what the hell-O kitty?

The Super Hello Kitty Jewel Doll ($150 million)

2009-04-13T19:18:00.004-04:00

"The Super Hello Kitty Jewel Doll", studded with a 1.027ct diamond on its ribbon, 403-piece pink sapphires on its body, a citrine on its yellow nose, black spinels on its eyes and a total 1,939-piece white topaz on its head on the platinum 900 made body was exhibited in Tokyo this week. Swarovski, Japan's character giant Sanrio and Japanese jewelery maker I.K. unveiled the $150 million (€112,695) Hello Kitty doll, 10.5cm tall and weighing 569g at the Baselworld watch and jewelery show in Switzerland last month to celebrate Hello Kitty's 35th anniversary.

chicago tribune
times of malta

collection of hello kitty psychological tests

2007-09-15T21:43:00.000-04:00

hello kitty's psychological tests

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its a Hello Kitty Pez Dispenser... and a credit card!

2007-09-02T19:07:00.000-04:00

Of course, we can now give our RFID element any kind of a case mod that we see fit. One thing that would be easy to do is just to embed it in the side of a wallet. You could also embed it in any one of the millions of things that have become USB thumb drives in the last few years...

For the sake of absurdity, here is one overly large, silly, and seriously impractical case that you could use: it's "Hello Credit."

via evilmadscientist.com

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hello kitty is a communist and here's why...

2007-08-30T22:01:00.000-04:00

"Hello Kitty Stump Village" Vol. 4: Hurrah for Comrade Kitty!
By Ed Liu
08-24-2007, 9:12 AM

Workers of the world, rejoice! A new DVD volume chronicling the adventures of the friend of the proletariat, Hello Kitty, has been released by the capitalist running dogs of Geneon. Clearly, their burning desires for filthy lucre have blinded them to the fact that Hello Kitty Stump Village Vol. 4: Time to Dig In!, an informational video aimed at children, describes the glorious worker's paradise of Communism. To wit: we witness Hello Kitty, My Melody, Cinnamoroll, and Pompompurin living a perfectly idyllic existence in the Proletarian Paradise of Stump Village, which clearly lives by the credo, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" (accepting for convenience, of course, the fascist linguistic structures that are designed to denigrate and belittle the contributions of our glorious sisters in the global class struggle). Together, they are strong, just as we all must be strong to shed the chains imposed on us by the capitalist overlords of the world.

Of course, if you will forgive the opiate-of-the-masses terminology, Hello Kitty's worker's Eden is made all the more poignant by the introduction of a serpent—in this case, the bourgeois capitalist pig stand-in character Bad Batz-Maru. Unlike the selfless laborers represented by the other characters, Batz-Maru represents the profiteering labor "leader" intent on the maximum extraction of capital from the sweat of the brows of the exploited working classes. In a clever touch, Batz-Maru is modeled after a penguin, allowing the comrades who created the cartoons to model (and mock) him as a twisted mirror image of the tuxedo-clad capitalist bourgeois icon of "Monopoly," thus countering the early indoctrination into capitalist hegemony and the exploitation of labor. Stump Village is nothing if not a naked exposure of exactly how empty the pursuit of the almighty Dollar truly is. It takes little to intuit the meaning behind the closing moments of this disc, when Batz-Maru desires awards he has not rightly earned through his own labor and seeks to cheat his way to them, only to be undone by his own machinations. Indeed, his outright theft is rewarded in a most appropriately poetic way as he is struck and seemingly killed by lightning right before the final end credits roll on this DVD.

read the complete review on Toon Zone

see also
Hello Kitty Stump Village Vol. 4 DVD on Amazon.com
The Existential Angst of "Hello Kitty: Stump Village" Vol. 1

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$32,000 hello kitty dog house

2007-07-07T17:21:00.000-04:00

Sanrio unveiled a luxury dog house Friday worth 3.9 million yen (32,000 dollars) for the ultimate pampered pooch.

The one-of-its-kind doghouse, decorated with some 7,600 glass crystals and a cushion bearing Hello Kitty's face, will be sold during a July 24-30 promotion event at Mitsukoshi Ltd.'s flagship department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district.

France 24, Kyodo News

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dog with a hello kitty tattoo

2007-06-23T10:01:00.000-04:00

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Guns, batons, fake Hello Kitty seized

2007-04-13T21:27:00.000-04:00

CUSTOMS officials in Adelaide have seized a haul of potentially lethal weapons and counterfeit goods amongst a shipment of illegal Chinese-made goods.

