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hatsukoi
This has got to be one of the coolest commercials ever made… Can you figure out what it’s for before the end?According to the comments over at YouTube, the song is called Hatsukoi by Mayumi Kojima (hatsukoi means “first love”).
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“Push this button!” to be the new “Pull my finger!”
Engineering nerds in Tokyo are building the ultimate fart joke: “IMAGINE being able to record a smell and play it back later, just as you can with sounds or images.” Read the full article here. I can see the tagline now: YESTERDAY’S SMELLS TODAY! ……… In all seriousness, though, I have recently been thinking of what I will miss the most when I leave Japan. Unsurprisingly, certain smells are scoring high on my list. A sample: The smell of the pine forest in Nara on a hot summer day Old tatami (not rotted, just properly cured) The smell of fear when you enter a classroom full of new English students…
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Hanasajiki
(click to open larger popup) This is a photo I found from a couple months ago. It was taken at a flower park called hanasajiki that I try and visit a couple times every year. The funny thing is, these flowers weren’t even in the main part of the park, they were in a planter in front of the gift store! Here’s a link to the full set from that day: 2006 Awaji Hanasajiki (Warning: Baby pics abound!)
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Poltergeist
How many times must people be told not to build stuff on ancient Indian burial grounds? On the other hand, it might serve as a handy scapegoat for endeavors that are doomed from the start.
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Eternal Sunset
Yo, this shit is pretty dope: Eternal Sunset endeavours to ensure you can enjoy the sunset live from any location, at any time. As the sunset moves westward, Eternal Sunset continuously tunes into different webcams, chasing the sunset around the globe. This service is currently provided through the use of 206 west-facing webcams across 42 countries. They need more webcams, though. I’ve been watching the same shot of Tehran for five minutes – that’s four too long. check it out here (click on the “more” link on that page for background info)
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Plain Vanilla
Most of you may not notice, but I’ve been using the new default design templates for this blog, and I apologize because I have no intention of customizing it until the final version of this blog software is released. Please bear with this generic design for a few more weeks (actually, I kind of got used to it). P.S. If you see a lot of other blogs that look just like mine, it’s because they are all copying me.
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RICE FORCE!
I saw a commercial for this on SkyPerfect today and almost bust my gut laughing.
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Confederate…
Riding on trains and subways in Japan, it would seem that gray is the new blue. I believe this trend started out about ten years ago and has recently approached the tipping point, where salarymen in gray suits will outnumber those in dark blue. When I first started riding the subway to work (the route is drilled into my brain for all eternity: Yotsubashi Line from Tamade to Nishi Umeda, walk to Higashi Umeda for transfer to Tanimachi Line to Miyakojima; approximately 40 minutes counting waiting time), dark blue was still de rigueur for a salaryman. Back in those days, Nam and I lived in an apartment possibly the size…
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DJ Kentaro – Space Shower TV
I’m going out today to drive around my island and hopefully take some photos. I therefore leave you with this: Space Shower TV is a music channel available on Japan’s SkyPerfect TV satellite service. I haven’t seen this clip there myself (since the death of MTV I abhor all music stations) so I don’t know the background of it, but this a signature Kentaro set and probably his most recognizable one. Observe the power of properly applied white tape!
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Nice Gnarls/Beastie Mix
Up at youtube: LINK Downloadable mp3 here: LINK (embedded audio myspace page) UPDATE: Don’t miss GB’s Star Wars performance at the MTV Music Awards, either: LINK
