Japan 03 - Gaijin Propaganda
Alright!
Diving right in... no time to ramble. go go go. fast fast fast. Burn rubber ki-chi-gai!
This is in my apartment. Top left switch… two weeks in and I still had no idea what this is for. In an attempt to make understanding, I have since had it translated. It means “light of the future”. I press it occasionally.
Japanese work force outside my apartment. In Australia you would call this picture “two guys digging a hole”
Went to some temple on a stick race, as can be seen here. Was really cool.
This is an opportunity for high fashion. Being a foreigner in this country is really “difficult” since the men here so good looking and well endowed. How can I compete with that?
OH and THIS is genoius!!... I want to mass produce this guy all over the world.
Points to interest in camera rig:
Shaving mirror,
Girl in red dress dangle
Calendar
English time: front and back of menu
“Our shop is specialty store of pasta and the pizza
It is made a hand of the training source and the dessert from the ingredient
Therefore, the dish of our shop is always fresh and warm.”
“Our shop will not offer liquors to the customer who steers the car when returning and the customer of less than 20 years”
All pictures are clickable for higher resolution
Technology mofo!
No time for spelling! - Move on!
Mmmm… natural DNA collagen bottled for your enjoyment.
OK awesome laundry lockers.
Some don’t eat beef, I don’t Iron.
With an ass load of trouble to figure our the first time, this is a relatively easy system that sees you put your washing in the locker and come back in a few days and its magically cleaned by small homeless girls. This company do not allow you to supply your own.
Tokyo hands… a million crazy items such as:
Giant eye costume!
Cross section of a pander to put as a luck charm on your phone. You can get the whole set of about 150 little plastic animals with clear sections for you to learn about their insides.
I almost bought this one.
In the clubs here there is some crazy shit… like places to get a professional perm your hair next to the packed out dance floor. But, I digress, one interesting thing is the “girls only” seating areas. I know it exists cause it says it in English…. And only in English.
Also in the same store: Robot traffic directory…
Please refer back to overkill street works picture….
Menthol condoms!
OK: Moving on!
**** Harajuku *** Do a google image search: Well now I have been there too.
This guy was pretty cool with is David bowee Crystal ball tricks.
Me and my new coat. Only 15000 yen.
Yeah yeah. It totally does NOT go with the shirt, but I only just bought it right then, so gimme a break.
Harajuku park.
This is a huge pack nearby. Its like the botanical gardens on Acid. It has more life than any park I have seen in my life. The best feeling a place has had since con-fest. So hard to describe beyond that. I went on a Sunday evening.
There is drumming and picnicking everywhere, and spontaneous full live bands playing like buskers (but not asking for money, jazz, rock, easy listening.
Oh yeah… and a rave of about 200 people in some bushes along a path.
And this was not the strangest thing I saw here. Some things you will have to see for yourself.
I can’t believe what its like in Japan. It’s a twisted sense of honesty. Its like a drug.
Some temple place somewhere. Ask me if you care.
Anyway, its where you go if you cant be assed for the trip to Kyoto. (ill go there too at some point)
Meals on Legs!
Nearby was a fun park. How (ominously) cool does this look!
The little houses just god slowly round and round and rise up and down this pole.
Shibuya!
The all so famous Shibuya street crossing scene. Been here a quite few times now. And been to the star bucks and have a bunch of photos of the masses of thousands who do the street crossing like a minutely tide.
I have seen it way more busy that this too. And its truly beautiful when its raining and everyone has clear umbrella. 100 yen umbrella!, you buy it, you use it, you dump it in the “umbrella bin” when you go to the club, then you just take a random one when you leave again”
Actually I’m sad about this one. I lost my beloved green umbrella with this method. I was starting to look like a freak going though that bin so I let it go. Goodbye umbrella, your chapters with me are over.
Ok… So I got lost in Shibuya too and stumbaled upon this. Not sure if it was a speciality event or not, but Harajuku is becoming too “known” and this place, which I currently am not sure the location, was way cooler!
Spot the ordinary guy in the middle. I think his origional plan was to get a photo with a couple of randoms... but then people just kept comming out of the crowd and it became huge! These are just regular people who showed up.
Ok… that’s it. I’m typing as fast as I can. Gotta run!
