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The copy in red reads, “Accelerate your beauty” but when I see it all I can imagine is some upcoming Hollywood blockbuster wherein the Aliens creature gets cross-bred with a supermodel.
I think this poster speaks for itself.
Why stop at just one?
This ad for the latest issue of the fashion magazine Spur entices with the following irresistable teasers: When choosing panties, go for that silhouette! I looked behind me and there he was, metrosexual male! Become the happiest woman in the world with a Rumiko makeover! Oh, if I could eat that! What is her scent?
…reads the text in this pervasive billboard. You can imagine that was also the expression the photographer was trying to coax out of this week’s gaijin model, but what he ended up with instead was a blank stare that says, “How’s this? Is this where I should be looking? How about now?”I don’t know how [...]
This is a shot of an FM Keitai poster/ad in Shibuya station. Gaijin 1 (foreground) is apparently listening to Howard Stern and having such a good time that he’s oblivious to the lustful stares of everyone else in the room. Can anyone imagine a group like this actually hanging out? More importantly, is that a [...]
Congratulations on finding my personal blog. It's been around in various incarnations since 1997, which is before blogs were called "blogs." See if you can top that.
My name is michael, and denbushi (電武士) is the now-dorky-seeming online name I made up back when I thought (ever so presciently) that some kind of unique nickname for the interwebs might be handy. Just for the record, it IS unique (even today!) except for this jujitsu variant/dojo in Puerto Rico which co-opted it without even asking me. If I had to cage-fight them for exclusive use of "denbushi" chances are good they'd win. But I'd still do it.
These days I live in Tokyo and mostly use my real name. A few years ago I founded a design and marketing agency called netwise. We do web and internet stuff. We're pretty good at it.
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