weasel breaks cern

When the machine shutdown, investigators discovered the charred remains of the weasel next to a 66kV chewed cable which powers the equipment.  2016

Killdeer: A diminutive bird known for its shrill, high pitched call is threatening to derail one of Canada’s biggest music festivals after it built a nest in the same location as the main stage was slated to be erected. The bird – which enjoys protected status in Canada – had laid four speckled eggs on a cobblestone patch, effectively claiming the main stage area as its nesting grounds.

It had already been damaged by ploughing, but permission to excavate a listed site was granted because of damage by more recent trouble makers – badgers which were burrowing out the entire site, and kicking out human bones as they dug.


2019 slug breaks railway
 

A power cut that disrupted rail traffic on a Japanese island last month was caused by a slug, officials say.

More than 12,000 people's journeys were affected when nearly 30 trains on Kyushu shuddered to a halt because of the slimy intruder's actions.
Its electrocuted remains were found lodged inside equipment next to the tracks, Japan Railways says.

Tsukumogami

It was believed that the tools and utensils used roughly should become the monsters (the Gods named Tsukumogami) to attack people 100 years later. Tsukumogami, or “artifact spirit”, are a type of Japanese spirit. According to the Tsukumogami-emaki, tsukumogami originate from items or artifacts that have reached their 100th birthday and thus become alive and aware. Any object of this age, from swords to toys, can become a tsukumogami.
A toy is an object used in play. Toys are usually associated with children and pets, but it is not unusual for adult humans and some non-domesticated animals to play with toys. Many items are manufactured to serve as toys, but goods, or services produced for other purposes can also be used as toys, can become a tsukumogami.
Though large tsukumogami are harmless, they do have the capacity for anger to band together to take revenge on those who are wasteful or throw them away thoughtlessly. To prevent this, to this day some Jinja (Shinto shrine) ceremonies, such as the Hari Kuyou, are performed.
It is said that modern items cannot become tsukumogami; the reason for this is that tsukumogami are said to be repelled by electricity. Additionally, few modern items are used for the 100-year-span that it takes for an artifact to gain a soul.

http://www.designbyaika.com/hari-kuyou-memorial-service-for-needles/ 

found gif from muglife

Japanese Fake Food Day

/http://denniscooperblog.com/japanese-fake-food-day/

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horrors of malformed men

Ahegao

dejima / exit island

Leroi-Gourhan in Japan

Eté 1938 en Hokkaïdo : André Leroi-Gourhan pose devant le nusa, palissade sacrée d’un village Aïnou

André Leroi-Gourhan pose en 1938 avec l’ensemble des objets constituant la panoplie acquise auprès des Aïnous :

https://tc.revues.org/5787

Fayette Hauser, The Cockettes in a Field of Lavender, 1971.  

スキンモーフ

これらの画像は展覧会の記録画像をスキンモーフを用いて再構成したものである。

trash mantra

Anthropotechnical profiling of the citizen / subject / human

Ported objects / Portability  of objects and implications / relation to body / site /

The Port of Rome / the body hygenic


In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

tree

dump

japanese toys //

The Ningyo-Do Bunko Database has more than 100 albums of late 19th/early 20th century watercolour sketches of toy designs.

sad gardener

“Global Art Joint Project between Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London and Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts”

Nicetown

Nicetown install 2015
Images: Shintaro MIYAWAKI

“Global Art Joint Project between Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London and Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts”.

魚拓 gyotaku

fish

sumi ink & rice paper

scarcity & substitutes

Akihabara-chikku 〜⁠チック

inrō // container forms

Consisting of a stack of tiny, nested boxes, inrō were most commonly used to carrryidentity seals and medicine. The stack of boxes is held together by a cord that is laced through cord runners down one side, under the bottom, and up the opposite side. The ends of the cord are secured to a netsuke, a kind of toggle that is passed between the sash and pants and then hooked over the top of the sash to suspend the inrō. An ojime, or bead, is provided on the cords between the inrō and netsuke to hold the boxes together. This bead is slid down the two suspension cords to the top of the inrō to hold the stack together while the inrō is worn, and slid up to the netsuke when the boxes need to be unstacked to access their contents. Inrō were made of a variety of materials, including wood, ivory, bone, and lacquer. Lacquer was also used to decorate inro made of other materials.

jp halloween

鴨居 かもい フック