Asahi Beer (Factory, Ibaraki)
Asahi Beer is the juice that Japan runs on- it fuels the salarymen and the office ladies alike, keeping them lean, mean, and ready to work 18 hour shifts until karoushi (death by over-work) drives them into the ground. Asahi…
Asahi Flame, Asakusa
The Asahi ‘Flame’ building on the Asakusa banks of the Sumida river is infamous in Tokyo for its eponymous ‘flame’, a huge golden piece of art juxtaposed atop the obelisk-like black building; intended to represent the freedom and grace of…
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Gorilla Artfare- Some great apocalypse art: This same scene is rendered in four ‘seasons’ on the site. Red Bubble- Ruins in the desert, awesome: Tells a story in an image. Or begins a story… Neils Valentin- Digital matte paintings for…
Ancient Ruins- 100 cliff-tombs of the Jomon period
The Hyaku Ana Cliff Tombs in Saitama are ancient, easily some of the oldest ruins in all of Japan, dating back 1300 years to a time of almost pre-history- such that very little is known about them at all. They…
The Book of All
I’m a cripple. Always have been. I was born with one of the latest cerebro-spinal disorders, unpleasant off-shoot of muddled genetic manipulation in vitro. My father was one of the leading scientists in the field at the time. He was…
Big Sight Anime Fans
Once a year Anime fans from all over the world descend on Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba for the huge Tokyo International Anime Fair, filled out with cosplayers garbed as their favourite cartoon characters, live banjo shows and coming movie…
Tokyo Big Sight, Odaiba
Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba is one of the biggest exhibition spaces in Tokyo, featuring two huge halls East and West plus several conference rooms and a 1,100 seater auditorium in the main building- which is curiously shaped out of…
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The Venus Project- Visionary site with lots of futurist ideas and art, underwater cities and cool designs. Draw Me a Sheep- Cool art/design site, featuring square trees. Rassouli- Great aspirational art, I’ve used two now for story headers- Universal Time…
The hotel one man dug out of solid rock #1 exterior
The Gan Kutsu Cliff Face Hotel in Saitama is the relic of a dream, one man’s vision to carve out a massive hotel in the sheer rock face, working alone with only a chisel for 21 years until the day…
Yoyogi’s Yukinko Akira
Yukinko Akira is a funky beats-master artist, skinny and frantic and one heck of a showman. He performs regularly at the fountains in Yoyogi Park, his own unique brand of frenetic dance moves, dance beat remixes, and exhilarating yawps and…
The apocalypse seed vault on Svalbard island
The Global Seed Vault on Svalbard archipelago way up near the North Pole is not in Japan, nor have I ever been there. It is however a very cool post-apocalypse place, an insurance policy for the Earth and human-kind in…
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TIME- Photos of the collapse of Detroit. NewsWeek- Headless in Tokyo- why are Japan’s leaders so weak? NewsWeek- Learning to live with Radical Islam. -Fareed Zakaria. Mike’s Blender- Mike’s take on Nichitsu ghost town. TED- The haikyoist Miru Kim explores…
Silent car park of the demolished Sun Hills hotel
The remnants of the Sun Hills Hotel in Kanagawa lay hunkered down and spartan on the banks of Sagamiko lake, the blank concrete foundation of a proud edifice that never once opened to the public, hosting only the village’s truanting…
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