My favorite blogger-megababe, Geisha Asobi (aka geisha fun), has a great photo of herself decked as a samuri warrior of the Japanese kitchen. (Since Japanese junk kitchens are the worst in the developed world it is no wonder she has to be a warrior just to survive.) Embiggen.
Starting from the top and moving clockwise, the Japanese kitchen gagets she is wearing are:
Dual pizza cutters mounted on a samuri helmet made of a wok and spatulas
Shoulder guard made of a long-handled tempura sieve
Arm armor made from the bambo rolling mats for making maki type sushi
A wrist guard made of a green-handled spatula
Waist armor made of baking sheet for shell-shaped madeleine cookies
A dagger that is really a bambo wisk for making green tea
And, flat-breast plate made from a steel steamer over another bambo rolling mat
Somehow I don’t this Heidi would wear one of these Tyrolean dirndl, and I ain’t ever seen a kimono with any “cleavage.”
Oct. 23, 2009 – WWD.com….entitled “Dirndl Meets Kimono”, included Austrian designer Susanne Bisovsky's modern and sexy reworking of typical Tyrolean costumes replete with lace, tulle and rhinestones….Four Japanese designers used traditional Austrian dirndl fabrics to create modern, inventive looks, while the Austrians used kimono fabrics to do the same…more…
ViaDayLife.com –October 23, 2009
The above creation is by the Japanese designers Cabaret Aki and Jackal Kuzu at the “Gut's Dynamite Cabarets” fashion show held on Thursday.
Somebody with an overactive imagination in Cuckoo Clock Land is attempting to sell this so-called Belt Belt watch that the company says is:
“The first watch in the world that money can’t buy!*”
The shady deal is….
In order to buy this watch for 3,000 Swiss Franks (2,966.94 USD), you must first submit “proof” of your black belt certificate listing its issuing date, Dojo, Sensei, and Federation. However, as you can see on the right, anybody make up a fake black belt certificate and email it to the Belt Belt watch company.
There is no way for the watch company to check to see whether the certificate is real because there are a bazillion small martial arts studios and dojo—Martial arts “Federations” do not keep records of students who are not competing).
Therefore, I, Taro the Terrible, 9th-dan, proclaim all readers of the 3Yen.com are Black Belts!
Go ahead and fill in your certificate. Idea and link thanks to stylecrave.com
Hello Kitty appears to be alive in this vivisection play toy, doesn’t it?
These images and more details come from Dr. Romanelli x Hello Kitty “Anatomy” Release at Highsnobiety.com.
‘I was a teenage vivisectionist‘ is the self-introductory phrase I always use. That is, at age 19, I was a work-study researcher who used to start every day by ripping out the “pipping body” from the brains of 100 live turkey poults. Therefore, this Hello Kitty’s vivisection playtime seems quite normal to me.
It’s hard to tell the purpose of the “Ancients” in creating this gold artifact, but it’s amusing to think of all the trouble the Japanese company had deciding what to call this gold geegaw .
Poor little HRP-4C-chan—she just can’t keep a job. First she was a receptionist, then ‘fashion model robot, and now she’s pretending to be the Vocaloid J-pop singer, Hatsune Miku, at the Ceatec electronics trade show in Chiba, Japan. For more details…
Robo-pop 2009 Oct 6 — The Sun |News THIS Robot's Got Talent.
The amazing humanoid can sing songs by using brilliant new electronic voice technology ...more…