Uchujin -The Blog

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)

Summer that is.

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So, that’ll be Autumn then….
After a blistering Tokyo summer I’m almost relieved the temperature has dropped enough that I don’t wake up in a pool of my own excretions. Almost.

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Once again while the (allegedly) omnipotent, omnipresent one was having a day off, last Sunday, the (allegedly) evil horned one and I were not.

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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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The latest shot from my “Talented Friends” series.

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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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As promised here is the second installment of the “Unpublished 2009″ set.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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I could wax lyrical, I could even quote Del boy but instead to mark the passing of another year I’ll just post one unpublished picture from each month of the past year.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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My Father, John Storey (Pictured above) is a damn fine human being, a man who taught me what integrity means and made it forever impossible for me to look at oil paintings of countryside scenes without slipping into a boredom induced coma, thanks to his vain attempts to educate me in the arts as a child (when all I was interested in was science and the purple one, Prince).
He is also one of a dying breed of illustrators trained in, amongst other things,  black and white drawing techniques specifically designed to print well on newsprint stock.

Recently an article written by him and illustrated with his work was published in a small English arts magazine, Venue, Who, amazingly for 2009 , don’t have a website(!), at least not one I can find.

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