It's surely not unheard of or even uncommon for businesses and entities to have mascots or cute graphical treatments around the planet, we see them everywhere. But to my eye, the Chinese, Japanese and now Taiwanese seem to use them to a far greater extent. In my limited travels in Asia previously, I thought of photographing and cataloging them, but never really did. But no longer! So here's the start of an ongoing series, The Little Guys of Asia (I know not all of them are specifically 'guys' in the strict gender sense, there are many female figures too ) but, like walking into a room with a mix of genders and saying "Hey guys!", they're all Little Guys to me.
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From the hilltop town of Xinshe, where they grow and dry loads and loads of mushrooms. The Little Guy is often in action, on the move, like these two.
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Little Guys serve and protect! A Nantou County Police Station, somehow I don't picture this flying in front of a US Police station, but who knows I could be wrong.... again.
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| From a great riding spot, Pineapple Ridge, south of Taichung. She's winking at him, what's up with that? Where are they running off to together? Dunno, maybe they got wise to the cannery at the back of the building and decided things weren't looking good, and if there was a future for them together, they had to take off? Or maybe that's reading way too much into it, but while riding long distances, the mind wanders, sorry. |
"Hello Coppy"
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