Purikura

Photo booths, aka "purikura" or "print club". Though found all over the world, the obsession is particularly high in Japan, especially among junior high and high school girls. Kids take pictures, trade them with their friends, and paste them into books where page after page bursts with purikura. Here are the results of a recent bout. Each picture is about as wide as a penny. This is me, my friend Dan, and my friend Mayumi.



I made this one specifically to give to students who had been demanding some "kurisu no purikura" for quite a while. I handed out a couple shots to one girl and suddenly six more hands shout toward me, each begging for one of their own. Luckily I came prepared. In return I received a nice stack that some students had made for me, which also included some Spongebob Squarepants stickers. My students are cool.