on a free copy of CrossOver. Simply put, CrossOver allows an Intel Mac to run many popular Windows applications.
The main advantage over something like Parallels or VMware Fusion is the fact that you don’t need to purchase a licensed copy of Windows. CrossOver typically goes for 40 bucks so get your free copy here before time runs out.
Pic from MacUpdate
Comments rss TrackbackA well-choreographed troupe of synchronized (and anonymized) high divers splash it up for Denki Groove in the new “Fake It!” video. Directed by Hideyuki Tanaka.
[Link: Denki Groove - Fake It!]
More:
- Denki Groove videos
- Video: Mononoke Dance
Comments rss Trackback“A Dream To Have In Heaven” (Tengoku De Miru Yume - 天国でみる夢) by Maki Sasaki is a surreal non-narrative one-shot manga published in the November 1967 issue of the now-defunct Garo, an alternative manga monthly magazine that peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Comments rss TrackbackThe Tokyo-based Groovisions motion graphic design crew has created a stylishly animated educational video for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), which highlights some of the issues surrounding the future of food in Japan.
In the video, Groovisions use their hallmark playful-yet-ordered sim-like virtual landscape to illustrate a host of food-related challenges facing Japan. Issues include Japan’s 40% food self-sufficiency rate (the lowest of any major industrialized nation), the declining agricultural industry, and the impact of world population growth and environmental changes on the global food supply.
The video also suggests that the Western-style diet of meat, fat and oil, which has partially replaced Japan’s traditional diet of rice, fish and vegetables, has contributed to a variety of health problems and reduced demand for domestically grown produce. The food situation is exacerbated by other demographic factors such as the aging farming population and the abandonment of agricultural land. To reverse these trends, MAFF encourages consumers to make sustainable food choices and urges the industry to produce safe, properly labeled food.
The video (w/ English subtitles) was posted on the official MAFF YouTube channel, which was created last month.
[Link: Ensuring the Future of Food (Tip: watch the high-quality version)]
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Recycle artist Masataka Koike creates realistic-looking marine life sculptures from used wooden chopsticks. This octopus, which took eight months to complete, is made of 2,000 chopsticks.
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