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#7 - The eyes; they glint.
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love #19
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number 12 is probably Jerzy Stuhr, a polish actor and director.
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lol I love 22
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40 is my new favourite picture
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#59 was in Leipzig, Germany during the Wave Gotik Treffen. Greatk girl! :) And indeed not the most extreme hair to find there. ;)
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#7. Wearing that grin, with gleaming eyes, in front of the dearly departed is too creepy.
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Oh my!
No. 6 is my friend Floyd!
http://columbiagazette.com/
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Things that do not belong in a funny photo post, ever: photos taken at a wake, with an OPEN COFFIN in the background. Maybe I'm just being oversensitive, but I really truly think that #7 has no business being in this post, and I'm shocked on behalf of the deceased and his family that this picture is being circulated around the internet for cheap laughs.
That said, the rest of the photos ARE hilarious. :P
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I think it's hysterical when people flash "gang" symbols for photos when you know the closest they have ever been to a gang is seeing one on tv.
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so #16... the girl making the odd face is still hot and the dude is still a loser. you're out-classed man...sorry about your bad look.
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Where's no. 11?
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These are funny as @#$@. I noticed a recurring theme in the first half of bad bad dental hygiene.
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DISTURBING!
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#7, natural creepiness always wins over contrived creepy :)
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#30 I sense the soul society is near...
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# 1 - the participant of famous russian reality-show "dom 2"... i suppose..
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#37 has to be a montage, the shadows are wrong!
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Thought you should know that #6 is used by a pedo who calls himself Black Bart.He pops up from time to time,putting up imageboards on free hosting sites.where he disseminates Cp from old Russian sites.
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#7 !
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person with the first pictures - the person is party to the popular Russian project - "House-2":
1. http://dom2.ru/everyday/photos/5331267?order=day.date:desc
2. http://dom2.ru/
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7!
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46,
there's no denying that is the coolest person in the world.
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These pictures are PRICELESS. XD
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#6 made my day
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Regarding the segway PUMA: How about a simple motor scooter? Hmm.
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Nice reading again!
A small addition to your information, the "strange prototype" plane with the front and rear propellor is a Dornier Pfeil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_335
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while planned, V-1s were never air-launched from planes.
Germany did lead in the developement of radio-guided stand-off weaponry with the HS-239 anti shipping missile ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henschel_Hs_293 ) and the less successful Mistel combos ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistel )
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I can't find any info on a USS Essex being destroyed. The aircraft carrier I found on Wikipedia was decomissioned after the war, and used later during the Cuban middle crisis.
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Dirk, thank you, post updated
Casey, you're right, USS Essex was hit, but not destroyed, here is a photo of a hit:
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Nice post! Although one of the shown short-wing planes is a japanese Yokosuka Ōka Modell 11 plane.
This kamikaze-plane should have been carried by a bomber to the target.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_MXY-7
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The WunderWaffe 2 looks like a complete crap shoot.
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fantastic post. i was at the german industrial museum in munich the other day and saw a lot of the aviation stuff you mention - amazing how advanced they were back then. spotted you on the searchles portal. so many thanks for sharing
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Very nice post, thanks
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The german word for "curved" means "gebogen" or technicaly more fitting to the curved MP44 "gekrümmter Lauf".
The second aircraft in the side comparsion to the V-1 is not a Baka, but a Fieseler Fi103R Reichenberg. It is a german suicide plane based on the more common Fi103 (V-1), following on reports of sucesses about the japanese kamikazes, but it was used only for training. About 175 Fi103R have been build until the program was cancelled in Fall of 1944.
Not only the MiG-15 is based upon the Focke-Wulf Ta183, but also its american counterpart the F-86 Sabre. Because of this similarty pilots of both side during the Korea War had their trouble to identify friend and foe.
K.
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The pictures of the E100 are false. It was never completed. Only one chassis was partially built and it was captured before completion. It was later scraped by the Brits.
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Maus (and especially the larger design study at Krupp) put me in mind of Keith Laumer's Bolos (Gigantic cybernetic... well, tanks, but writ Colossally, Titanically *hyooge*.
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Intersting article ; you could also have mentioned the (unproperly called) "V3", a very long supergun similar to the one planned by Saddam Hussein during the 90's.
http://www.route-3945.com/modulosite2/fiche.php?id_bouton=1507&id=221&fr=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon#Mimoyecques_site
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Paul - great tip, thanks
Herbicide - I remember reading Bolo stories. Somebody would have to make a movie based on these designs.
