Uchujin -The Blog

Next up in this dubiously titled series is “The Kishi Cut” or “@Kishakishi” – A gin swilling hard dancing English woman of frankly terrifying intellect, the curly-haired siren that is Miss Sophie Knight.

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Sarcastic nod to casual racism of the title aside this new series is to highlight some of the very talented and interesting women I count among my friends.
For a long time here in Tokyo my peer group was to be honest a little testosterone heavy, not by choice I might add, but recently and thanks to which ever deity I’m on speaking terms with at the moment I have been lucky enough to offset that one sidedness by meeting some very cool women.

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For my inaugural post of 2012 I have a happy story.
A little out of character I know, but this one is good and is all about why you should stand up for yourself and your work.

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Quite a year that there 2011.

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Just a little timelapse sequence I threw together of the total lunar eclipse on 10th December 2011 as seen from Tokyo.

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Friday nights have always meant something special to me ever since those first illicit snakebite and blacks when I wasn’t old enough to get served in a pub.
The tradition of meeting with good friends over a few (really a few??) drinks and putting the world to rights continues even now so far away from those days as a fledgling alcoholic.
What that means in Tokyo is that I have been going, with an ever-changing group of friends (some dearly missed who friday isn’t the same without) to the same bar almost every Friday night for over 5 years.
It’s got to the point now where the bar manager and I know each other by name and he will move people off my favorite table when I arrive.

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For your Friday amusement.
Uchujin circa 1991
A suit I borrowed from Finian Lynch and proceeded to wear for weeks afterwards ;-)
(photographer unknown – but it was probably Finian or Muju)

A good and ridiculously talented friend ‘Muju’ recently hired me to do a few promo shots of his newest T-shirt designs (hand screenprinted onto climate neutral organic cotton T’s) but being the contrary trouble maker that I am I decided to make a promo video instead – a trick you can only really pull when the client is one of your oldest and dearest friends.

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Weird paste-up sticker seen in Kabukicho.
Just that.