from a trip long time ago. current western societies do often not have any clean ritual for the transistion between boyhood and being an adult man. so we should create a transition from living in a family to living by oneself .

We have to teach our children new fairy tales or show hem the real monsters. Or let them read "the fast Food Nation" as mandatory reading at school.

visit to yamaszaki office on june 28 2010.

Made for Dirkjan from kraaijvanger. urbis to give to a collage as a present for all the work she had done for their visit to japan. The design relfects the color and use of space of the businesscard of his company.

sandcastle worms are the key to finding a glue that can replace pins and screws for repairing broken bones by working in a wet environment.

traditional methods of using pins and screws to mend broken bones is as outdated as those bolts protruding from the neck of frankenstein's monster. the smarter way to mend bones

Some pictures from the roof at DIJ.

EVER had the feeling something is missing? If so, you're in good company. Dmitri Mendeleev did in 1869 when he noticed four gaps in his periodic table. They turned out to be the undiscovered elements scandium, gallium, technetium and germanium. Paul Dirac did in 1929 when he looked deep into the quantum-mechanical equation he had formulated to describe the electron. Besides

Ever though about high tech japan. Take a look at this great construction to prevent a person getting wet from the moister leakage of the air-conditioner.

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems together with colleagues from Chemnitz University of Technology and Menippos GmbH (all based in Chemnitz, Germany) collaborated on product development. They are targeting applications such as smart credit cards with battery-powered displays to show balances and other account information.

Simple earring. made from carbon fibre rot and orange foam.

In the light of changing global awareness and a strive toward one world system hereby a proposal to change the anthem to a modern and a more global oriented version. The text has also be modified to replace the historical events with current ones. the idea came when I realized i was suppose to sing the

What a pleasure to see these pieces of "living" kinetic art sculptures. Take a look at http://www.strandbeest.com.Curently till 12-04-2009 his work can be seen and touched in Hibiya(japanese)

Just by accident I came across this picture. made me think about our relations towards robots, virtual lives, the sesitivity of us thinking we are special in our feelings. we could program new machines to be more like us or even better (Irobot movie comes in my mind). Special considering the discovery of the

birthday button. designed by yuka hayashi (my darling). concept is my birthday expressed in small green and black rhinestones. the green diamonds are the pointers in the decimal counting from bottom to top. the columns present the place of the date starting with the year. the black diamonds are the not pointers. so the first colum reads 2 the second

These are the hard times for children and the unu. especially in times of financial crises often the children do have to sit in the rain. but we should support them with colorful opportunities to sit dry and

walking on the street and hearing the sounds of aluminum cans behind me. I turn and see this big bungle of plastic bags and can passing by. a person hidden in themiddle like being bondage with the cans. maybe an other picture for Nobuyoshi Araki.

A robot has for the first time removed a kidney with only a single incision.

Using the da Vinci surgical robot from Intuitive Surgical Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), the Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit) recently removed a diseased kidney using a new procedure designed by its surgeon, Craig Roger. The procedure, which has now been performed on two patients, proving a concept which could

THE REVOLUTIONARY TREATMENT OF FRACTURE OF TIBIA BY NEWLY DESIGNED DAGA INTERLOCKING NAIL BY MAKING THE PATIENTS TO BEAR WEIGHT ON THE DAY OF SURGERY WITHOUT I.I.T.V.

while waiting for a train at Shinagawa station . I noticed someone screaming, looked and shot this short video.

an unexpected supprise of having some left over dinner and some fresh muffins. a wa(kame)burger. Just wakame, pepperoni, Camembert cheese and a English muffin made a great lunch

nice advertisement of boconcept of Denmark. The idee to sell the concepts by insinuation is nice.more information about boconcept can be found at http://www.boconcept.com.

at a meeting of the nccj, Ronald Scherpenhuijsen Rom of ing and me, where the only one without one. the common "no tieers" started a conversation about tie's and orange. which ended in Roland sending me the only tie I own now. it looks like a puzzle of "find wally" . Find wally

about a month ago i went to midtown in roppongi and came cross a special shop filled with wonderful delicious fruits. a pity they where out of reach of my budget. I didn't have 21.000 yen for a melon.

Still enjoying a fabulous crismastree i bought just before Christmas. 367 yen made in china. Put some lights in there with adjustable speed, pattern and runs on rechargeable batteries. Christmas could have never been celebrated smaller for me.

in the subway standing in the middle of the pass way suddenly a smelly man, unshaved, looking bewildered and having many bags. Just by himself, bystanders do not seem to see him. They just pass by. But if one looks close a big surprise. He is listing on his Ipod nano light geen maybe one month

ever though that the boss always has the biggest desk? think again, look again. The boss at van der architects switched his big white desk to something he really needed. a small desk for his laptop and a wall full of books and now he has much more space for his meetings with his clients and room to walk

new meishi design based on the orange cow with an QR code in it's body to let us look into it's stomach.let us look into the future. a future that propally will be virtual.the signs of it is already beginning with children playing games like their second life and adults creating their own life virual in

when i did have "horns" i used this animated figure to freshen up my emails.

my favored point of view about television. how should it, could it be and also how addicted and mind wasting it can be.

Interesting article about technology at Newsweek. the article was written by eurotechnologyEver heard of DoCoMo? probably not, unless you happen to live in Japan. NTT DoCoMo is one of the world's biggest wireless phone companies. It operates in a ferociously competitive market, boasts about 50 million customers and has been known to produce cutting-edge technology. By all rights it