...The haul included 197 nunchakus, 100 extendable steel batons, 831 BB guns and a large quantity of BB pellets. Counterfeit goods seized included 665 tins of trading cards, 480 pocket mirrors, 360 backpacks and 1,166 stationery items. Among the fake brands were Yu-Gi-Oh!, Disney, Hello Kitty, Mattel and Nickelodeon.

via news.com.au

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hello kitty usb lap warmer

2007-02-20T18:52:00.001-05:00

to match your foot warmers

via hello kitty hell

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todd goldman

2007-02-19T22:25:00.001-05:00

an artist with an odd sense of humor has a "goodbye kitty" series...

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hello kitty snowmen for sale

2007-02-10T10:10:00.000-05:00

"The picture above shows the plastic mold on the right into which the snow is packed, and the left is an actual Snow Kitty which came out of the package. The Kitty arrives in a refrigerated delivery pack, with the snow packed inside the mold. The kids can then have great fun taken out the frozen Kitty, and sticking the 2 eyes, 1 nose, and six whiskers, which are included in the package, onto Kitty’s face."

via stippy.com

Every year very popular! From the northern country the kitty delivery ♪ Hokkaido large built up white message with the snow which piles up in the nature Onuma semi-national park, because it is the commodity of the ♪ period limitation to which the snowman of the kitty is appearance, not to flee!!...

* Size
Substance : Approximately height 35cm× diameter 26cm
Package : Approximately height 45cm× diameter 32cm
Weight : Approximately there are times when it changes within 6kg (with the state of the snow)

* Accessory: 2 eyes and nose one, self-depreciation 6

via translated japanese sanrio site

hello kitty usb foot warmers

2007-01-29T22:22:00.000-05:00

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hello kitty illusions

2006-11-24T21:42:00.000-05:00

Directions: Notice that the image you see when you roll your mouse over the image is black and white. Remove your mouse from the image. Focus on the black dot in middle of the image for twenty seconds. Keep focus on the dot while you move your mouse back over the image. It will appear to be in color!

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The Existential Angst of "Hello Kitty: Stump Village" Vol. 1

2006-10-26T19:52:00.000-04:00

By Ace the Bathound
10-25-2006, 2:45 PM

... While the first volume of Hello Kitty: Stump Village shows some rough edges, the core of Hello Kitty remains intact, expressing the futility of existence; the casual, Darwinistic cruelty we exercise on each other, often for little or no reason; and the meaningless suffering that infuses our lives. The show is ostensibly about four animalistic friends who symbolize the ego (Hello Kitty), the id (Pompompurin), the superego (My Melody), and the fundamental mysteries of the unknown (Cinamoroll); sadly, the stand-in for the Jungian collective unconscious (Badtz-Maru) appears only in the opening credits. The four engage in play activities heavily laden with symbolism in an ultimately futile dance against the existential void that hangs over them like the sword of Damocles. The sunglasses My Melody owns but refuses to share in the second episode takes on the same metaphorical weight of the Coke bottle in The Gods Must Be Crazy – a concrete symbol of the consumerism and greed simmering within us all and ready to burst out at the slightest provocation. The last two episodes are a bold experiment with an extended story structure, as Kitty is torn between loyalty to her friends and the hatred that burns in her heart over their selfish desires. The climax of the first of the two episodes comes as her friends shatter Kitty's heart fruit, neatly expressing the overriding theme of the show in an embarrassingly heavy-handed manner: our friends are often the only ones who can irrevocably break our hearts, and that love and hate are really only two sides of the same coin...

read the complete review on Toon Zone
more information about this dvd here
buy Hello Kitty - Stump Village - A Place of Fun! (Vol. 1)

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hello kitty exhaust pipe

2006-09-06T20:34:00.000-04:00

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hello kitty vader

2006-08-02T20:38:00.000-04:00

why?

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hello kitty bong

2006-01-15T20:47:00.000-05:00

two-twenty created a hello kitty bong, i mean... water pipe. they even include instructions on their site.

hello kitty, transformers, with breakdancing video

2006-01-15T19:01:00.000-05:00

hello+kitty sanrio video claymation transformers

claymation hello kitty video

2006-01-15T18:35:00.000-05:00

http://saimanchow.com/mo/kitty_mov.html