Asian Culture, Lifestyle and Entertainment
Old, a bit silly but funny commercial by clothing brand Diesel. It’s a 1994 advertisement, titled No More Tears, and I presume it aired primarily in the United States. Diesel uploaded this as Learn to Love Again (instead of its old title), probably to avoid trademark issues with a famous shampoo brand.
Diesel ran a series of successful marketing campaigns in the 1990’s which broke the dominance of established denim brands. Not sure if this is a famous one but I find it humorous.
Tokyo photographer Natsumi Hayashi [Jp] is becoming an internet buzz lately with her levitating self portraits in which she appeared to be floating in the air.
American TV host Ellen DeGeneres and English football star David Beckham decided to pull a hidden camera prank on an unsuspecting masseuse. David had to say everything Ellen told him. This is what I call a great prank, funny and no harm done…
One of my favourite music videos ever, with a Japanese school girl breakdancing (or popping to be precise?) to the funky techno beat…
The song is I My Me Mine by Japanese new wave band Polysics, released in 2006. The girl is nicknamed Strong Machine 2 after her father, who’s a Buddhist priest and breakdancer with the stage name Strong Machine 1.
SM2 was 11 when the MV was released. She became a mini-celebrity after that, featuring in TV commercials and appearing on variety shows every now and then.
Japanese love cute animals. Videos of cuddly pets are often on the most viewed list of Youtube Japan, and here’s a recent one that gone viral with two little bunnies sitting in cups while doing nothing much besides moving their noses…
Video by Yukichibutyou@Youtube. Check out some of my old posts on Japanese pets… some cute guinea pigs munching (vid); one fat & weird cat (vid); Tama-chan the stationmaster cat; and the ever popular heart-marked chihuahua.
Korean pop group 4Minute is featured in a commercial for Ariul cosmetics. Pretty funny.
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