Vidicle: A Publisher in the Shadows
Something I just started working on. I call them ‘Vidicles’; video previews of written articles.
Since the YouTube ‘revolution’ has expanded the definition of ‘online video’ - (talking heads pointlessly babbling in front of a camera? This is entertainment?) I thought; ‘why not make videos of someone reading well written, captivating articles’? In this case, that ’someone’ is my computer, and the ‘well written article’ is from Captain Japan.
Watch this vidicle preview of his recent article: A Publisher in the Shadows:
Hiroharu Kimura dresses in black: sport jacket, shoes, socks, slacks, and gold-rimmed sunglasses. Aside from his blue dress shirt, his attire follows the vampire bat trademark used for his sex-trade publication Manzoku, meaning satisfaction.
“Bats cannot see,” says the chairman of Creators Company Connection, reclining in the sofa of his office in Tokyo’s Okubo district, “but they have a special sense.”
Indeed, Kimura operates his business - printing magazines that cater to Japan’s sexual services and hostessing industries - by feel.. READ THE FULL STORY!
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Paradise TV Strives for Stupidity, Sex (article)
“Paradise is totally different from other adult video channels,” explains manager of international sales, Kenichiro Suzuki, from Paradise headquarters in a commercial block of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward. “We have many more stupid shows. They (standard porn channels) sometimes have them. But we concentrate on making them.”The chaos continues: flapping newspapers flutter past (with one momentarily clinging to her forehead); snow begins falling; and more clothing vanishes. In the end, she is covered in a dusting of white flakes and a grin…
Fuel Cell Vehicles at the Tokyo Motor Show (article)
In a white smock and clutching a stack of notes, Nobutaka Takahashi stares down at the internal skeleton model of Nissan’s X-Trail fuel cell vehicle (FCV) on display at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show.Since the industrial revolution spawned only the internal combustion engine and not a provision for a $70-a-barrel rate for oil, alternative fuel vehicles are the talk of this year’s show. For Takahashi, a member of Nissan’s research and development team, this is his baby.
When the Love Has Ended (article)
Jong Pairez and his partner pack up their equipment and bolt from the control room. They have five minutes. The crew is the night-shift janitorial team at a Shibuya love hotel - one of the 17,000 often funky, gaudy lodges scattered near train stations and expressways in Japan that are designed for short-term amorous encounters.
Manga Artist Interview Series: Toshio Maeda (article)
Toshio Maeda’s groundbreaking manga series Urotsuki Doji from the early ’80s firmly placed him in the history books - in Japan and abroad - as the pioneer of the genre known as hentai , or perverted. This work featured violent and graphic images of shapely young women being probed, felt, and fondled by the tentacles, elongated tongues, and miscellaneous extensions of creatures and men alike
Tokyo Digital News: Bikinis Hit the Air (article)
As the founder of pioneering satellite raunch network Paradise TV seven years ago, Michiyuki Matsunaga has since moved on to Tokyo Digital News, a slightly less provocative broadcasting station that transmits stories via the Internet and mobile phones in which the announcers are young girls clad in bikinis.
