This girl was having her picture taken in Harajuku when my Dad and I were having a wander. He snuck up and took the pick, I then did a bit of photoshop jiggery-pokery to it. Quite happy with how it turned out. It was really good having someone to go out and take photos with, helps to bounce ideas and whatnot off another person. I may have to bite the bullet and join one of these Tokyo photo groups to do the same thing...
No lessons at work today. At my current school, they have a system where the schedule changes every week. I think it's due to this school being one of the biggest in the city and thereby having too many classes to fit them all into a regular schedule, so instead making a new one every week, according to the school events and whatnot seemed (to someone) to be a much better idea. Of course what this means in reality is that my schedule is never even considered until about lunchtime on Monday morning, with my first lessons generally taking place around Tuesday afternoon. Not that I am complaining - it makes for a very pleasant, relaxing start to the week, with ample opportunity to catch up on the few dusty corners of the internet I am yet to read and to (not) study, and, as today, to play about on Photoshop. Today, I made this desktop/picture/thing of Suzuki Emi. She is a model/actress who, despite (or perhaps, because of) being very pretty, is probably about one stuttering, synaptic fart away from total brain death.
I have seen the roof of this house everyday, from the train on the way to work. I've been meaning to take some pictures of it for a while now, so I walked over there on Saturday with my camera to see wha the rest of the building was like. I was pretty surprised to find out that it has a restaurant or reception room or something on the ground floors and yet still houses the required slightly-mad-old-lady in the top floor. She came out and growled at me when I was packing up after taking the pictures, and made a pretty incongruous site standing outside this modern house in her crazy-old-lady shawl and hat. The photo turned out ok. I couldn't move any further to the left and still get the whole house in as there was a massive removals operation going on in the house opposite. I have also taken the artistic liberty of removing a few of the mass of overhead cables that ruin most Japanese streets. Apparently they can't bury them due to earthquakes and typhoons, although I'm pretty sure that cables are buried in California and Iran etc...and, as I am now finding out, it's not as if the local council are afraid of digging up the street (officially from 9pm-6am outside my apartment every night from now until March). Click the picture to see the before and after versions.
