Hung over, I went out shooting with one of my oldest friends and one of my newest friends in Japan. We had no fancy landmarks, no special events, and nothing really noteworthy for kilometers around us... Which is the best place in Japan to be.
The cat's old man took me here the last time I was in Nagano because I like cars. It was good to see a gathering like this in small-town Nagano, The only sad thing is that most of the rides weren't actually local.
Music:
Asahi by Tanada Band (The Cat's father's band)
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Hatakeyama Museum Garden: Seasonal, Natural Beauty in Central Tokyo • 畠山記念美術館の庭園：東京の真ん中で四季を感じられる自然の美しさ
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History and seasonal beauty in the garden of the Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art.
About the Museum:
The Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art was established as a private art museum to display Japanese, Chinese, and Korean historical art objects, focusing on arts related to the tea ceremony. The collections also include paintings, calligraphy, pottery, lacquerware, and Noh costumes.
Hatakeyama Museum Garden: Seasonal, Natural Beauty in Central Tokyo is a DigitalHub.JP Production • 畠山記念美術館の庭園：東京の真ん中で四季を感じられる自然の美しさの制作：デジタルハブJPプロダクション
Tokyo-based DigitalHub.JP produces and promotes made-to-order multimedia products of the highest quality, leveraging longstanding tech industry contacts and co-publishing relationships with Japan-focused news sources, offering both content production services and a multilayered distribution point.
The whole train, public transport thing may be good for society. But it's not good for me. I can't stand Tokyo's trains and the selfish, idiots who ride them, Now, I no longer have to.
It's actually 10% - 15% cheaper to drive into Tokyo than to ride the train. Even in my 2 litre high octane drinking, carbon spewing, sportscar. It does take longer though, but 30 minutes more in an airconditioned comfortable space with my music as loud as I want it, as opposed to standing pressed up against a salaryman, absorbing his smoky hangover tinged sweat into my clothes? I'll leave early and drive every time I can.
1%erss are doing it wrong. They all buy Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bugattis to show off in the hopes of attracting pussy, but none of those fancy Italian super-cars has ever pulled in the pussy as hard as this JDM beast.
I bought a watch. It tells the time accurately, It has an alarm and it was dirt cheap. Yes I could have gotten something better, but I'm going to lose it anyway, so there is no need to drop more than I have to.
A slightly more abstract video than the last, and a bit rushed on the cuts, but I need to make a point of pushing through the backlog, so quality may suffer.
Otherwise, I don't get on camera this week either. For which, you're probably better off.
I know the camera is only a part of the image making process. Give me a shitty camera and I'll still give you an excellent image. Conversely, give the average Taro a Hasselblad and you'' get a blurry 50 megapixel duck-face selfie. But there are times when the technology becomes more than just a medium with which to create, but actually enables creativity in conditions that other cameras just can't handle. IS0 32000 in the outskirts of town, surrounded by rice fields. Lit only by a single, weak, incandescent streetlight. I have always been a fan of shooting in low light, but with my a7S I no longer shoot at night... I own the night.
Before i lived here, I wasn't much of a fan of the Fuji/Sushi/Geisha/shrine images of Japan that Japanophiles, tend to spam the internet with. Nowhere on Earth is anything like the postcard, but the inability of visitors here to see past their sakura tinted glasses bugged me, after 8 years in Japan, it positively vexes me.
It may be one of the best places to live. I know I don't want to live anywhere else. But all the 'japanese culture' that the tourists shnarf like cocaine no more real than the twisted right-wing nationalism that Shinzo Abe is trying to force down everyone's throats. It's all a facade. Thick white makeup covering a pockmarked and blemished face.
I do my damndest to show the reality of this place, through well composed and quality Photo/videography. Sadly, if there is one universal truth about the vast herd of snapchatting baboons infesting the globe, it's that the last things anyone wants to see, are reality and quality.
The thing about blogging, is you have to do it. Unlike instagram, where apart from staggering posts, there is very little upkeep. This can become quite tedious at times. Though it is where everything all started for me, so I feel like I need to keep it going... Which is more than I can say for the peeps in the first two photos.
This last picture is of an evenly matched group pf guys and girls (one of the dudes just dashed off) looking terribly sober and lacking any other signs to hint at any group (or individual for that matter) debauchery. I know peeps are not getting it on as much as before but when you have matched pair dates in Kabukicho overnight at least make sure you do something.
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Finally met Dave Coulson, the man behind Hong Kong How it is. He's a Hong-Kong based pro-tog who is currently shining a light on the reality of what's happening in Hong Kong as China tightens it's grip on the city.
His website: http://www.davecoulson-photography.com
his channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/cheesindave
The rest are my usual missions about town, though for a change, I shot places I've never shown you before.
Only a month behind... thats pretty good by my standards :p
April was the month for visitations. One of my oldest and best mates spent 3 weeks with us. fortunately for you, most of the shenanigans were not caught on camera. There is some gratuitous Shibuya too, as always.
Music:
"The Bridge" and "Heavenly Loon"
by MilesM (DJ Russell CrossFire)
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Shibuya was abuzz last Saturday, for a change. I happened upon the MINAMIS in Udagawacho. They were probably the most energetic street performance i've seen in a long time. It's good to see people out, expressing themselves through their art, in public. We need more invasions into polite society like this.
