Gion - One afternoon, One morning (3)

Gion - One afternoon, One morning (2)

Legend

Gion - One afternoon, One morning (I)

I am taking you to Gion for a new series of street photos. Gion is an old district of Kyoto, built to accommodate the needs of travellers and visitors to the Yasaka shrine. It eventually evolved to become one of the most exclusive and well-known geisha districts in Japan. The region is both a major tourist hub and a popular nightlife spot for locals. Streets vary dramatically in character, and quiet traditional streets lean upon modern ones. I hope you will share my umbrella. There will be more...


For Carina

The polaroid frames were provided by fuzzimo, thank you!

To Kyoto

(it's not really awesome at all)
Out of town for a few days. Talk to you soon.... and as ever, thank you for your very kind visits.

The Fantasy [Taking Off]

Scene from Le Ballon Rouge, 1956

Yoshikazu Suzuki departed from Lake Biwa one fine morning of November 1992, riding his Fantasy.

A few helium-inflated rubber balloons attached to a home-made gondola. The Fantasy. He was a piano tuner, some say heavily indebted. Would his sponsored trip have brought him the money he needed? Nobody knows. Nobody knows the reason why he decided to take off. One day after his departure he lost altitude and was spotted by cost guards. He waved to them. Bye, I'm going to America. This was the last time anyone has seen him and his balloons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_ballooning

For Joel, our friend from Geispitzen, gone missing while climbing Nanga Parbat.

Échouer

Fishing port in Tenno at low tide

Échouer

Fail

Run aground

To fail an exam

To wreck sth

A protocol may fail to display

Miscarry

Fall short

Draw a blank

Fall through

To come to grief

Strand

Abort

Limp along

Get it wrong

lose big time, lose big-time

To be bound to fail

To fail one's driving test

Defeat

(from dictionary.reverso.net)

The Miracle Factory Or How To Make Your Own Sardine

For TC

The 70's in Japan - Posters by Aquirax Uno

I wanted to show you more about the Japan in the 70's exhibition at Hiroshima MOCA, but there were so many things to show and I didn't know where to continue and where to go with it. So I will only put up a few posters by Aquirax Uno that were on display at the exhibition. I find them gorgeous. His style is.. how to say... sexy? You might want to put the kids to sleep before digging into the Underground of the 70's.

Fubuki Koshiji Recital, 1960

Ondine, 1963

Max Factor, 1965

Studio Re, 1965

Ultra Lucent Skin Care, 1967,  Max Factor

Egyptian Look, 1966, Max Factor

Theatre: Ningyo-no-le 1st performance "Mermaid", 1967

Mini Books, 1967, Yamanashi Silkcenter

Theatre Ningenza 22nd performance, 1967

A Laboratory of Play Tenjo Sajiki 5th performance "One Thousand One Night in Shinjuku", 1968

Bazazz 1968, Max Factor

First Love Inferno : Special version, 1968

A Laboratory of Play Tenjo-Sajiki performance "Le Petit Prince", 1968

Chanson, 1968,  Studio Edition

Sailor 12 Gold Fountain pen, 1968,  Sailor

Ciel Delit, 1968, Shimojima

Sailor 12 Gold Fountain pen, 1969,  Sailor

Nissan Puck in Music, 1969, TBS Radio

My Minitopia My Minica '70, 1970,  Mitsubishi

A Laboratory of Play Tenjo-Sajiki performance "La Marie Vison" in Paris, 1971

My favourite one, or a shaving session gone awry :-))

La Marie Vison - a transvestite play

A sad 40 year old transvestite named Marie

who asks the mirror

Mirror, my mirror, tell me who is

the most beautiful woman in the world

It's an ultra-circumstancial theatre in the dark

Too many sexual descriptions!

The story is wrong!

Everything that happens is wrong!

The truth is what will happen tomorrow!

Ah, the 70's... actually I realise just now that most of those are from the 60's!