Now the baby bit here is really a bit over the line for me, but it is about sushi. 
If you already find this disturbing - don’t open the post…
A fun ad which makes me wanna run down to the nearest quality sushi shop!
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Some think this is a heresy to the Japanese tradition, but the truth is that it is a huge success and there have been several television channels making documentaries on its origin (Tokyo TV, Asahi TV…). Others have also tried to reproduce it.
Sushi inspires in the weirdest ways - now also in hairdressing! Angelo Seminara, the British Hairdresser of the Year in 2008, saw sushi and thought “I want to create that…in hair”.
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I love Star Wars and we have a lot of movies and effects from it laying about, but seriously - how cool are these? Lightsaber chopsticks!?? Fantastico! I want one!! What amazing sushi parties there will be. I wonder if they come with sound…
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Super Baozi vs Sushi man from sun haipeng on Vimeo.
Super Baozi, being tired of being in Catering, is longing for developeing in Recreation. With intense enthusiasm and strong perseverance, he has learned to sing songs and to play nunchakus.
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I love Etsy.com. It is a website where you can buy only handmade, custom stuff - a lot of them one of a kind. This is also a place where the once who are utterly mad about sushi can make money off of their affection. Like the one making a plush fleece ipod case to look like ebi nigiri sushi.
Notcot.com did a photoshoot of Andrew Bell’s amazing O-No Food Company Sushi toys that launched with a limited edition Blue for International Comic-Con in San Diego. Incredibly cute little fellows. Why do they have to be limited? It’s vinyl. It is not as if they will go extinct…
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The designer Issey Miyaki has an ad campaign on behalf of his fashion collection Pleats Please. He seems to also be in the sushi business now. Looks good.
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Steve Wilson took his Sushi Robots out to dinner. Sushi Robots demands that we all “Eat More Sushi”! He also made a short video with them:
A follow up story on the sushi robot. Trevor Corson says he has “obtained internal video footage that was not supposed to be made public, containing part of an interview with the new robot’s chief engineer in Japan”… Be afraid, be very afraid…
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I feel like the world is desperate in trying to make sushimaking go faster, be more efficient. Is this just the normal strive to try to make things better? Do all of us want sushi to go faster? Anyway. Here is about a quarter of a sushi chef - introducing the “Sushi arm”…
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Bodylicious X and Bodylicious Y are pieces of ceramic plates made by the Japanese designer Hiroshi Tsunoda. It was according to his website inspired by Nyotaimori, a tradition where food is presented on the body of a naked woman (and much sought after here on SOD…).
I found some old comic strips of Wulffmorgenthaler that were sushi related. Apparently sushi was the it-food back in the days too. The other one is about angry fish. Use the links below to go to the strips in their original versions.
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