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Japan: Ryokan Style

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[Matsuzake Inn]
Happen to be a-wanderin’ through Japan with a small wallet and need a place to stay? [Ed: Hey it could happen!]AA Try a Ryokan, a type of Japanese inn that serves ya breakfast in the morning.AA Above you see an example picture, which I’ve heard speak louder than words (and only slightly louder than recycling baths).

A typical ryokan has a relatively large entrance hall, with couches and chairs where guests can sit and talk; a modernized ryokan often has a television in the hall as well. Guest rooms are constructed using traditional Japanese methods: flooring is tatami, and doors are sliding doors. Even if the inn uses hinged doors for security, it usually opens into a small entranceway where guests can take off their shoes before stepping onto the tatami floor, which would be separated by a sliding door. Many ryokan rooms also feature a porch or balcony, also set off with a sliding door.

Ryokan usually also feature a common bathing area, often using the water from a hot spring (onsen) if any are nearby (areas with natural hot springs tend to have large concentrations of inns). Recently, high-end ryokan often provide private bathing facilities as well. Typically ryokan provide guests with a yukata to wear; they might also have games such as table tennis, and possibly geta that visitors can borrow for strolls outside.

Bedding is a futon spread out on the tatami floor. When guests first enter their room, they usually find a table and some supplies for making tea. The table is also often used for meals when guest take them in their room. While guests are out, staff (usually called nakai) will come in, move the table aside, and set out the futon.

If you’re interested in learning more then you should definitely check out the article at Japtard, the cool blog that put us on to this ish in the first place.AA They even have a video short about it.AA Heres a quote from them:

Another short clip from Urbanation, this time about sake and Ryokans. Searching for alternatives for those expensive hotels? You might want to check out the traditional ryokans guest houses.

Even though the family-run mini-hotels are being pushed out of the market by the big chains, there are still enough to be found in the suburbs. In the ryokan, the guest is supposed to relax completely while the staff looks after everything.
The price you pay depends on the day of the week, the prize of your room ranges from 6000- 22.000 yen.

Happy travels.

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Posted: October 18th, 2007
at 1:25pm by Black Ock


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Ultimate Shot Glass

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Quaffer Layered Plastic Shot Glass

This ultimate shot/chaser tool will certainly spark some conversation at your next party. It holds your favorite shot on top and your chaser on the bottom. Do your shot and chaser in one easy step, with no lag time in between. Ita€™s a fun and interesting new way to party.

  • In stock and ready to ship.

Features

  • Made of plastic for greater durability
  • Do your shot and chaser in one easy step
  • A nice conversation piece

Personally, I would say the ultimate shot glass would have less chaser and more booze, but I’m not sure how the physics work out, much less the necessity of such a device. Jager and redbulls here I come.

$4 at KegWorks [via the green head]

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Posted: October 18th, 2007
at 10:06am by Black Ock


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materialicious shipping container coverage

materialicious are busy trying to reinvent the shipping container as well- here are some of their highlights….there is a new standard for all yal builders out there to add to your train car, cross-reference applique directories- IBU = Intermodal Building Unit (= Shipping Container) is a brand new [and exclusive to a guy named Greg] standard for stacking boxes! they have been reporting on some of the nicest designs that I have seen anywhere.

a company in france now offers eco-friendly ISOs with bamboo flooring and you can even cop that above pattern of a pattern for a tile pattern for your floor. anybody remember super puzzle fighter II turbo? back to the original mode of reasoning of writing about shipping containers, these meditation pods seem like a really practical use for a rampant shipping container. it is good to see that the public’s interest in shipping containers has actually yielded replacement "containers" that merely represent the possibilities of the consumer’s desire to save the environment and effectively make non-custom (soon to be custom) containers less expensive for building in the process.


CNN coverage via materialicious

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Posted: October 16th, 2007
at 10:00am by Koookiecrumbles


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Reinventing the Shipping Container Part 4

ok now that we have a vague idea of some of the elements involved within the spectrum of shipping containers, one asks what’s next?

-buy some shipping containers
-understand how to ship with shipping containers from a German perspective
-be aware of the terrorist threat that shipping containers hold in our "borderless world"
-reflect on the play on shipping containers as data packets
-decide whether the purpose of container[s] areis for a cargo, travel, work, promotion, media container, living or industrial space
rethink if you are going to architect the containers or go to the playa
-realize that people have been doing this pre-fab thing since the seventies : ninjas already been known about shipping containers so there are —-other options
-build that! and make a statement?!

