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June 13, 2011 8:02 PM Subscribe
The Japanese can now give you a doll with your own face on it. Danny Choo shows us the process.
Someone page Baudrillard.
posted by New England Cultist at 8:11 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by New England Cultist at 8:11 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
Part of me really wants 200 dolls of me to put all around the house in differing clothes and poses (e.g. golfing, doing research, watching TV, naked in the bedroom). Then I would bring back a first date.
This could only be bettered for elephant-in-the-room amusingness by having 200 of her.
posted by jaduncan at 8:12 PM on June 13, 2011 [5 favorites]
This could only be bettered for elephant-in-the-room amusingness by having 200 of her.
posted by jaduncan at 8:12 PM on June 13, 2011 [5 favorites]
This would make a great gag gift... too bad you have to be there in person to get cloned
posted by blockhead at 8:23 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by blockhead at 8:23 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
Creepy. In a good way.
posted by Dragonness at 8:34 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Dragonness at 8:34 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
"jaduncan. jaduncan jaduncan jaduncan."
"jaduncan jaduncan. jaduncan jaduncan jaduncan."
"jaduncan."
?, jaduncan?
posted by porpoise at 8:38 PM on June 13, 2011
"jaduncan jaduncan. jaduncan jaduncan jaduncan."
"jaduncan."
?, jaduncan?
posted by porpoise at 8:38 PM on June 13, 2011
This confirms it. Japan is just trolling us, now.
posted by oddman at 8:39 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by oddman at 8:39 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
I am giving everyone in my family a doll of me this Christmas. It will solidify my reputation and make them more cautious of what they say around me.
posted by LarryC at 8:41 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by LarryC at 8:41 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
I laughed when I saw the precapitated Chrstopher Walken heads.
posted by idiopath at 8:43 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by idiopath at 8:43 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
The Japanese can now give you a doll with your own face on it.
I dunno... I asked the Japanese I know here in the neighborhood if they could do that and they just looked at me real funny.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:06 PM on June 13, 2011 [10 favorites]
I dunno... I asked the Japanese I know here in the neighborhood if they could do that and they just looked at me real funny.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:06 PM on June 13, 2011 [10 favorites]
Are you sure they're really from Japan, flapjax? My sources tell me that all Japanese are capable of this
posted by danb at 9:13 PM on June 13, 2011
posted by danb at 9:13 PM on June 13, 2011
Is it compulsory to set your miniature clone doll up with miniature schoolgirl dolls, or is that just one of those Danny Choo things?
posted by Ahab at 9:25 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Ahab at 9:25 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
You know, given the huge overlaps between disposable income and narcissism, they could make a FORTUNE if they got together with the realdoll people.
posted by idiopath at 9:28 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by idiopath at 9:28 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
Heh. Who needs time travel, huh?
posted by Ahab at 9:37 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Ahab at 9:37 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
Are you sure they're really from Japan, flapjax? My sources tell me that all Japanese are capable of this
They are, and they already made a doll of Flapjax. They're just waiting to replace him with it.
posted by happyroach at 9:53 PM on June 13, 2011
They are, and they already made a doll of Flapjax. They're just waiting to replace him with it.
posted by happyroach at 9:53 PM on June 13, 2011
I'm pretty sure that action figure depicts Ronald Jenkees in a storm trooper costume.
posted by subtle_squid at 10:07 PM on June 13, 2011
I'd have to actually see one, but they look really good.
posted by Trochanter at 11:18 PM on June 13, 2011
posted by Trochanter at 11:18 PM on June 13, 2011
I for one, salute these courageous people.
The Uncanny Valley is a strange and terrifying place that few dare explore so thoroughly.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:18 PM on June 13, 2011
The Uncanny Valley is a strange and terrifying place that few dare explore so thoroughly.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:18 PM on June 13, 2011
Finally, a huge advance for the voodoo industry!
