Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
A Japanese company has created a gun that will fire a teddy bear into the air for festive occations. Once shot, the bear will safely decend on it’s own parachute.
[via Neat-o-Rama]
Gun-shaped teddy bear crackers ready to liven up wedding receptions – MSN-Mainichi Daily News
Well I guess someone had to do it. This is a blog that hightlights the weird TV shows and ads they have in Japan.There are enough clips on the ‘net that a blog can be made from it. I should do one for Thai TV…
[via Boingboing]
Every now and then a paper project catches my eye and I just know I have to share. This is one of them. Here is a 1/48th scale paper model of the Apollo lunar lander that will blow your mind. the detail is breath taking. He’s got more paper spaceships (or links to them) on his site as well. This is going to keep me busy for a while…
Firefly squids light up the night in this Japanese sea port.
[via MAKE]
I was browsing my favorite links when I discovered an enchanting selection of HDRI (high dynamic range imaging) images of Japan. I’m working on a few of my own using a PC tool called Photomatrix. So far it’s been easier to use than the tool in Photoshop CS2. It provides better control over your image when your stacking the images up. The tone mapping of RAW images looks unbelievably impressive, I figure that I’ll have to go back and re shoot a bunch of my photos with this method. Sounds like a good excuse to go back to Toronto, New York, Japan and Bangkok. 🙂
[discovered via Nipponkan]
