Bacon Alarm Clock

The Bacon Alarm Clock is a new idea that is not widely available yet, but I think this is a very creative idea and has the potential to be successful. It provides a funny alternative way of waking someone up. Traditionally, alarm clocks only use loud, annoying beeping sounds, but The Bacon Alarm Clock adds a twist by letting the aroma of freshly cooked bacon to wake us up.
To use this clock, you just need to put frozen bacon inside the cute pig-shaped clock before you go to sleep. The next day, 10 minutes before the set time, the clock will start cooking the bacon so you can wake up to the mouthwatering smell.

Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

The Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are plastic zipper bags with green splotches painted on both sides. These splotches are made to look like fungus on a expired moldy bread, so if a sandwich is placed inside the bag, the bread will look moldy and spoiled. These bags are also reusable. It is a simple yet genius idea to stop people from eating your packed lunch. Who would want to steal bread that looks this disgusting?
I think the Anti-Theft Lunch Bag is a good example to show that with a creative mind, where you can make a very interesting and quirky idea from a seemingly normal things to solve problems effectively.

The Wind Rises

The Wind Rises (,Kaze Tachinu) is the last film directed by Hayao Miyazaki in Studio Ghibli. The film is based on the manga of the Kaze Tachinu, which was a turn based on a short story by Tatsuo Hori.
Kaze Tachinu is a biographical movie of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the Mitsubishi A5M and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Both were fighter aircraft that the Empire of Japan used in World War II.
The movie was released on July 2013 in Japan, which soon will be release early by Disney on November 2013 in Los Angeles so it can qualify for Academy Awards consideration so that the film could be expanded until February 2014.

Ken Sugimori

Ken Sugimori was born on 27 January 1966 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a game designer, illustrator, director and manga artist. He was well known as the character designer of Pokémon series. He design 151 Pokémon by himself. Even now, he had a team for designing new Pokémon, he still the one who made the final design. He made Pokémon character by observing animals, plants and other objects. Like for example a cat Pokémon Meowth, rose Pokémon Roserade, a gothic Lolita inspired Pokémon Gothielle

For me he was a great observer and very creative. Making 151 kinds of monster must not be easy moreover if he had to make the Pokémon speciality, the Pokémon ability, setting another colour for the rare Pokémon, etc.   

My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro has been one of Studio Ghibli’s most successful movies. The company logo itself featured Totoro from the movie. This movie was first release on April 1988 in Japan and was re-released by Disney on March 2006 with an English dub by a world-wide artist, Dakota and Elle Fanning as Satsuki and Mei (two main characters), Timothy Daly as Mr.Kusakabe (Satsuki and Mei’s father), Pat Caroll as Granny, Lea Salonga as Mrs. Kusakabe (Satsuki and Mei’s mom), and Frank Welker as Totoro and Catbus.

Totoro itself has some influences to some things like recently, this year a new species velvet worm was discovered in Vietnam and was named after Totoro, because there was a character called catbus in the movie which was a many-legged cat and resembles the velvet worm.

Totoro also appears in Toy Story 3 in the ending part when the theme song was sung.

 

Paper Knitting

Knitting has been known from a long time ago. The early European knitting started since the 13^th century. Knitting itself was a method to make clothes, etc. by using two long needles to connect thread into joined rows.

Today there were some artists that use knitting for their sculpture.

Ivano Vitali is one of artists who use knitting for his sculpture. He was a paper artist who made his own threads using newspaper and knitted them. He started to use newspaper as his main medium on 1995 and started to knit newspaper on 2002. He never uses glue for his works and never paints them. The color was based on the paper he was using. In 2004, he made a dress out of newspaper “La Gazzetta dllo Sport”. His newspaper clothes were wearable and he did some fashion exhibitions with his paper clothes.

 

collector

Collector is a person who is seeking, collecting, cataloging, and displaying things as a hobby. Collector usually collects thing which became their interest even if the things itself were meaningless. For example in 19^th century, collecting stamps has been most of collectors’ interest.

Today people start to collect different things that were unique and catch their interest, such as colleting Barbie dolls, cars, bottle label and others. I used to collect useless object too last time, but then my dad told me to threw it away since I don’t kept them properly. I used to collect mineral water label from every country that I visited. But some of them were defective because some of them had a recyclable plastic that was so easy to smudge.