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[Samurai_Jerk]

Your worst nightmare virtually realized

daigo ishii + future-scape architects 'tokyo-ize' six of the world's major cities

daigo ishii + future-scape architects has envisioned six great cities as tokyo-themed urban landscapes, drawing from the rich graphic language and vibrant visual effects seen on the city’s streets. presented as part of the venice architecture biennale, ‘worldwide tokyo-lization project’ explores the idea of ‘locality’ and asks ‘what is the image of a city?’ if elements from its environment are replaced with those from an entirely different context. does it maintain its character, or does it transform into a new landscape altogether?

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[Taro Toporific]

daigo ishii + future-scape architects 'tokyo-ize' six of the world's major cities

I would love to do the opposite.
Take a typical Japanese cityscape:
-- Remove the concrete utility poles and overhead wires.
-- Strip off all the pipes, wires, air conditioners, etc. hanging off the sides of buildings.
-- Add trees, greenery, sidewalks, and bike lanes.
-- Reduce the garish signage by 95%.
-- And, then get rid of all the jiji and babba polluting the place.

[matsuki]

daigo ishii + future-scape architects 'tokyo-ize' six of the world's major cities

I would love to do the opposite.
Take a typical Japanese cityscape:
-- Remove the concrete utility poles and overhead wires.
-- Strip off all the pipes, wires, air conditioners, etc. hanging off the sides of buildings.
-- Add trees, greenery, sidewalks, and bike lanes.
-- Reduce the garish signage by 95%.
-- And, then get rid of all the jiji and babba polluting the place.

THIS

[Coligny]

daigo ishii + future-scape architects 'tokyo-ize' six of the world's major cities

I would love to do the opposite.
Take a typical Japanese cityscape:
-- Remove the concrete utility poles and overhead wires.
-- Strip off all the pipes, wires, air conditioners, etc. hanging off the sides of buildings.
-- Add trees, greenery, sidewalks, and bike lanes.
-- Reduce the garish signage by 95%.
-- And, then get rid of all the jiji and babba polluting the place.

ehmmm... it's called Paris I think...

[wagyl]

Much more likely to be called Verdun.

[yanpa]

-- And, then get rid of all the jiji and babba polluting the place.

So anyone over the age (counts backwards on fingers) of 60-something? I could live with that, for a couple of decades at least.

-- Remove the concrete utility poles and overhead wires.

They were doing this relatively actively right up until Tepco got distracted by more urgent matters a bit over 5 years ago.

But you'd think at least any new roads carved through the remaining green space (such as the one outside my front door) would at least be devoid of poles... Nope...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

daigo ishii + future-scape architects 'tokyo-ize' six of the world's major cities

I would love to do the opposite.
Take a typical Japanese cityscape:
-- Remove the concrete utility poles and overhead wires.
-- Strip off all the pipes, wires, air conditioners, etc. hanging off the sides of buildings.
-- Add trees, greenery, sidewalks, and bike lanes.
-- Reduce the garish signage by 95%.
-- And, then get rid of all the jiji and babba polluting the place.

ehmmm... it's called Paris I think...

Yes, the banlieues are adorable. And much of the flavorless graffiti-marred remainder outside of Parisland and Versaillesland is either filth or inhabited by it.

[kurogane]

-- Remove the concrete utility poles and overhead wires.

They were doing this relatively actively right up until Tepco got distracted by more urgent matters a bit over 5 years ago.

But you'd think at least any new roads carved through the remaining green space (such as the one outside my front door) would at least be devoid of poles... Nope...

Yeah, they dumped that plan real quick like, didn't they? That had such serious promise, and apparently the savings generated pay for it in a snap.

[Russell]

[Coligny]

daigo ishii + future-scape architects 'tokyo-ize' six of the world's major cities

I would love to do the opposite.
Take a typical Japanese cityscape:
-- Remove the concrete utility poles and overhead wires.
-- Strip off all the pipes, wires, air conditioners, etc. hanging off the sides of buildings.
-- Add trees, greenery, sidewalks, and bike lanes.
-- Reduce the garish signage by 95%.
-- And, then get rid of all the jiji and babba polluting the place.

ehmmm... it's called Paris I think...

Yes, the banlieues are adorable. And much of the flavorless graffiti-marred remainder outside of Parisland and Versaillesland is either filth or inhabited by it.

So you do agree...

[Taro Toporific]

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[youtube]https://youtu.be/CGpJkSxqbjU[/youtube]

Meh, I prefer Katsuo Ningen, the Humanoid Severed Fish Head mascot.

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[Samurai_Jerk]

This seems right up your alley, Taro.

Any of you really old timers remember this?

Watch a Cursed Japanese Kleenex Ad

In 1986, Kleenex released this commercial in Japan. It's a simple, almost minimalistic premise: a woman in white and an ogre child sit on a pile of hay and enjoy their Kleenex brand tissues while the song "It's a Fine Day" by Jane & Barton plays in the background.


