Uchujin -The Blog

As promised here is the second installment of the “Unpublished 2009″ set.
This will almost certainly be the last post for 2009.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by in 2009, hope to see y’all in 2010.
Happy New year!

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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep - CNNgo selection

After a slightly rocky road and a story best left untold, a gallery of photos from my “let the poets cry themselves to sleep” series has been published on CNNgo, the travel branch of the CNN website.
The gallery which contains previously unseen pictures from the series can be seen on the CNNgo site HERE.

I could wax lyrical, I could even quote Del boy but instead to mark the passing of another year I’ll just post one unpublished picture from each month of the past year.

This is part 1, look out for part 2 in the next few days.

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Over on his very very cool new Big Pictures site, Mr Jim O’Connell has posted a weird slowed down video of me in all my dark glory ;-)

To share the incoming link love, I won’t post it here I’ll just link to it.
HERE
Thanks Jim, I’m flattered.

I was lucky enough to meet KiemTang a.k.a. Society Works who was passing through our little metropolis the past few days.

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Professor David Nutt of the University of Bristol is one of my new heroes.
Controversially (exactly to who I don’t quite understand) together with a team of highly respected experts he drew up a new classification system for drugs based on “harm”, the rankings placed Alcohol far above Ecstacy, causing outrage in middle  England.
That and a few other unpopular statements (including my personal favorite involving horse riding) got Professor Nutt sacked from his job as the UK governments top drugs advisor in October of this year.

Of course it did.

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Unless you walk around with your eyes closed you cannot fail to have seen the tags or the rectangular white stickers with the letters “BNE” in Helvetica Neue gracing lamposts, street signs and any available surface just about everywhere you go.
For more than 5 years, from Tokyo to New York, Bangkok to San Fransisco the mysterious acroynm has become ubiquitous with the modern urban environment.

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Can’t believe it was 2 years ago this month when we were graced with the presence of Mr Arnaud De Grave in our little village, Tokyo.

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