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While the Ar-234 was used as a bomber, it was more often put to use as a reconnaissance aircraft. In fact, one of them buzzed some of the Normandy beaches on D-day.
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It should be said that super-large tanks were a BAD idea. Hitler had been in the trenches in World War I, and he personally demanded that large tanks be designed. He even took personal control, by radio, of the first combat mission of a new-model big tank. The mission was a disaster.
Aside from sinking into swamps, not going between obstacles, and the like, they had a more basic disadvantage that they could never be plentiful. The American light tanks weren't exactly unstoppable, but like the jeep, they were plentiful, and that mattered.
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Aren't those paintings from My Tank is Fight?
It's definitely cool if any of this super-weaponry stuff interests the reader: http://www.amazon.ca/My-Tank-Fight-Zack-Parsons/dp/0806527587
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The IR baffles on German submarines were introduced when Allied planes started sinking Nazi boats at night. The Germans had developed IR vision equipment and figured the enemy had done the same and were using it to find the subs. However, the Allies "knew" IR vision equipment was impossible.
The actual situation was that the Allies had developed airborne microwave radar, which the Germans "knew" was impossible.
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So why the fcuk they didn't win the freaking war?!! Looks like the US stole most of their technology to develop what we know as US advanced army.
Maybe that's why US goes into war every time, to steal something!
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Anonymous, er..one of you :)
The Germans actually relied on a lot of captured Jewish scientists to come up with they're scientific breakthroughs in Aviation and Rockets.
I believe the flying wing and swept wing concepts were originally pioneered by them. The Americans took a lot of the captured Jewish & German Scientists/German Weaponry back to the US to further the development as did Russia.
The F-111 and F-14 are two examples of this as are the early Mig's for Russia, the single mid mounted jet engine was also a Messerschmidt concept from memory.
Germany in reality lost the war because of Hitler's Ego causing him to make a number of emotional strategic errors, bottom line. I believe Jet fighters were originally held back by German High Ranking officials and quite possibly, Hitler. If these developments had been funding boosted pre-/early WW2...the outcome may have been very, very different and we could all be talking German right now.
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Pretty pictures, yes, but rather gullible writing.
The German navigation beacons could certainly be said to be forerunners of GPS... in the same sense that fire can be thought of as the forerunner of lasers.
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The German radio navigation was not like GPS, but LORAN. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN
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Curved barrels was also designed by Russians for PPSh-41 SMG. In reality, such barrels were designed to allow shooting not around the corners but rather through the portholes of a tank.
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Seems the "Walking Tank" was a draft for the Alien APC... ;-) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aliens_(film)_APC.jpg)
The "Reichsflugscheibe" (UFO) will take part in the movie "Iron Sky" (http://www.ironsky.net)
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More inmportant is that german designs didn't look gay like the soviet and american rip offs.
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that's true anonymous, but they had to be further developed.
nice item, DRB!!! keep up the good links!
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Well, let's see who finds the truth behind this picture first ! Clue : someoe is playing music.
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I don't know what the picture at the bottom is, but it reminds me of a church in a an earlier era prison, where the "solitary" prisoners were made to/allowed to go to church, but never permitted to even see each other, yet alone come into contact with each other (security guard in front, church organist on the left).
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This must be in church in some high security prison. Prisoners are guided to church hall individually and seated in seperate chambers, so they can't contact with each other, and all they can see is preist in front. If i remember correctly, this was first used in New Zealand.
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The brain is from "The Brain From Planet Arous" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qImQ1YBZtwg
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Is there a trick to that bicycle thing?
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The tongue is a giraffe's.
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the left worker-on-a-scaffolding picture looks a lot like south korea to me. while in germany, scaffoldings almost always stand on the ground (for a famous exception, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaus-ottes/2991170356/ the (cologne cathedral)), are anchored in the walls, have walking boards that safely rest on the scaffolding's bars, have a handrail, and even a rim shelf (to make it less likely for a worker to slip their foot under the rail and fall from under the handrail). nothing of that applies to korean scaffolds: they are often hung from the top of the walls that are being built, often with thin wires; the boards are shifted around on the struts to wherever they are needed, and are in no way fixed. rails are unheard of. one false move and world population decreases by one. i have seen workers standing on the 30cm x 30cm top of a steel column that ended in thin air tens of meters above the ground, waiting for the crane operator to move a multi-ton I beam towards him so he can grab its end and nudge it into position. scary. no saftey ropes, nothing. an accidental swallow could have knocked off the guy with ease.
