Dressing Down, Dressing Up, Dressing Green.

Hi all!

Well it’s back on the road again for me, off on another crazy trip around the planet. First stop – Japan, for the Nikkei Global Management Forum. I won’t go into the details of the event, but here are a few photos:

In among the suits (never was one for dressing up)

“Mr. Photographer, shall I move these flowers out of the way for you?”

The most interesting bit came after the management forum – in Tokyo Disneyland!

This is a fairly crazy place – especially around Halloween time. The Japanese are of course the biggest show-offs in the world, in a good sense of course. It’s as if Disneyland was designed especially for the Japanese, particularly those of the fairer sex. So it’s just as well there’s a Disneyland in Japan too :)

Dressing up:

“I may have a toy bear on my arm, but that doesn’t mean I have to smile”

Oh yes – Japanese alternative creativity coming to the fore. Only in Japan!

Not sure who’s scarier – the vampire-ess, or the face-less head-of-hair next to her

Reeaal Scary Halloween bunnies

Ah – that’s more like it: pumpkins and ghosts. Old-skool Halloween

More scariness

“You talking to me?”

Spooky

Snow White and the… Nine Dwarfs!

V for Vendetta

Nice camera

Nice fit

KL joining in the fun

But that’s not all! Our Japanese office also does the traditional mad-hatter stuff too!

At first glance, viewed out of context, and without understanding the Japanese specific style, this video looks, let’s say… a little bizarre. But as a matter of fact for the local specific it’s a really cool and super-effective advertising campaign – with a green bear (no doubt swam over the Sea of Okhotsk from Kamchatka) in the lead role :). And it’s and going down a storm and getting crazily popular!

Kaspersky Lab – through a (Japanese telephoto) lens

The guy hiding being behind Bear-Hulk is our Japanese office’s director, Rintaro-san:

Ciao all! Until next time… from the other side of the Pacific…

Grooving green grizzly

The rest of the photos are here.