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Tokyo's rabbit cafes hopping with customers
Tokyo is full of cafes catering to a wide assortment of tastes, but in recent years a new breed of coffee house has emerged for people who love to hang out with rabbits. Ra.a.g.f, pronounced “raf,” opened last fall in the fashionable Jiyugaoka area in Meguro Ward, and is usually packed at weekends with customers reveling in the company of the cafe’s 20 to 30 rabbits. “I came here during my break to relax,” said a smiling woman in her late 20s as she fed fresh vegetables to some of the rabbits. Customers who want to buy rabbits can purchase the animals from the cafe’s breeding center — but the cafe’s rabbit “staff” are not for sale. Cafe manager Maria Fuwa cautioned that customers have to be able to provide suitable accommodations for the rabbits and also must promise never to abandon them. In Fuwa’s view, a rabbit is for life. Another rabbit cafe, Usagi Cafe Ohisama (Rabbit Sun Cafe), was launched last year by a pet shop operator in the Shimokitazawa area in Setagaya Ward.
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir review: Behind you!
There's a very special, very terrified place in my heart for the Fatal Frame series. While Silent Hill encourages (and occasionally forces) me to run away from its horrors, Fatal Frame has always required me to not only face my fears, but to do so for as long as my nerves can take it. With a ghost-killing camera as my only weapon, I learn that the best photographs deal the most damage – and the best photographs are always close-ups. It may not say so on the box, but Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir is indeed a Fatal Frame game, one that puts an augmented reality spin on the traditional, heart-taxing action. The meat of Spirit Camera takes place in a standalone single-player campaign entitled "Fatal Frame: Diary of Faces," and tells the story of the mysterious, titular diary. The diary serves as the window into the game world. While the diary acts as a gateway to a haunted Japanese mansion, domain of the Woman in Black, the 3DS serves as Spirit Camera's window into your reality.
25 New Nike Designs Including Twitter, Google
We must really dig unique and geeky sneaker designs because we’ve written about them a lot here on Bit Rebels. Maybe I’m more of a dork than I thought, but when I saw these Twitter sneakers, I instantly started drooling. I would totally wear these! Daniel Reese, a 21-year-old sneaker designer, takes regular Nike sneakers and turns them into works of art. These shoes, which sell for around $200 – $250 per pair, are only available for a limited time. [via thisblogrules] Available 4 color printing cheap business cards at PsPrint
25 Awesome iPhone tips and tricks | Digital Crave - Yahoo!
Whether you're a seasoned user or brand new to the iPhone world, chances are you're probably not using your smartphone to its fullest. Don't worry, you're not alone, as these pocket-sized computers boast many hundreds of features buried in the operating system. And so here we share a number of our favorite iPhone tips and tricks, some of which you may know already. Hopefully there's a good number of ones you aren't aware of yet. Most of these following 25 suggestions will work with all versions of the iPhone, but be sure to have the latest software installed (iOS 5.1). OK, here we go: Take a photo with your headphone cord: Now that you can use the volume up or down buttons to snap a photo, steady your hand while framing up the photo and when you're ready to take the picture, press the button on the cord so it won't shake the iPhone. Dry out a wet iPhone: You're not the first one to drop an iPhone in a toilet or sink. Yahoo!
La sculpture acoustique de JR / La Boite concept migre à New York
Après Paris en Juillet l’artiste JR expose à New York du 31 / 10 au 21 / 11 sa sculpture acoustique réalisée en collaboration avec La Boite concept. Dans le cadre de Stages association de lutte contre le cancer plus de 20 artistes les plus influents de l’art actuel et contemporains sont attendus à la Galerie DEITCH de New York. JR a photographié Linda, habitante de Providencia, la plus veille favela de Rio. Là-bas, les maisons sont faites de plastique et les pistolets des enfants sont en acier. JR a imprimé puis collé ce portrait sur un mur d’enceintes acoustiques de 3,20m x 2,40m. Yvon Maurel, Directeur technique de La Boite concept, chercheur en électro-acoustique, a développé la partie acoustique de l’œuvre. Production Sophie Paumelle / JRSA L’œuvre en cours de réalisation à Paris Plus d’informations : www.jr-art.net www.laboiteconcept.com www.stages09.com Ce contenu a été publié dans Présent, avec comme mot(s)-clef(s) art contemporain, Deitch, JR, La Boite concept, stages.
The history of the remote control: Why are they so awful?
Photograph by Todd Ehlers/ Flickr. I can't figure out how to watch my brother's TV. He's explained it to me a hundred times, but that's the curse of the baby-sitting uncle: It's harder to work a remote control than it is to change a diaper. Every living room has its own orchestra of buttoned rectangles, a set of instruments that must be played in just the right sequence and according to a musical logic that can never be taught, only learned. Yet we indulge the fantasy that using someone else's TiVo is a matter of following a few simple directions: Just make sure you power up the cable with the gray remote and then flip on the set with that skinny black one, otherwise you'll get all screwed up. Courtesy Hauppauge. There's an excess of buttons in my house, too—92 of them, to be exact, arranged on my nightstand in rubbery rows, seven different colors' worth, with overlapping labels that range in tone from clear and aggressive ("POWER," "FREEZE") to meek and mysterious ("SUR," "NAVI").
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