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B’ Tats

Connected Kiosks

It’s that time of the year again – where I take a month off from travel to apply for a new passport (or in this …
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Purity in Form

17 Oct 2010
In: Kyoto
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Wonderfully pure example of an photo booth, from Kyoto. Ki-Re-i = beautiful.
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Insert Your Head Here

25 Aug 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Mazar e Sharif
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A headless couple advertising wedding photography services – Photoshop skills are fairly sophisticated here – with the background, heads and extras such as basking lions …
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Rank, Order

Shanghai taxi drives ID includes a registration number 111,892 where the lower the number the more earlier the driver was registered. One colleagues opined that …
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Eye Colour Norms (Speed of Change)

The next time you are up close with a young, female Shanghainese spend just a little bit longer staring into her eyes – despite the …
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Leakage

03 Jun 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Pudong
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That passport photo that you’re embarrassed to share with friends? That’s now open to public consumption thanks to Chinese immigration. All passports are scanned as …
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Significant Strangers, Rear View Mirrors

15 Apr 2010
In: Chongqing, Future Perfect
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Been thinking a lot about my relationship with strangers recently – triggered by a number of unrelated threads: the death of a pedestrian on Sunset …
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The Wedding Singer

15 Mar 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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And more importantly – the liberal use of photoshop to create not one, but montages to the great self.
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Snap Shot Photo Studios

02 Mar 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Lhasa
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Next time you’re on a field study spare a little time for during user studies is visiting the neighbourhood photo studio. I rarely go to …
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