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Might I suggest "Octopodes"?
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Montsnmags and Jealousy are right. This is a church in a prison - unfortunately Iscanned it a while ago and can't remember if it's american or french. Must be during the 50's.
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Good investigation, guys - enjoyed it!
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The Disney cloned animation left out the Winnie The Pooh steal from Dumbo of the Pink Elephants On Parade used for Heffalumps. No big deal - just sayin'.
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There is a large chapel in the victorian prison contained within Lincoln prison in England.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnian/2732197356/
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I Love "Romantika"! Beautiful :)
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The last photo showing a prison chapel was not first used in New Zealand as suggested. There is one very similar to this (without the tops, and standing room for one person in each compartment - at least 6 rows of over 10 compartments one in front of the other) in the Port Arthur Penitentiary ruins in Tasmania, Australia, in use when New Zealand was first settled by the English - the prison in Port Arthur was for English criminals.
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What, no Flatiron Building? Surely you jest!
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Moving large pieces of furniture into the narrow houses in Amsterdam is frequently done by hauling them up via the protuberance at the top front of the houses, built into them for that very purpose. You can see them on some of the photos.
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Another incredibly skinny house on Place Kleber in Strasbourg, France, a little gem that tourists seem to overlook. It is 26 m deep, 6 floors high, and approxiamtely 2.5 m wide. The owner also has a smoke shop downstairs. (Scroll to the bottom of the page):
http://weburbanist.com/2007/12/01/weburbanist-update-the-past-present-and-future-of-your-favorite-urban-weblog/
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6 feet is 2 meters, not 1 (in the Madre de Deus house)
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Great Designs! I love the Kitchen interior shot in Japan.
I remember eating in a restaurant in Lyon about 10 years ago called Traboule. ( Traboules are tunnels between buildings that were used to transport silk up from the river to the shops are warehouses in the 13th century- only wide enoughfor men to carry the bolts of silk on their shoulders.)
The restaurant was built into one of the traboules in central Lyon- a row of 2-person tables along one wall, kitchen in the back. Very intimate, and like all restaurants in Lyon, great food!
I couldn't find a reference online, so it may not exist anymore. I can't imagine that they could have made a decent living in such a small place. Not much turnover on four tables.
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Here's a Flickr site with some Traboule shots to give you an idea of dimension.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/traboule/
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The first building you show ("unknown location") is here: http://tinyurl.com/cvprku . The neighborhood in Tokyo is called Sangenjaya, and the building is owned by a ramen shop.
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The reason old amsterdam houses are so thin is not because of a lack of space like you write. In fact the correct reason is in the 16th and 17th century the ammount of tax you pay was measured by the width of your house on streetside. So people tried to build the houses as thin as possible to avoid paying large amounts of money.
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Pittsburgh has a skinny building, 5 feet 2 inches wide.
In 1903, the City of Pittsburgh confiscated 30 feet of throughway to widen Diamond Way into what is now Forbes Avenue. Given that the standard parcel was 36 feet wide, there wasn't much left and most property owners sold off the remaining fragments to the city to become wider sidewalks.
In 1907, banking magnate Andrew Mellon purchased the 6 foot wide parcel of land, hoping the city would widen the street further and offer him a profit on his investment. In any case, the City wasn't buying and in 1918 he sold the parcel to Louis Hendel who built a three story building on the parcel. He may have been trying to take advantage of a quirk in the tax structure that assessed undeveloped property at a higher rate but most people think he built to spite the city.
Nearly a century later, the city changed its mind. Wanting to redevelop the Fifth-Forbes corridor, Mayor Tom Murphy threatened to seize the property using eminent domain and hand it over to developers. That plan collapsed (as did the one after that) so the building lives on.
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4JQ
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Another very small house:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23879104@N06/2295271175/
(in Gent, Belgium)
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I agree with Atty Finch; 23 Wall Street is essential to any such survey. An old joke cites it as the tallest buikding in the world because it has the most "stories".
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There is another one in Valencia, Spain. Just 1m wide. They say is one of the marrowest of europe. It is the red one: http://www.vhfdx.net/photos/foto.php?File=valencia4.jpg&Lan=S
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this is incredible collection
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Same situation with my country , many small building too, visit http://www.andihope.com.
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Awesome post!
