If you keep your eyes open when you are wandering around you can come across some wonderful things like this manhole cover in Tokyo. The cherry blossom season is rightly celebrated at spring time in Japan thus the beautiful design of what otherwise would be a mundane object.
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Hello Kitty Tokyo Style
Tokyo Says Hello Kitty
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Somewhere in Tokyo
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© Vincent Kelly 2013
© Vincent Kelly 2013
© Vincent Kelly 2013
If you want to get a sense of the experience of walking the streets of Shinjuku, Tokyo at night the following playlist pretty much sums up the kind of music I was listening to on my head phones. The playlist worked perfectly for my time in Tokyo and is very evocative to me when I listen to it while looking at the photographs of Tokyo street life. The Disk Union shop that features in the lower photograph is where I spent many hours digging through the racks of vinyl records.
http://open.spotify.com/user/vincentinorbit/playlist/64crmeYLqqkzP8KnBGaQxJ
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This photograph wasn’t intended as a self portrait I was set on photographing the amazing spectacle cleaning trolley that was on the pavement outside of the opticians. The illustration of the girl’s face and typography [formerly calligraphy] are wonderful aren’t they. I’m very camera shy who actually likes photographs of themselves apart from models?
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The thing I really like about this image, and why I think it works, is that the architecture of the shops is so super sharp and minimal juxtaposed with the trees in the foreground. Luckily it was winter when I took the photograph so the trees aren’t in leaf highlighting the effect of the organic vs man made. Actually the time I spent in this westernised part of Tokyo was far less enjoyable than when I felt fully immersed in the more typically Japanese parts of the city but at least I did get to experience as many aspects of the city by making full use of the underground system.
© Vincent Kelly 2013
