Lingerie maker Triumph International Japan is at it again. The company, which introduces bra designs aiming to broaden eco-awareness and promote clean energy recently revealed the Solar Power Bra.

According to Pink Tentacle:
The green, high-quality cotton bra features a waist-mounted solar panel that powers a small, chest-mounted electronic billboard or any other electronic device you choose […]

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If there’s still any doubt about Wang Chien-ming’s ability as a pitcher, you can put to rest any ideas of him doing anything batting 1.000 once the pinstripes fall to the floor.
Four limited edition bobbleheads, each part of the “life style” series on the Authentically Wang page found on MLB.com, apparently commemorating Wang not as a baseball player, […]

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This comes from James by way of Mongdori, who I’m hoping made this video herself so I can stop this link genealogy. Have to make sure to cover all the bases.

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This story has really stuck in my head over the last few days. My initial reaction was that the Koreans were being pigs. But then I thought about it, and thought about it, and now I’ve changed my opinion.
The council members here are Koreans from Gyeonggi. The site is the Nike company headquarters in Portland, Oregon.
Regional […]

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I’ll give them credit for going with something different.

From the English Chosun:
The fabled Haechi, a lion-like horned creature, has been chosen as the symbol representing Seoul, while the “Hi Seoul” slogan promoting the city from many years will be replaced by either “Soul Seoul” or “Soul of Seoul.” An official who participated in choosing new […]

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From Hello Kitty Hell:
This is what Guatemalan anti-narcotics police found when they seized 1.2 tons of the cocaine on its way to Mexico on April 13th. Now, this really should not come as a surprise to anyone. Cocaine and Hello Kitty display an awful lot of the same properties when it comes to addiction so […]

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More great stuff from PT:
Kage-e (”shadow pictures”) — a popular form of Edo-period woodblock print — were appreciated by children and adults and commonly used as party gags. These pictures consist of two parts: a “shadow” image and a “real” image. The shadow image, which typically bears the shape of a common, easily identifiable object, […]

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I know I’m verging on redundancy with these sorts of things. But I just don’t get tired of it. These are computer animations by the Japanese artist Rin Nadeshico.

You can find a lot more of these at his personal site.
(Via Pink Tentacle)

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Great photo essay taken at a toy manufacturer in Guangdong province, China. The region manufacturers about 70% of the world’s toys. I like this because these are good photos at what would appear to be a decent employer with satisfactory working conditions. Emphasis on what would appear.

Obviously the photographer was allowed to take pictures, which […]

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In 16th century Japan human illness was commonly believed to be the work of tiny creatures inside the body. Like this guy:

From Pink Tentacle:
Harikikigaki, a book of medical knowledge written in 1568 by a now-unknown resident of Osaka, introduces 63 of these creepy-crawlies and describes how to fight them with acupuncture and herbal remedies. The […]

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Nice find by James, the puppetmaster of The Grand Narrative. These are videos by a Korean video artist June-bum Park, who as far as I can tell, takes videos showing the mechanics of every day life, then inserts his own hand into the action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS3W9YOuh5A

I couldn’t get the videos to embed very well, so I settled […]

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Here’s an artists rendering of what the proposed new stadium in Tampa will look like.
This looks like something the post-Doobie Brothers Michael McDonald might have drawn while he was out sailing the Keys after doing five or six lines of Columbia’s finest.

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This guy is wanted in Thailand for stealing 200,000 baht from the Ladprao branch of the Government Savings Bank (GSB) in Bangkok. This is the actual police sketch.

He looks a little familiar but I can’t be sure from where. It’s either Ultraman or the guy I just saw ride by my apartment on a motorcycle.
(via Pink […]

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Sidney Pink is an American living and working in Japan. He does watercolors, which almost exclusively feature salarymen and girls wearing school uniforms.

If you live in either Tokyo or Louisiana you can check out some of Pink’s work (follow city links for further info). You can purchase some of Pink’s work at Little Paper Planes.
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These are from a book of engravings called “The Punishments of China,” published in English and French in 1804. This looks like a children’s book, but if you’re a kid, you shouldn’t go around doing this unless you’re a trained professional.
This is “Burning a man’s eyes with lime.”

I’m really going to have to remember that […]

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Fun piece written for the Arroyo Monthly by an old journalism pal of mine Paul Sterman, about a guy named Terry Cannon, who hosts/curates The Baseball Reliquary, a Pasadena-based collection of mostly curiosities and interesting cultural artifacts dealing with baseball.
Ever heard about Eddie Gaedel, the 3′7 guy who was once brought into St. Louis Browns game […]

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I’ve just recently been learning about HDR (High Dynamic Range) images and what goes into creating them. Then, naturally, I stumbled on a few breakthtaking examples on Pink Tentacle, a site I’m linking to way too much these days.
This is of a Shibuya Backstreet in Tokyo:

There are tons of these in the Japan HDR section […]

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This is the work of Yuji Moriguchi, a Tokyo-based artist who, according to the site I found this on, called PingMag, “blends a frank but still innocent looking eroticism with delicate traditional Japanese painting, spicing it up with contemporary manga.” This doesn’t look like manga to me, but I have trouble spotting it — as […]

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The Library of Congress today launched a pilot project, uploading around 3,000 copyright-free images from two collections into a Flickr account. The reason behind the project is to get people to view and tag them on Web sites and blogs. Why? An LOC spokesman explains:

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Another painting by Hiro Kurata 

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