Shots #96 Tokyo Tower

Dubai Rides ~5 hit combo~

A Day in Dubai [On Location 2]

A short clip of what video I took while we were in Dubai... read the blog post for the words and more pictures
Music:
North Sea Praise Cult: Foam Coast (part 1)
by Pepet Zintle
thank you for letting me use your sound.

A Day in Dubai

So The Cat and I went home to South Africa over the festive season so I could introduce her to my family and show her where I grew up and stuff. I like to fly emirates so We decided to spend a day in Dubai on the way.

Shots #91 Ikaho at Night

Drive To Almost Nikko

What better way to kick off the new year than to tell you about shit that happened in 2012. My neck is stuffed so I am at home and have free time so why not get the backlog out of the way…

The cat and I got into the car and went for a drive. We had a general Idea of direction but no destination was planned. We headed up Mt. Akagi at first and were worried by the piles of snow on the side of the road. Being late autumn, we new some snow had already fallen but we expected less. There were some threatening clouds in the sky too but they dumped their load on the peaks slightly above the level of the road.

CAKE! And it's not a lie!

Up day the 2 special needs groups at my school for some culinary chaos. They made Christmas cakes. Some students cut paper stencils to decorate their cakes. One student who loves the Touhou Project wanted her drawing of Rumia to be on hers.

Incidentally. the blogger app for iOS works... just not very well.

Japanese Money [Japan, How It Is 03]

Fukui Pref. S14 Dress up ~5 hit combo~

Japan, How It Is - 02 Drifting. Ebisu Circuit.

Sugru

I don’t usually do the whole product promo thing but this stuff is legend.

check the sugru website: http://sugru.com/

“sugru is the new self-setting rubber for fixing, modifying and improving your stuff. Over 155,000 people in 119 countries are using it make their stuff work better.”

I got a pack shipped over and have used it to mod a bunch of stuff.
Here is a link to my latest fix:

http://sugru.com/gurus/categories/sugru-hacks/topics/repaired-klipsch-s4i-weak-cable-attachments-and-adapted-the-plugs-to-take-standard-eartips

k. promo done. though check this shit out… and give it a try. You won’t regret it.

Loud Park 2012 (Saitama Super Arena) LIVE REPORT

"The heaviest metal festival in Japan". Or so the slogan goes. Usually one would attribute the use of superlatives to marketing and be done with it, but this time… The slogan was quite accurate...

This is a long, brutal report… so get comfy before you hit the Jump.

Bushed.

Since the trackday at Ebisu Circuit, I had gained a good deal of suspension trouble from my riding the side of the track too hard. The alignment was so far off centre that it could only be called chaotic evil and the rear toe and camber arms needed replacement. After sorting all that, i gained a mysterious clunking from the rear of the car when the weight shifted or I went over bumps. after 3 looks at the struts and pillow balls (it sounded like pillow balls) we wiggled the subframe a bit when it was jacked up and found that the bushes were, in a word… F*CKED.

Replacing bushes is crazy difficult but you do get aluminium spacer collars that solve the problem. I ordered a set from my buddy Yoshi (Ring's) and to keep costs down, with Yoshi telling me what to do, I did the hard work myself. It was surprisingly not that difficult, though having someone who knew exactly what to do giving me instructions made the task much easier. I probably would have dis assembled half the rear subframe if I followed the tutorials on the various Silvia and 240sx forums that are out there.



All in all. Job done for the price of cheap parts and a delicious Hamburg steak. AND MY CAR FINALLY DRIVES PROPERLY AGAIN…
Well almost... The transmission is still on death's door and could give out at anytime.

Shots #90 Akagi HDR

 

It seems like all my posts of late are about live shows(It's all Ive been doing really) and there are more to come...

So here is an HDR of Mt. Akagi to break things up a bit ;) 

 

 

UNDIVIDE One-Man Live Tour "SAME SIDE (BOYS ONLY)" live report

pic from the interwebs.

Undivide is Leda's (ex.DELUHI) new project. I heard the announcement at Sujk's live and have been waiting to see them since then.

I was planning to go to their tour final on the 26th and group it in with Loud Park 12 but when i checked their live schedule and noticed that they were having a boys only lave the week before.

Buck Tick ON PARADE 2012 <LIVE REPORT> PART 2

continued from here.

I spent the evening in a hotel on on Dougenzaka hill with my cat and the next day she joined me at the festival. It was raining out so we hit up the Shibuya Don Quijote to get some clothes and got on the train to Tokyo, then Chiba. I got a rain coat from a guy selling them on the walk to the venue but I only used it to walk there. 

Once we got in I realised that whether I sweat under the plastic or get rained on I was going to be soaked anyway so I gave the coat to the cat and went Woodstock. The weather however DID mean that I didn't have my phone on me and so no guerrilla photography was done.

report after the jump ;)

Buck Tick ON PARADE 2012 <LIVE REPORT> PART 1

On a rapidly warming Saturday morning I took the train bound for Chiba. There were the usual disney tourists in their mickey mouse shirts. There were the gamers and otaku on their way to the Tokyo Game show. Then there were the band shirts, the black clothes, the big hair and the clashing colours. 

As we passed the mass market distractions and their consumers had dis-embarked they were all that was left.

They… We were heading to Chiba Port Park for Buck Tick's 25th anniversary. The Buck Tick Fest. On Parade 2012. and what a spectacular festival it was!

じゃじゃ麺 JaJaMen! (old post that I forgot to post)

It’s not an army of Rastas, nor is it the long lost cousin of Jar Jar binks. JaJaMen is a noodle dish that Iwate Prefecture got from china and (apparently) made better.

Shot!

I have been to Asakusa many times. It is something tourists love. It is easy to see and it is one of those ‘must do ONCE’ things if you are visiting Tokyo. It gets boring after a while. so the last time I took my visiting friends there, I decided that instead of taking photos of things I already have photos of, It would be more fun to take photos taking photos.

Yamagata City.

A while back the cat had to go do some singing at a obscure little town in Yamagata (the name of which I have since forgotten. While she did that, I went for a little drive to the capital of that prefecture to see what there was to see.