Almost instantly, TV stations and Kleenex corporate allegedly began receiving complaints regarding the ad. Perhaps it was its overall strangeness, perhaps it was the minor key of the song, but people were almost ubiquitously unnerved by the commercial and requested that it be taken off the air.

As mass media is wont to do, the advertisement sparked a number of urban legends. Several rumors began to circulate about the cast. One claimed the entire film crew met untimely deaths in freak accidents. Another reported that the ogre child had died immediately after filming. Still others circulated that the actress, Keiko Matsuzaka, died, was committed to a psychiatric hospital following a mental breakdown, or became pregnant with a demon baby.

[Taro Toporific]

This seems right up your alley, Taro.
Any of you really old timers remember this?
In 1986, Kleenex released this {Oni} commercial in Japan...

Oh, I remember that Kleenex one. However, all Japanese commercials were that strange to me back then since I didn't understand any Japanese---such as this 1986 one of Rie Miyazawa unwrapping and cherishing her wooden dildo.

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こけし fun!!~

[legion]

From before CG made everything boring

[Coligny]

Didn't watch entirely but let me guess...

Remy Julienne ?

[matsuki]

For your current Avatar:



https://affotd.com/2016/11/30/coogan/#more-9528

Cliffs: uncle fester straight up lynched 2 guys that murdered his friend, made millions and had his mom and her new lover steal it all, was a glider pilot in Burma during WWII, and married a bunch of the popular sluts of his time. What a life!

[Taro Toporific]

For your current Avatar:
https://affotd.com/2016/11/30/coogan/#more-9528
Cliffs: uncle fester straight up lynched 2 guys that murdered his friend, made millions and had his mom and her new lover steal it all, was a glider pilot in Burma during WWII, and married a bunch of the popular sluts of his time. What a life!

Great smile.

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affotd.com/2016/11/30/coogan...Uncle Fester in the original Addams Family... letdown that his biggest role in all of his adulthood was “that bald dude who puts light bulbs in his mouth” but hey, the bills were getting paid.

Little known fact:
Uncle Fester wrestled in Mexico under the name "Taro Ridiculoso."

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[Coligny]

With Xclusive f00tage of Taro in adult diaperz...

(clickbait as fuck)

[Taro Toporific]

With Xclusive f00tage of Taro in adult diaperz...
https://youtu.be/1G1Ju03Kv2o

Oh she-e-e-e-it! I missed my true calling.

(My rest-of-the-story: Back when mastodons roamed the plains of America, I was disqualified from the US Olympic Wrestling team for injuring too many opponents. If I had continued in wrestling, I would have been relegated to being a crappy, B-team, pro-wrestler and I most likely would have ended up spending my career as a luchador since my family owned a largish ranchero outside Monterrey Mexico.)

[Takechanpoo]

[Taro Toporific]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlctUP36yC8
VLOG acrobatics school: train with us
Published on Aug 29, 2018
Our youngest pupil Sofia shows the result of stretching after 3-4 months of training.

Ouch!
Long, lo-o-o-ong ago I was subjected to PT like that.

[matsuki]

Why did Take unload his spank bank material in this thread?

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Speaking of which, how's the health Taro? Feeling a weird pricking sensation? https://spraguedawley.com/japan-develop ... odoo-doll/

[Taro Toporific]

Speaking of which, how's the health Taro? Feeling a weird pricking sensation? https://spraguedawley.com/japan-develop ... odoo-doll/

I was wondering about that pricking sensation.

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Japan develops “Foreigner Voodoo Doll.”
Japan Today via spraguedawley.com
...“It elates me to know that, after all the rigourous product testing, someone, somewhere, will be feeling this pain, pain that I have felt for my entire goddamn life as an accursed and belittled goddamn motherfucking card-carrying Son of Yamato.”
– Dr Sato, Japan’s Minister of Health.
More abuse...

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[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Jesus, Taro hasnt posted since 2021??

These surely are end times.

Don't tell me the Rona got him...

[Coligny]

From what I understood genius frackedup his password….
Kinda hard to get the octopussy admin these days to help…

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

From what I understood genius frackedup his password….
Kinda hard to get the octopussy admin these days to help…

Woah and it looks like no one new has registered here since 3 years ago..... which makes me think rego has been turned off....

[yanpa]

A new password has been dispatched via carrier squid.

Registration is currently disabled to prevent viral spread.

MASKS MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES WHILE USING THE SITE.

[SovietSupreme]

A new password has been dispatched via carrier squid.

COMRAD!

Mother Russia shall have its revenge.

We want all aliens out of Japan.

Gaijin-free Japan is a good Japan!

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

A new password has been dispatched via carrier squid.

Oh God.

What have you done.

Taro with 3 years worth of pent-up posts ready to bukkake all up and down the forum?

I fear the worst.