{"id":43331,"date":"2024-12-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43331"},"modified":"2024-12-10T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T19:13:23","slug":"vending-machines-triad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/vending-machines-triad\/","title":{"rendered":"Vending Machines \/ TRIAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Books That Belong On Paper<\/strong>\u00a0first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair.<\/em>\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get the issues a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE JOURNEY OF VENDING MACHINES FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO TODAY<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism<\/em>
by Christopher D. Salyers
Mark Batty Publisher
2010, 144 pages, 7.3 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches, Hardcover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn\u2019t appreciate Japan\u2019s ubiquitous vending machines until I was on a hike through the countryside outside of Tsumago on a sweltering July afternoon. The bamboo forests and rolling verdant hills were beautiful but what really satisfied me was a cold drink from a vending machine in the middle of nowhere. A swig of \u201cCalpis\u201d never tasted better! How did that machine get there, and why is Japan crazy for vending machines? Read about it in this fun photo essay book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, there is plenty about Japan\u2019s fascination with vending machines \u2014 are there really coin-operated machines that dispense used girl\u2019s panties? Find out here! But there are also other great and unusual machines from around the world. See and read about machines in Italy that make pizza from scratch, or dispensers of perfume in the city of K\u00f6ln, Germany (the origin of \u201cEau de Cologne\u201d \u2014 get it?), or Clark Whittington\u2019s witty re-use of old mechanical cigarette machines as vendors of fine art. (I found one of these fun machines in Chicago!). I loved all the stuff about candy, claw games, and capsule toy machines, called gachapon<\/em> for the sound of turning the crank (gacha!<\/em>) and the sound of the capsule dropping (pon!<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As your reward for making it to the end of the book you\u2019ll find a free toy in the endpapers: a miniature Japanese drink vending machine (motomachi<\/em>) you can cut out and assemble \u2014 no coins required!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Bob Knetzger<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JAPANESE POP ARTIST JUNKO MIZUNO GOES POP-UP IN THIS GORGEOUS PIECE OF BOOK ART<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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TRIAD<\/em>
by Junko Mizuno
Poposition Press
2016, 16 pages, 11.5 x 9.0 x 1.5 inches, Hardcover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Japanese manga artist Junko Mizuno is known for her dizzying mix of everything from Japanese cute culture to erotic and pin-up art to religious and fairy tale imagery. In TRIAD, an absolutely stunning 16-page book, she brings three of her characters to life in 3D pop-up form \u2014 the Nurse, the Witch, and the Wrestler. The trio appears in five pop-up spreads, labeled Ocean, Serpent, Triptych, Mansion, and Tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no text to the book, and no explicit narrative that I could discern. But there\u2019s so much going on here, so much whimsy and weirdness, and some very clever use of pop-up book technology. This is really a piece of interactive art exploiting the book format. If you\u2019re a fan of Junko Mizuno, Japanese manga and pop art, or of pop-up books in general, you will likely be as blown away by TRIAD as I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This little video<\/a> flick-through by Poposition Press will give you a better idea of the blazing eye-candy to be had in TRIAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Gareth Branwyn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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