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Mad Japanese Man Becomes Human Skipping Stone
Here's something to try out the next time you want to have some fun in the sun - water skidding. Yes, we do mean skidding, not skiing. It's like walking on water, except that you're moving much faster and traveling on your behind. If you can't imagine what this might look like, check out this Youtube video of a man wearing nothing but his Speedos zip down a water slide and skid across a pool for several metres!
Continue reading...Mad Japanese Kid Lives in Ancient Hut that he Created
Friday, February 13, 2009
On warm, summer nights, kids might ask their parents to let them set up a tent so they can sleep under the stars. If they get too cold, or feel that the ground is too hard, they'll just find their way back to their comfy beds. But this is not the case with the industrious 14-year-old Shogo Kasai; he built his very own Jomon period Japanese pit house - similar to the one above - out of bamboo and rice straw, and intends to live in it for a few weeks at a time!
Continue reading...Tokyo After The Armageddon
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Picture this bustling street market, empty of human life, absent of familiar sounds, smells, lights. Crumbling, overgrown, silent. If you can wrap your head around that image, then you've got an idea of what Japanese artist Hisaharu Motoda conveys in his series of Neo-Ruins lithographs: exceptionally detailed, vivid representations of a futuristic, post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where humans are nowhere to be found and nature fights back in a bid to take over our concrete jungles.
Continue reading...Wave Powered Boat Sails for 4,350 Miles Across Pacific !
Thursday, July 10, 2008
n February this year a 69-year-old sailor named Ken-ichi Horie began his journey on a wave powered boat. From his homeland in Japan, he set off on a 4,350 mile journey to reach Hawaii in a more eco-friendly way. And he did it! It took him around 111 days to accomplish what he started. His advanced wave powered boat traveled at a speed of about 1.5 knots.
Continue reading...Some Wasps With Your Wasabi? [pic]
Monday, June 30, 2008
Image by yeinjee There is certainly nothing novel about eating insects. The ancient Romans dined on larvae reared on flour and wine and Aristotle enjoyed feasting on young Cicadas. Even today bugs are eaten the world over from Nigeria to New Zealand and are an excellent source [...]
Continue reading...Nature’s Enclave in a Japanese Metropolis
Thursday, June 26, 2008
image by Flickr user A Posh Sentinel The insane architecture you see above is the aftermath of a baseball stadium being abandoned in Osaka Japan; a new opportunity revealed itself and brought a bit of green regeneration to the urban jungle.
Continue reading...Has the Great Arms Race Moved into Space?
Monday, June 2, 2008
image via Wikipedia At the start of 2007, China took the first step in the international space arms race. On January 11, the Chinese launched a missile and successfully destroyed one of their satellites.
Continue reading...Pair of Yubari Melons Sold for a Record 2.5 Million Yen
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Yubari is Japan’s “Melon Kingdom”; a city with 12,500 citizens reliant on the melon industry after the mines closed down. The Yubari King is an orange-fleshed melon that is similar in appearance and size to the common cantaloupe, but very fragrant, deliciously sweet and extremely expensive. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Get A $200 Bird Poo Facial
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
“Honey, think of how lucky we’re about to be! This normally costs $200!” Image from joeycrabb It seems that there’s no limit to what people will submit themselves to if you try to pass it off as “luxury”– a New York spa is offering the $216 [...]
Continue reading...Japanese Build Paper Plane For Outer Space
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Japan’s space agency earmarked the equivalent of $900,000 U.S. Dollars this week to fund an experiment that would focus on flying paper airplanes in space for the next three years. I am not making this up. Image from dsgnctrl on Flickr The project, which is attempting to learn [...]
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
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