Wapanese 

6 creative works found

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  100percentRB - redux
  by BigFatRobot

  A big, red bubbly bubble man.

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  Big Fat Robot with text
  by BigFatRobot

  A few years ago I taught little kids in Japan. One activity they loved was “colouring-in time-o” (practically every Japanese word ends with a vowel). Every week I’d draw a variety of monsters and robots for them to colour in. This little fella is a more fleshed out version of my simple line drawings. As a footnote, one of my students entered theirs into a national colouring in competition (how cool is that! a NATIONAL colouring in comp), and came pretty close to winning. After this exposure, it was used (and maybe still is used) by hundreds of elementary schools all over Japan.

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  baby 'bot
  by BigFatRobot

  A few years ago I taught little kids in Japan. One activity they loved was “colouring-in time-o” (practically every Japanese word ends with a vowel). Every week I’d draw a variety of monsters and robots for them to colour in. This little fella is a more fleshed out version of my simple line drawings. As a footnote, one of my students entered theirs into a national colouring in competition (how cool is that! a NATIONAL colouring in comp), and came pretty close to winning. After this exposure, it was used (and maybe still is used) by hundreds of elementary schools all over Japan. This one is smaller than the others because it’s aimed at babies/toddlers

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  Big Fat Robot has a victim
  by BigFatRobot

  The Japanese writing is suppose to mean “Big Fat Robot”. However, my translation skills are extremely rusty, so for all those Nipponphiles out there, please tell me if my hanes and ten tens are where they should be. Actually, I don’t mind if it’s horribly wrong, afterall there is a huge market in Japan for meaningless English phrases (go to http://www.engrish.com/ for many hilarious examples). So it should work the other way with equally amusing results. In fact, I remember seeing a GI type wandering around Roppongi with a tshirt written in Japanese kanji, it said “baka gaijin” (idiot foreigner). Not sure if it was an ironic statement on his behalf, or he just thought the letters looked pretty.

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  Big Fat Robot with victim
  by BigFatRobot

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  Big Fat Robot eats Melbourne - blue
  by BigFatRobot

  Tis only a few weeks until I move to Melbourne, so I thought I’d get my big, sheet-metalled guy to do some reconnaissance before I landed. Unfortunately, in true gigantic robot fashion, he decided to destroy the picturesque cityscape of the footy city. Apparently it will be rebuilt and ready for when I alight. In 3 background colours … RED, GREEN and BLUE!