http://blog.gaijinstore.com Stories and pictures from my life in Japan Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:49:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay here are the pics. I didn't get as many good pictures as I wanted considering the number of them I took. I attribute this mostly to not having my cable release with me, I was basically limited to 30 sec exposures or letting the camera decide the exposure on ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/14/pics-2/ So I'm stuck here in a netcafe in Ikebukuro until tomorrow. I took a bunch of pictures tonight/last night around Ikebukuro and my apartment, some turned out kind of OK. I still feel weird walking around the city and setting up my tripod in the middle of the busiest few ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/14/ahhh-ikebukuro/ One possibly interesting thing is that my roommate needs the house to host a friend or two today, because they're all going to England together and leaving tomorrow. So I'm basically screwed and have to spend the night at a netcafe or something. So I think I'm going to go ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/13/oh/ Nothing happening really so here's some crappy pictures my friend took with my camera. My friend really sucks at photography. It's too bad because we saw a nice looking black GTR parked near the convenience store we were just inside. Stupid photography challenged friend. http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/13/boring/ I went to momo paradise the other night which is an all you can eat sukiyaki place. Sukiyaki is basically like this, they put a big metal pan full of a soup stock on a burner built into the table. Also placed on the table are plates of thinly sliced ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/08/oh-yeah-2/ Nothing going on today. Had an English lesson today with my favorite student, always fun talking with him. One of my older students quit coming to lessons a few days ago and sent me a poorly written and somewhat angry sounding email. I'm not sure if it was meant to be ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/08/eheheh/ Even McDonalds is better in Japan! I got this glass for free today at McDonalds, awesome. They don't do stuff like that anymore in Canada or the US. I'm going to go back later this week to get a blue one since my room mate recently broke 3 glasses by ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/06/japan-rocks/ I photoshopped one of my pics to look like it was a miniature scene. Not sure how good it looks but whatever. http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/02/photoshop/ More pics from Tokyo. Took these last night after a lesson. Had a bunch of lessons all in a row last night, didn't finish till super late. http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/11/01/tokyo-again/ It's not even 5:30pm yet and it's almost pitch black out. Of course the fact the whole damn city is surrounded / covered in buildings that block out the sun at every hour except noon, but still, wtf. In happy news the Bank of Japan decided to bail out the country ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/30/its-damn-dark/ More pics from a while back at Asakusa. Just got around to post processing these. After I finish writing this post I have to email a bunch of people then I'm going out to take some more creepy night time pics of Tokyo! Believe it or not though this whole ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/28/more-from-asakusa/ YES! http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/27/catbus/ I went to Fujisawa in Kanagawa yesterday, that was alright. But it started raining super super hard after I came back, until about an hour ago. No big deal really, except the humidity was at something like 98% the entire time. I thought it was a typhoon maybe. Very uncomfortable ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/24/holy-crap-rain-and-humidity/ Here's some more pictures from around Tokyo and an awesome huge Mantis that was parked outside my window for hours. Actually it's still there.. Funny thing about the building pictures, I ran them through perspective correction to try to imitate the kinds of lens movements possible with a large format ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/22/more-tokyo-and-gross-stuff/ I went out picture taking the other day with a friend and taught them how to use their new DSLR (A D80). I got to use a D80 for the first time since I sold mine and I was reminded of how much I like the shutter sound and feel ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/16/some-pics-and-stuff-from-around-tokyo/ http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/14/important-message-about-voting/ Trying to figure out if my telephoto lens has an element problem and needs to be serviced or if it's just a problem the lens design has with high contrast subjects and chromatic aberration. Left picture the blue fringe is highly visible on the high contrast letters on the guy's shirt. ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/13/damn-the-fringing/ I was supposed to go out last night to Shibuya with my friend and take tons of night pics. But she canceled again at the last minute. So no pictures.　彩子！ほら！今度絶対キャンセルしないでよ！！きい！！ In good news I beat Pony Graphics in my labor dispute, though I only got about half as much money as ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/08/gah/ Requests were made for pictures of my long hair! Requests granted! Looks like Don King from this angle. http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/08/requests-were-made/ I spent a couple hours tonight photographing random streets at night around my apartment. When I got back I realized how boring the streets are around here. I've already done the "absence" mood thing so I didn't want to do it over again. Only problem is it's damn boring here ... http://blog.gaijinstore.com/2008/10/05/blah-out-all-night-and-nothing-to-show-for-it/