60p, a murder in Yoyogi Park, Jiyugaoka and more... #7Days7Minutes (2016-02-08)

#7Days7Minutes is all I have time for these days, and sadly I'm not going anywhere, or doing anything all that interesting either.

Yet things are still behind here because of work.

I'm wading through a crap project which is the culmination of a long line of crappy deals, but unlike all the others, there is an actual paycheque (albeit a tiny one), rather than the mere promise 'exposure', so like a victim of domestic abuse, I keep crawling back for more punishment, and this channel and my physical/mental health suffers for it.

But I grind on, and while they are late, I'll keep pumping out some sort of content here and on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/darcnoodles/), till I eventually have that aneurysm.

Music:
Famipop from Amacha Music

Tokyo Bay nightscapes

I had the opportunity to see a view that's way above my pay-grade. It'd be rude not to share it.

Whenever I see it like this, It's always such a beautiful city. Much like it's 36 million inhabitants though, the beautiful facade often hides a dirty, cold, selfish, rotten core... but damn it looks fine.

Gundamnit! #RandomJapan

This is the giant model of the plastic toy robots that all those annoying peeps from my childhood obsessed over. If it weren't for tourist friends wanting to see this thing, I'd probably never have gone. 

First and Last Odaiba Gundam.

done. 

Taking the piss #7Days7Minutes (2016-02-01)

The first minute sets the tone, and it goes downhill from there.

Music:
"No Idea" by Manny Marx
http://mannymarx.com

"Wataru Lights" by morgantj
licensed under a Creative Commons license.

"Linguistic" by Miles M with Ray O
https://soundcloud.com/russellcrossfire

Mt. Fuji, Akihabara and a few camera tests #7Days7Minutes (2016-01-25)

This is one of my more abstract 7D7M videos.
Bits and pieces from my last job mixed in with a visit to Akiba.

I am a bit busy these days so this is going to be the norm for a while.

Music:
Kurorak - Good Shit
https://soundcloud.com/kurorak/good-shit

Wontolla - Shape in the Snow
https://soundcloud.com/iamwontolla/shape-in-the-snow

both tracks licensed under creative commons.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Spring #RandomJapan

Not the first plum blossom of the season (actually it's one of the last) but it's the first one I shot this season, so there!

Sweet sweets and cheap grog (赤羽 Akabane, Tokyo part 2) | Japan How It Is - ft. The Germanator.

Music by MANNY MARX. http://manymarx.com

After the epic Oden, The Germanator and I went crawling around Akabane in search of whatever we happened to find.

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Hail Oden! Maruken Suisan 丸健水産 (赤羽 Akabane, Tokyo part 1) | It's Not Sushi ft. The Germanator

Music by MANNY MARX. http://manymarx.com

The Germanator and I went out one last time before he headed back. We hit up Maruken Suisan, thus far, the best oden shop I've been to in Japan.

LOCATION

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Bringing down property values #JapaneseRides

I like seeing rough rides on the sterile streets of Tokyo, because, more often than not, they are driven by those bent nails that refuse to be hammered down by Japanese mainstream society. One day, very soon, I will, once again, rumble down the boring boulevards in my S14, a blight on my surroundings, a stiff middle finger to convention, free from the impositions of the herds of sheeple on their cattle-cart trains.

Shibuya Static #TokyoStreets

Another Instagram piece that Instagram quality just doesn't do proper justice to. That said, It was on Instagram ages ago... so there is that, Incidentally, watermark aside, this shot is all in-camera. No lightroom processing for a change.