There is a hole in everything
I was really captivated by this water fountain. Its design is just so thoughtful for a water fountain
I don't even know if the design is *good*. I just know that this object was designed by someone who had very specific thoughts about the nature of a water fountain
Okay now I am going to post some platonic forms
Two 50 yen coins, overlapping in four dimensional space. To capture this phenomenon Miguel proposes the term "Hyperyen"
Photography is a way of seeing
Note: If you like the posts above from my visit to the Tower of the Sun, you may also like Miguel's thread on Bluesky with his own photos from the day. Miguel paid extra to be allowed to take photos inside of the Tower (above described as "Him") above the first floor (they appear to be very concerned about people dropping their cameras and make you rent a lanyard) and so got some shots I was not able to
https://bsky.app/profile/spookysquid.bsky.social/post/3l7pbc3vtlt26
Miguel Sternberg (@spookysquid.bsky.social)
It's him!
I concluded my day by making… making what what may have been a very unwise purchase.
Or maybe it will turn out to have be the wisest purchases I have ever made. It is too early to tell
I just… I saw them, I was getting something at the pharmacy by the subway station and I saw them, and I thought "do I want one of these?" and suddenly the thought hit me, a lightning bolt of absolute certainty, that no, no what I want is *four of them*.
They are posable.
Public service poster on the Osaka subway admonishing the reader not to play Pokemon Go at situationally inappropriate times
Public service announcement on the Osaka subway admonishing you NOT to have meet-cutes on the subway!! You could damage your vintage 2007 flip phone!!!
Vending machine from the Osaka subway labeled "FEED ME ORANGE" which has a bunch of whole oranges on a hopper and when you pay it pulls one, squeezes the juice out of it, and serves you just-made fresh orange juice
I started writing some body horror about dropping Kirby in your bathtub and it turns out he's a bath ball and he dissolves while smiling the whole while, but everything I came up with was too horrible to post
Promotional signage by Rene Magritte
Ok I got a explanation from a protected account abt this https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113400800877383368
Apparently "image" is "Wasei-eigo"— an English borrow word that took on a distinct meaning unlike its original meaning. This happens in all languages, it's why reborrowing exists, but it happens so much EN->JA there's a word for it.
The English word "Image" in a Japanese sentence means "impression" or abstract mental picture. So someone left "image" in a Japanese sentence untranslated, bc it was "already English"…
We're gonna see some projection mapping tonight!
"Please refrain from hitting, kicking, or poking the artwork", a prerecorded voice said
There's a guy on the Osaka subway wearing a full penguin costume… he's got a good vibe. I trust him implicitly
Toilet paper with unusually intricate branding
Okay, Mina-san, it's time to go to Nagoya! Time to get in your travel bag!
Me when I am in a subway and suddenly the train bursts out from underground into daylight and is now outside traveling across a bridge over water
We passed by another of those "Feed Me Orange" juice-squeezed-while-you-watch vending machines (see upthread) but this time I just looked at it and was like… well, actually I could really go for some orange juice right about now.
So I tried it and… okay!! It was actually some really good orange juice!!
Okay wait re: last post I just realized if I'm going to post about the orange juice robot machine I PROBABLY should have mentioned the reason I was by this vending machine in the first place, was because it was on the street outside a gorgeous, UNESCO-World-Heritage-recognized 1200-year-old Buddhist temple overlooking on one side the entire city of Kyoto from above and on the other side a literal magic waterfall. That's probably relevant
Sorry I didn't mention this detail earlier
What was interesting about this temple (Kiyomizu-dera) was it was really more of like… a complex? There's a part built in the 8th century, and a part built in the 1600s, but then there's just all this other … stuff, all around the site, which seems to be its own thing with its own individual history, some of it very mysterious if you can't read Japanese signage (attachment #2: why are there dogs? why do they look so friendly? are they meant as guardians? or are they just happy to see you?
Anyway if you choose to drink from the waterfall whose water possesses mystic powers, it turns out they dealt with the sanitation problems inherent in this by storing the ladles used to capture and drink it in a machine that constantly sterilizes them with UV light. Japan has this religion thing down to a science (spoken approvingly)
Dotonburi River, Osaka at night. This image has not been postprocessed
@GreenSkyOverMe I was startled by the intensity of the colors (IRL) (And also as they came out in the picture)
mcc
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)