hmmn: musings from the far east(erwood)
Taken this morning, at JR Ebisu station (Tokyo). I’m thinking Muybridge and his bet with Stanford, or Henri Cartier-Bresson‘s “decisive moment”. Or maybe I’m just thinking better to be on the sidelines capturing commuters hurrying to work, rather than being one among them myself.
Snapped this earlier tonight in the train, on the way home. It’s an advertisement for Sony’s So-net ADSL service, going with a Boogie Nights 70’s theme. I suppose in America I wouldn’t think twice about such a campaign (though perhaps I should), but here in Japan, where there’s a history of products being sold using caricatured portrayals of blacks, I was a bit taken aback.
Spent Saturday trying to plow through the backlog of digital photos I took late last year but never uploaded to my moribund Japan: 100 Views and More photoblog. Managed to get 3 days worth uploaded (not great progress which probably doesn’t bode well for me getting it all done!). The above image is from October 7th, taken in Shibuya. (See the October 4th and 5th pages as well).