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KJ ([personal profile] owlmoose) wrote2007-10-30 06:43 am
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Brilliant disguise

Japanese fashion designer creates dress that transforms into a vending machine costume.

The idea, I guess, is that if you feel unsafe, you can disguise yourself as a vending machine. Although if your attacker decides they want a drink, you might be in trouble. Probably not very practical. There are some great pictures, though.

Also, from that same site, Osaka police use bunny-shaped lights when patrolling near schools. Going for death by cute, perhaps?

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[identity profile] kunstarniki.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, in dim lights - as in alleys - the vending machine disguise is surprisingly convincing. And why not use Hello Kitty lights instead of bunnies? More culturally appropriate. ;)

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[identity profile] owlmoose.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
the vending machine disguise is surprisingly convincing

As long as you don't look too closely at the feet. ;)

Also, heh. Although I'd say cute little bunnies are just as appropriate to Japan as Hello Kitty. When I was there a few years back, I saw little animal characters like that *everywhere*.

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[identity profile] parron.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Cute is pretty much the national pass-time of Japan. It's as important to them as cherry blossom and mount fuji and random people destroying Tokyo. In any case, was the bunny by any chance Nijntje (http://www.nijntje.nl/)? I was raised reading stories about her, she's a Dutch rabbit that is perhaps even more popular in Japan.

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[identity profile] owlmoose.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not really any character, I think it's just a generic bunny:
http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/rabbit_light.jpg

Still cute though. :) And very, very Japanese in its cuteness.

[identity profile] peachespig.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Going for death by cute, perhaps?

Police truck = death cab for cutie, then?

[identity profile] owlmoose.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
More like death squad car for cutie. ;)
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[personal profile] iamleaper 2007-10-30 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
...wow.

I want one for my Halloween costume!

[identity profile] owlmoose.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't that be great? Assuming there are eyeholes. I don't see any, but I assume there must be some...

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[identity profile] kunstarniki.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be more effective if there were handholds. I can see the lady's knuckles at the top edge of the machine. Plus, as you noted, the feet.