Posts Tagged ‘japan’
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I just love when people take something we recognise and turn into something completely different.
And I especially like these cakes.
Remember the Japanese man who called the police from the same police station he’d broken into to steal a girlie poster (read it here)? Not long after that happened, another dumb crook does something equally dumb.
One of the things I admire most about the Japanese is their ability to take some mundane, generic thing and turn it into a wacky, new fangled thing.
Vending machines have come a long way since they were first invented. Now vending machines vend anything from rice to sneakers to coffee beans. I would have loved to be in that era when you can buy your own meals, like in the video. Nonetheless, I am in my era and I have some great [...]
We Japanese sure are a weird bunch. we do the weirdest things in the world and then invent ways to make them even weirder.
Last week, I posted an entry about this guy who stole women’s boots from health club lockers and this week an old guy steals from the police.
Last week a man from the Japanese city of Fukuoka (that Foo-coo-oh-ka, folks) was caught stealing this woman’s boots from a dressing room of a sports club, which are usually left outside the lockers as they are too big to fit inside.
Lookee what I came across! Great idea for a start-up designers’ studio (or photographer etc).
And this is how he’d done it:
If you thought that was amazing, check out his whole flat transformation, from an old, run-down flat, to a sexy minimalist, modern interior. Respect!
Thanks, boing boing and akame
Recently I posted an entry about Harrod’s “interactive” windows and lambasted them saying that three window displays with free lollipops ain’t gonna make people spend more there or “feel” what Harrod’s is about. They’ve now given an update on more installations by famous people. You still wouldn’t know what the whole campaign is about, since [...]
…are not prostitutes. Why would Gwen Stefani, good ol’ Gwenny, sing about prostitutes?
Harajuku is a trendy, somewhat eccentric area in downtown Tokyo. It is sandwiched between several upmarket shopping areas, Aoyama and Daikan-yama. This is where you’d find Burberry Blue Label (exclusively for Japan only, of course), Juicy, Rock Rep, Miu x2, Dior, Tod’s, Marc [...]
In Japan, because they don’t speak much English, is where I find an abundance of funny signs. “Please help yourself to the cleaner lady” and “Toilet at your rear”. So you would expect that in the U.K., the home English, the Queen’s language, is where you’d find grammatically correct use of nouns and verbs. But [...]
Superb interactive window display in Shibuya, Tokyo of the fantastic fashion group, BayCrews.
