10 Office-Front Facades, Ginza
December 30, 2008 · Architecture · 4 Comments 

Ginza is the core amygdala in the tightly-twined morass of Tokyo’s brain, a nerve center firing off directional impulses telling people what to wear, how to look, what to buy, and who to be. Amongst the district’s densely packed grid…

10 Store-Front Facades, Ginza
December 26, 2008 · Architecture · 6 Comments 

Ginza is the bustling beating heart of high class fashion and commerce in Japan, a labyrinthine grid of broad and narrow streets bristling with corporate headquarters, flagship stores, and chic designer boutiques, sprawled over several square kilometers just a few…

The Giant Robot and the Myna Bird
December 23, 2008 · Science Fiction, Stories · 5 Comments 

The giant robot stalked the empty world, looking for its lost arm. It had fought in many wars, from the beginning to the end. In ancient Thrace it had brought down the gates of Thermopylae. In Samarkand it had crushed…

The Mad Ruins of Kentucky’s Waverley Hills Sanatorium
December 17, 2008 · Hospitals, USA, World Ruins · 13 Comments 

The Waverley Hills Sanatorium in Jefferson County, Kentucky, opened in 1910 in the thick of a Tuberculosis groundswell, then an incurable disease rife in the swampy backwaters of rural Loisville. The infected went to Waverley to be quarantined, and most…

Final Fantasy: Dissidia Potions
December 15, 2008 · Food / Drink, Japan · 5 Comments 

Dissidia is the latest mano-a-mano fighting game in the Final Fantasy continuum, to be released by Square Enix on December 18th. It sounds totally cool. There is no chance I will buy it and play it. It features awesome heroes…

13 views of Fuji Terebi, Odaiba
December 14, 2008 · Architecture · 12 Comments 

13 views of Fuji Terebi, Odaiba, mimics a well-known tradition in Japanese art: collected ukiyoe (wood-block) paintings of Mt. Fuji from multiple locations and angles, in varying weather conditions. This style of art became famous with a collection of 36…

First dslr- Nikon d90
December 13, 2008 · Uncategorized · 11 Comments 

I’ve been shooting my haikyo and structures photos for months now with a Canon Powershot compact camera. It was the best camera I’ve owned- which is not saying a great deal- though it is a nice compact. But too many…

Demolished remnants of the Tai-Hei-Yo Cement Plant
December 8, 2008 · Haikyo, Mines / Factories, Saitama · 6 Comments 

The Tai-Hei-Yo Cement Plant Haikyo in Chichibu, Saitama, was once one of Japan’s biggest producers of concrete, a massive complex woven through with miles of piping, studded with huge firing kilns, silos, 30-story smoke-stacks and immense clinker vats. Throughout its…

The death of Nakagin, the world’s first capsule hotel.
December 2, 2008 · Haikyo, Hotels / Resorts, Tokyo-to · 21 Comments 

The Nakagin Capsule Hotel Tower in Shimbashi was the first of its kind in the world; a wholly modular building comprised of a concrete stack with latch-points for pre-fabricated one-piece rooms to bolt on to, with a built-in life cycle…

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