A heap of leaves and a videotape

A heap of leaves and a videotape
Originally uploaded by nofrills

Rest in peace, videotape.

11 December 2011

Minato-ku Manhole Cover

Minato-ku Manhole Cover
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Minato-ku's symbol, based on the hiragana, み (of みなと く = 港区).

Element plastic

Element plastic
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Sad. Really sad.

The wretched

The wretched
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

A street in Tokyo, 15 September 2007 - three days after Mr Shinzo Abe of the LDP (Jimin To) said he would step down.

This is a rubbish collection point. Two cardboard boxes and one LDP poster board.

Modern Life is Rubbish, opus 2

Modern Life is Rubbish, opus 2
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

I pictured these as they were found. And I know nothing about this caffeine-addicted person.

Modern Life is Rubbish, opus 1

Modern Life is Rubbish, opus 1
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

night (foot lights)

night (foot lights)
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

I've been cleaning up my hard disc drive, and have just found this photo, taken in September 2006.

4月8日、選挙行ってきた。Tokyo Governor Election, 8th April 2007

選挙行ってきた。
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

で、結果これかい。がっくり。 写真上はYahoo Japanのニュース記事、下はNHKの開票速報。

At the moment I don't feel very good because of the election result. By the way they are so efficient to count the votes. It's so quick. I hear they've got a special machine to read the ballot paper. (In Japan we write the candidate's name on with a pencil on the ballot paper, and counting machines with an OCR software does the job. I wish I could show how it is like to you, but they don't allow cameras inside the polling station.)

And the music I am listening to with foobar? It goes "too ****ed up to care anymore".

By the way, one of the candidates, Kisho Kurokawa 黒川紀章, is THAT architect Kurokawa, worldly known for the capsule hotel tower built in the early 1970s.

And if you are as depressed as I am, and need a good laugh - nonsense treat:
bogusne.ws/article/38206043.html
(in Japanese)

Work Hard.

Work Hard.
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

A Continental Airlines advert.

Saturated ... I played with JTrim software.

four and five

four and five
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Four dummies, and five utility tools to sit on.
A closed shop, apparently.

blue_wax

blue_wax
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Found on the street surface. I don't know why this existed there.

A Fence

A Fence
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

よく見ればごみがいっぱい。

Separated at death

Separated at death
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

A mosaic (two separate pictures, taken ten steps away each other.)

The paper at the top used to be part of the tyny box below. It's a box of strawberry gums, popular among children,

From the Land of the Rising Sun

From the Land of the Rising Sun
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Rubbish from Nisshin Cup Noodle, sticking onto the road surface.

It's dinner time.

It's dinner time.
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

View large to see why "dinner time". This is an "as-is" picture. Possibly related to this Cup Noodle, which was 50 meters away.

After the rain

After the rain
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Ciggy stubs everywhere. They usually ruins the picture, but can't I somehow make the picture? And this is one experiment. 'See this On Black.

* Additional effects on a software called JTrim. It's great, easy to use and free.

After the rain

After the rain
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Boss comes in rainbow.

Boss comes in rainbow.
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Somebody's act of littering, or is it just he/she gave me a chance to take a picture for the "bright colours on gray" group?

Just another victim

Just another victim
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Littering is annoying. This is one of the everyday problems here in Tokyo. People throw their rubbish into somebody else's bicycle basket on the street. This isn't my bike, but often I find mine with a basket-full of empty cans, ciggy boxes and onigiri wrappers. I don't remember how many times I had to get back to my room to get a plastic bag for all the rubbish. Annoying, really.

spamming!

spamming!
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Spamming is a problem for us, online or not. This beautiful motorbike has just suffered one act of spamming on its number plate/license plate. (See note.)

The yellow sticker says "Thinking of selling your motorbike? Just call us! We are more experienced than anyone else!!"

I think the sticker is very easy to remove, though. Stickier than Post-It notes but less sticky than usual brown tapes.