Lincoln Park
I arrived back in Tokyo a couple hours ago. I haven't had my camera out yet, so you get more photos from Lincoln Park in Chicago. I realize though what a wonderful thing the camera is, and that I could not live without it in Tokyo. From the moment I stepped off the train in Nippori, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of detest for the city. If I didn't have a camera, which gives me a creative way to deal with this helish place, I don't know how much longer I could live here.
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Hi Kevin!
Niiiiiice, me like the one-two-three whammy..... Lincoln park I, II, III, then; BAM! Lincoln Park!! Aprecieatin' your dissapointment.....BUT!
Look at it through the looking glass maaan!!!
Sitting in London town, too damn busy, sorry, substitute that with laaaaaazy to turn the key to what drives...
WISHIN' my pictures would document the way you have done it......Swap you Tokyo for London...maybe you want to too......But aint really relevential...(that a word?!? NO OF COURSE IT AINT A WORD!!)....Cos I'm coming to you..2 weeeks in Nihon, this time the itinery reads: "Tokyo - Hokkaido"!
I did Kyoto-Bladda-Osaka, Nara-Hiroshima-Blauehghgh last time, this time, head NORTH!
(Brother-in-law in "OBIHIRO" (Of all places!))
"Sekai-no-owari-to, Hado-boirudo-wandarando!" (That sheer poetry from Murakami (Haruki) had me escaping reality for a couple of weeks!.....)!
Anyhoo! If u wanna reduce your life-in-reality-blues, mail me man! March 14-29th I'm there, but we head for Sapporo and Hokkaido in the 2nd week. Back @ Big Sight for the anime fesitival....envisage Tokyo for 5-6 days total. Love to hang out for a half an hour man.
Don't give up on it, I'd swap my right arm to be in your situation! (...possibly)
(apologies for the overuse of elipses)
Posted by: Anonymous | January 11, 2004 01:56 AM
Seconded....beautiful pics!!
Posted by: sqkidge | January 11, 2004 05:01 AM
Know exactly how you feel. Tokyo can really drive the heart out of you... the city just has no sense of joy or ambition toward love of life. And, mind you, I've lived here (Tokyo) altogether 17 years. Though, the funny thing is, I loved it when I was a boy... Japan has really changed since then, though. I've got to get out of here soon. It's killing something inside me.
Posted by: butuki | January 11, 2004 06:17 AM
Please note that I didn't mean anything against Tokyo exactly, i'd feel the same way in New York too.
It's just the crowds and the lack of anything really "alive".
Although, if I lived out in the country, I wonder if I would get bored now that I have a camera. Would I run out of things to take photos of?
Posted by: kevin | January 11, 2004 10:23 AM
I find that I was aggressively taking pictures when I first moved to Miami, but the desire has gone away now that I've been here for 5 years. I'm just pretty much left with my anger over what the development has done to the environment here.
Not much else to say really other than that I love the goldfish picture.
Posted by: Merry | January 11, 2004 04:46 PM
The shot of those berries is very nice...
Posted by: Erik | January 16, 2004 12:43 AM
Hi,
Of course, stagnation develops wherever one roots....
Stagnatin' here, that's for sure. Really love your photo's though. You have such talent and skill. To be technically minded too....
Respect! One love sister!
Posted by: rastafarout | January 17, 2004 11:35 PM