Toyota Holds "FT-86 Fastest Painted Website" Event to Help Launch FR-S / FT-86
 

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Live painting from Shinjuku, Japan.

Article courtesy of Toyota Motor Corporation.

Toyota Motor Corp. to Hold Simultaneous Promotional Event for Soon-to-be Toyota City, Japan, November 17, 2011— Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will launvch a promotional website for the production prototype of the "FT-86 I Concept", a new compact rear-wheel-drive sports car, which will premiere at Tokyo Motor Show on December 3 and be shown through December 11. *The website, called "FT-86 Fastest Painted Website", will go online at 10:00 on November 20, 2011.

The website will be in sync with an outdoor street painting in front of Shinjuku Station's East Exit in the Shinjuku Station Square. *A talented group of artists, th 1 Rinpa Eshidan 1, will start the painting at 10:00, November 20, and will gradually Rinpa Eshidan flesh it out over 8 hours and 6 minutes. *As the painters work, their piece will co to life in real-time as artwork on the fully-functional website to be authored by 2 Deltro Inc 2. *Together, the speed of these two groups working together wil Deltro Inc. *Together, the speed of these two groups working together wil exemplify the speed of the new Toyota sports car The website be be online until November 26.

Share on Twitter and your name shows up! Like this:

http://i.imgur.com/dais0.jpg

Like on Facebook and the sign lights up!

If you get a black screen, it probably because they have stopped streaming or it is night time in Japan. Worked fine for me around 11 PM. Of coarse earlier will too. Also, you will be able to click some links that show as real objects within the painting. :thumbsup:

http://fpw.toyota-digital.com/

http://www.facebook.com/events/220357884702542/

http://www.ustream.tv/embed/9718246

That is awesome! I'll have to do this when I get home later tonight.

Very cool Snoopy!

According to this link : http://www.ustream.tv/embed/9718246
They are offline right now. It is like 2:45 AM now in Japan, maybe that's why :/

Ok, maybe I'm just being thick, but I don't get the concept of this website at all...

hahaha that is awesome!

LOL

I noticed the original picture says "Social Network Racer" in a little box.....

Toyota have sent me an itinerary of things they want me to join in on for a load of PR stuff. So dont be too surprised to see me standing next to this in the next few days :bonk:

And they are online :D

They certainly get an A for creativity. :w00t:

dude....... SERIOUSLY... put me in your luggage hahahaha:cry:

... and this is supposed to do what for who ?

I'm confused :iono:

wow i click the FB like and it effin LIT UP!!!

wow japan Y U SO HIGH TECH!

Hah, they made a typo. Now that they've finished there's a countdown until the Tokyo Motor Show. At the beginning of every minute, it says the production version of the FT86 II will be at the Tokyo Motor Show on December 30th. Yep, out by a month, haha.

I liked the page and nothing happened. -____-

wow I DO NOT understand this.
can someone explain it to me? :bonk:

Worked for me...used my twitter account...my twitter name showed up twice...yea boi! :popcorn:

It's a social media stunt. They have an artist draw a picture to represent the speed of the FRS. People who tweet the event get their name on the ticker above the piece of art.

It's for lulz so people give free advertising by "word of mouth" aka social media.

Exactly, thank you! It's just a way for us to log on and like, tweet it, so that we can see our name pop up in Japan. Every few hours they draw something new on it. Also you can click the things drawn. Its just a fun way to countdown the TMS. Pretty good videos too, one of a pretty good sounding exhaust clip.

Wow did any other car company do this for their car's debut? Man this car us gonna be so amazing.

A few. GM had an internet based mechanism(really) that for every click nudged a Sawnick(tm) forward until it fell off of a tower. It didn't break, thanks in part to a bungie cord. :-/

haha cool i have left my mark on this earth. japan knows i exist haha.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x.../meinjapan.jpg

Lol that's awesome. Now Japan knows....

There's a lot of people walking around the train station at 11:30PM on a monday night :P

I've had this up all day.. I feel kinda creepy. lol people are starting to go to work in Tokyo again.

^ lol I wonder if there's a sign to tell them they are being broadcasted on the internet lol. Can you imagine if we had a hidden camera somewhere on the street and some Japanese guy is watching us walk on the street.

I want to see some cute little Japanese girls start making out on screen but that hasn't happened. :( Some stupid cop likes to walk around in front of it though. Luckily I have two monitors so I just leave it up on one of them for occasional entertainment.

Lol the cop probably thinks it's actual graffiti or is suppose to guard it lol. As for Japanese girls kissing there it's probably not gonna happen cause their culture doesn't like public affection. Which is also why they have white people in their ads doing or posing provocatively. Well atleast that's what my Anthropology prof tells me.

Hey man that doesn't mean I have to lose hope! :)

Lol there's always hope! Make you record it when it happens!

Lol, thats hilarious Dave!!!!!

omg this is cool.. posted the facebook page on my page and the FB box light turned on :D

I swear it's been stuck on a loop for the last 10 hrs... haven't seen my name or that many names pass by... is the USTREAM accurate?

^Try unprotecting your tweets (I had the same problem).

http://i44.tinypic.com/303i9v7.jpg


Follow me and I'll do the same! @switch_lanez
(squeamish/antisocial people need not apply haha)

lol... it worked... just took a day and a half? it was stuck on a loop too.
hehe, i'd follow you but i don't USE twitter... i registered a name just to tell my gf i love her =] hehehe... i'm lame i know. :wub:

Me and my friend Matt were standing in front of this earlier today :) I've uploaded a picture to my photobucket account in my other thread.