Trainspotting

Shinkansen... Because sometimes GT-Rs are too slow.

Doesn't get more JDM than this.

More shots from the Canon 20D

My S14 - Yuki (famous Instagrammer) - Betty Boop's severed head.

I was given a free Canon 20D recently. I've taken it out to play from time to time, and for some reason, there is something about the look from it's 13 year old sensor, that I really like.

Outside the local Autobacs

iPhone 7 Plus -  Lightroom app - raw DNG.

New Old Toy #RandomJapan

A friend of mine left Japan and was throwing out his old Canon 20D. It still works great so I appropriated it and have been having a good deal of fun with it. 

It's over 13 years old but it's still an APS-C sensor with Canon colour. 

It does lack some recent conveniences like video and Auto ISO.

But I still enjoy shooting it even more than I do my Sony a7S

While the sony obviously kills it in the outright quality department.

The 20 D does have a character to it.

That I love.

My car is dead. Punkspring is dead. I'm not dead... yet.

Work is doing everything it can to kill me though, so it may not be too long now.

Music:
* one of the tunes from the Into Infinity project
 - http://intoinfinity.org/

* Sayonara
 - Manny Marx
 - http://mannymarx.com


Camera:
 - Sony a7S
 - iPhone 7+

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wheat

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

A slammed glimpse into my S14's future.

Last night at the 「Yuki's Night」night-meet, at Takasaka Service Area on the Kan-Etsu expressway (In Saitama, just North of Tokyo), I got an Idea of how the mods I planned to do to my new S14 would eventually look. 

The GT-R R33 wheels, The lowered stance, The slightly augmented stock aero. It was all there... And it looked even better than I imagined it would. The trouble is, that now I've seen it, I know it's been done already, so I have to think of a way to set mine apart when the time comes.

Thankfully, my woefully inadequate salary means that it's not something I need to worry about anytime in the near future.

But as someone on his 3rd S14 which was bought because it was cheap, more than anything else, my faith in the S14's looks and my urge to build mine has been renewed.

Now to find a way get people to pay me appropriately for my work, so I can make mine this cool.

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.

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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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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.

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Kitamoto Matsuri

A tiny local Nebuta matsuri that nobody besides residents and participants know/care about. Those are usually the best kind of matsuri.

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



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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.

Hot Honda VFR

People Watching, Shinjuku rooftops, a street performer and more... #7Days7Minutes (2016-05-09)

Vivid vicarious voyeruristic visual vistas.

The diamond miner at 1:56 is Reno from http://anthrobotic.com/
He did that on purpose for the camera.

All music by MilesM
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Ray(MadAfro), a drunk, 80D autofocus & more...#7Days7Minutes (2016-04-25)

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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Canon 80D
iPhone 6
Sony a7S

Noodles before they were noodles #RandomJapan

The Kitamoto/Kounosu area of Saitama Prefecture is famous for it's udon... Now I know why.

Shots #102 Delayed

 
There was a suicide at Nishi Kawaguchi Station in Saitama today. I got some interesting, freaky and even a few gory shots… For some reason, I like this one best.

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.