White on yellow
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
1 May 2007
30 April 2007
orange shades
orange shades
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
I was on a train. I had my umbrella with me. I had my camera with me. I had forgot to bring a book to read. I was bored. That's the story of my life.
gray and peach-ish
gray and peach-ish
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
See also:
flickr.com/photos/nofrills/418878905/
Blurred because the train was on the move... It's a surface pic of a "priority seat" which used to be called "silver seat" because of the colour.
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)
25 April 2007
24 April 2007
Black cat carrier
Black cat carrier
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
The famous black cat trademark of Yamato Transport Co. Ltd.
the green, the blue and white
the green, the blue and white
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
If you are in Japan for some time, I think you can easily recognise this.
yellow (and) tails
yellow (and) tails
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
A restaurant sign. Design based on hand written hiragana (calligraphy). I think they over-did in cutting out the letter but nonetheless, this amused me.
15 April 2007
Orangey Sakura Dream
Orangey Sakura Dream
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Collage - messed around with the software called JTrim.
Dream (half man-made)
Dream (half man-made)
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Another zoom attempt. This sakura, somei-yoshino (ソメイヨシノ), is man-made: a crossbreed of two kinds of wild cherries. They do not usually bear fruit. They don't have seeds. Wikipedia Japanese is worth reading.
桜の森の満開の下
桜の森の満開の下
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Another zoom attempt at this one, and different crop of this one.
Ango Sakaguchi (坂口安吾) wrote in 1947:
桜の花が咲くと人々は酒をぶらさげたり団子をたべて花の下を歩いて絶景だの春ランマンだのと浮かれて陽気になりますが、これは嘘です。なぜ嘘かと申しますと、桜の花の下へ人がより集って酔っ払ってゲロを吐いて喧嘩して、これは江戸時代からの話で、大昔は桜の花の下は怖しいと思っても、絶景だなどとは誰も思いませんでした。近頃は桜の花の下といえば人間がより集って酒をのんで喧嘩していますから陽気でにぎやかだと思いこんでいますが、桜の花の下から人間を取り去ると怖ろしい景色になりますので、能にも、さる母親が愛児を人さらいにさらわれて子供を探して発狂して桜の花の満開の林の下へ来かかり見渡す花びらの陰に子供の幻を描いて狂い死して花びらに埋まってしまう（このところ小生の蛇足）という話もあり、桜の林の花の下に人の姿がなければ怖しいばかりです。
-- 坂口安吾、『桜の森の満開の下』
www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001095/files/42618_21410.html
This novel is translated by Roger Pulvers. The book seems to be out of print now, but at the amazon JP store you can find some second-hand copies.
Amid a (digital) mist
Amid a (digital) mist
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Another zoom attempt at this one. I set my camera "auto" and placed it on the curbstone, then just pushed the button without looking into the monitor/finder.
9 April 2007
Eloquent Spring
Eloquent Spring
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
It's high up on the tree... like 2 meters high. I reached up and press the shutter button without looking into the finder/monitor. Many of this "experimental shots" turned out very bad, and this is one of few "watchable" shots.
The riverside cherries
The riverside cherries
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Yes, we call this "a river". Concrete-covered, gray water space.
7 April 2007
movie: 花吹雪
Using the "movie" function on my still camera. Childrens are screaming, "It's snow! snow! (雪！ 雪！)". In fact this is called "花吹雪 (hana-fubuki: storm of blossoms)" in the Japanese language.
2 April 2007
My March activity on flickr
March 2007: This must have been the most active month for me on flickr. 132 photos, 15 days. All of these will be archived here very soon.
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