Recently you featured an interesting vintage poster from China. Anybody interested in viewing and entire collection, 100% Digitally Reborn!

Showcasing a very unique virtual online museum, the ’World's Largest Collection of Digitally Restored Vintage Advertising Posters’, originating from Japan, China and Manchukuo, 1920's-1930's, a body of work that took more than 14 months and 5,000 unpaid hours to complete. Most of these originals are by now extinct, and only exist in restored digital format, so this effort represents a one-person crusade to rescue these wonderful works of art for the enjoyment and education of future art lovers everywhere.

Old Orient Museum

I found this image when I was using google to research bamboo for a logo project. Everything for me stopped when I saw this. Actual location is in Kyoto, Japan (where my grandmother is actually from)--- a pathway (for miles I think) of these massive bamboo trees. I have to go back to Kyoto and walk through this.

Just stare into it and imagine being there. It's my desktop image at work and I look at it when my mind needs a mini vacation.

Thought I'd share something positive today.

Sagano: bamboo forest

Furoshiki is the Japanese technique of wrapping cloth used to transport clothes, gifts or other goods.  Over at Japan's Ministry of the Environment website they have provided a complete howto on how to use the different wraps in furoshiki.  [via digg]

Don't be fooled.  These are not photos from an alien spaceship or a sci-fi movie.  These are photos of Japanese sewers.  View the gallery.

Previously:
Manholes found in Japan

Earlier this year I posted a toilet training clip taken from a popular Japanese cartoon called Shimajiro.  Well, I stumbled upon more clips that are just as cute and humorous. 

I found another toilet training clip in which Shimajiro is walking through the mall with his mom and sister.  This is the first time Shimajiro uses a squatter toilet.

In this clip, Shimajiro is taught how to properly cross a street by a lion police officer who drives a flying car.  If animals were to form an animal version of The Village People, the lion would definitely fit right in.

This one isn't quite as funny, but it teaches some good lessons.  A ninja teaches Shimajiro good manners on the train and in the supermarket.

I don't know a lick of Japanese, but the cartoons are self-explanatory even without subtitles. 

Oh, here are some bonus clips of a mom who seems to be using "the power of Shimajiro" to stop her toddler from tantrumming.  More clips here and here.  I'm sure my son would stop tantrumming too if I offered up a handful of licorice and a trip to Disney World.

This Pocky keychain, which plays the Pocky theme song, looks so real that I may just tear it open hoping to find some Pocky chocolate and strawberry goodness.

[via TOKYOMANGO]

I've designed a new Geisha Muerta...

Tell me what you think!

So I started off the new year by selling one of my older paintings. Fantastic! Inspired-I am creating a whole bunch of schtuff meshing the cultures of my husband and me. We are called Beenznrice for a reason...(Mexican/Asian)

So here is the first Muerta Geisha 1!

Muerta Geisha 1 ®Beenznrice

Check out this high-quality Pac-Man sketch.  Pac-Man sketch.  This is reality gaming at its best.

Previously:
Real Life Super Mario Bros. Re-enactment, Real World Donkey Kong, Reality video gaming. Grand Theft Lego, Pac-Man on Minnesota Highway