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Post #1549483

2023-11-26 16:06 UTC

The Kei-tora Gardening Contest is an annual event put on by the Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors to see who can build the best-looking garden on the back of a Kei truck. Here are some of the winners from the past 12 years. http://zoenren-osaka.jp/activity.html

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  • @NoctisEqui@mastodonapp.uk 2023-11-26 18:31

    @docpop@mastodon.social True marvels! What artistry. I love the plush green, the feeling of water, of being embraced by this green in the first photo. What a wonderful place to sit and just ‘be’. Thank you for these green dreams!

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  • @docpop@mastodon.social 🤩🤯

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  • @Jiriki@wandering.shop 2023-11-26 19:35

    @docpop@mastodon.social what an amazing idea💚

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  • @jpm@aus.social 2023-11-26 21:47

    @docpop@mastodon.social next project for your tiny truck @Dangerous_beans@aus.social ?

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  • @forteller@tutoteket.no 2023-11-26 22:00

    @docpop@mastodon.social Oh my! I love this so much!

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  • @daniel_bohrer@chaos.social 2023-11-27 00:27

    @docpop@mastodon.social oh yes, I remember that NHK World had a short segment about that on Japanology Plus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtPZ-EyAyWY&t=960 (Edit: the Japanology Plus videos are no longer on YouTube, but you can probably find them elsewhere. It's Season 5, Episode 6, titled "Keitora: Tiny Trucks", originally aired June 16, 2022)

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  • @coregaze@mstdn.social 2023-11-27 01:42

    @docpop@mastodon.social Kei trucks are so incredibly based. I love them. If I had a truck it would absolutely be a kei truck.

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  • @LiveOutLoud@mastodon.online 2023-11-27 02:03

    @docpop@mastodon.social Please let me get stuck in traffic behind one of these trucks!

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  • @anne_twain@theblower.au 2023-11-27 02:04

    @docpop@mastodon.social I've seen something similar done with parking spaces. Gotta love the one with seating and somewhere to rest your cuppa.

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  • @charliepark@xoxo.zone 2023-11-27 04:06

    @docpop@mastodon.social Back in October of 2013, I stumbled on a Banksy installation inside a panel truck that was doing something similar. Guerilla pop-up on Central Park West (at 77th, I think), complete with lighting, a bridge, and a WORKING WATERFALL. Folks crowded around trying to figure out what it was all about. After about 15 or 20 minutes, a guy in coveralls and a hat, pulled low, turned off the lights and the waterfall pump, closed up the back of the truck, and drove it off.

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  • @ihazrabies@mastodon.tmm.cx 2023-11-27 09:17

    @docpop@mastodon.social The whimsy! 🤩

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  • @seekraft@mastodon.pwei.at 2023-11-27 11:20

    @docpop@mastodon.social Beautiful! ❤️ I'm reminded of a local activist and their sprouting cabriolet -- a car filled with soil in which plants grow, to protest against the small cost of parking in public streets vs. the bureaucratic nightmare of renting the same space for urban gardening: http://christophschwarz.net/cabriobeet/ Current position: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1970749529

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  • @mprove@hci.social 2023-12-04 10:18

    @docpop@mastodon.social Love it. I could not resist to use it in my recent presentation on Zen Gardening and Interaction Design :: https://mprove.de/script/23/hawk/index.html

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  • @RnDanger@infosec.exchange 2026-04-22 21:05

    @docpop@mastodon.social It's funny to imagine a garden coming to me, but also maybe they can move the garden to places the plants like? I think it's a weird idea. Antithetical to many of the concepts i associate with "garden", at least

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  • @DenOfEarth@mas.to 2026-04-22 21:21

    @docpop@mastodon.social Ping @tikibunnyimports@weird.autos and #WeirdCarMastodon !

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  • @poes@sok.egois.org 2026-04-23 05:00

    @docpop@mastodon.social cantik

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  • @Mayleen@infosec.exchange 2026-04-26 18:24

    @docpop@mastodon.social These look amazing😍. It puzzles me what some people can do with just some tiny space and plants. Thanks for sharing!

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