Ultra arts!

Autumn and Winter Paris collections have started in Paris. This is COMME DES GARCONS... strange clothes... I would believe it if someone told me that this was one of the collections. Actually their thin bodies and straight eyes are cool. I'd prefer fruit Katyusha to a onepiece attached to a small dress.

Ohhhhhh 超かっこいい cool: "Ultrart". The monster collections of Ultraman. This is "DADA", maybe it's named after Dadaism. This is "Jamira." He was a space pilot, but he ended up with such a gruesome appearance because of a space accident. It was a very sad story. This is Kemure, he appeared on Ultra Q. Now I know how he took those Frickr photos. They were not scenes from TV. Composite photograph?? Anyway I am surprised that I can tell the name of each alien and monster from the Ultra series. How addicted I am...:-p (even now?!)

Brian sent this BEANS art topic to me before. Here is more of his BEANS works. Beans Batman, Beans Kamen Rider (head is dango). Beans cell phone. Ha ha ha weird but cute.

We call the Tokyo and Kanagawa area "KANTO" (関東). KAN means border and TO means east. In the old days, there was a border in the Hakone area, so KANTO means east of Hakone. The Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara area is called "KANSAI" (関西), that KAN border refers to the one between Shiga prefecture and Kyoto prefecture so that KANSAI means west of Shiga pref. Those two similar words don't refer to the same border, it's a small bit of trivia.

In Kansai, there is Kansai university. The professor of the univ made a machine that measures laughter by checking diaphragm movements. The unit of laughter is the "aH".  Aha ha ha ha, it's funny.

By the way, the Kansai area is also called "KINKI". I read funny news: "KINKI university" will change their English name because foreign people often laugh at their name: "sounds like Kinky!" Actually when students introduce themselves to foreigners and say "I am a Kinki college student," foreigners would say to them "good joke!". Their college T-shirts were popular with foreigners. Hmm…Do you want a "Kinky Univ" shirt??

This is very hard to explain with my poor English abilities: "Apollo Poseidon Concept 2025". It means that they will try to make bio fuel from seaweed from the Japan Sea. (it's not a simple process, but basically that's the idea) I think it is really great! Japan is not blessed with natural resources, but in 30 years we can be rich like the United Arab Emirates and Tokyo will be like Dubai!! (kidding).*

Comments

[Ducky]

That's way the bestest asnwre so far!

[Sakura]

Actually Tsuyoshi is from Nara and Koichi is from Hyogo ^__-

[Chris]

I want to buy a Kinki University shirt!
By the way, are there any English places which sound funny to Japanese people?

[mari]

Ha ha ha Kinki fish is not mean kansai fish. it has just name "Kinki", "kinki kids" mean Kansai boys because they came from Osaka.

[Wolf]

Would that be 特大きんき煮付け? Sorry I do not read Japanese. In the market here in Los Angeles, it is called Kinki fish. Here is an image: http://nakatsu-uoichi.co.jp/fish/health/backnumber/200602.html

[Sakura]

one of my favourite Japanese groups is Kinki Kids, and I really feel uneasy when I happen to talk about them with people who don't know Japan. ^^;;

[Chris Kuan]

When I visited Osaka, I stayed in the "Hotel KINKI". Cheap, and close to Umeda station, but the mall is full of men in black suits at night...