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Flickr Favourites: January

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Electric Pig
on February 5, 2008
in Flickr, Internet and Photography
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These are my favourite photos from January. I've been spending quite a lot of time on Flickr recently; it's one of the best places on the web to go and get information about cameras and lenses and also to check out good places to visit. Unfortunately it's also inspiring some serious wanderlust in me right now too...click the picture above to see the gallery of individual photos.

Top Row: 1: An Ordinary Bay by Nico in the Bus (Nicolas Monnot) 2: North Korean Soldieress by Nataliebehring.com 3: Happy New Year by Nico in the Bus (Nicolas Monnot) 4: Breach by Dstrukt 5: Bésame Mucho by ®ominitä 6: Untitled (...) by Nachosan
Second Row: 7: Untitled by Soleá 8: Toronto Time-Lapse by Narphorium 9: Quiet Place by Ghitgeta 10: City of Arts and Sciences at Dawn by Salvita_42 11: Untitled by Zo- 12: Beat by Jasonshogreen
Third Row: 13: Through by Melindsayc 14: Crayon Lips by Grandylion 15: (Black and) Whiteout by Darren C. 16: Japanesque by Zeissism 17: lost to the world he knew as a boy by Uchujin 18: House of the Rising Sun by Panoramatic
Fourth Row: 19: Blast-Off! by Vincént Celebrates the Grey 20: Little Girl by Lomokev 21: The Drama! by Ilina S. 22: Bringer of Seasons by TimKruskamp 23: West Pier by Lomokev 24: Untitled by Willpower
Fifth Row: 25: Little White Thang by Brian O'Mahoney 26: Golden Eagle by Khosey1 27: More is Less by Lomokev 28: Deep Blue: Speed by Manganite 29: Photographer Always Awaits Patiently by Quizz... 30: San Francisco Fog by Wiggum03
Sixth Row: 31: Mountain Mist by Mark Burdett 32: Tokyo Dream 8b by Mark Burdett 33: tap_drop?dark by Gitdwon 34: Untitled (...) by Motionid 35: SKYscraper by Ernie@TPE 36: Cowgirl by Manny Santiago

My Hitotoki

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Electric Pig
on January 22, 2008
in Internet, Japan, Trains and Website
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I just got emailed an invite to this event next week, organized by the folk who run the great Hitotoki, a site dedicated to short written snapshots of Tokyo (and now also New York & London), generally, but not exclusively, written by foreigners. I had sent them this story about a little girl on a train a while back and not heard anything from them since. I figured that the story didn't really fit in with their usual kind of "Tokyo as bittersweet, peach sunrise train station" style, which was fair enough, the story I had sent was a bit depressing. The invite suggested though, that there was an opportunity for Hitotoki writers to read or perform their stories live. I checked the website, and it seems, that they had published my story, which is quite a nice surprise. Reading it again after 6 months or however long it is, there are a lot of things I would like to have changed before submitting it, but I suppose that that's always the case. I'm not sure I will be able to make it to the event next week though as it falls on the day of me and the missus' anniversary, and some things are more important than non-existent legions of fans. Click the picture below to get to my story on the site: