Mix for 1/26/11 - Transient Transients' Transience
This was taken en route to the main campus at Kansai Gaidai, a wonderfully circuitous alley full of oddly trimmed bushes, Shinto temples, and signs warning of vampiric sexual predators. Walking to class, I often found myself being stalked by a gaggle of these uniformed munchkins who would either chant a bizarre videogame-themed mantra or yell "tsukebe", which is sort of like "dirty whore". Callin' it like they see it, I guess.
Atop Kyoto-Eki (presumably the largest train station in Japan) sits a glass dome spotted with various sight-seeing devices proclaiming "360 Degree Panoramic View!". There was an old man who wanted to know if I had come to Kyoto specifically to see this view, being that it was a full san-byaku-roku-juu degrees. I told him "of course". It's easy to lie in foreign languages.
Reflected imagery is one of my favorite photographic themes, perhaps a continuation of my fascination with other forms of duplication, reiteration, and recurrence. Strangely at odds with my musical interests, obsessed with linearity, improvisation and asynchrony; a division in my left brain. Yoyogi-kouen was one of my favorite places to relax while in Tokyo, one of the few outposts of natural beauty scattered throughout the dense metropolis, but one often populated with family picnics, sax-playing hobos, and greasers engaged in a wild dance-off set to Joan Jett tunes.
