Category Archives: japan

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death match in hell: ゴールデンがい、images from a lost world

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the peaceful ocean

that’s what pacific means; ‘peace­ful’. we all know now, in the most hor­rific way, just how far from peace­ful this ocean can be. they’re a resource­ful bunch, the peo­ple of japan, and they’ll rebuild. they’re good at that, japan; re-building. they’ve had a lot of … Read More

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ro-ten-bu-ro ろてんぶろ

ro-ten-bu-ro ろてんぶろ from ken edwards on Vimeo. part of a series of short exper­i­men­tal videos. i see these as an exten­sion of my pho­tog­ra­phy; still images which hap­pen to have movement. filmed at ‘the earth’; a con­tem­po­rary onsen on the ise penin­sula, not far from … Read More

shinjuku twilight 7 of 21

新宿のたそがれ時: shinjuku twilight

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omotesando

 

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cross

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road signs

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omotesando hills

tadao ando’s com­plic­ity in cor­po­rate cul­tural van­dal­ism in cen­tral tokyo. tadao ando is largely admired in the west for his archi­tec­ture of uncom­pro­mis­ing and cool min­i­mal­ism. but the other side to ando’s prac­tice is an uncom­pro­mis­ing and cool com­mer­cial­ism. omote­sando hills is the hara­juku devel­op­ment … Read More

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zen again

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紅葉 — モミジ

momiji are japan­ese maple trees. these pic­tures were made in kyoto in 2009