Oct 02 2009

Winter Street Fashion

Posted by tokyodv in Culture, Fashion, Girls

Some Harajuku sights in winter. A little collage clip from an afternoon of street interviews.. Boots, buttons, and BBQ Chickens.
Watch in stand-alone page with 720×430 video; W A T C H – B I G G E R !Opens a New Window

May 29 2009

TDV Reports: Sex for Brands

Posted by tokyodv in Culture, Fashion, Girls

Louis Vuitton!NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

Now in XDV! (Xceptional DV)

An interview with Becky Yee.

Becky spent time photographing Japanese girls who get paid for sex. Primarily to buy name brand bags and apparel..

Originally released in 2003, then again in 2005.

Note: The name of the photographer in the video is incorrect; It should be Becky Yee, not Becky Lee.

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May 18 2008

Vidicle: A Publisher in the Shadows

Posted by tokyodv in Culture, Girls

Soapland!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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