Forrest Brown

The 2011 Red Bull Soapbox race downtown Los Angeles.

Arnold in his Hummer

Angery Birds

The Agony of Defeat. There was a large banked corner half way through the racecourse that caused problems for many of the soap boxes.

Little Green Army Men

Members of a soapbox car's crew had to run down the racecourse after their car went down to meet the driver at the finish.

Member of the crew for the Naked team.

Rolling Sushi Bar. I like how casual the driver (sushi chef) looks.

I Dream of Jeannie. Not every soapbox made it to the finish in one piece.

The banked corner clams another soapbox racer.

One of the fanciest soapboxes.

On Sunday I went to watch a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome. It wasn’t the Japanese professional teams playing, but part of a playoff of Japanese company teams. The game I saw was between NTT Docomo and Hitachi. What made things more interesting then a normal baseball game was how each of the companies was trying to show company spirit and having the crowd cheer for their team. The stadium was divided in half with NTT on one side and Hitachi on the other, with a little section of normal fans inbetween. Everyone in the Hatachi side was wearing orange t-shirts and baseball caps and the NTT side was dressed in blue. Each side had cheerleaders, bands, and people going through the crowds encouraging their side to cheer for their team. Overall it was a pretty fun experience.

This past Sunday was the Tokyo Marathon and the course went right by my apartment so I went out to watch. It was in amazing amount of people going by. I heard that there were 30,000 runners. The race started at 10 in the morning and at 3 in the afternoon there was still a pretty steady stream of people going by my apartment, which was about 3/4 of the through the race course.

Probably the most entertaining part was that there were quite a few people running the marathon in costumes.