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| Tokyo V.6 |
[08 Nov 2009|03:02am] |
I'm in Tokyo. Again. Not that I'm complaining.
I got my hair cut by Charlie Le Mindu btw. I usually style it in a quiff though sometimes it just does this insane scientist thing.
I should have bought some of this product. (look at the floor)
This was my first meal.
This udon has a huge piece of delicious, juicy abura age on top, thus it is called kitsune (fox). Abura age is the fox's favourite food.
This is my handwriting.
And this is the love of my life NINO-KUN <3. Always in a massive billboard near me, to make me melt and die.
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| Olympus Pen E-P1 |
[01 Oct 2009|03:07am] |
I have fallen MADLY in love with this hot number.
It looks like a high end vintage camera, but it is, in fact, a compact "DSLR", the smallest in the world at the moment.
I like it even better in beautiful retro white x beige.
It has gotten rave reviews on its quality, 12.5mp, beautiful colours, no noise, image stabilisation and it even goes up to iso 6400 and still doesn't look terrible. The 14mm-42mm kit lens is excellent and ingeniously retracts to half its length. The only catch is the lack of flash (which I couldn't care less for personally) and the lack of a viewfinder, which is however what it owes its small size to (and the quotation marks around DSLR).
I've always used cute vintage cameras, toycameras, polaroids and film for my personal work, but that don't cut it for today's publication standards..so a switch is inevitable and I have found it so hard to deal with the bulky, ugly, plastic-looking DSLRs of today. This camera has everything I want so I think the lack of a viewfinder is a compromise I can make... otherwise it's THIS:
ぶさいく！
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| Studying japanese |
[25 Sep 2009|06:44pm] |
I've just started studying japanese at a very good university in beautiful Bloomsbury. I had forgotten the feeling of learning a new language. You can practically feel your brain expanding. o.o I can speak some basic stuff but reading and writing is a whole different story. It's by far the most difficult thing I've ever encountered. T_T
They have three writing systems, hiragana, katakana and kanji. The first two consist of syllables, hiragana is for japanese words and katakana for imported foreign words such as "computer". As a european, I find NO logic behind them, there aren't for example similarities between certain sounds or anything like that, and many of them look similar with an extra line or a different direction of a curve changing the sound. And the stroke order is important or you can end up with a different sound. With kanji each character represents a whole word and they can consist of like 15 strokes. The average japanese adult must know 2,000 of them.
We have to learn all this by next week
If I study hard I will be able to read hiragana by the next time I go to Tokyo. I will know what button does what on the butt washing toilets and if there's meat hidden in my onigiri! My aspirations are reasonable, right? Right??? I'm not adding reading manga to my agenda just yet.
Speaking of butt washing, I have to share this gem.
Only Jun Togawa would play in an ad like this.
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| Gaga for Gaga, you know the drill... |
[14 Sep 2009|07:19pm] |
I'm going to make a random post about Lady Gaga now and I guess many will think "Oh not you too!" and that's exactly the point. She's fucking everywhere! I've been bombarded with information about her from every source possible. On the free newspapers on the tube, music blogs, fashion blogs, gossip blogs, 4chan, youtube. And as much as I'm not really interested in her or the music, I'm intrigued by the Gaga phenomenon.
The first time I heard of her was when every profile on Dlist had her music on it which is the first major point to be made about her. She is practically designed to make the gays like her, and therefore, the rest of the world.
She's generally been celebrated as the weirdest thing ever, which is ridiculous, as my friend Michael pointed out she's just doing stuff that artists like Bjork, Roisin Murphy etc have been doing since forever, yet nobody went hysterical over them like they are over Gaga. Well the difference is - she is mainstream, Bjork and Roisin are not. The crowd she is targeted at could not even begin to comprehend Bjork, she doesn't even register on their brains. The music is too weird, it doesn't play in clubs, she looks like an elf, end of story. So a hot blond 23yo slut that makes some good gay club music AND looks that different is bound to make an impression.
Which brings us to the other point I want to make. At the moment, people of the mainstream the world over, are incredibly BORED! They've seen everything! So what's next? Become weird. Gaga just happened to show up at the right time.
Then there's the issue of how genuine she is. But then again, who cares? If anyone does, they'll have to wait a few years and see how it plays out and how long it lasts. I have to say though I don't like seeing people bashing her with comments like "Who does she think she is, Madonna?". As far as I know Gaga writes and plays her own music and designs her own outfits. What does Madonna do? Hire the best in the business to do everything for her?
It generally seems she's a love her or hate her type of artist. But why the haters? Of course there's those people who will look down on anything popular so they can be perceived as ahead of the game. Others just don't like weirdness entering the mainstream. But where's the harm? If anything, it could stimulate a couple more people's minds, who otherwise would only ever know Britney and maybe, I say maybe, they will broaden their horizons culturally and aesthetically. Genuine weirdness will never be mainstream anyway, by definition. Weirdness is ALWAYS weird and always ahead of the game. It strikes me as really lame elitism, as if they don't want to end up looking mainstream themselves. If anyone feels threatened by Gaga, that's the posers.
Finally the last detail that I must admit was what made me give her the time of day - is she really a hermaphrodite? She clearly has a dick coming out of her skirt in that viral youtube vid, and quite a bump when she wears tight clothing, yet there's no way she could be a transgendered man and not have it leak already. Anyway I think it would be great if a major star like her turns out to be hermaphrodite. Gives people something to think about. I just hope she doesn't try to exploit it because that would just be sad. I have a feeling she won't since she hasn't so far.
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[03 Jul 2009|10:55pm] |
I'm back from Le Japon!
And I'm going to dump a thousand pictures for those who don't watch my flickr. I've sortof abandoned lj and use flickr as my blog.
This was my 5th time in two years. And I sortof felt like keeping it to myself so I didn't take that many photographs. This was the first time I wasn't going for a particular reason such as work or an event so I had all the time to relax and enjoy.
Used panties for sale at bargain prices
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