5/13/09

Japanese Husband Hunting Bra

Last May we featured Triumph's Japanese Solar-Powered Bra which was something of a knockout, but NOW Triumph has taken it a step further with the all-new Japanese Husband Hunting Bra:



Japan bra maker offers support for husband hunters

Via Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - "Triumph International, maker of the solar, postal and chopstick bras, is offering a new kind of support for Japanese women on the prowl for a husband.

Japan's marriage rate is falling and the average age at which women get married is over 28 years, relatively late for a country in which single females were once considered over the hill at 25.

Triumph's latest novelty bra features an electronic nuptial timepiece, putting women seeking spouses literally on the clock.

If an engagement ring is inserted into the mechanism, the countdown stops and the bra plays Felix Mendelssohn's "The Wedding March.""

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5/12/09

Amazing Nippon TV Kasou Taishou Segment

This is an extraordinary "MONZAI" (comic duo) Japanese TV segment from Nippon TV's well-known KASOU TAISHOU TV Show, which is a semi-annual amateur talent competition. However, you'll soon see that there are more than just two performers at work here as this group has cleverly included several stage hands known as KUROKO who are all dressed in black and considered to be invisible while on stage. No English subtitles included here, but be sure to check this one out and you'll soon be quite amazed:


5/4/09

Japanese Models @ Tokyo Auto Salon 2009

Very well filmed by kzoiac1 this is a short video of the Carrozzeria Japanese models performing a group dance earlier this year at the Tokyo Auto Salon:

David Bowie Sings 'Girls' in Japanese

OH BY JINGO!!! This is a very rare recording of David Bowie singing Girls in Japanese! This song was written by David Bowie and Erdal Kizilcay and it was released as a single by Tina Turner on her 1986 "Break Every Rule" album.

And following that, Bowie recorded two versions of this song - one in English and this version here in Japanese! ZEHI KITTE KUDASAI!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!!



5/3/09

Japanese Models: True Works of Art

According to Wikipedia: "Japanese painting (絵画 ,Kaiga) is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese arts, encompassing a wide variety of genre and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the history of Japanese painting is a long history of synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptation of imported ideas."

Well, in the below video, we get to see a beautiful Japanese model adapt a whole new style of painting which is not at all refined, indeed:



And here are some more Japanese models painting, playing and very proudly posing:



Well, the legendary Spanish artist Pablo Picasso once said: "One must act in painting as in life, directly."

Be sure to see even more of this very intriguing and very direct style of body painting at Models Asia