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
The 3Yen’s 30-day “REAL WORLD” ROAD TOUR is presently snowbound in Bear Creek, Colorado USA where it has not stopped snowing for two days. It’s almost Japanese snow, that is wet, heavy snow…about 80 cm has fallen so far…which thanks to our Globally Warmer World never falls anymore in Tokyo (20 years ago Tokyo would have at least a couple of snow storms each winter, which would melt in a day or two).
I think my getting “cabin fever” and they are going to strangle each other… but my dogs love it.
I think I will throw my black Halloweenesque cat out of the backdoor and into a 1.5 m snow drift to see how much he “appreciates” the snow, muhahaha.
I wasn’t really hip to this Japanese band, “Sour,” but this music video of their song “Hibi no Neiro” that they created from webcam clips submitted by their fanbase* is fun in its own funky aesthetic.
Here’s an outfit by Japanese designer Dai Fujiwara for Issey Miyake fashion house that sadly I am sure to see many times on the streets of Tokyo in the coming months, meh.
*‘Oishi’ aka “delicious” is a delightfully trite expression Japanese use every five minutes in order to drive gaijin/foriegners crazy when they are offered Surging Eel soda(3Yen).