Japanese man chronicles daily life of a vending machine

Posted Sep 25th 2007 12:45PM by Joe DiStefano
Filed under: Asia, Hacking Food, Food Oddities, Soda

I suppose this blog I came across is no stranger than Cheddarvision. One thing's for certain it's probably more exciting to follow than watching a wheel of cheddar age. You read the headline right. It seems Ryuuichi Terada has been photographing the same Coca-Cola machine almost every day for more than two years.

The title of his web site translates to I take a picture of the vending machine every day (or so). I'm very sorry. Michael Keferl of Trends in Japan hails this the Hokkaido resident's obsessive work as "the GREATEST BLOG EVER." While I don't see eye to eye with Keferl, I can understand the appeal of the site which exhaustively chronicles the daily life of the machine, often with detailed diagrams like the one above. I have a feeling the site is especially popular with executives at Japanese soft-drink companies. In case you are wondering Terada-san has a job and is married. His wife takes photos of the machine when he's on vacation. Now, that's love people.

[via: Boing Boing]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

9-25-2007 @ 5:53PM

Hillary said...

Weird. Pretty interesting I guess. I wish I could comment and ask that guy questions but I don't understand or write Japanese.

9-26-2007 @ 12:04AM

RobynT said...

awesome story! and cute post! i remember hearing about similar projects... like of someone who took a self-portrait everyday for a year...

as far as going on vacation w/o his wife, maybe it means business trips?

9-26-2007 @ 1:18PM

kfober said...

So...why is this guy on vacation without his wife? Does she go on vacations by herself?

9-28-2007 @ 7:12PM

Claudia said...

It reminds me of a movie called "Smoke".
And this is what I mean for art.
Can you do the same in your daily life?

His name is Motomachi-san, why do you call him "Terada"?

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