Pegasus Encounter

Originally uploaded by antjeverena

Osaka river

BOMB THE BASS has a new album?
In any case, a sweet clay animation for Butterfingers by Fujiya and Miyagi--

My Next Bass Box: Bunny Tweeter

might go fabulously well with my IKEA bunny cushion.

By Supah Milk

I LOVE spam –

especially when it comes from Hermes

Dear God

I always liked The Cool Hunter - even more since they came up with this awsome Dear God site, all inclusive:

Vector Graphics Crave
Knoning.net points out this sweet 2-vector graphics arcade game called Ripp-Off that makes utmost abstract use of geometric shapes to shovel things around:


















(thx to Vicente, via Moyra Gunn's Techcast)

Irony Will Set You Free
Aussie Tee Company Goat Boy say it























(via The Cool Hunter US)

Bad Web Design

Thinks we don't miss from the 90s in terms of online appearance -

all sorts of animated gifs here

(thx to telepolis)

Trash The Barbie
How to dissect your dream posture the right way:

TRON TRON TRON
sweet cardboard animation - Monsieur Gondry would've liked it

Tron à la française
Uploaded by freres-hueon

Do The Electric Panda
campaigns in China shown at
ChinaVisual

The Apple Is Tastier
Visionaire mag has a special issue out illustration lusciously the Old and New Testament as The Bible. Karl Lagerfeld, Andreas Gursky, Frank Gehry, Nan Goldin are contributing.

















Did it for the pic: The Serpent
by Catherine Chalmers

Picture of the Day

Shuhei Yamada: "untitled"

(seen at Canon)

Hands up for cheesy 70's retro charme!
new clip from Justice - DVNO












The logos are nicely made and always remind me of my first Tee with airbrushed glitter on...

Gui Boratto!

MINIMAL VIDEO HEADS
Uploaded by Basaltar

Dubfire - I Feel Speed (Audion Remix)


Miss Kittin's Valentine

The Origin Of Kanji
or the happy world of pictograms:
excerpt from James W. Heisig's Remembering The Kanji

いぬのうしろすがた





















From MotomachiCake Blog

YMCK: Starlight
sugary sweet and subtle 8bit tunes - at least these never get on my nerves

Starlight

プロフィールに追加する | もっと見る

Thx Vicente!!!

Customer Convenience:
mobile phone charger at my favourite cafe in Shinsen

Poetic Satellite Imagery
Done by QuickBird satellite with the highest resolution available: it covers two square feet per pixel. Image by DigitalGlobe -
"This is a 2.4-meter near infrared multispectral image which accentuates vegetated areas in red, with the burn region clearly distinguished in green."






















DigitalGlobe

Heat-detecting camera video works: Jaron Albertin for Emily Haine's "Hell:"
Nice description over at paperthinwalls

PARKing Day in San Fran
with a sleek rolling Cadillac greenery by Rebar:













More at Cool Hunter...

ARCADE DAZE
Oh my - the cutest Arcade game icons for your OSX desktop.
Arcade Daze by Gedeon Maheux

















At iconfactory.

Happy happy New Year! With Hello Kitty...

Ahem. I wonder where this pic was made; 

via unf unf.

Kinda Macabre
IRAK 2007 and IRAK 2008 Adidas RMX Equipment Sport Runners
at Alfie Rivington

Awesome visual 70s disco funk melange by Snoop
You have to admit, Snoop is going to succeed where Prince, Stevie
and Michael failed (>> getting old). Don't stop til you get enough,
as le disque primeur so truly says.



(thx, le disque primeur)

Trigger Happier -

Nice: Steven Poole's game compendium from 2000 is now released under cc! For download as PDF:
Trigger Happy
(But where did the lovely first cover design go?)




(thx Vicente!)

Red Bean Beard Fashion - all over Tokyo, by Takao Sakai:

Japanese party peoplz have nice venue and DJ names:
(at the favourite Mixrooffice)

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Time-delayed screen mirror by Kenichi Okada
at DesignTide exhibition
Was fun!

