Uchujin -The Blog

A selection of photos from my “Let the poets cry themselves to sleep” series recently appeared on the CNNgo site.
People started twittering about it, then someone Dugg it and it made it to the front page and then all hell broke loose.
It has been blogged on at least 30 blogs that I know about and probably many more that I don’t.
(I’m getting several Google Alert emails a day about it)

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(Protestor holding a banner with Ichiro Ozawa(secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan) and Yukio Hatoyama’s (Current Prime minister of Japan) faces added to Nazi propaganda poster declaring that- “My rights and rule are foremost” , “What is government rule, corruption?” ,”Mama can I have some more child allowance”)

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The latest shot from my “Talented Friends” series.

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So I hadn’t really thought thru my naming system for these “from the archives” posts, as what was 2 years ago just a month ago is now 3 years ago…….

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Over on the Magnesium Photos site, a new and very exciting worldwide  photo agency I have recently become a part of, you will find a new piece by me entitled “Sticker Art in Tokyo”.
The piece is a teaser for an upcoming book I have been working on for the past 3 years documenting the sticker art scene here in Tokyo.

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A duet from Brian Scott Peterson and Jim O’connell.
Performed live and without the aid of additional amplification.
Truely an aural delight ;-)

I spent the new year with the wifes parents in Yamagata, stuffing my face and getting hammered on good whiskey with my father in law.
It was damn cold and the snow fell continuously for days erasing all the sharp edges from both the physical landscape and my overactive mind.
The quiet stillness of a snow covered city at night soothing my Tokyo-withered nerves.
I shot very few pictures but did make it out for a few walks in the freezing silence and so I present here a little of what soothed me.
(And starting as I mean to go on for this new year BIGGER pictures)

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