My interest in time lapse videos of Japan continues. I surfed into my latest favourite by Andreas Doppelmayr a few days ago entitled Tokyo & Yokohama – A High Speed Journey. It joins Alone in Tokyo and Tokyo Time Lapse on my list of great Japan related videos I have to share. Red barrier lights...

Following up on the Alone in the Tokyo Video Phillip Bloom I surfed into another great Tokyo related video that also highlights Japan’s capital. The creative representation of Tokyo this time is called “static : pulse” and was made by Samuel Cockedey. Tokyo Skyline in daylight The...

Tokyo is the capital of Japan and a very a fascinating city. It is the most populous metropolis in the world, the most important city in Asia and one of the top five cities of the world. Phillip Bloom has created a very interesting short film of Tokyo that features everyday life in me mega-city. Nothing...

It’s been 4 months since my first post about Tokyo’s 2016 Olympic Bid and since then a lot has happened in relation to the race to host the games after London in 2012. The four cities  competing are Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Chicago and Tokyo. At first the race seemed to be between Madrid...

To be “irie” is to be at total peace with your current state of being, the way you feel when you have no worries and a city is a center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance. Iriecity.com is a new site from a web developer friend of mine who has combined...

Tokyo is the capital of Japan and according to a recent survey by the Independent Newspaper it is the most important city in all of Asia and 4th most important in the world. Cities were ranked based on various criteria, including population, economy and influence. I’m not surprised by Tokyo’s...

Every time I here or see anything related to Virtual Reality (VR) the stupid VR Troopers theme song plays in my head (we are, we are VR Troopers), oh boy, the things we used to watch as kids ^_^. Anyway there is an ongoing Tokyo VR project. The project aims to capture a panoramic view of scenes from...

The Shimizu Mega City is just one of the many buildings completely planned out for Japan and only waiting on the materials, funding and technology to be able to bring them to fruition. One other such project is the X-Seed 4000, at 13,123 feet high, the massive, mountain-shaped building envisioned by...

I first got news of this proposed structure way back in 2004. When I first watched the Discovery Channel program detailing the plans for this project I was very skeptical and thought at the time that nothing as massive as this could be build in my lifetime. Three years later and I got an email from a...