Awesome Anime by Team Lab

seen at Tokyo Designer's Week

Sweet Japanese Onomatopoeia

ぬくぬく　nuku nuku　- a cosy winter feeling of being curled

すりすり　suri suri - the sound/feeling of a cat skimming over your cloth

くんく　kunku - the expression of a dog sniffing on you/something

にこにこ　niko niko - doing a smiling face

しくしく　shiku shiku - a sobbing feeling

いちゃいちゃしてる　icha icha shiteru - getting physically close with someone (but as a nasty expression, like fumbling around)

What is this, pls? A site devoted to - Sleep Naked

Awesomely creepy, but mostly awesome!

Motionportrait make interesting 2D to 3D faces that follow your mouse through Flash.



(thx Vicente!)

The Death Star encounters viral marketing - in Swabian
Virales Marketing! Virales Marketing! Virales Marketing!



thx to Anne!

psychotherapeutic session with our colleague, the wind
nice spot for Epuron, posted at ecology and art

are men that easy to get?
De Beer thinks so - diamonds will path the way to Superbowl
(thanks to Agenda Inc.)

New Mecha out here next week: Vexille
CG look good... in the trailer

got a shoe fetish - trying to stuff bodies into them. from Bela Borsodi. awesomely weird.
from a shooting for our beloved V Magazine

Instant Translation: The AHKY wrist worn translation device















(from Gizmag)
This is weird. Like in a Sfi-Fi
Speaking via an interpreter is difficult enough at the best of times, so you can imagine the difficulties soldiers in foreign lands have communicating with the population when there is a significant language barrier, no interpreter and lots of big guns in the near vicinity. The AHKY (Arabic for ‘speak’ ) is a new wrist worn translation device developed by Iraqi-born University of Derby student, Amin Ismail, will soon tackle the problem when it is deployed by British troops serving in Iraq. The AHKY currently has ten phrases which have been programmed in English, Arabic and Kurdish. Phrases such as ‘nothing will happen to you’; ‘turn around slowly’; and ‘come here’. Other languages and phrases specific for a user’s specific mission are uploaded prior to each use. Read full story...

Building Art -

finally to make something out of these multiple Berlin courtyards. When photographed against the sky from below, buildings form an alphabet.
(thx infosthetics!)

Wild Dance Practices - this made my day:
The Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines makes its inmates practice dance choreographies - namely MJ's Thriller and a theme from Sister Act. A couple of crossdressers in nun attire involved.



(via Gawker)

Dance with me in this cozy Tokyo breeze, little trees:

How to not get hurt-
yourself in the closing train doors...

Here are some nice ones from both JR and Metro lines:

All about perfectionist Japanese housewives

Ok, feed me weird things! So I went to the Quilt Convention held at Tokyo Dome in Chiyoda. Amongst several thousands of eager women, sometimes accompanied by their husbands, I promenaded around - amazed by the utter perfectionism Japanese housewives show in every detail.
See for yourself:

Manhole Cover in Tokyo
Look at these lovely Sakura - cherry blossoms flowering the Tokyo grounds. These ones are from Shinagawa district.

Public Life / Public Ashtrays in Tokyo















What do we have here?
Well, as there is no such thing as a public ashtray Japanese people catake the matter in their own hands as they care for the smoking community: Put up some little cans, next to the non smoking sign, of course. Someone must empty them regularly - but I haven't seen that someone so far.

How-to learn English:
Adult speak for Japanese to enhance the cross-cultural delights

excerpt from an 80ies Japanese book titled
"Let's make the bed right away"

brought to you by the lovely Tokyo Damage Report guy

Wow: Speakers to public security cameras

"...People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when they see everyone else looking at them, they feel a twinge of conscience and comply,' said Mike Clark, a spokesman for Middlesbrough Council who recounted the incident. The city has placed speakers in its cameras, allowing operators to chastise miscreants who drop coffee cups, ride bicycles too fast or fight outside bars..."

Bloomberg reports,
via Slashdot

the mounten-baiku situation
so this is how it goes here: no parking anywhere allowed



- else the police takes your bike and you pay 3000 yen to get it back.
and now this: got a ticket two times! For the baiku!

Learning Japanese the easy way - just ad an U and you'll be fine:

English - Japanese

Microphone - maiku
Desert - dezato
Receipt - risitto
Message - meseji
Bike- baiku
Nightingale - naichingeru
Gum - gamu
Cassette - mc kasettu-tepu
Celebrity - serebu
Festival - fesutibaru
television - terebi
Carnival - kanibaru

well, I forgot the romantic part:

kiss - kisu
couple - kappuru
love-letter - rabu-reta