Category: Various

My friend Albert sent me this picture of another one of those “crazy” Japanese inventions. The concept is quite similar to the legs pillow, but this one is aimed at the women’s market.

I was browsing through the flickr account of Tetsuya Blues and I came across this video. It seems that for some weeks now people in Osaka have been able to see a giant rubber duck roaming around the city. The duck is not a Japanese creation but an idea by a Dutch artist called Florentijn Hofman and the duck has already visited some other countries and cities before..

Video by TetsuyaBlues

The Dutch duck in Osaka waters.

I have been procastinating this post for a long time; in fact, the pictures were taken with my old Fuji S9000. I had almost forgotten about them, and then I saw this extraordinary audivisual work by my friend Chris Willson and I started to search through my old photo archives from Okinawa.

Churaumi Aquarium (“churaumi” means “beautilful sea” in Okinawan language) is the second largest aquarium in the world, the most impressive part is the main water tank (which in fact is the number 1 in the world). In this huge tank swim with some “liberty” two enormous whale sharks along with dozens of giant manta rays and many other different fish. It seems all of them get along pretty well :). One of the other things that I enjoyed in the aquarium was having the possibility to touch the starfish they had in another tank.

If you visit Okinawa don’t miss the Churaumi Aquarium. It is located to the west of Nago.

Vídeo by theradblog