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4/3/2008

Spring Break!

Filed under: japan — John @ 10:25 am

LONG WALKS/長い散歩

Start–> Otemachi–> Yasukuni Shrine–> Senshu University in Kanda –> Back to Yasukuni (suprised)–> Yotsuya–> Akasaka –> Roppongi–> Hibiya.

Start–> My apartment–> The big Trash Tower in Matsudo–> The Mabuchi Motor CEO’s Abandoned MURDER MANSION (no joke) –> Edo-Gawa–> Kanamachi –> Kameari Station.

Start–> Urayasu Station–> Sakura Festival–> more of Urayasu –> Urayasu Station. VISUAL EVIDENCE

Start–> Minami Senju –> Minowa–(Arakawa line to Oji)–>Oji –> Komagoe –> Tokyo University–> Nezu.

Start–> Hibiya–> Kasumigaseki–> Roppongi–> Hiroo (TSUKUMO RAMEN!) –> Ebisu–> Shibuya–> Harajuku.

BOOK OFF / ブックオフが大好き

Rinko Kawauchi’s Utatane うたたね 1000 yen

Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey, Winter Journey 1500 yen

FILM SHOT / 撮ったフィルム

120 medium format: 20 rolls

35mm:16 rolls
COLOR: 35mm 3 rolls

DARKROOM DAYS / 暗室が大好き

120 film Contact sheets: 30+

14×17 prints of portraits: 20

10×12 work prints: about 80

MISC. / その他

- JR Train Museum in Omiya

- Small interview with Nippon Camera

- That great Tantanmen shop on the corner north of Nippori station

- Arakimentari for like the 12th time

- The entire series of The Office on DVD, thanks to Kevin and china pirates

- An entire week of no internet or computer use

- No longer having an experience and then soon thinking about how I might blog about it

POWERBOOK STILL DOWN?

-yes.

BONUS

A cell phone picture of a recent print:

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3 Comments »

  1. Missed You! Welcome back. Interested in the tantanmen, I borrowed arakimentari from local tsutaya and will watch for first time tomorrow night. Cell phone of print is jolly good. Am saving Vanity Fair for you so you can read the Robert Frank article for free. The Office rocks…but are you watching the original….?

    Comment by akikana — 4/3/2008 @ 10:15 pm

  2. when are you going to have me fixed? it sucks just laying around your apartment doing
    nothing all day.

    Comment by john`s computer — 4/7/2008 @ 1:11 pm

  3. Oh my computer, you are doing fine there under some prints and whatever else I tossed on that table you are on. If you are advanced enough to post comments onto my blog despite a total lack of wireless internet in my apartment, then maybe you could fix yourself? Please do it without eliminating my photos because that is what I am worried about.

    Comment by John — 4/7/2008 @ 5:29 pm

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