Souvenirs for Initial D fans #BecauseJapan

Mt. Haruna in Gunma Prefecture is famous for playing the role of Mt. Akina in Initial D. 

For the tiny town atop the mountain this means a good deal of tourists head up there to drive  the legendary mountain pass, take their ladies on dates to the lake and buy souvenirs, like these Initial D cookies and cakes. On a Shoot for Takasaki City, I had a chance to go up there during the day for a change, and (as I wan't driving) didn't blast past the town at pace, on my way to the ura-haruna mountain pass (which is an epic driving road) as I used to do back when I lived at the bottom of this mountain... So I got to take these pics ;)

ヤンキー馬 #RandomJapan

Caption This! #RandomJapan

shot at Haruna Shrine, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan

OOH! YES #RandomJapan

Daruma, Gunma, tripping and more... | 7 Days 7 Minutes (2015-06-22)

I went back to Gunma in this week. I missed it so much thjat I flooded this 7 days 7 minutes with footage from there. It's also, one of the most random 7D7M episodes I've ever made.

Music:
"Chillin'" by DJ Russell CrossFire 

 "Illumination" by Little Light 

DARUMA!

shot at the Daruma Buddhist Temple in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan.

Duet and a sexy wallpaper

Since switching to the macbook, the lack of screen real estate has been a big problem, especially for work. Since i had the old retina iPad I looked into screensharing apps to get a little more space on my desktop. I settle don duet because it works over the USB cable, not wifi, so there is less lag. It does the job. I now have a place to dump my footage library in premier, making editing a little less cluttered. Yes a proper display would have been both bigger and faster... but I'm poor and the app was way cheaper than an actual display.

I've also sliced up a few of my photos to use as wallpapers on it. I reckon you guys might like this one, from the 2015 Tokyo Autosalon, so I'm putting it up. feel free to use as a wallpaper on any device you want. If you wanna do more with it, drop me a line and we can discuss things (I can also give you a better res version).

Cheers

Yellow RX7 - Mt Akagi #JapaneseRides

I saw this sweet customer ride parked at Rings' Auto Shop on Mt. Akagi (Gunma, Japan)

Obama makes the best fish in the world!

I had work in Obama, Fukui Prefecture so I've hogged this 7 days 7 minutes with some drives, panoramas and a little left over work footage of the town, the surrounding countryside and it's primary delicacy. Fresh grilled fish.

There is a dash of Tokyo in there too for those of you who like the big, boring city.

MUSIC:
"Give it Up (Start Again)" by snowflake (feat. Subliminal)

Licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.

Daikoku - a petrolhead's Mecca #JapaneseRides

When some mates were over earlier in the year, they rented a sports car and enlisted me as the driver. When you have a couple of petrolheads to show around there is only one place to Take them.

I took too many shots to stick on here... I put the rest on FLICKR.

Hit this link to peep them.