people, places, things
For Joe’s 16th birthday, Izzy came over and brought a delicious breakfast from the bakery where she works. I snapped a few. There are a few mushy ones but I thought these two best reflect “Izzy & Joe”… Oh wait, while we’re doing “Izzy & Joe,” here are a couple from the market taken in [...]
It was an extremely short summer up here in the Pacific Northwest. True, that was shortened by some of my own wanderings, but it just seemed as if there were too few of those carefree days when nothing is going on but the sun, the heat, the water and…well… Note for the record: It was [...]
Shibuya means “crowded valley” and is that insanely crowded part of Tokyo made famous in the film “Lost in Translation.” Today was a Sunday morning so there were few people milling about, but still the noise was loud enough that I thought it would be fun to just film a short walk, to record the [...]
I don’t remember the names but I’ll put them into the blog later. Spent the day with an old friend, Azby Brown. We took the train down to Kamakura from Yokohama and spent the day walking from temple to temple. The walks were almost as beautiful as the temples themselves. We ended the day in [...]
… there’s another theme going on through these photos, or at least most of them. Can you guess? Hint: it’s most obvious in this first photo…
A few scenes from the world’s largest city: the greater Tokyo metropolitan area has over 40 million people in it. Still, there are a few pockets of calm… this is Arisugawa park, right in the middle of Hiro-o, one of the most upscale districts of the city. Amazingly, numbers in the city are not sequential. [...]
The fashion center of Japan, where people go to see and be seen. I know it’s a cliche, but here the little kawaii (“cutsie”) girls dress in costumes, hang around Harajuku station and park, and even carry model release forms for photographers who want to shoot them… (And that is pronounced tah-keh-shta, by the way…) [...]
Everybody travels by train. Everybody. In a country with an inhabitable size of New Jersey but with a population half that of the entire U.S., trains are pretty much the only option. But they are efficient. httphv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ywuhRvOyq0
…long live the cell phone. When I lived in Tokyo in the 80′s and 90′s, people escaped into thick phone-book sized “manga” comic books. The kids had space-ship manga’s and the men had their soft-porn manga’s. Now, the world’s forests can breathe a sigh of relief as demand for manga has been replaced by cell [...]
Caprica and the Cylons have arrived but it’s not flying robot-fighter jets, it’s Japan’s jido hanbaiki. They are everywhere. Last night I even saw a “bar” made up of a cluster of about 6 jido hanbaiki selling various beers, whiskies, sake’s and shochu’s. There was a small crowd of inebriated customers standing around the machines. [...]
Today our office is having a lunch party to celebrate the winners of our World Cup Football pool (any excuse for a celebration!). To help prepare, I accompanied our housekeeper Truc to the market to shop for the occasion. Well, she shopped and I took snapshots… I’m not sure what it was, but everyone seemed [...]
Two weeks in Vietnam and I get out once for an evening on the town. Pathetic, I know. I went to this jazz club I had been to before, Sax ‘N Art, just down the street from the infamous Rex hotel in downtown Saigon. This guy is actually the owner of the club. His name [...]