Daveeeeeeeee
Diving right in... no time to ramble. go go go. fast fast fast. Burn rubber ki-chi-gai!
This is in my apartment. Top left switch… two weeks in and I still had no idea what this is for. In an attempt to make understanding, I have since had it translated. It means “light of the future”. I press it occasionally.
Japanese work force outside my apartment. In Australia you would call this picture “two guys digging a hole”
Went to some temple on a stick race, as can be seen here. Was really cool.
This is an opportunity for high fashion. Being a foreigner in this country is really “difficult” since the men here so good looking and well endowed. How can I compete with that?
OH and THIS is genoius!!... I want to mass produce this guy all over the world.
Points to interest in camera rig:
Shaving mirror,
Girl in red dress dangle
Calendar
English time: front and back of menu
“Our shop is specialty store of pasta and the pizza
It is made a hand of the training source and the dessert from the ingredient
Therefore, the dish of our shop is always fresh and warm.”
“Our shop will not offer liquors to the customer who steers the car when returning and the customer of less than 20 years”
All pictures are clickable for higher resolution
Technology mofo!
No time for spelling! - Move on!
Mmmm… natural DNA collagen bottled for your enjoyment.
OK awesome laundry lockers.
Some don’t eat beef, I don’t Iron.
With an ass load of trouble to figure our the first time, this is a relatively easy system that sees you put your washing in the locker and come back in a few days and its magically cleaned by small homeless girls. This company do not allow you to supply your own.
Tokyo hands… a million crazy items such as:
Giant eye costume!
Cross section of a pander to put as a luck charm on your phone. You can get the whole set of about 150 little plastic animals with clear sections for you to learn about their insides.
I almost bought this one.
In the clubs here there is some crazy shit… like places to get a professional perm your hair next to the packed out dance floor. But, I digress, one interesting thing is the “girls only” seating areas. I know it exists cause it says it in English…. And only in English.
Also in the same store: Robot traffic directory…
Please refer back to overkill street works picture….
Menthol condoms!
OK: Moving on!
**** Harajuku *** Do a google image search: Well now I have been there too.
This guy was pretty cool with is David bowee Crystal ball tricks.
Me and my new coat. Only 15000 yen.
Yeah yeah. It totally does NOT go with the shirt, but I only just bought it right then, so gimme a break.
Harajuku park.
This is a huge pack nearby. Its like the botanical gardens on Acid. It has more life than any park I have seen in my life. The best feeling a place has had since con-fest. So hard to describe beyond that. I went on a Sunday evening.
There is drumming and picnicking everywhere, and spontaneous full live bands playing like buskers (but not asking for money, jazz, rock, easy listening.
Oh yeah… and a rave of about 200 people in some bushes along a path.
And this was not the strangest thing I saw here. Some things you will have to see for yourself.
I can’t believe what its like in Japan. It’s a twisted sense of honesty. Its like a drug.
Some temple place somewhere. Ask me if you care.
Anyway, its where you go if you cant be assed for the trip to Kyoto. (ill go there too at some point)
Meals on Legs!
Nearby was a fun park. How (ominously) cool does this look!
The little houses just god slowly round and round and rise up and down this pole.
Shibuya!
The all so famous Shibuya street crossing scene. Been here a quite few times now. And been to the star bucks and have a bunch of photos of the masses of thousands who do the street crossing like a minutely tide.
I have seen it way more busy that this too. And its truly beautiful when its raining and everyone has clear umbrella. 100 yen umbrella!, you buy it, you use it, you dump it in the “umbrella bin” when you go to the club, then you just take a random one when you leave again”
Actually I’m sad about this one. I lost my beloved green umbrella with this method. I was starting to look like a freak going though that bin so I let it go. Goodbye umbrella, your chapters with me are over.
Ok… So I got lost in Shibuya too and stumbaled upon this. Not sure if it was a speciality event or not, but Harajuku is becoming too “known” and this place, which I currently am not sure the location, was way cooler!
Spot the ordinary guy in the middle. I think his origional plan was to get a photo with a couple of randoms... but then people just kept comming out of the crowd and it became huge! These are just regular people who showed up.
Ok… that’s it. I’m typing as fast as I can. Gotta run!
Daveeeeeeeee