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With privatization, "the public agency that actually owns the port is guaranteed rent, and there’s a higher level of security for everybody in the chain," Mr. Levinson said. "This was a response to the riskiness of what is a very, very capital-intensive business."

from
Dynamist.com: How container shipping changed the global economy, Economic Scene by Virgina Postrel

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Posted: October 16th, 2007
at 8:00am by Koookiecrumbles


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Underwater Vehicles Inc.

these dudes make newt suits as well as some out of this world habitat living options for people who live near cliffs and or in the middle of the ocean?, but focus mostly on building submersibles for the general public.

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Posted: October 9th, 2007
at 10:00am by Koookiecrumbles


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Finishing a Container-Built Home

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St. Petersburg, Florida: Bob Villa sums up a finished ISBU and hurricane proof, pilot development aimed at revitalizing a neighborhood teeming with affordable housing.
watch the episode here

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Posted: October 9th, 2007
at 9:00am by Koookiecrumbles


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Reinventing the Shipping Container Part 2

shipping containers are formal pallets of break bulk. break bulk is what shipping containers used to be called back in the day. looking around, design wars are warring between prefab and pre-fab. on one side there are ultra-efficient shipping container-based factory-built homes that are moved in the same containers that built the flats of semi-trucks and on the other there is a corn-based R/V Renaissance brewing from shoreline to parking lot.


as light sets and disguises any routine, it is hard to move that shipping containers do not rule the earth. if one was to attempt to get a glimpse into the world of this whole supply chain world that i keep hearing about, understanding what the shipping container is would hold many a question. i mean global trade is apparently exponential and am4ricans love they boxes. why did rectangles become the norm? stacking ability or concrete bombs?

while the american "residual" ["the measure of our ignorance"] effect rules, we like to think that we are a part of the rest of the world. singapore proofs this destiny as the world’s leading container port due to their consistent need to refine for trade.

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interestingly enough while americans will have to learn to watch the shipping container take over brandom, Rotterdam is shifting policy towards "creative clusters of industry, R&D, and education"; making moves for the brain container as i heard in an ol puffy song. [The world is just a container away]

besides the wine-bottle and label design debates that fester in the rows of most local wineries, how can we convince the public that an already-refined container is better than damn near similar designs that appear to be probably more customized for the consumer? what is the residual definition of having a shipping container on the bill?

well, the military has worked that out for us all by regulating the desired purpose of the shipping container through "specification busting" and prison manufacture.

shipping containers are manufacturing how regional inter-modal depots get formed. Inter-modal warehouse purpose in mass-transportation network can be related to the importance of river networks and the explanation of how people tried to explain the engineering behind the economics. from a pre-historical standpoint it looks like shipping containers have molded around the channels that moved them:

[the discipline of modern finance] "[It] combined the insights of John Law, a Scottish gambler turned French banker [who is ordinarily credited with being the force behind the Mississippi Bubble] with an extraordinary economic system based on dynamic self-organizing networks used by Native Americans in the region, catalyzed by some innovations imported with natives of the Congo River and the Niger River economies. The first person to publish an explanation in mathematical terms was the finance professor and banker Fischer Black…."

yet there is an abundance of containers at all the major, new-traditional ports across the world. so apart from wondering if it makes sense to combine multiple boxes so that a long-haul semi-truck could take two boxes instead of eight and the killuminati question, that because there are boxes, there also needs to be refined goods, how can we make shipping containers the general fabric?
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In other words, how can new housing models not only bring upgraded forms of shelter supply to the effected landscape, but also help play into a larger strategy of establishing more permanent and sustainable resolution to infrastructure in desperate communities, hoping for more significant planning change?

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Posted: October 2nd, 2007
at 4:01pm by Koookiecrumbles


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MTV Cribs: Scarface

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Who Will Remember The Shapshaks? (at Hotel Chelsea)

UPDATE — According to a tipster, Jerry Weinstein has been told by NEW MANAGEMENT that he is no longer personally allowed to accept reservations.

I thought I had stepped into the twilight zone on Wednesday when I got home from work and didna€™t recognize a single face behind the front desk. Typically, when I get home, ita€™s either Robert and Robert, or Uninviting Robert and Jerome. But on Wednesday there were three young people behind the desk: Juan, who has been around for a few weeks, and two young women whom Ia€™ve never seen before. Then, on Thursday there was a new guy holding open the front door (a doorman?) and more new people behind the front desk. Oh well, I suppose wea€™ll find out their names when the holidays roll around and we get a little list in our boxes.

This place is swiftly becoming corporatized, and ita€™s a damn shame on a number of levels. But allow me to digress for a moment and tell you a little story:

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Posted: September 26th, 2007
at 7:33am by Koookiecrumbles


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