More cute videos from Google Japan

Here are more sweet stop-motion videos from Google Japan. (Thanks, Scott!)

[#1 posted by Chizu, September 8, 2009 7:21 PM]

I saw that exact same phone in the Tokyo Edo Outdoor Museum. Here's a pic:

http://flic.kr/p/6WNb3D

[#2 posted by farkinga, September 8, 2009 8:51 PM]

No!!! The video ends with the camera taking a picture of US watching IT!!!

[#3 posted by zenkat, September 8, 2009 9:54 PM]

Awwww ... the total surveillance society is so KYUTE!

[#4 posted by Cactaur, September 8, 2009 10:02 PM]

The bit at 0:13 and 0:18, Garrido references?...

[#5 posted by i_prefer_yeti, September 8, 2009 10:56 PM]

I can't wait for the part where they put the cute little yellow stars on the jews' houses!

[#6 posted by caipirina, September 9, 2009 5:48 AM]

they really seem to be a bit desperate getting streetview popular (or justified) in Japan.

Soon the UK version, featuring Wallace & Grommit

[#7 posted by jeffguevin, September 9, 2009 6:31 AM]

@3, @5

It's hyperbole day on BoingBoing!

[#8 posted by WhamoBlang, September 9, 2009 6:32 AM]

It certainly work in its cuteness. You could look at this through so many different lenses and be cynical, but I think it addresses what it needs to on its face.

[#9 posted by cinemajay, September 9, 2009 9:35 AM]

That guy works too much!

[#10 posted by Anonymous, September 9, 2009 9:42 AM]

The first half looks like the happiest dystopia ever, then the second half tries to assuage those fears.

[#11 posted by Jundooz, September 9, 2009 11:32 AM]

I like Google streetview... It's fun and allows me to travel right via my screen.

We've just had it operational here in Switzerland and people are being such cry babies about identity theft... idiots. No one cares about your ugly face. If you cheat on your wife, the least you can do is cover it properly.

[#12 posted by Anonymous, September 9, 2009 2:20 PM]

Ya know, I bet the UK would have fewer people up in arms re: their surveillance society if they'd simply gone this route & had Aardman do an animation of mr happy CCTV camera protecting it's citizens...

1984 meets Hello Kitty.

Cute video, disturbing implications for using cute to subvert the right to privacy... oh, and I use google apps & services daily, so I'm part of the problem, too ;)

[#13 posted by Anonymous, September 9, 2009 3:20 PM]

In case anyone cares, the title of the video listed on Youtube is, "Concerning Google Street View Privacy".

The title screen says, "Google Map's Street View".

The closing screen just says, "Google Map".

[#14 posted by Anonymous, September 10, 2009 6:04 PM]

Here, Japanese creator
http://www.pangra.net/