Money is why the houses in Amsterdam are so narrow. People had to pay based on how wide the houses were.
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Wow, amazing pictures
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nice. last one must be from world war one.
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did you know this one ?
http://hippopotable.blogspot.com/2006/03/lhippopotable-conseille_09.html
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Uh, those "personal massage devices" were not just for "scalp and foot massages". That's just how they had to advertise them.
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Hey, that "mystery image" on the right? That's the female robot for the new Transformers movie, right?
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World War One, France: a radiographer wearing protective clothing and headpiece. Photograph by H. J. Hickman, ca. 1918. Credit: Wellcome Library, London
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Paul: the "radiofrigo" is a keeper. Gorgeous; merci.
I always forget, somehow, that you younger guys missed out on so much cool stuff. The '60s and early '70s were amazing in terms of sound equipment. In the '50s the hippest thing going were tiny "portable hi-fi's" that only played 45 rpm discs, which had a 2-inch hole in the center. There were competing ideas about whether it was better to have an enormous spindle or just little plastic (or much hipper, metal) inserts that snapped in and had a standard spindle-sized hole in the center.
In the '60s you could get STEREO!! players that had 45, 33, and 78 rpm speed choices, and some even had 16 rpm gearing as an option. This meant you could play standard 33 1/3 rpm albums at 78 and produce chipmunk noises, or play them at 16 for the Quaalude effect. Hours of fun.
And I well remember discovering "massagers" in about '68 or so, to my wife's delight.
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Zoooom! Whoosh!
I think part of our modern problems stem from the unfulfilled promises of mid-century design. The World's Fair imagery was so wonderful, yet so far from what could really be engineered for consumers, that the gap between marketing and product grew too wide for trust.
The zoomy 60's "telecom room" -- what was with the "Time Tunnel" aesthetic? (groovy rounded control panels set in a cavernous darkness)
The Soviet phones -- Yum!
"Da, tovarich! - The Party will reach out and touch you!"
Soviet stuff is so cool because of the USSR's Russian heritage and closed system - giantism and science joined to weird copycat and original engineering.
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I actually have the drill, as advertised by the DIY super smiley couple, I had no idea it was that old.
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I wonder if you have ever come across a radial layout on an instrument panel? It seems that grid layout rules even in times when other geometric or unusual layouts would fit the style. I would love to see some examples of radial or other exotic layouts. got any?
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WOW amazing. If I didn't have so many Blade Runner moments here in NYC I would want to live there too :) Just amazingly beautiful pictures.
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What type of camera do you use?
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Man I miss the hell out of Tokyo. Got to spend three amazing months living there - want to go back so badly. I love where I'm living now, but it's still not Tokyo.
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Wow, absolutely stunning. Beautiful images!
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Astonishing!
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I know five or six people who lived in Japan short term and long term. All had "futuristic" visions of Japan before coming and none of them were excited after they left. On the contrary. The common (and informed) opinion is that Japan is not fit for Westerners to live in, except perhaps for people running from something, or those just plain weird. This is substantiated by many people, including Japanese expats.
One exception was an American friend who was part of a popular band and spent seven years in Tokyo. Though the rich can have a great time anywhere.
The opinions of short term visitors are mostly irrelevant as to the reality of the place visited, and unlike many longer term visitors who stay in Japan to teach English and have other adventures, a veritable "Japanophile" friend of mine finally moved to Tokyo some years ago. Everything had to be Japanese, including wife and children.
It took a couple of months for reality to sink in, working at a high position in a Japanese company in Tokyo. He comes back a couple of times a year and at first we thought he was exaggerating out of disillusionment but now, we believe him as many people who lived there long term, including Japanese, substantiate his claims.
Can't go into details because he does business there (though Japanese business partners agree with his assessment, another Asian company told him he will destroy his life living in Japan) but he's writing a book about his experiences, substantiated by MANY people. As most people are averse to negativity and might not buy the book it might be turned into a website for all to access. I'll post whenever a book or site comes out
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I have wanted to shoot photos exactly as the photos you show here for a very long time.
Also, for the same reason. We are going to have a lot more people on this planet, we can do it like hong kong or like mexico city.
I have become a student in Civil Engineering to help make this happen, I really hope I can help.
I'm really excited to have stumbled upon this, you share my vision exactly. Word for word, density, growth, even the same cities you compare.
