Yuck. The...uh, number two...colored gummi dung beetle leaning against the Japanese cream puff pictured below is just NOT appetizing. Interested in getting grossed out gummi-style? GummiX offers a do-it-yourself kit for making beetles, pillbugs and crayfish.
Some wacky bowling moves performed by a bizarre non-pro Japanese team. Any strike involving a handstand is pretty impressive by my standards. Previously, Cheat Your Way to 300 (via Remote Control).
A quick, efficient way to fold a shirt Fold a shirt the Japanese way.
That's right, cars aren't the only mode of transportation worth customizing. Dekochari, the Japanese art of pimping your bicycle:
This is no ordinary tractor. Nor is it an ordinary Fiat. Not by a long shot. Japanese ironsmith Kogoro Kurata custom built this bulldozer from an old Fiat 500 body and caterpillar tracks, which can only reach a speed of 3 km/h. It may move at the pace of a snail, but I wouldn't mind using this beast to shovel my driveway (in style) this come winter.
Perfect Pandas was kind enough to post link to an English translation of a Japanese Panda Bread How-To (made with green tea and chocolate dough).
Talk about yankee ingenuity... zany Japanese inventor, Dr. Nakamats, has lead a life propelled by curiosity and inventiveness. Nakamats boasts that he has Thomas Edison beat by a mile (compare Edison's measly 1,093 patents to Nakamats' 3,357).
Insane, extreme Japanese custom vans. Click through to Pink Tentacle for links to more image galleries.
We've all done it. You're sick. You don't want to go to the doctor so you just Google it. Soon, you've perused dozens of websites with conflicting information, you're no better informed than when you started, and your confusion makes you feel worse about your predicament. Would you have been better off not Googling in the first place?
Kirsten Dunst is turning Japanese in short skirts and thigh highs. The art world crashes Hollywood in this video piece starring Dunst, directed by McG and produced by world renown Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.
Laser gun + killing mosquitoes = lots of little boy fun, but what's it all about? Quite possibly the most entertaining, thrilling, and well, downright life-saving presentation at this year's TED conference was Intellectual Ventures' mosquito death ray.
What is maki? Maki is a classic Japanese dish consisting of sushi and raw vegetables, wrapped in seaweed. Sounds good, right? Well, this spicy, baked scallop and avocado maki sushi is sure to be the best maki you've ever tasted. Try it out.
Learn how to exercise by doing the medicine ball throw on incline bench. EXERCISE DETAILS:
Learn how to exercise by doing the 1 arm rear shoulder dumbbell plank row on medicine ball. EXERCISE DETAILS:
Learn how to exercise by doing the squat and medicine ball side throw. EXERCISE DETAILS:
Learn how to exercise by doing the self medicine ball throw on the bosu. EXERCISE DETAILS:
Learn how to exercise by doing the sit up on the bosu and a medicine ball throw. EXERCISE DETAILS:
Learn how to exercise by doing the trunk rotation on the stability ball with a medicine ball. EXERCISE DETAILS:
Learn how to exercise by doing the trunk rotation with a medicine ball and your feet up. EXERCISE DETAILS:
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper witch broom for Halloween. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper witch broom. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if it is going too slow. Very cool Japanese origami how-to video! Origami a paper witch broom for Halloween.
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper envelope. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper envelope. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if it is going too slow. Very cool Japanese origami how-to video! Origami a pretty paper envelope.
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper Mexican hat. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own Mexican hat. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if it is going too slow. Very cool Japanese origami how-to video! Origami a paper Mexican hat.
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a pair of paper slippers. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper slippers. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if it is going too slow. Very cool Japanese origami how-to video! Origami a pair of paper slippers.
Maki is a great Japanese sushi dish consisting of sushi and raw vegetables, wrapped in seaweed. Well, if you want to make your own maki at home, learn from a professional, like in this video. He'll teach you how to make the perfect spicy salmon maki sushi roll.
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The circular motion of this "figure-of-eight crunch" will really work your abdominal muscles. See the details in the video from Men's Health, which shows you how to do a really powerful crunches exercise.
Japan has a tendency to produce things that boggle the Western mind. Its citizens are already responsible for without a question the weirdest music video in the history of the medium. With that said, here is a video reenactment of several Pokemon (Pocket Monster in Japan) games released by Japanese performance art troupe Kusarine Project: Kusarine Project and their amazing YouTube channel first became known through the Japanese video sharing site/meme originator NicoNicoDouba. Their white mas...
In the far away land of Japan, gold is out, glow-in-the-dark is in. LED "grills" were recently conceived of by two Japanese designers/hackers for a winter advertising event at clothing store Laforet Harajuku. The LED teeth attachments quickly became a hot item. Foreseeably, one of the two designers demonstrating the teeth in the video above is the familiar Daito Manabe (our favorite "self-electrocuting" mad hacker). Manabe's partner, Motoi Ishibashi, came up with the idea when "he saw a video...
Learn how to exercise by doing the crunch on bosu with your arms overhead and a medicine ball. EXERCISE DETAILS:
The perfect dessert for a Japanese dinner! For this recipe, you will need: 1 1/2 cups heavy cream, 1/2 cup corn syrup, 4 cups sugar, 15 cups shredded coconut, 2 pounds chocolate and 1 more quart heavy cream for the ganache. Make a coconut chocolate dessert sushi roll.
Apple slices are so meh... that is, until you add bunny ears to them. A long-standing staple of bento lunches in Japanese and Japanese-American households, bunny-shaped apple slices are quite easy to make and sure to bring a smile to your face—or you child's face.
UPDATE: Looks like the previously featured mysterious translucent skeletal specimens aren't the work of unknown scientists, but rather a project by Japanese scientist-turned-artist Iori Tomita. Tomita majored in fisheries as an undergraduate student, and has since used his knowledge to create a beautiful collection of mutated sea creatures, called “New World Transparent Specimens". Tomita creates his specimens by dissolving their flesh, and then injecting dye into the skeletal system.
Goodbye, point-and-click; hello, point-and-splash! This water-based touch screen by Japanese designer Taichi Inoue is more than just clever and ergonomic, it's downright summery.
Japanese artist and programmer Daito Manabe uses the face as an instrument. He makes the human face involuntarily dance using electric stimulators (which, by the way, look like the same kind used for electroshock therapy). The stimulators are taped to the face, and each musical beat delivers a shock, resulting in disturbing face contortions in time to the music.
Sweet little bug cakes by Japan's Komatsuya Honten bakery make an interesting belated Valentine's Day treat. Interesting tidbit of Valentine's Day trivia: in Japan, women give chocolate to men for Valentine's Day, not the other way around.
This technique was popularized on Japanese television and has since been widely imitated and posted everywhere. The original concept was shown on a primetime Japanese variety show. Many others produced (plagiarized) their own tutorials for the web. Even Martha made one.
