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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 practice. they’ll need it.

these pictures were taken in 2009 at toba, on the ise peninsula, in mie prefecture

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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 toba city, in mie prefecture, japan.

you can find more of my little films at vimeo — not sure where i’m going with these, but it’s fun.

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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 which swept away one of the few remaining examples of tokyo’s pre-war embrace of architectural modernism; the bauhaus–inspired dōjunkai Aoyama Apartments, which had been built in 1927 after the 1923 kantō earthquake.

these apartments, although in sore need of restoration, could, with a will, have been preserved. what has replaced them is not the ando of the pared down cold un-dressed concrete of his more well-known works, but a monument to modern consumerism — since the initial excitement of the opening, the building now looks like any of the other sanitised anonymous cathedral-like shooping malls which have sprung up all over tokyo, thanks to the mori corporation and their vision of the urban garden.

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

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