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Hey these are some seriously pro shots you got in Tokyo. I was wondering if you could help me out a bit: I will be going to Tokyo this summer for over two weeks as the designated trip photographer (with a group of six). Any pointers you could give me on shooting in Japan? Especially on night photo's that would be great. Thanks!
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Dang! Those are some really incredible shots! Great stuff, very beautiful, very Blade Runner. I'm definitely going to have to get out to Tokyo at some point to check it all out first hand!
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This site is fascinating. So many interesting, unusual hi-res photos. Amazing.
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Hi all, I am the photographer, thanks for all the positive comments, I am so glad that other people like my viewpoints too!
@Anonymous - an analog large format camera, a Sinar P2 8x10
@Anonymous - I find your observations interesting, but I think: I am disillusioned by my moneyjob as well sometime, it doesn't matter what country you're in, right? What I found most fascinating about Tokyo was, that there where more than 30 Million People literally stacked upon each other, but still everything worked smooth. You have a very efficient public transport, millions of opportunities to choose from in terms of leisure time amusements and you always felt save, in every part of the town! That for me is a role model for the future of urbanisation!
@Natan: Tokyo has a very short blue hour, I could only get 2-4 shots a night. But the light you get between sunset and total darkness is a total blast. You definetely have to bring a tripod, since long exposures need a steady foundation. Check the thousands of observation decks. Some have open Air, so you don't need to shoot through glass. For example the mori tower, which despite the 1000yen charge should not be missed! And always know in advance where to shot in the evening or at night, by intensive scouting. Have fun!
@everyone else: Thank You!
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Excellent cityscapes.
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(BTW E.X.C.E.L.L.E.N.T. PICTURES!!!!)
>@Anonymous - I find your
>observations interesting, but I
>think: I am disillusioned by my
>moneyjob as well sometime, it
>doesn't matter what country
>you're in, right?
Wrong. Do some research on corporate life in a large Japanese company. And I don't mean Toyota or Honda.
When womens' opinions are ignored because of their sex or when a person's opinion is ignored because the other person is older by a couple of months that's a sign of a rotten culture. These are just two small examples.
>What I found most fascinating
>about Tokyo was, that there where
>ore than 30 Million People
>literally stacked upon each
>other, but still everything
>worked smooth.
Yes, but definitely not everything. Have you taken a look at their food supply? That's just one example.
>You have a very efficient public
>transport, millions of
Yes.
>opportunities to choose from in
>terms of leisure time amusements
>and you always felt save, in
>every part of the town!
"Leisure", from dreary, depressing and suppressed lives, with spouses living in different cities.
>That for me is a role model for
>the future of urbanisation!
Aspects of it, yes.
It's the non-Japanese that have lived there for many years that have the informed opinion, that's for sure.
Every person fawning over what a wonderful country Japan is has no idea what they are talking about. There's much more to Japan than the shining lights of a small part of Tokyo.
This is from someone who has a long held interest in Japan and knows various people who have spent years living in Japan, and whose claims are corroborated by many informed others.
Though it's good people are open minded enough to appreciate other cultures. However, a critical eye is necessary.
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Awesome, amazing, breathtaking work. I am glad that I found Your blog on delicious :)
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Fantastic photos. Tokyo is the most exciting city in the world and the nightlife there is second to none. Shanghai is beginnning to catch up though.
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Those pictures are amazing. I really love the mood and composition.
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Inspirational shots of natural urban art.
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@anonymous
I can also back up a few of your claims about life in Japan. It's not all shiny-shiny as people make it out to be. I've been over there twice and have a friend who's been living there for some time.
I think you're playing up a few things to be a bit more centralized to a specific person's environment in some regards, but it's the culture shock more than it is the actual issue.
I think the biggest social issues Japan still hasn't worked out are women and the elderly in modern society. But it's up to those people feeling neglected to actually do something with their lives rather than complain. They may be spurned from their jobs with nothing to do, but that shouldn't stop them from NOT doing anything at all with their lives.
I won't speak on behalf of Japanese women, but the Japanese elderly are viewed in such a negative light, possibly, due to generational guilt over WWII.
If they're feeling stepped on by "The Man", they need to learn some self-initiative and get out there and do it themselves.
As to "food supply" I don't know what you're referring to. I found the food to be pretty dang precise and well prepared at all times I went out to eat. I mean, this is a whole culture that prides itself enough on it's own food to have TV shows of people eating their food. Where fish is thrown out when it's a day old.
