Japenese lovin'

I've been looking at lots of Japanese things lately and I ran across this guy named Atsushi Fukunaga that does some interesting art where he tries to show sound with 3D objects and color. I think I like it.




"the sound of colored pencils breaking"




A boat race coarse in Tokyo has been having problems with the littering of losing tickets. So, to solve this problem, someone came up with the idea to make a 1.6 meter tall Rocky Mountain goat, which has a thick coat of white fur and ticket-detecting sensors in its mouth, to devour the tickets. It eats an average of 500 tickets a day. The goatkeeper says, “It eats up your frustrations so that you will have better luck with the next race.” Sometimes I wish we had crazy minds like the Japanese.



You should check out the cars at this year's Tokyo Motor Show. Especially the Suzuki Pixy, Nissan Pivo2, Toyota iReal, Honda Puyo, and definitely the Toyota RiN.

Kenichi Yokono carves plywood and it's pretty amazing.