THUNDER STAR

SEXISM

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:19:00 +0000

TRAIN MAP IN ASIA

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:44:00 +0000

At the first time I moved to Singapore. Riding on train was my favorite thing in traveling the city. I still remember how I used to have the rail map in my wallet all the time. Sadly, its a new thing for me since the train facility in my home country is not supportive for all citizens. At the time, there were only 4 MRT lines in Singapore. But now, I just found out that they might be working for adding 4 more. And 1 of them is connected to Malaysia. Its pretty confusing looking at the rail map now. But still quite easy to read at the first glance. But, what about other cities in Asia? I like looking at those rail maps because all the lines form a unit and they're all using attractive colors. And of course very helpful for travelers.

Singapore rail map (speculative)

Bangkok rail map

Hongkong rail map

Beijing rail map

Seoul rail map

Tokyo rail map

Tokyo rail map is the most difficult to understand for me. It looks more like a wiring diagram than a rail map. With more than 12 lines and colors, it works better as an artwork if you printed it out in large format.

SATOSHI SAIKUSA

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:08:00 +0000

Satoshi Saikusa was born in Japan in 1959. He moved to Paris in 1984 and two years later he began working as a publicity photographer. He quickly became known for his distinctive style. He proved to be extremely versatile, producing photos that perfectly envisaged different themes: sensual, glamorous, elegant and so on. His publicities soon got him noticed, as did his portraits and landscape photos. He famously worked with Shiseido, Estee Lauder, Loewe, Rochas and Cerruti. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Laeticia Casta, Monica Bellucci, Anna Mouglalis, Naomi Watts, Sophie Marceau, anne Hathaway, Catherine Deneuve… the most beautiful actresses in the world have posed in front of Satoshi Saikusa’s lens for magazines like Vogue, GQ, i-D and Harper’s Bazaar.

A shot of Naomi Watts and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Below are more photoshoots by Satoshi Saikusa. Based on the concept of Kabuki and beauty.

And my personal favorite is taken from his China Syndrome collection for W magazines in 1995. After more than 10 years...

EASY WAY TO EARN MONEY?

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:47:00 +0000

I recently found a website to earn money. I don't know if its true but I think everyone can give it a try since its for free. Its just a few clicks to register then you start do what the website needs you to do. Basically its a surveys company, I didn't know that such a thing exist. So, you earn money by commenting on other websites that apparently registered to this site. A few Dollars for one comment and you can redeem your accumulated money by using Pay pal. Is it really an easy way to earn money?

If you're interested, try to sign up for free. click my link HERE!!! and find out the truth...haha..

You ever heard of Nendo?

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:58:00 +0000

Nendo is a Japanese design based company led by Oki Sato (the dude above). Well, he's not a newbie in design world. But I remember when I first saw his work a few years ago, I thought he's a genius. His works are very interesting. As interesting as Tokujin Yoshioka, a fellow Japanese designer/architect/whatever he's working as. One of my favorite is the arm chair he made out of paper. Me, as an designer myself never would have thought to use such a fragile material. His design is somehow unique, fun, and from my point of view, a true Japanese. Now go check them out.

The actual name of it is cabbage chair (I just found out)

This guy designed chocolates... or are they pencils?

A fruits holder with shapes of the fruit itself and glowing mushroom!?

This is very cute. A miniature of interior design project he worked in. A practice that rarely seen for Interior design consultant these days. A design for Issey Miyake branch outlet. And check below for the actual size one.

HOW TO SOLVE RUBIK'S CUBE

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:10:00 +0000

After more than 20 years

Rubik's cube was invented by Erno Rubik, a genius architect from Hungary in the 70's. He as the inventor needed 17 weeks to solve his own toy. And now more than 20 years later, there are millions of people who still don't know how to solve it. I know 2 ways, the easy way and the hard way. Now follow the instruction below to solve the Rubik the easy way.

Nice and easy. Solved within seconds.

But for those people patient enough to find out how to solve it, please scroll down. I'm actually to lazy to tell you the details. So, I looked for videos to guide you much easier. And I found this guy's video and uploaded it for you :D

Here's the part one:

And here's the second part:

DANCE FOR JUSTICE

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:03:00 +0000

SEX MUSEUM???

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:09:00 +0000

If you are traveling to Japan, spare some time to drop by Hihokan sex museum in Beppu. I like museum, but I've never been to such a place. Women visitors might get disturbed to see what's inside this place. For some reason, this museum contains everything about sex fantasy of men, even though I found few things quite disgusting. But well, enjoy! Its sex anyway.

A picture of a woman being f**cked by teenage mutant ninja turtle, a pair of dear having sex, and a sado masochism girl. A very good start right?
Snow White having sex with the seven dwarfs, a woman having sex with I believe a monkey. and a another woman having sex with a dog.

And some freakish statues

YAAAY!!! SUPERHEROES!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:59:00 +0000

SMOKING KILLS!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:26:00 +0000

The widespread smoking of cigarettes in the Western world is largely a 20th century phenomenon – at the start of the century the per capita annual consumption in the USA was 54 cigarettes (equivalent to less than 0.5% of the population smoking more than 100 cigarettes per year), and consumption there peaked at 4,259 per capita in 1965. At that time about 50% of men and 33% of women smoked (defined as smoking more than 100 cigarettes per year). By 2000, consumption had fallen to 2,092 per capita, corresponding to about 30% of men and 22% of women smoking more than 100 cigarettes per year, and by 2006 per capita consumption had declined to 1,691; implying that about 21% of the population smoked 100 cigarettes or more per year.

