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>> Packed Traditional Can, can, can, and can.. There are full of is going to be a precious experience for my canned foods, filling a huge shelf behind a creative design work!!" I thought. Well, bar counter. to stop your misunderstanding, this story is not concerned with my alcohol liking. This is the report of 'canned foods bar', Perhaps… where brings small boom in Japan. This special bar simply serves the canned foods After sat on bar counter and ordered one gathered from all over the world. The glass, I headed to the shelf filled plenty customers pick individual cans from the cans. All cans are tidily ordered in shelf huge shelf, and pay prices written on the depending on countries and families, like back of each cans. books in library. They have stocked popular cans of Japanese foods, such as Yakitori As a profession of designers, I would like to and Oden etc... Daishimaki egg (rolled try everything that seems interesting. The fried egg, seasoned soy-sauce) was quite experiences often affect our creativities in rare to see. Foreign cans, which are rarely good way. seen, were oiled fishes, olives, small pasta in soup and so on. Then I was surprised One day, a TV program featured this there are many differences according to canned foods bar. It sounded quite fancy regions and countries. to me, so immediately I took a train to that bar.(4 hours for one way) "This time also As each houses have individual home-
taste, can's tastes and chosen materials change on the following to its sources. This is a little bit wow. In addition, we are not easily able to touch another cultures of foods unless you travel. Of course it is the best if you can trip. In fact, that sounds quite hard to busy people. For the people like me, those packed cans open a flavour of foreign countries and a piece of their lives. In other words, the shelf in front of us shows the pieces of world traditions.
our cultures. The opportunities to meet with people from different places, and the canned foods which brings different cultures are nicely match each other. I was nodding while drinking Sake and seeing mushroom's Ajillo which was opened just before. Perhaps canned foods may tell you his or her hometown. Please imagine before open a can, that small case brings you everywhere you imagined.
While I was thinking with a few cans in a hand, one guy asked me like this. "Where did you come from?" After I answered, he continued "Oh, so is that canned food your taste? That is speciality of your place, isn't it? … ." Then naturally we had a small conversation of my prefecture. Although I did not have any knowledge about his hometown at first, we could exchange
Floating Sauna Floating sauna for the Rosendahl village by the Hardangerfjord in Norway. The sauna is situated in the center of the village. It glows like a lantern when the things are cooking. The Design-Build process was an intensive workshop for the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway.
LORDI new single “Hard Rock Hallelujah”
music ; Olivia (vocal)
lyric ; Lukas (guitar)