Tag: japan
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Japan 2023 (part 1)
A nearly two years ago, me and a friend went to Japan in an unseasonably hot November and spent the month there. I took about five hundred gigs of photos during the trip. And then I did nothing with them. I recently decided to trawl through the shots and find if there were any good…
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Film shots
I’ve been on-and-off shooting with film, namely because the last decent lab left town a while back, leaving it send rolls down to Melbourne or Sydney. These shots were processed by the Ikagi Film Lab and Film Never Die. For technical details, these were all shot on an Olympus OM10. Film Never Die Umi 800…
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Birth of Rockin’ Jelly Bean
I just received my limited edition copy of The Birth of Rockin’ Jelly Bean. The cover is pretty much NSFW, so I really can’t show the rest. I have been waiting for a Rockin’ Jelly Bean book for about three years ever since visiting one of his shops in Harajuku. So it’s really good to…
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New Old Camera
While I was in Japan, I took an old Olympus OM10 with me to try out some photos. The thing was a gift for my birthday from a friend, Jo. I did manage to knock out a few snaps, partly filling two rolls of film. The OM10, back in 1979, was a camera that had…
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Last Notes from the Train Station
It’s been a week since I made any updates. Time to wrap this Japan business up. I’ve been back for a week, slowly re-adjusting to work and sleeping in my bed. Here is something I wrote on the last day before taking the train to the airport: “I’m early for my next train by about…
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Tokyo Experience
Tokyo was something extraordinary. It’s a city that never seems to end or sleep, at least where I stayed in Shinjuku. There are only a few notes on paper about this part of my trip. The main reason is that you find another person on the road and you tend to hang out a bit.…
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Today in Tokyo
Okay so my trip to Tokyo was becoming a mixed affair. I was spending most of my time with another traveler, a Portuguese fellow named Gonçalo, who was spending the last days of his trip in Tokyo as well. The shopping here for toys and related stuff was overall much better. The food was good.…
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Tokyo
Okay I am in Shinjuku now. I spent about 5 hours on a train and after checking in at the hotel, I spent some time with a Portuguese guy, named Gonçalo (sounds like “gon’ sailo”) wandering around the district at night discovering little parts of the city. Good fun was had. Tomorrow we plan to…
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a place that echoes the end of the war in the Pacific and the beginning of the cold war and threat of nuclear annihilation. The museums and the monuments all bespeak this. But this is only where those monuments are. If you walk around the city, you would hardly have guessed that none…
The Screaming Wall 