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Toshiro at HDRi Life has been walking the streets of Tokyo, photographing the people and structures of its urban scenery in HDR.
Shot with ultra-wide-angle and fisheye lenses, his photos present a disconcerting landscape of surreal colors and impossibly bent structures that make Japan’s megalopolis look more cold and inhospitable than it really is.
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24 Feb, 2009

A ride through Tokyo’s Bayshore Route

Posted by: brb In: Japan| photography

It’s a perfect day, you have a Toyota ist and a Canon 5D Mark II, what do you do? Drive to Akihabara and take pictures of maid girls, right? Well, that’s a possibility. But some guys just mount their 5D on their dashboards in video mode and cruise through Tokyo’s expressways.
And you have a video [...]

16 Jan, 2009

One thousand paper cranes

Posted by: brb In: Art| Japan| photography

You’ve probably seen this very popular image in flickr–or maybe you haven’t, so here it is. “Rainbow of Peace” by jasohill (twitter), one of whose photos I have featured before in Bouncing Red Ball.

{You can see its 2048×1536-pixel splendor here.}
It is said that if you fold a thousand cranes, one of the mystical animals of [...]


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    Here is a collection of wonderfully weird illustrations by Gōjin Ishihara, whose work graced the pages of numerous kids’ books in the 1970s. The first 16 images below appeared in the “Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters” (1972), which profiled supernatural creatures from Japanese legend. The other illustrations appeared in various educational and entertainment-oriented publications for [...]

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    Here is another very interesting survey from goo Research, a look at child-rearing and working. This is the second time the survey has been conducted, the first time being in December 2007, but I didn’t translate that one. Demographics Between the 24th and 29th of June 2010 exactly 1,000 members of the goo Research online [...]