Posts from — August 2007

Brazil-based Korean Sang Won Sung creates these amazingly strange but cool art toys. They have a very distinctive, rounded-rectangular style and although are not completely weird, are a little different enough to give them an edge. Watch out for the doll’s arms insect legs!

I love them for their recognisability, but with the stylisation that sets them apart. A bit like Kubricks, but only better-looking (in my opinion). However, I’m sure they’re a lot more expensive, if they can be bought at all.

More below…

Technorati Tags: art, Korea, Korean, Sang Won Sung, toys

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Amidst the boom of China, the art world has embrace a generation of Chinese artists. That much we do know. The New York Times reports that having acquired new found wealth, a handful of artists have begun to open their own “cult-of-personality” restaurants, having gone through the materialistic motions of cars and clothes.

Read more on the New York Times…

Via Taste Spotting

Technorati Tags: art, China, Chinese artists, cuisine

Ok, take this with a pinch of salt and think carefully about how seriously you want to take this post. Either way, you need a date with an appreciation of crafts and the luck to make it back to their house (or yours).

Continuing the toilet origami theme, check this video out for how you can make a rose out of a sheet of toilet paper. Now you’ve definitely got a good reason for when you need to go to the bathroom.

Technorati Tags: Origami Rose, Toilet Paper Origami

Groan - only in Japan would you find cookies that imply your breasts will grow if you eat them. Well, that makes sense - if you get fat all over, your breasts will probably increase too.

Via Neatorama

Technorati Tags: cookies, Japan, snacks

Singapore’s unofficial national dish — the Chilli Crab — is feted this weekend with its very own (FREE) festival. See how many crabs you can scoff — without scorching your tongue or stretching your tum — and sample other Singaporean goodies such as chicken satay, rice-noodle dishes, Hainanese chicken rice and desserts such as the sweet, ice-based kachang and the tapioca-like bur bur cha cha.

There are also traditional dragon and lion dancing, music workshops, martial-art demonstrations, an art exhibition and magic shows.

For more info, check out the Chilli Crab Festival website…

Sat 1 & Sun 2 Sep (12-6pm) at Brick Lane, London.
Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street

Via Flavorpill

Technorati Tags: cuisine, Brick Lane, Singapore, Tiger Beer Singapore Chilli Crab Festival

Here are some amazing photos of Tokyo’s Sewer System. For a country that’s known for cute products, these are far from it and are reminiscent of anime productions, Blade Runner-esque backdrops and Alien environments.

Amazing.

More photos below…

Technorati Tags: photography, Tokyo, Tokyo’s Sewer System

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Whiskas the cat food with their new campaign using origami animals. The combination of packaging print, animal designs and photography is nice!

Technorati Tags: cat food, origami, Whiskas

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I love Studio Ghibli’s anime and although I haven’t seen all their productions, my favourite has to be Spirited Away.

By courtesy of Neatorama, here’s a life-size model of a robot from Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa - Castle In The Sky, which is located at the Ghibli Museum in Japan.

Via Neatorama

Technorati Tags: animation, anime, Castle in the Sky, entertainment, Ghibli Museum, Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, Studio Ghibli