Tag: weird
UNAGI TRAVEL: THE JAPANESE TOUR AGENCY FOR STUFFED ANIMALS
by joostay
Teddy needs a vacation… to JAPAN! OK, this is quite possibly the most adorable thing I have ever heard of. Unagi Travel is a tour agency based in Tokyo – but instead of dealing with regular customers, they specialise in arranging customised trips for stuffed animals. Basically you send your teddy to Tokyo and they take it round the sights, taking pictures for you and uploading the adventure onto social media such as Instagram and Facebook. The service is popular with those who can’t travel […]
Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo, Unique Experiences • Tags: asia, backpacking, bizarre, cute, design, fun, ikimasho, japan, japanese, justin egli, photography, stuffed toy, teddy, tokyo, tours, travel, vacation, weird
BENDING WRONGS // COMPUTER CONTROLLED HAMSTER
by joostay
Check out my video for the new BENDING WRONGS track, Computer Controlled Hamster. Using never-before-seen archive footage it tells the true story of how during World War 2, Allied forces secretly built a number of Computer Controlled Hamsters (CCH) that were dropped behind enemy lines to help win the war. [Music: BENDING WRONGS // Visuals: IKIMASHO!] soundcloud.com/monty_81
Categories: Unique Experiences • Tags: acid, aphex twin, bending wrongs, bizarre, colin montgomery, culture, design, electronica, hamster, history, idm, industrial, justin egli, music, surreal, video, visual art, war, weird, world war 2
IKIMASHO! x BENDING WRONGS
by joostay
Bending Wrongs is Colin Montgomery from Bangor in Northern Ireland. I’ve been mates with Monters for over 20 years and he’s always been talented when it comes to tunes. Check out his latest track, Hellride 3, above. Visuals by IKIMASHO! BENDING WRONGS / Acid / Industrial / Experimental / Noise Contact Colin if you’d like to book him, work with him or say hello. soundcloud.com/monty_81 / colin.montgomery@sky.com / twitter: @Monty_1981
Categories: Unique Experiences • Tags: 303, acid, bending wrongs, breakcore, colin montgomery, design, electronica, footwork, fucked up, idm, ikimasho, industrial, japan, music, noise, roland, surreal, tokyo, video, visual, weird
IKIMASHO! x The obscure micronation of Austenasia
by joostay
Auste-what? Learning about this tiny country from its new Consul General for Northern Ireland. Stories really don’t get any more obscure and fascinating than the one I am about to share with you regarding the tiny micronation of Austenasia – a landlocked country whose border with the UK is merely a line separating a driveway from a footpath in the south London suburb of Carshalton. The country has a flag, a border and a government. It even has an Emperor […]
Categories: Travel: Outside Japan, Unique Experiences • Tags: allan wilson, austenasia, bizarre, blogging, country, fitness, ikimasho, independence, japan, jonny blair, justin egli, micronation, story, tokyo, travel, uk, weird, wrythe
Ami Yamasaki / “till a quiet room sings”
by joostay
“Every space has its own sound, according to its shape and material, and it has already been singing long before you entered it.” A few weeks back I attended the Tokyo Experimental Festival where I saw a performance by vocalist and cross-media artist, Ami Yamasaki. The space was limited to 20 people, the walls covered with thousands of origami feathers to catch and diversify the sounds of the room. Of course, a quiet space is never truly quiet, and so […]
Categories: Art, Music & Culture • Tags: Ami Yamasaki, art, blog, culture, ikimasho, installation, japan, justin egli, Ochanomizu, performance, surreal, TEF, till a quiet room sings, tokyo, tokyo experimental festival 2015, Tokyo Wonder Site, voice, weird
Daikoku Matsuri: Tokyo’s Answer to the Ice Bucket Challenge
by joostay
“It’s a cold January morning in east Tokyo and as soon as I leave Shin-Ochanomizu station I’m cursing myself that I didn’t bring my gloves. Even the dog on the pavement beside me is wearing a coat, though I’m not entirely sure the color suits him. On this particular morning I’m on my way to the nearby Myojin shrine to watch a load of naked men throw buckets of ice water over themselves—It’s moments like this when I wonder what […]
Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: aqrticle, asia, blog, city, cold, culture, Daikoku Matsuri, festival, ice, ikimasho, japan, japanese, justin egli, matsuri, tokyo, tokyo weekender, traditional, weird, writing
In the Belly of Buddha
by joostay
Going Deeper Underground: Exploring the Tokyo temple with a dark secret What was I doing last Sunday morning I hear you ask? No, I wasn’t writhing about in my bed hungover. Guess again. Church? No, I wasn’t at church either – but I guess you could say I was having a religious experience of sorts, exploring the secret underground tunnel of a temple nestled deep in the Tokyo suburbs. This is a tunnel so secret that not even some of […]
Categories: Art, Music & Culture, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: blog, Denentoshi, Gyokushin Mitsuin, ikimasho, japan, japanese, justin egli, religion, religious, shrine, suburbia, suburbs, Tamagawa Daishi, temple, tokyo, unique, unusual, urban, utako-Tamagawa, weird
FRANCIS BACON / Tokyo Exhibition
by joostay
“You can’t be more horrific than life itself.” Your last chance to catch the master of the macabre in Tokyo. Described by Margaret Thatcher as “that man who paints those dreadful pictures,” Francis Bacon was one of the most exalted, most disliked artists of the postwar era. His abstract images of psychological and physical brutality still have the power to unsettle today – achieving on canvass what David Lynch achieves on film or what Beckett did on paper. The Tate gave […]
Categories: Art, Music & Culture • Tags: art, asia, bizarre, culture, drawing, francis bacon, japan, modern, popes, retrospective, south east asia, surreal, tokyo, weird
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