Eri and I took a lovely tour of some of the world's most famous places today, via the miracle of Lego. This exhibition at the Parco gallery in Shibuya is, predictably, wonderful. We managed to visit the Taj Mahal (amazing), St Basil's Cathedral (also very good), and even Machu Pichu (totally pointless - the ruins could have been anywhere without the mountains in the background). It was interesting to see the Palace of Westminster, and to realise I have no idea about what it looks like apart from the bit around Big Ben! Perhaps the best thing though, was the piece by artist/writer/TV pervert pundit, Lily Franky, who did a version of the Leaning Tower at Pisa being attacked by Oden Kun and his friends. An inspirational exhibit overall and made me want to go out and start making Lego guns and penises again like the good-ol'days.
For Christmas, Eri got me this Contax T2. It's basically a point-and-shoot camera, but with an excellent Carl Zeiss Sonnar F2.8 lens which means it can take quite nice pictures. I still haven't quite worked out how to use it properly - the display through the viewfinder still confuses me a little, as does the exposure compensation, but on the whole, I was pretty happy with the few roll I got back. These are not cross-processed either, or touched in Photoshop. Pretty interesting colours and definition. I'm looking forward to shooting more with it, especially if not cross-processing means that the films can be developed in 30 minutes. I forgot how nice it is to be able to do that! As usual, click to see the other photos.
I am really looking forward to this. I played the Lego Star Wars PSP game for about a month every day on my way to work and it was one of the few games that was actually worth getting a zenclear on. In my opinion, it was one of the best, and certainly the funniest, games to come out for the PSP. There's nothing quite as fun as watching fellow commuters sleep while you slash stormtroopers with your lightsaber, or being leant on by a salaryman with creeping halitosis and taking out your anger on Jabba with your blaster...except perhaps for being Indiana Jones. It looks great from the trailer too - just the right levels of humour and action. I hope that they carry on this Lego/Lucasfilm partnership. I can't wait to play Lego Howard the Duck!
In the midst of the snowstorm blowing its way through Tokyo yesterday, it was Eri's birthday. She caught a nasty cold at the end of last week and completely lost her voice, not very usual when serving shoppers, and has been ill all weekend. We were hoping to go away for the weekend snowboarding, or at the very least to be able to get into Tokyo to catch an exhibition and go birthday-present-shopping, but instead, she was in bed all weekend, sleeping for 16 hours a day and feeling generally sorry for herself for the other 8. We managed to go out and look at the snow briefly yesterday, and to go for a meal at the Thai cafe in the park. These pics were taken there, when she was grumpy again at how her birthday had turned out.
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