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Japanese flashlight animation group Tochka did another great job in making PiKAPiKA the movie!! And see the making of video as well!
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Sculptures of Japanese onomatopoeias
Also called giongo, these are what manga artist use to convey a sound to its readers.
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A battle between Italian papercrafter PHIL and the Japanese papercrafter Shin Tanaka has started with this one email Shin sent to all PHIL’s subscribers.
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YouTube has launched “The Screening Room”, which is a platform for short films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve.
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Sa Dingding is not your average pop star. She sings in several languages including Mandarin, Sanskrit, Tibetan, a near-extinct tongue Laghu, as well an imaginary self created language to evoke the emotions in her songs.
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Lichtfaktor is another collective that’s definitely using the PikaPika type light painting and making something cool with it.
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“Ku-So Muji” is Muji’s sister site, where you can send in your product design idea and vote for your favorites.
151 HeartsGarbage Bag Art Work in Tokyo. Garbage Bag Art Work project started in Tokyo, aiming to transform Japan’s unsightly neighborhood garbage collection points into instant works of disposable art.
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Taito has teamed up with Yahoo Japan yesterday and created an awesome page, where space invaders destroy the Yahoo homepage.
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Louis Vuitton Japan is now taking advantage of "white day" to market their brand toward brand conscious Japanese boys and girls with white roses with LV logo on them.
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The tourist promotion group of Oita City (Japan) came up with this clever advertising campaign in the airport using this conveyor sushi idea to promote their fresh and yummy sushi.
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Japanese American graffiti artist, Gajin Fujita’s paintings are elaborate fusions of contemporary urban street life and traditional Japanese iconography.
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Food vending machine in Japan. Packaged hot noodles are among the culinary delights offered at this vending machine at the Shin-Yokohama Prince Hotel.
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One hundred couples in Tokyo were invited to a private concert, where there's lavish beds, and unlimited Haagen-Dazs ice cream to watch a classical concert in maximum comfort.
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Maid Cafe is a Japanese anime inspired roll playing cafe, where waitresses are dressed as a “maid” and treat you as a “master”. Maid Cafe opens in Culver City, CA
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Happy Valentine's day from Tochka! They recently won Grand Prix at Clermont Film Festival, Europe’s biggest short film festival.
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Win a thousand dollar purse for the price of postcard postage. Imprint wants you to send an original handbag design on this template and then everyone can vote on their favorite.
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Mona Lisa waves at you? The Alive Gallery in Seoul, South Korea breathes new life into old paintings using modern technology.
130 Hearts“Chewie” incorporates his own cartoon characters into surfaces and textures of the environment for "the skelewags"
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Takashi Murakami's manga style life-size sculpture titled “My Lonesome Cowboy” was on auction and sold for $15.1 million through Sotheby's... and there's a few left...
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You might have seen finger piano on the web already, but if you use it right, it can make an awesome sound like this.
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“1-click award” is a competition awarding interactive works using mouse actions, organized by Japanese recruiting company Recruit.
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As a part of ANA Crowne Plaza hotel’s “Good Night Sleep” campaign, the hotel hung a bed suspended on the side of a tall building in the Ginza district of Tokyo.
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Japanese cellphone robot. If the user calls a particular person many times, a text phrase such as “You’re calling her often these days, aren’t you?” comes out of the face’s mouth.
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The works of Takashi Murakami will be back in LA from May 3rd to June 14th presented in a rare solo show at Blum & Poe.
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