I want to be rich and eccentric enough to have one of these dolls along with a complete minature copy of my wardrobe so I could dress it up and see what worked and what didn't for the day without having to actually get dressed.
posted by The Whelk at 11:47 PM on June 13, 2011 [4 favorites]
I want to be rich and eccentric enough to have one of these dolls along with a complete minature copy of my wardrobe so I could dress it up and see what worked and what didn't for the day without having to actually get dressed.
posted by The Whelk at 11:47 PM on June 13, 2011 [4 favorites]
Ahab: "Is it compulsory to set your miniature clone doll up with miniature schoolgirl dolls, or is that just one of those Danny Choo things?"
Those... that's... it's...
Uh, that's a lot of photos of realdolls.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 1:16 AM on June 14, 2011
Those... that's... it's...
Uh, that's a lot of photos of realdolls.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 1:16 AM on June 14, 2011
Finally, a huge advance for the voodoo industry!
now you can stick your little pens in that voodoo doll
i'm very sorry babe, it doesn't look like me at all
-Leonard Cohen
Which reminds me: I don't want one of these with my face on it, but a Leonard Cohen doll? Sure, why not?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:09 AM on June 14, 2011
now you can stick your little pens in that voodoo doll
i'm very sorry babe, it doesn't look like me at all
-Leonard Cohen
Which reminds me: I don't want one of these with my face on it, but a Leonard Cohen doll? Sure, why not?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:09 AM on June 14, 2011
not that I'd stick pins in it... I like LC.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:22 AM on June 14, 2011
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:22 AM on June 14, 2011
Argh, I used to have a great number to this 50s pop song about a voodoo doll, it went " you made a little doll as cute as could be, a voodoo doll that looks like me" and google is totally failing me as you who the he'll sung it.
This is gonna bug me for hours.
posted by The Whelk at 2:23 AM on June 14, 2011
This is gonna bug me for hours.
posted by The Whelk at 2:23 AM on June 14, 2011
ArmyOfKittens: That's a lot of photos of *underage* realdolls. Shudder.
posted by Mooseli at 2:53 AM on June 14, 2011
posted by Mooseli at 2:53 AM on June 14, 2011
Oooh! The perfect components for my restaging of the Yalta Conference!
Now to source a miniature wheelchair.
posted by likeso at 3:04 AM on June 14, 2011
Now to source a miniature wheelchair.
posted by likeso at 3:04 AM on June 14, 2011
This is gonna bug me for hours.
Hope you (or someone else) can find it! I'd love to know what the song is.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:29 AM on June 14, 2011
Hope you (or someone else) can find it! I'd love to know what the song is.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:29 AM on June 14, 2011
now you can stick your little pens in that voodoo doll
i'm very sorry babe, it doesn't look like me at all
-Leonard Cohen
Am I the only one who read "pens" as "penis" at first?
posted by Dr. Eigenvariable at 3:34 AM on June 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
i'm very sorry babe, it doesn't look like me at all
-Leonard Cohen
Am I the only one who read "pens" as "penis" at first?
posted by Dr. Eigenvariable at 3:34 AM on June 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
Found it!
Amelia – Voodoo Doll
Det här är en mycket underlig låt som jag haft på min hårddisk i evig tid. Varje gång jag hör den undrar jag hur tusan den kunde göras. Refrängen i någon sorts kärlekslåt går så här:
“You made a little doll,
as cute as can be.
A voodoo doll that looks like me.’
You took a little bit of wood,
a little bit of glue
and then a voodoo doll
to keep me true to you”
The number was super cute. Molly and I came out in teenage 50s drag as lovebirds, then I take out a barbie doll as a voodoo doll and posed it to make it her strip....until she steals the doll away, smacks me with it and it ends with my ripping off my shirt to reveal sparkly pasties before fleeing the stage.
Good tiiiiiimes.
posted by The Whelk at 4:02 AM on June 14, 2011
Amelia – Voodoo Doll
Det här är en mycket underlig låt som jag haft på min hårddisk i evig tid. Varje gång jag hör den undrar jag hur tusan den kunde göras. Refrängen i någon sorts kärlekslåt går så här:
“You made a little doll,
as cute as can be.
A voodoo doll that looks like me.’
