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Giant Snow iPod
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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I was up at the Winter Snow Festival in Sapporo last weekend with a group of friends. While going over the pictures today I found that I had totally missed the fact that this one snow sculpture is in fact a giant iPod with an Apple sticking out of it. Enjoy the love. (In case you're wondering thats one of my coworkers with the group of Japanese people who made the sculpture.)
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Why is it that Caucasian people make the V sign in all snapshots?
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Victory over all other races?
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Actually its a Japanese thing, that Japanese people do in all pictures. We Caucasians do it because they do it.
I like how its titled Musicle.
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Originally Posted by paul w
Victory over all other races?
That made me laugh out loud... how sad.
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
8gb iPhone on Tmobile
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They are rabbit ears. It's just in case someone jumps in front of the picture.
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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and to give the "bunny ears" to someone is a sign of respect that you are showing. it means that the person you are giving them to has great, uhh, abilities to reproduce. something those lines. read that somewhere. ill try and dig it up
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So wait, does this make the iPod officially popular?
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Originally Posted by rickey939
So wait, does this make the iPod officially popular?
No, because clearly no one will want to lug around an iPod that big, or one that will melt.
Plus those headphones are useless to the average person.
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Is it just me, or does that thing not look like an iPod at all?
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Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
Actually its a Japanese thing, that Japanese people do in all pictures.
I know. But WHY?
Non-asian cultures demand an answer!
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
I know. But WHY?
Non-asian cultures demand an answer!
Its just a fad thats been happening for a long time.
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On the subject of which: Why do they always take pictures of themselves in front of stuff (invariably with the v-sign)? If you were to look at a typical japanese photoalbum, what percentage of the pictures would be of the owner (or his family) in front of buildings and landmarks?
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They don't ALL do that. But yeah. It seems like - from my now fading memory of being in Japan amongst Japanese people that travel was filled with lots of ritual practices. You travelled in tour groups or highly organized trips. You took pictures in front of the expected monuments. You bought friends, family and coworkers the expected gifts (you should see a Japanese tour group at the airport giftshop before going back - serious business).
It's pretty much what you're expected to do and so you do it to conform. Not to say Japanese are mindless robots - there are plenty of who stray from the usual and even the ones that don't still seem to have a curiousity, even on a superficial level that rivals even Americans.
But I've been extremely touched by receiving a gift from a collegue returned from a trip, or being shown some pictures to someplace like Budapest. Travelling may just be one of the ways they can break out from the routine and share new ideas and experiences with eachother.
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Example: I was getting a fun picture taken with my 4 year old host brother. I pick him up, and what does he do, flash the V sign. You can't see his face in the picture because of the darn V.
Its a cultural thing. Like waving around poloroids or slurping noodles.
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