reading this in the papers today amused me.
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place
Though street crime is relatively low in Japan, quirky camouflage designs like this vending-machine dress are being offered to an increasingly anxious public to hide from would-be assailants.
an extract from the new york times,
"Ms. Aya Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers — by disguising herself as a vending machine."
can u tell which is a fake vending machine? pretty obvious to me(see the feet jutting out)hmm.would be quite scary to see that at night wont it? haa.
okay i have no idea why i find this so terribly amusing but everytime i read about it, my mind conjures up an image of streets filled with these psuedo vending machines.i was wondering, what if i were to accidentally try to get a drink from these fake machines? it would be quite funny. ha and really, aya tsukioka must have been someone with impossibly looong and strong arms. how else can she possibly hold up her skirt for an impossibly long time till her pursuers leave the scene? also it eludes me as to how convincing one can disguise as a vending machine.(esp for shorter people)get what i mean? the height difference would be starkingly obvious. cracks me up, really.
but besides having a good laugh, to be honest, im quite envious of japanese people and their creativity. they have created, in ny times' words, "a prolific subculture of individual inventors, whose ideas range from practical to bizarre." it's odd no doubt, but it's a springboard for greater, more economically viable ideas that can change the quality of life of people,ideas that can make all the difference. and it's interesting and fun too, gives a fresh perspective and outlook to life and things that happen. that's how people grow. something Takumi Hirai, chairman of Japan’s largest association of individual inventors,said that struck me. “Japanese society won’t just laugh, so inventors are not afraid to try new things.”
maybe we should learn to be more receptive people and put aside sterotypes. stop trying to think out of the box, just remove the box all together. then perhaps we can be the ones to come up with a disguise for shorter people next (:
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place
Though street crime is relatively low in Japan, quirky camouflage designs like this vending-machine dress are being offered to an increasingly anxious public to hide from would-be assailants.
an extract from the new york times,
"Ms. Aya Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers — by disguising herself as a vending machine."
can u tell which is a fake vending machine? pretty obvious to me(see the feet jutting out)hmm.would be quite scary to see that at night wont it? haa.
okay i have no idea why i find this so terribly amusing but everytime i read about it, my mind conjures up an image of streets filled with these psuedo vending machines.i was wondering, what if i were to accidentally try to get a drink from these fake machines? it would be quite funny. ha and really, aya tsukioka must have been someone with impossibly looong and strong arms. how else can she possibly hold up her skirt for an impossibly long time till her pursuers leave the scene? also it eludes me as to how convincing one can disguise as a vending machine.(esp for shorter people)get what i mean? the height difference would be starkingly obvious. cracks me up, really.
but besides having a good laugh, to be honest, im quite envious of japanese people and their creativity. they have created, in ny times' words, "a prolific subculture of individual inventors, whose ideas range from practical to bizarre." it's odd no doubt, but it's a springboard for greater, more economically viable ideas that can change the quality of life of people,ideas that can make all the difference. and it's interesting and fun too, gives a fresh perspective and outlook to life and things that happen. that's how people grow. something Takumi Hirai, chairman of Japan’s largest association of individual inventors,said that struck me. “Japanese society won’t just laugh, so inventors are not afraid to try new things.”
maybe we should learn to be more receptive people and put aside sterotypes. stop trying to think out of the box, just remove the box all together. then perhaps we can be the ones to come up with a disguise for shorter people next (:
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