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29
Apr 2010

Fashion Japan! Street Styles

Color on the Street: Black!

It's true the latest color on the walking street fashion of japan is black. Which actually is a bit odd as usally spring time kicks in with bright and cheerfull colors. But the weather has in fact been awful the past few weeks in Japan. And is probly the reason for this outbreak in black & grey colors. Which many seem to combine or accent with white color features to it. But even colors as strong pink, soft blue and vibrant red are used alot as they seem to almost blend with the black backgrounds and actually stand out more. But this is a huge change compare to the usal colors on sale for the current month of cherry blossom and rhodondendron. But even fashion weeks has offerd a great deal of black & grey to it and most likley be the contributor to this trend on the streets aswell. Leaving this to be the new thing on the street. Most probly see black as a quite used color, specially with the all the goth & punk fashion out there. But the Japan styles offers alot more options to this so recommend you check around if your intressted into seeing more of this. Japan has alot to offer us western peoples when it comes to mixing old and new into one another. The best thing with fashion is that is a ever changing subject. And will always be something new out there waiting for to seduce you. So would black & grey be a color of your likings to start the summer off with or your more going with your own ides? I know that black will still be my main choice always has been.

Filed under  //   black   Fashion   Society and Culture   street  
Posted by Eddie Li 
13
Nov 2009

How to Multitask by Riding a Bike and Computing...

Imagine waking up one morning and you were late for work... you grab your bike and off you cycle to work, and oh no, you need to email your client about some important document... what do you do?

Take a look at what the people in Japan do! Supposedly there is a small community of Japanese computer enthusiasts in Akihabara who like to carry around their notebook computers so they can get some “street computing” done while walking (or even riding bicycles!): Some people say they are programming, while others are blogging. Two guys say that Twitter is responsible for turning them on to street computing. Twittering?!? Why not even use a phone to do it? Even I can do all of this on my phone! If you think this sounds too ridiculous to be true, you’re not alone. A lot of the comments left by Japanese netizens on this YouTube video are calling this out as staged (yarase) news reporting. [Watashi no Tokyo]

Filed under  //   akihabara   bike   computer   multitasking   Random Stuff   Society and Culture   street  
Posted by Eddie Li