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I sometimes wish that people's personalities were printed on their forehead, so I could stop wasting my time on the obnoxious and stupid ones. This comes pretty close to fulfilling that wish.
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about folks with tattoos?
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Yeah, westerners never put funny things in their mouths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill_%28jewelry%29
Oh, there are idiotic trends in the west as well. But they have an entirely different flavour to them. Grills are an ostentatious display of wealth. Ostentatious displays of wealth are severely frowned upon in any culture (or subculture) where wealth is actually common . White people, or Japanese people, or even middle-class black people, would never wear something as tacky as a diamond-studded tooth grill... they'd…
Honestly, "willingness to adopt trends in the full knowledge that they're completely stupid-looking" and "ironically detached" sound like pretty good descriptions of Western hipsters. I don't know if that's what motivates these Japanese people or not, but if so, it's a concept that isn't unique to them.
Body decoration is nearly a human universal -- it's unsurprising that new technology will be adopted for this, though whether this particular fad will take root is doubtful.
Good photo here: http://en.affenknecht.com/first-professional-pictures-from-t...
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Out of curiosity, how do you feel about folks with tattoos?
Well if it's on their forehead, that's a pretty good sign that there's something wrong with them. If it's elsewhere, it really depends... for the most part, no generalization to be made.
The first video is quite funny, though.
I'm pretty sure people have been putting glo-sticks in their mouths to accomplish this very effect for many years. The concept isn't new.
The inside of his mouth glowed for a week.
Related: Glo-sticks burst in a shower of (hot) glowing liquid when thrown in a campfire.
While this particular project seems like a novelty item, I recommend taking a closer look at Daito, one of the artist-hackers mentioned in the article. I enjoyed digging a bit deeper into the works on his site. http://www.daito.ws/
Given that history I'm inclined to see this more as an interesting piece of art than a stupid fashion trend.