Yearly Archives: 2010
Nairobi – Part 1 – Some of them are drinking wine
“Lavosti and Oren, Impromtu jam, Nairobi April 2010”
Lamu – Part 2 – ‘Telephone Graveyard, Magic Obama and The Meat Market’
Lamu – Part 1 – Ass !
Update: Uchujin Main Site
(completely unrelated picture-But , really, THAT is what you call a beard!) Things have been a bit slow here on the blog for the past week or so as I’ve had my head deep in CSS and HTML updating the main Uchujin site. There are still quite a few Kenya pictures to come though and…
Isiolo – Part 3 – Turkana and Samburu Tribal Women
Isiolo- Part 2 – Isiolo Town
Isiolo – Part 1
Black Spot Ahead
To whom it may concern:- I’m back in Tokyo, in body if not in spirit. My month long sojourn in Kenya which I had hoped would shake up the snow globe in my head has proven to have had quite the opposite effect and has made me realise that the snow globe was in a…
Something about absence and the heart’s fondness
Or, My feet have become unbearably itchy…….
Asoh Kaho
Last week a make-up artist friend, Yuko Goto, asked me to shoot for a friend and client of hers Asoh Kaho (www.kaho.jp) , a Japanese traditional musician and dancer. The shoot took place at the Akasaka Prince Hotel, in the rather beautiful 2 storey old building, which reeked of money and decadence ;-) It was…
Shall we dance?
Rath Yatra
Located on the east coast of India, sixty kilometers from the Orissan capital of Bhubaneswar, lies Puri, one of the great pilgrimage sites dating back to ancient India.
Uchujin, Falsalama and His Holiness the Dali Lama
Fragments of Tokyo Exhibition – Jon Ellis, Thomas Orand, Toshiya Watanabe and 古賀大郎(Dairou Koga) 2010.02.08-02.14
In honor of my dear friend Jon Ellis (he of “it’ll all end in tears” fame) and his 3 accomplices, Thomas Orand, Toshiya Watanabe and Dairou Kogas’ exhibition at Place M in Shinjuku, Tokyo, running until Feburary 14th 2010, I am posting 3 of my recent favorite pictures of the man who makes Andrew Eldrich look not goth enough.
On the 7th Day Pt 2
Once again while the (allegedly) omnipotent, omnipresent one was having a day off, last Sunday, the (allegedly) evil horned one and I were not.
Gone viral
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 then all hell broke loose.
No local suffrage for foreigners in japan- Shibuya protest
(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”)
Eiichi “Scart” Miyamoto – Talented Friends series
The latest shot from my “Talented Friends” series.
X years ago pt. ?
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…….
A Symphony
A duet from Brian Scott Peterson and Jim O’connell.
Performed live and without the aid of additional amplification.
Truely an aural delight ;-)
Welcome to 2010 Mr Clarke
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…