Friday, 6 September 2013

The hollow factory (2/2)

















It looks like we are all set for the disco, Carina! :-)











Friday, 30 August 2013

The hollow factory (1/2)

How is it that the NoTrespassing sign makes you want to trespass even more? (maybe a Please Do Trespass at your Convenience sign would be more efficient). This is an abandoned factory in Tenno (Hiroshima), I felt I needed to enter and explore. I have no idea what they were manufacturing here. Heavy material for sure, hard and draining work under yellow helmets in what was probably a very noisy place.













































Sunday, 25 August 2013

Trash Sunday (1)

A new series, freshly cooked up for you...

















The Yebisu Temple



I came across this temple while walking around in Kyoto, I don't know its real name or what it is dedicated to, but there were many beer cans scattered here and there. Not the trash kind of beer cans. It is quite common in Japan to find offerings of beer or sake on ancestors' tombstones, but this seemed a bit different. All Yebisu beer? By the candle stands?






















This is not a nazi sign, by the way, it is the symbol for "temple". The Swastika has been around for centuries and was used in many civilizations before the one that we sadly know best.