Spaceship or building? Yoyogi Secondary Gymnasium, near Yoyogi Park.
They’ve landed!
Spaceship or building? Yoyogi Secondary Gymnasium, near Yoyogi Park.
Category: Japan things!
These things are about Japan!
Some slight site mods…
You may or may not have noticed, but I’ve been adding banner pictures from my Nerdtour 2012 in Japan, just for variety. Each time you load the page, there’s a different picture (usually!) and more will be coming. Just a little something to break the monotony! I’ll likely be adding the originals sometime soon, as well!
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”
I had heard about this documentary, “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”, filmed about 1 month after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. I finally got a chance to see it, and it’s both heartbreaking and hopeful, beautifully filmed scenes of people coping with the chaos, death and destruction, with the wistful contrast of the iconic Japanese cherry trees blooming amid the debris. The maker of the film, Lucy Walker, captures the sadness, the hope, and some of the spirit of the Japanese people, in their own words, and in the images of their land.
If you get a chance, the documentary is on HBO now, and may be available other places. The trailer is on YouTube, below.
Matsushima changes – 5 years and 2 years
One thing about being an avid (if not very good! ^_-) photographer of a particular subject, you can find evidence of changes over time.
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Matsushima, two years later (pt. 2)
Another in my comparison between what Matsushima was like when I went there in 2010, before the tsunami, and 2012, when I returned to see how the town was affected.
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New things for sale! (well, only one new thing for now)
Well, I’ve started back into making more things to sell here, trying to raise some money while making the world just a bit better-looking! Or at least, by making things people might like to have around, anyway!
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Nerdtour 2012: A bit of Akihabara
This is mainly a test to see how well my main site here ties into my new Tumblr blog…
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Nerdtour 2012: It’s just a matter of perspective…
Once again, I’m going to try to limit my photos per post so that I might make more posts (and stave off scrolling boredom). It’s not gone well so far, I keep finding more pictures that I want to post all at once!
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