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Seafood shoppers may on rare occasions encounter the preserved bodies of aliens — or even Jenny Haniver specimens — at fish markets in Japan. These two darlings were photographed at a shop on Oharai-machi Street near the entrance to Ise Shrine in Mie prefecture. [Photo: ~MVI~] Link to the original article…

Photographer heiwa4126’s “Stereographics” photoset on Flickr is an eye-bending collection of “little planet” panoramas and ultra-wide fisheye images shot mostly in Tokyo. Tokyo Station [heiwa4126] Ueno Station [heiwa4126] Shin-Arakawa Bridge [heiwa4126] Higashi-Ayase Park [heiwa4126] Shibaura [heiwa4126] Adachi Ward [heiwa4126] Katsushika Ward [heiwa4126] Ueno Station [heiwa4126] Tokyo Dome City [heiwa4126] Shiodome Sio-site [heiwa4126] Check heiwa4126’s photoset [...]

[+] A pair of giant robotic spiders designed and built by French performance art group La Machine have come to Yokohama to take part in the upcoming Expo Y150, a 5-month festival commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the city’s port. [+] Although the Expo Y150 festivities are not scheduled to officially begin [...]

Osada Genki, a physicist turned painter and ambient noise artist, creates highly textural, abstract audiovisual paintings using snippets of altered video — often of human faces and forms — smothered under thick layers of kaleidoscopic digital glitchiness and wrapped in lush, gritty soundscapes. + Kao Study + Abura Ponchi E + Hanpa Nai Tomo More [...]

Kenbikyō Mushi No Zu (”Illustrations of Microscopic Insects”), a scroll published in 1860, depicts a lively parade of creepy-crawlies as viewed through a microscope. Although most of the insects pictured can actually be seen with the naked eye, the artist’s use of a microscope — still a relatively unusual instrument in Japan in those days [...]

Takeuchi Taijin’s “A wolf loves pork” is a mind-boggling stop-motion animation piece created from hundreds, if not thousands, of printed photographs that traverse the walls and furniture of a one-room apartment. [Link: A wolf loves pork.] Link to the original article…

Here is some provocative video of a mysterious creature encountered by Japanese fishermen on a rocky seashore. The excitement begins when the three men notice a group of strange animals on the side of a nearby cliff. Curious, they approach for a closer look and eventually manage to corner one. (The close encounter begins at [...]

Only rarely does Shinjuku look as magical as it does here in this time-lapse video shot over the course of a year from various locations. The dreamy ambient track is from Cliff Martinez’s score for the movie Solaris (2002). (Thanks, Sam!) [Links: YouTube, Vimeo] Link to the original article…