wheat

I found  a cool old photo from last year that I forgot to post. Rural Japan is rural.

...RUN #TokyoStreets

Hakosuka GT-R because... I don't need a reason.

Is and always will be one of the best proportioned cars ever made. (Shot at Daikoku Parking Area in 2016/12)

Driver Portraits - Daikoku Parking Area Dec 2016

Those of you who follow my Japanese underground instagram account or follow my facebook page will have seen these, and my previous portraits like them. If it's your first time seeing my [driver portraits] series, the basic concept is that all the cool cars are nothing without the people who build their hearts and souls into them. Everyone shoots the cars, which are just secondary representations. The true creativity, beauty, passion and soul of a vehicle is the person behind the wheel.

If you want to see more of the people that mainstream Japanese society shuns, and the amazing things they do, check out my instagram account or follow my facebook page.

Japanese Metalheads - Knotfest 2016

I love metal. It's one of the most important parts of my life. And while the music is the thing that brings us together. One of my favorite aspects of Metal is that it's universal. Wherever you go, whatever you do. Metal is forever. and All over the world. Metalheads are family.

Incidentally even in the crappiest light, Good subject and good timing, and a little creativity using what light you have can create epic portrait photography even on an iPhone.

See more of my Portraits of Metalheads here: http://bit.ly/loudpark16

S14 VLOG

I've been half-assedly making vlogs about my car now that I've returned to carlife. As one should expect from anything with the word "VLOG" in it, the quality is appropriately terrible. Definatley nowhere near my usual standards... But that's the point. They're meant to be VLOGs hence not quality. Anyway. Enough preface. If you like cars or VLOGs, check out my new(ish) car-vlog.

Otaku prayers, pimped rides, night drives and more... #7days7Minutes (2016-07-18)

Work is busy, therefore things here are slow. For what it's worth, this one is pretty damn good.

Follow Yuki on Instagram: @mira.l700v


Music:
Angry Ophelia's Song by DonnieDrost http://ccmixter.org/

grind 11 (it's CC, I found it on soundcloud, but I can't find the link again... sorry)




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New Year. Old Photos. Much Resolution.

Heisei 29 (2017) is upon us.

I've neglected this blog (and my youtube channel for that matter) Let's try and remedy that this year.

We start with beautiful shots of the ugliest neighborhood in Tokyo. Roppongi. 

Let's hope I don't have to go here too often this year.

Middle-of-nowhere Japan

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.

Be sure to follow my friends on Instagram:

Yuki: @mira.l700v
Taka: @takaaa46

And while you're at it, Follow me too:

@darcnoodles
DARC.JP

My big bro, #tokyostreets , Grind Chaos & more... #7Days7Minutes (2016-06-19)

The night shots are some of the best looking shots I've taken to date... even if I say so myself.

Music:

"Night Creeps" - Sounds like an earful creative commons pack

http://soundslikeanearful.com/community/goodies/

"Cut the Check" - Spitfya X Desembra (NCS release)

https://soundcloud.com/nocopyrightsounds/spitfya-x-desembra-cut-the-check-ncs-release 

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Kitamoto nights, Ikebukuro trips, Shibuya ollies & more... #7Days 7Minutes (2016-06-06)

This one has a fair bit of travel in it.
Kitamoto (Saitama) Ikebukuro, Sugamo & Shibuya (Tokyo) and Shibukawa (Gunma)

Music:
DNA Activation by Jon Andre Lundal
Spontaneous Combustion by iawkwardlobster

Watch: Japan How It Is - Getting a Haircut:
https://youtu.be/swFVUlyTgWw


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Akabane #TokyoStreets

Saturday Shinjuku Street Shots

Camera: Sony a7S Lens: FE35f2.8

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Lazy Sunday in Okutama #TokyoStreets

Hatakeyama Museum Garden / 畠山記念美術館の庭園

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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(日本語の説明は下にある)
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.

このビデオは畠山記念美術館の庭園の歴史と四季の美しさを紹介します。

記念館について：
畠山記念館が所蔵する主な作品をご紹介します。収蔵品は、国宝6件、重要文化財32件を含む1300件に及び、茶道具を中心に、書画、陶磁、漆芸、能装束など多岐にわたります。

CONNECT: www.ebara.co.jp/csr/hatakeyama/

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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.

DigitalHub.JPは、オンラインニュースやコンテンツの作成・配信分野での豊富な経験を踏まえ、クライアント様のニーズに応じたオーダーメイドのマルチメディアコンテンツを制作する会社です。当社には、電気機械メーカーを始めとするテク企業とのコネクション、互いのコンテンツを共有配信する国内ニュースサイトや日本関連ニュースを配信する海外サイトとのパートナーシップ提携があり、これらの長年に渡って築いた大切な繋がりを事業に最大限活用しています。

CONNECT WITH DIGITALHUB.JP:
www.digitalhub.jp
Twitter: @digitalhubjp
Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitalhub.jp
Instagram: @digitalhub.jp
YouTube: bit.ly/dhjpyoutube

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In case you're wondering. This is what I do at work.

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Sake, sunsets and sado-masochism #7Days7Minutes (2016-05-23)

An ever so slightly more VLOGish video with a touch of good booze and good old fashioned BDSM.

Music:
Manny Marx - Complications https://mannymarx.bandcamp.com/track/complications
Manny Marx - Some People https://mannymarx.bandcamp.com/track/some-people
http://mannymarx.com

Psykick - Monsters http://ccmixter.org/files/Psykick/36019



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It's actually cheaper to drive into and around Tokyo than take the trains.

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.

The ultimate Japanese pussy magnet!

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.

time

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.

Kitamoto Nights #RealJapan

When I meet people, even people from Saitama, and tell them I live in Kitamoto, more often than not, I get asked where (the hell)  that is....

Which means we chose the perfect place to move to.