I am a pack a day smoker. And during my high school year, smoking was one way to look cool. Today, smoking is a part of lifestyle. Especially for those liquor consumer, smoking is almost a must. They don't care how many people die from lung cancer every year. Even in Singapore, even though they put some nasty pictures on every pack. People just don't give a damn. So, here comes the challenge; How to quit smoking?

But no matter how bad cigarette is. It still serves as part of arts. And I just can stop smoking while I'm working. So I took a glance on these tips while I'm typing this.
How to quit smoking: www.hoptehcno.com

Happy BIrthday = shit !!! I'm getting old

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:38:00 +0000

Yesterday we got a birthday girl in town. She's one of my favorite. The birthday girl was sick but still celebrating her big day in a club. The birthday girl's broke for celebrating her big day, no thanks to a stupid tradition where the birthday ones got to treat their friends on food or liquors. Only happens in our beloved country. Here's the birthday girl.

I myself have experienced a very bad birthday celebration. It was my 27th birthday party and its a wrong thing to buy my friends 4 Jhonnie Walker Blue. And the present I got was 27 seconds of Blue Label non-stop gulping for each friend attending.

And after a few minutes, there I was. Collapsed on the couch fighting the urge to puke with my buddies hovering over me. The hang over was so bad on the next morning. Birthday never been a happy day for me, after spending a lot of money for celebrating it, getting bullied by friends, sadistic hang over, I still have to face the fact that I'm getting old.

Here are some funny quotes I found to lighten myself up from hang over:

-"Age is a number and mine is unlisted."
-"Looking fifty is great if you are sixty."
-"The more birthdays you celebrate, the lesser days you have to the grave."
-"To me, old is always 20 years older than I am."
-"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF GANTZ?

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:33:00 +0000

I've been reading Gantz since it was first published. Yes its a manga, but with so much different atmosphere. Gantz is dark, and contains blood, despair, love, sex, gore, death and what I like the most is how the writers always show the deepest evil in human beings. Like the old saying; "No one knows one's deepest heart." Gantz is meant for adult readers. The story line is mysterious and unpredictable.

The story started with the death of a group of people who mysteriously sent to an apartment room instead of limbo. In that room they found a black ball which provides them with various weapons. Then they were told to complete a mission. They can't walk out the room nor run away. The only way to get is to accomplish the mission in order to be transferred back to life. And this is where the psychological stuffs work. Would you believe in anything at all when you obviously know you're dead? Would you trust a bunch of strangers to complete a mission that to kill aliens? And this manga really express how people would react in this situation. Different individuals, different characters, different reactions, different endings.

As the story goes, the main character Kurono Kei, was able to assemble a solid Gantz team to wage war against aliens. They fight battle after battle in environments where no one can see them. With no other purpose than to survive each battle. After witnessing so many deaths, Kurono becomes a war god and a cold blooded aliens killer. But the situation is slowly changed when they realized that the aliens are only trying to defend themselves from Gantz team's vicious attack. And unlike before they are now visible to other humans. They've been reported by media as a black ops unit. Things get more confusing when they found out that there are more than one Gantz team. But apparently there is one team representing each city from all over the world. And the worst is when a reporter found out that all Gantz team's weapons are being produced in Germany.

The story so far, things gone from bad to worse. Now, human beings are facing a global catastrophe. The earth is being attacked by new alien race. And somehow, the Gantz teams are assembled to fight a battle against them. The humans are falling, even the world's strongest military falls, and Gantz teams are the only hope to prevent humans from slavery or extinction.

Gantz, with excellent graphic and interesting story is one of the best manga out there. And there are a lot of articles reviewing the making of Gantz movie in real cast. Even though I don't think the movie will be succeed, I'm looking forward to it

BEER... HELPING UGLY PEOPLE TO GET DATES SINCE 1865

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:25:00 +0000

Beer...Helping ugly people have dates! I don't really agree with the statement since I never had find a date with beer drinking. But, later I found some beer ads indulging women and sex and then I thought maybe that's how they sell their products...

This is a Corona beer ads, and I don't know is it just me or its really a woman having sex. I cant help but guessing what message this ads trying to tell us. Is it a description of how corona taste? like having an orgasm? or its an example of how would you end up when you had 40 bottles of Corona with your date?

And this one is an obviously wrong beer ads. But its funny though. Maybe this ads trying to tell that beer and alcohol can change people even Snow White.

My comment is... She's just too high to care that its a dog... or maybe she's into dogs. Anyway! thanks to beer.

A woman's ass and a beer can... beer, helping people have sex...

Everybody Love Lego!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:15:00 +0000

Lego was founded in 1932 by the Oleg Kirk Kristiansen family from Billund, Denmark. And now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen his grandson. In terms of sales, Lego group is the fifth largest manufacturer of toys.

The name Lego is abbreviation of two danish words "leg godt" meaning play good as their ideal.

It has come along way for over 80 years from a small carpenters workshop to a modern, global enterprise that is now.

And I got my first Lego in my primary years. I still remember the box was labeled Legoland and it was a small space ship from the M tron series. My mom bought me for my birthday gift and since then every new year, birthday, graduation day, and Christmas, I used to wait for my mom to come home with Lego.

I still love Lego until now. But, to be honest I'd prefer a much different type of Lego than just a plain space ship or pirate ship.

DILLINGER FOUR ROCKS!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THUNDER STAR) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:55:00 +0000

Released in 2008, The Art of Whore in Civil War album!
I always love punk music and Dillinger Four is one of my all time fave.
Somehow it never fails to make me smile and remind me how big my
interest is toward skateboarding and street fashion.