Flypost Advertising, Sharebikes and De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves

Sharebikes in Shanghai are so fundamentally integrated in the city’s infrastructure, they’ve begun to attract flypost advertising for commodities and services.

Shinjuku Capsule Hotel Video

I’ve always been fascinated by capsule hotels, so I made this video (in Tokyo) when I stayed in one. Fast forward to 1:03 if you want to see me sleeping.

Subsidized Cyclesharing and Smartphones: On Buzzbike

Buzzbike is a high-concept implementation of ad-subsidised cyclesharing, but with a contemporary technologically-facilitated twist.

Solaris / e-Bikes / Shanghai / disjointed futurism

There’s a remarkable scene in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 Solaris (above).

Bicycles and Technologies of the Everyday in Japan

Japan is home to amazing bicycles with idiosyncratic kinks. Here are a few bicycle technologies of the everyday I appreciated while last passing through Osaka and Kyoto: