Archives for September, 2008

Camera Cabaret Shop, pornograhpy for photographers

  • Posted by Gian
  • September 24, 2008

Tokyo is a big city. Tokyo is full of huge malls. Tokyo has plenty of small shops. I love the latter. I like to discover them and get lost amongst crazy and original products.
During my sabbatical, I’m dedicating a lot of time to one of my passions: photography. I’m a gadget geek too, so I [...]

Japan & Tokyo guidebooks - which do I use?

  • Posted by Gian
  • September 5, 2008

I get this question very often, and that is: which guidebooks do I use during my sabbatical in Japan? (I also get a lot of inquiries about the online resources, but I’ll talk about that in a future post).
I have so far used several books, but the main ones are:

Lonely Planet Japan (ed. October 2007)

Time [...]

Photos: lost & found

  • Posted by Gian
  • September 2, 2008

As I posted before (read here and here), I keep finding abandoned photos around Japan. Well, I must confess that each time I go to a shop where they have those self-printing machines I look around to see if someone has lost, forgotten or just abandoned a photo. This last time I found a pack [...]