I really don’t even think they bother trying to make sense in Japan. As long as the product’s being shown with some sort of Japanese celebrity, I guess that’s all that matters to them. SUCCESS.
Pentax K-x Kore Ja Nai camera
October 23, 2009 @ 1:08 am
I already knew the Pentax K-x digital SLR was going to come in rainbow colors, but I had no idea that Pentax had in mind to release the K-x in the colors of Japan’s robot toy, Kore Ja Nai (I’m not even going to pretend I knew what Kore Ja Nai was before writing this post…apparently it’s a big thing in Japan).
Anyway, Pentax is making only 100 of these colorful versions and all of them will go on sale starting November. Peep the gallery below.
Writing In The Air by Shinichi Maruyama
October 13, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Reader Sergio sent in this link today to Shinichi Maruyama, a Japanese artist who writes and paints in the sky by photographing black ink with water. Maruyama’s series, some of which are shown here, is called “Kusho” and it literally could mean any number of things alluding to emptiness, the sky, space and calligraphy or handwriting.
To photograph the images in “Kusho”, Shinichi Maruyama uses advanced photographic strobe technology to capture movement at 7500th to 20,000th of a second. Check out the images below and see more from this amazing photo series at Shinichi Maruyama’s website.
Slow-motion video of Japanese people running wildly at the camera
October 12, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
This video made me so happy! And it solidifies my thoughts about getting a camera that can shoot at high frame rates. [via]
Chimp enjoys a magic show
August 27, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
Seriously, Japanese people know entertainment!!! Watch as this chimp thoroughly enjoys this magic trick show. [via]
Does Japan just have really crazy TV programming? Or is this part of a larger show? If I go to Japan what station do I turn into to watch chimps enjoying magic shows? :P
Vending machine turns into a graphic equalizer
August 16, 2009 @ 8:21 pm
I don’t speak or read Japanese, so if anybody wants to help translate the details of this video, please feel free to enlighten me in the comments.
Anyway, from what I gather, this is a music video by Alva Noto called “Unitxt u_08-1″ with the voice of Anne-James Chaton. The video was directed by Carsten Nicolai.
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