You took a little bit of wood,
a little bit of glue
and then a voodoo doll
to keep me true to you”
The number was super cute. Molly and I came out in teenage 50s drag as lovebirds, then I take out a barbie doll as a voodoo doll and posed it to make it her strip....until she steals the doll away, smacks me with it and it ends with my ripping off my shirt to reveal sparkly pasties before fleeing the stage.
Good tiiiiiimes.
posted by The Whelk at 4:02 AM on June 14, 2011
And the song itself
Love the organ.
Is there anything that the YouTube cornucopia cannot offer our hungry souls?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:08 AM on June 14, 2011
Love the organ.
Is there anything that the YouTube cornucopia cannot offer our hungry souls?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:08 AM on June 14, 2011
Crap like this just distracts us from the true goal - SHRINK RAY
posted by orme at 5:04 AM on June 14, 2011
posted by orme at 5:04 AM on June 14, 2011
If you can't afford a Candy Girl, you can create your own surrogate... consider this guy and his lovely wooden wife, Teagan.
posted by kinnakeet at 6:00 AM on June 14, 2011
posted by kinnakeet at 6:00 AM on June 14, 2011
Oh, and about those teensy clones... they are simultaneously fascinating and disturbing. The facial accuracy is very impressive indeed.
posted by kinnakeet at 6:01 AM on June 14, 2011
posted by kinnakeet at 6:01 AM on June 14, 2011
now you can stick your little pens in that voodoo doll
i'm very sorry babe, it doesn't look like me at all
- Leonard Cohen
Am I the only one who read "pens" as "penis" at first?
GOVERNOR COHEN'S PEN IS A SWORD.
posted by Herodios at 7:44 AM on June 14, 2011
i'm very sorry babe, it doesn't look like me at all
- Leonard Cohen
Am I the only one who read "pens" as "penis" at first?
GOVERNOR COHEN'S PEN IS A SWORD.
posted by Herodios at 7:44 AM on June 14, 2011
Am I the only one who read "pens" as "penis" at first?
Ha! Yes, I see I misspelled "pins". Weird. Maybe it's cause I'm from Alabama, and grew up using the exact same pronunciation for the word "pin" and the word "pen". They were both "pin" down there. Not until I moved to Boston did I learn that if you were asking for a writing implement, you shouldn't say "pin".
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:52 AM on June 14, 2011
Ha! Yes, I see I misspelled "pins". Weird. Maybe it's cause I'm from Alabama, and grew up using the exact same pronunciation for the word "pin" and the word "pen". They were both "pin" down there. Not until I moved to Boston did I learn that if you were asking for a writing implement, you shouldn't say "pin".
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:52 AM on June 14, 2011
GOVERNOR FLAPJAX'S PINIS A SWORD.
posted by Herodios at 7:57 AM on June 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Herodios at 7:57 AM on June 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
You did notice that each doll costs USD 1700? I'd have one carved out of pig's meat and covered in the finest hide for that much.
posted by Laotic at 8:03 AM on June 14, 2011
posted by Laotic at 8:03 AM on June 14, 2011
IN BURMINHAM THEY LOVE THE GUVNAH'S PINIS
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:11 AM on June 14, 2011
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:11 AM on June 14, 2011
The only reason those dolls have such eerily accurate copies of people's faces for their own heads is because people let the dollmakers image their faces. Imagine the other... options... available to us.
posted by FatherDagon at 8:38 AM on June 14, 2011
posted by FatherDagon at 8:38 AM on June 14, 2011
I can't tell if this is the greatest thing ever, or make-me-want-big-stick-to-smash kind of techno-creepy.
No, I would probably freak out if I had a hyper-realistic doll that looked like me.
Not that I think it actually ever would turn to me and start talking... but what if it did?
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:54 AM on June 14, 2011
No, I would probably freak out if I had a hyper-realistic doll that looked like me.
Not that I think it actually ever would turn to me and start talking... but what if it did?
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:54 AM on June 14, 2011
You know, given the huge overlaps between disposable income and narcissism, they could make a FORTUNE if they got together with the realdoll people.
yeah, then when you tell people to go fuck themselves, you can mean it!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 9:06 AM on June 14, 2011
yeah, then when you tell people to go fuck themselves, you can mean it!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 9:06 AM on June 14, 2011
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