Some of the better dishes I've had were ones prepared in small dining establishments where the only "name" was the lead menu item. I had a fantastic tempura udon in a small village in Akita in the back end of a grocery store.
I do agree that Japan is so much more than what people see in Tokyo. I don't recommend it as a long term destination for many of the above suggested reasons, and additionally, I have seen this "burnout" take it's toll on my expat friend who was very much a Japanophile in college.
For him the burnout was more of a sociological one than it was a business world one.
i get shades of that myself sometimes. Japan exists in many ways, as a hyper-over-exaggerated version of the US life in my eyes. It's like America, but not, and the ways that it is, are so grossly over-exaggerated from what we have in the US.
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Osaka is more Blade Runner - a mix of future and grit. Tokyo is hypermodern - It feels ot me like information has taken shape an is flowing everywhere.
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I have been living in Seoul South Korea for a few months now and I have had several "Blade Runner" city moments. It is especially so when it is raining in the evening while walking through crowded neon lit streets.
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Fantastic blade runner series. Great photos !
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Wow.. Amazing photos. They represent exactly what I love about Tokyo... Good job. I also love the quote... The future began in Japan a long time ago...
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will
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A brilliant series of photos. You large format landscapes of Tokyo really are excellent. One of my friends who used to live here in Tokyo shot a lot of large format at night and had amazing results. I only shoot up to medium format when I use film, but seeing your photos tempts me to dabble in large format.
Cheers
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The city look mind blowing. Great post. Thanks again.
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Chemikals and Anonymous are right about life in Japan, especially corporate life. Before you claim that they're exaggerating, think about these questions:
Would you be willing to work unpaid overtime almost every night, simply because it's not courteous to leave until the boss leaves, even if your scheduled hours end three or four hours before his?
Would you be willing to go to any and all meetings, even if you had previous plans, just to get a job? (Not even a good job, just a cubicle spot.)
Would you be willing to dye your hair to match everyone else, (even if your hair was already a normal color, like dark brown)?
These are all issues that my Japanese friends faced in seeking positions after they finished college. I also heard plenty of horror stories from foreigners working in Japanese schools and being unable to make necessary decisions (like buying supplies) because every decision had to be funneled through 3-4 levels of hierarchy and committees.
I've spent a lot of time in Japan and while the scenery is beautiful, the food is amazing, and the people are nice, there are a lot of serious underlying problems in the culture that are often missed or glossed over, and that people need to be more aware of. It's not all sushi and samurai. :/
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Beautiful photos. Next time be sure to visit Dotonbori in Osaka - it's about as close to Blade Runner as you can get: http://rob-sheridan.com/tourist/osaka/index.html
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Saw the very cute panda photo here: http://www.cuteoverload.com/2009/03/this-just-in-pa.html. Hope it helps to identify the origin.
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I hate to say this, but the Hotelicopter has to be a fake. The main basis for this is that the 'photos' in the 'photo gallery' aren't photos at all, they're CGI pictures. Look at the lack of texture. If they'd have called them CGI 'artists' impressions', then there might be some credence in the story (though it still seems kinda impossible), but calling computer generated pictures 'photos of a successful test flight' really jumps the shark for me.
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Hes guys,
The giant cub was design for the Swiss Expo 02. It was built in the middle of lake Morat. You'll find out more on wikipedia: Expo 02…
Alain
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Brain food for those craves the images and not the words at the moment. :)
Thank you!
Love that spider/helicopter one..
There are some more drawings, some with a sci-fi art twist here:
http://www.marty.com.au/sci-fi-gallery/drawings.html
I find the harvest of philosophy to be rather heavy and wooden myself.
that lighthouse in the sand was covered in an Link Latte here last year: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/link-latte-92.html
original:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/the-lighthouse-devoured-by-sand/5115
Those are great. Rob Gonsalves has done the mirrors thing too.
Thank you Colan, good catch - updated
Lynn, so true about Rob Gonsalves: mirrors indeed, and not just one picture.
This is great.
Check out this surreal video similar to the last picture.
IDIOT BOX
http://vimeo.com/2875674
seriously some twisted stuff
The Sergei Kharlamov image is reminiscent of paintings Picasso did in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Seated Bather (1930) is probably the most famous (and most extreme).
This is really cool stuff. I seen some similar stuff like this on http://www.masterpieceonline.com
Pretty cool surreal artwork! I especially like the painted pics.
relly great, thanks Avi
creepyweirdnwonderful!
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