The Maxwell Street Market

The good thing with jet lag is it gets you out there at sunrise and you almost have the city for yourself. I like that. And I like early-weekend-morning-empty-metro-taking-you-to-the-suburbs. 

You won't find anything fancy at the Maxwell Street Market but you'll get a certain sense of oh OK this is where "real" people live and buy their socks, batteries, mattresses, shampoo, Bears merchandise etc..

Sellers and buyers are for a large part latin american and black, which means…. great street food! I HAD to have a quesadilla or two for lunch, followed by a raspberry churro. That was around 9.30am
:-))

On my way back I found an odd couple of shrines somewhere in the back alleys. Some kind of black magic? I don't know. Or maybe just a tribute to the god of pineapples :-)) (the book says "Religion for Dummies").

Jimbocho Booktown

The neighbourhood of Jimbocho is one of my favourite places for a field trip in Tokyo. Jimbocho is basically a 1km long alignment of used books stores. You can find a bit of everything there, from cheap magazines to pricey collectables a hundred years old. When I visit I mainly look for old books cheap enough to cut up for mail art and the such. I never came home empty handed, but there are good days and bad days, sometimes depending on what the shop keepers are willing to sell you (a bit of a tricky one for me, that's why I only go every six months or so). I will show you last week's catch at Jimbocho in a future blog.

Brushtown in the middle of Booktown?

Dance Report - on hiding

hide in the cupboard
a) until your family starts to wonder
b) until your family forgets you
(make choice)


Yoko Ono - Grapefruit, 1964

The missing angel

Tonkatsu

Sticking to Harajuku

Harajuku Love

ビール

Between Kappabashi and Ueno (1)

13h30

No idea why the woman on the poster has blue skin, but how serendipitous to find a blue bike parked right in front of it! 

It's a shame I didn't have a wide-angle lens, because the laundry extended through the whole length of the wall!

Stay away from drugs I suppose. I like the association between both (unrelated) posters.

P / Pee

I really like those two calendars on the walls of the farm's kitchen. Both of them only had P / Pee as an event in March. It makes Pee look very important and she sure likes this :-)) I love the natural poem behind the second calendar too. As Eeedie says, "we do have other friends too!". That made me laugh so much. Yes, I have seen some of them and they were as sweat as you are!

In broad daylight - II

Between light and darkness

Hong Kong is blinding with lights at night, the sea of neon is almost overwhelming.
Behind the light, almost everywhere, scaffolds made of… bamboo, holding decadent structures together by god knows what magic trick, supporting human beings with the laws of a mysterious non-gravity.