LamotumApr 24
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The Kei-tora Gardening Contest is an annual event put on by the Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors to see who can build the best-looking garden on the back of a Kei truck. Here are some of the winners from the past 12 years. http://zoenren-osaka.jp/activity.html
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社団法人　日本造園組合連合会　大阪府支部

Nov 26, 2023 at 4:06pmWeb
Show threadNoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2023

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True marvels! What artistry. I love the plush green, the feeling of water, of being embraced by this green in the first photo. What a wonderful place to sit and just ‘be’. Thank you for these green dreams!

Show threadkcǃNov 26, 2023
@docpop 🤩🤯
Show threadHermit the FrogNov 26, 2023
@docpop what an amazing idea💚
Show threadI love this, so INov 26, 2023
@docpop next project for your tiny truck @Dangerous_beans ?
Show threadAlex von KitchenNov 27, 2023
@jpm @docpop sadly i am terrible at gardening and need the space to haul materials
Show threadBørgeNov 26, 2023
@docpop Oh my! I love this so much!
Show threadDaniel BohrerNov 27, 2023

@docpop oh yes, I remember that NHK World had a short segment about that on Japanology Plus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtPZ-EyAyWY&t=960

(Edit: the Japanology Plus videos are no longer on YouTube, but you can probably find them elsewhere. It's Season 5, Episode 6, titled "Keitora: Tiny Trucks", originally aired June 16, 2022)

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Show threadDoctor M. PopularNov 27, 2023
@daniel_bohrer I hadn’t seen that before. Thanks!
Show thread⚳ rapid unscheduled assembly ⚳Nov 27, 2023
@docpop Kei trucks are so incredibly based. I love them. If I had a truck it would absolutely be a kei truck.
Show threadLOLoudNov 27, 2023
@docpop Please let me get stuck in traffic behind one of these trucks!
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Nov 27, 2023

@docpop I've seen something similar done with parking spaces.

Gotta love the one with seating and somewhere to rest your cuppa.

Show threadCharlie ParkNov 27, 2023
@docpop Back in October of 2013, I stumbled on a Banksy installation inside a panel truck that was doing something similar. Guerilla pop-up on Central Park West (at 77th, I think), complete with lighting, a bridge, and a WORKING WATERFALL. Folks crowded around trying to figure out what it was all about. After about 15 or 20 minutes, a guy in coveralls and a hat, pulled low, turned off the lights and the waterfall pump, closed up the back of the truck, and drove it off.
Show threadDoctor M. PopularNov 27, 2023

@charliepark rad! I hadn’t heard about this one before https://mymodernmet.com/banksy-new-york-delivery-truck/

Some friends of mine used to put together an event in MYC and SF where artists decorated box tricks with experiences. I wonder if Banksy was inspired by those https://docpop.org/2010/12/lost-horizon-night-market/

It’s neat, either way.

Banksy's NY Delivery Truck Turned Enchanting Garden Installation

If you're a Banksy fan, there's no other place you'd want to be right now than New York City. The elusive artist has started an entire show on the streets

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Show threadKasey Smith Nov 27, 2023
@docpop The whimsy! 🤩
Show threadseekraftNov 27, 2023

@docpop Beautiful! ❤️

I'm reminded of a local activist and their sprouting cabriolet -- a car filled with soil in which plants grow, to protest against the small cost of parking in public streets vs. the bureaucratic nightmare of renting the same space for urban gardening: http://christophschwarz.net/cabriobeet/

Current position: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1970749529

Cabriobeet – Christoph Schwarz

Show threadClemens aka dataNov 27, 2023
/cc @bleninger 😀
@seekraft @docpop
Show threadMatthias MProveDec 4, 2023
@docpop Love it. I could not resist to use it in my recent presentation on Zen Gardening and Interaction Design :: https://mprove.de/script/23/hawk/index.html
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Show thread2xfoApr 22
@docpop
It's funny to imagine a garden coming to me, but also maybe they can move the garden to places the plants like?
I think it's a weird idea. Antithetical to many of the concepts i associate with "garden", at least
Show threadDen of EarthApr 22
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Ping @tikibunnyimports and #WeirdCarMastodon !
Show threadpoes 🇵🇸Apr 23
@docpop cantik
Show threadMats StaugaardApr 23
@docpop This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
Show threadMayleenApr 26

@docpop
These look amazing😍. It puzzles me what some people can do with just some tiny space and plants.

Thanks for sharing!