19.11.2012 - things I enjoy monday.

I know, Tuesday sound better but I only work at one school (instead of my normal two) tomorrow, so I want to actually take photos of real things. Whereas today I have done fuck-all so I'm doing it today!

 The first time I drew this on and decided I needed it tattooed &the day after I got it done.

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this photo

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 this photo project where the photographer had couples change clothes

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These tattoos by Liam Sparkes.
I've loved his stuff for years now.

(fair warning: a lot of his tattoos are borderline creepy and he also posts a lot of photos of homeless/passed out drunk people. So.)
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This project by Ulric Colette 

"How much do you and your family members really look alike? Quebec, Canada-based graphic designer and photographer Ulric Collette has created a shockingly cool project where he's exploring the genetic similarities between different members of the same family. By splitting their faces in half and then splicing them together, he creates interesting new people that are sometimes quite normal looking and other times far from it. He calls this series Genetic Portraits."

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Melanie Martinez's cover of Hit The Road Jack on the Voice.

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The fact that I get to see my family in less than three weeks! 

I can't find a photo of the three of them (or the four of us) together, but here's my parents because I post enough about Magnus.

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Bernie Dexter dresses.

How great are 50s style dresses with amazing graphic prints?

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Hope you all have a good day and a pleasant tomorrow!

11.10.2012 - shinjuku gyoen

Tuesday

I hurt my knee the other day, not badly but enough to properly hurt.
So instead of going to Hombu after work I took myself out to dinner at Eat More Greens.
Delicious, as always.
I ate avocado! and liked it! well, I didn't mind it at all.
I feel like this is one of those magical "I'm becoming an adult" moments, maybe not?

all time is tea time.

they even provide throws in case one gets chilly!

vegan taco salad

baffling

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Wednesday

Went and returned a dress, walked around Harajuku for a while.
I had 5 Japanese people ask to have their photos taken with me, two of the Japanese girls were together but the rest were separate.
Turns out not that many people dress like pin up models here, do it's still exciting?

It was bizarre, but cool.

the dress

the makeup

I also bought myself a ring that has a capybara on it, excuse me while I die of joy.

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Thursday

Went to the dojo, skyped with my family for a while, tidied up a bit.

Then I went and spent the afternoon at Shinjuku Gyoen, which is a beautiful park.

I walked around the Traditional Japanese Gardens for a while, they were gorgeous.

Then I spent some time lying on the grass reading my book. And by 'some time' I mean '3 hours'.
The most relaxing three hours I've had since I moved here, hands down.

water, douglas adams, and snacks.
the big three.

And to finish it all off I walked about the Formal French Rose Gardens, which were also gorgeous.

And these I took whilst walking back to the Shinjuku Exit, which was across the park from the rose garden.

what day would be complete without a public bathroom mirror shot?

On my walk back here I stopped by Bic Camera to look at tripods (found a decent one for about $90, which I think I'll go buy tomorrow.)  and some lens. My 50mm doesn't autofocus (it never has, I got it for free because of that) and I'm torn between buying a working one or maybe the 16-35 f/2.8.
Unfortunately for me the latter is going to cost me slightly less than $2,000 whereas the 50mm will only set me back about $500, so that decision is pretty much made. 
I dunno, I want something a bit more wideangle, but it has to have a low f stop or I go crazy.
Does anyone want to give me two grand? please and thank you.

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I'm sorry for the lack of proper blogging lately, I've been having a really hard time adjusting to being here.
I'm still really really homesick and I'm really struggling with being alone all the time and the general feeling of loneliness, which is made a thousand times worst by my inability to speak the language.
I'm just very alone in a very foreign place, and I really have no idea how to go about dealing with any of the emotion it's bringing up, so.
bit of a pessimistic ending here, but it's important for me not to lie on this blog and say everything's amazing when it's not. And it's not right now, far from it.


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hope you all have a good day, and a pleasant tomorrow!