1/30/12

Julie Watai's 2012 Calendar

OK all you otakus and weaboos get ready! Julie Watai has just now released her new 2012 Hardware Girls calendar. This is on sale now, but for some unexplained reason, this calendar doesn't start until the first of April.(?) Complexity Level: Asian

Julie Watai's 2012 Calendar

Get Julie-san's new calendar here.

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Julie Watai Electrical Engineer/Maid Photo

1/29/12

Photographer Hal's WTF Japan Plastic People Photos

Via cbsnews.com January 29, 2012

Because of the rapid and ongoing evolution of the internet, many mainstream news media organizations are now facing sharp declines in viewer ratings and credibility. As a response to that problem, CBS News has broadened their run-of-the-mill news coverage to include WTF Japan in their recent report about Japan's very own Photographer Hal and his popular work of WTF photographs of plastic-wrapped people:

Photographer Hal's WTF Japan Plastic People Photos

Photographer Hal's WTF Japan Plastic People Photos

Photographer Hal devised this series in which he asked couples if they would be sealed in a plastic futon bag together while showing themselves as individuals and positioned as couples.

You can see many more interesting photos in this series at Photographer Hal's website

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1/28/12

North Korean Laborers in Siberia

As mentioned earlier in the North Korean Slaves in Russia post, here is the funny and bizzare short documentary in which we are taken deep into Siberia by Shane Smith and Journeyman Pictures. Once there they try to meet and talk to some North Korean laborers working in the area.



See also: Canadian DPRK Documentary "The Defector"

1/27/12

Why, China Why? Because China #2

As everyone knows that Old Internets is best Internets, here is another well-known web photo that asks the eternal question "Why, China Why?" And then answers it with the universal reply of "Because China":

Why, China Why? Because China #2

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1/26/12

What A Wonderful World Photo

Via Yahoo News Best images from the week of January 27th

Here is a very cool shot of NASA's recent high resolution (8000 x 8000 pixels) photo of the “Blue Marble.” To date, this is the highest resolution photograph taken of the earth by NASA's newest earth-observing satellite Suomi NPP:

What A Wonderful World Photo

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