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Plastic Eggs
Tokyo, Japan - jeeff - Friday, March 31st, 2006 : goo
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"In modern Japanese slang, an Otaku
refers to an overly obsessive fan of any one particular theme, topic, or hobby. Perhaps the most common uses are anime otaku (one who sometimes enjoys many days of excessive anime watching with no rest) and manga otaku (a fan of Japanese graphic novels). The term otaku used by itself just means 'fanatic'."
- wikipedia
while in tokyo i lived near Akihabara, the mecca for otaku. i walked to work most days along the main strip of electric town, and i often saw the geeks camping out in front of stores or cheering some school girl idols at a promotional gig.
that would have been that, if i hadn't found a bag of empty plastic eggs on the subway platform one evening. i took the bag home and began to hatch a plan. i could use these things to communicate--like a message in a bottle. make that 20 bottles as there were 20 eggs. and the perfect spot would be in akihabara, with its rows upon rows of toy vending machines. i was excited to communicate with these strangers, guys from my own generation. i set to work and drew this:
next, the assembly:
and finally, the delivery:
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chiamattt: 31st Mar 2006 - 07:43 GMT
That is the coolest project yet! It's so rad. Do you have more shots of people finding the eggs?
Jamie: 31st Mar 2006 - 08:32 GMT
hah, what an interesting story/project. this is my favourite kinda stuff
Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 31st Mar 2006 - 14:00 GMT
Brilliant. Having a grand idea, documenting it and following through. Great stuff.
Peter: 31st Mar 2006 - 14:21 GMT
jeeff: a brilliant idea, indeed. and the recursive scheme of the art inside is hilarious. when they get to the "?", they'll be like "huh?!" and not even realize, at first glance, that their "huh" is exactly what that "?" represents. classic!
have you gotten any hits/contact via your site from this undertaking?
a'la: Great going, jeef. Pure genius :-)
jeeff: 31st Mar 2006 - 18:06 GMT
chiamattt - no. i tried to hang around a few other days, but i didn't catch anyone. usually i just left and continued on to work. obviously it's hard to loiter around inconspicuously as a white dude in tokyo, especially if you have a camera. i didn't want recipients to see me as that would've ruined it.
peter - no emails. i do get hits from japan on my site, but they could be friends. i guess i'll never know.
Peter: the mystery is half the fun, id imagine...
Tyfoid Kid: 31st Mar 2006 - 19:55 GMT
Yet another cool idea from the Citynoise folks. Loitering is hard to do when you're not loitering but have a purpose.
galaxy: 1st Apr 2006 - 00:51 GMT
hmmm.... what if someone planted those 20 plastic eggs for you to find on the platform then did a drawing of what you did with those eggs, including your drawings, your trip to the photocopying store and your carefully placing off the eggs in the vending machines?
that'd be weird...
Liz: 1st Apr 2006 - 03:51 GMT
I love the pic w/in a pic w/in a pic. It reminds me of this book I read as a kid with a can of soup with a picture of a guy holding a can of soup and in that pic the same guy was holding a can of soup . . . . . .
BTW galaxy. you just blew my mind.
brenda sept.8 2006 5.55pm : 8th Sep 2006 - 21:56 GMT
i'm looking for a job where you can work at home and stuff eggs for different things that was a cool one they did
brenda sept.8 2006 5.55pm : 8th Sep 2006 - 21:56 GMT
i'm looking for a job where you can work at home and stuff eggs for different things that was a cool one they did
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