This is my friend Rebeka, she's kind of pretty and used to model back in Canada. I am Paul kind of funny looking and i used to take photo's back in Canada. So why no relive the glory days and have our selfs a photo shoot!







We had a tone of fun and are thinking of doing it again when we have the time. any ideas of what we could do?

the rest of the shots can be seen as always on my Flickr site.

Gatcha pon's are machines that you put in 1 or 2 of 5$ and usually you get a toy of some form out of it. but i noticed this one Gatcha pon, Red and no where near where you'd expect to buy toys of any kind. beside it was a table with a red book. i took the book and went home. it was in japanese and all about this crazy Art festival that's taking place over a span of 3 months through out all of Shinshaibashi including Graphic artist, Street artist, DJ's, Fashion shows and Dance. to help bring awareness to this festival they've put out this Red Gatcha pons all through out the city with underwear designed by local Graphic Artists.

CAN YOU SAY DAY TRIP!? on a Saturday me and my friend Rebeca went out to see if we could find all the gatcha pons in the city. luckily there was a map in the book of where all the Gatcha's were hiding.


some were outside some in shops and restaurants and some we just couldn't find. but the end of the day it turned in to more of a hunt to find a Gatcha where the guys underwear weren't sold out. I also went out once again this past Sunday with ophelia_no_yume but the festivals last day blow out and they closed down the midosuji and filled it with DJ's fashion shows and Dancers. it made it imposable to get around and once we got to looking for gatcha's again they were all gone save one.

I think a few people out there might be getting some vending machine underwear from japan.


What the Gatcha pon looks like. As well i think that tihii_omut might get a kick out of what's on top of the gatcha.


Inside the gatcha pon


The only pair of guys underwear i was able to find.


a shot of one of the underwear that ophelia_no_yume got. photo from ophelia_no_yume.

 

absinthe, originally uploaded by Road Rage Bunny.

i discovered absinthe this Saturday

these guys have a club out in kobe that they play every tuesday night. the club fits maybe 50 people and still has enough room to dance and go while even when the band is jamming through the crowd. such a good find. and trust me the people in the club go crazy! way better then this vid.

they kind of remind me of the seatbelts from yoko kanno

I'm really stoked about this

Welcome to my new thursdays. I travel an hour and a half out west to teach for and hour and a half at a kindergardin of which i have to leave that school running to to catch my train and travel 3 hours out east to teach 6 kids at a different school and when that's finished i catch near 2 hours traveling to get back home. YES i spent twice as much time traveling on my thursday then i do teaching. ofcourse there is no time for such things like lunch with a day like this on no. the people at my company believe that one can teach classes of 30 kindergardin kids with out fuel to run the body.


joy...

and i just found out that my friday's while not traveling as far or going nearly as late still leaves me with no time for this fabled lunch that i'm kind of missing.

on top of all that i return home today to discover that my landlord sold my apartment to some big company that's not too friendly with us white folk.

oh ladies and gents 2008 is shapping up to be a very interesting year.

IN OTHER NEWS
i haven't updated in a long time of what's happening around in my life but fear not it's forever as interesting as always. in short

Sakura season and trips to Yoshino

goth club to discover that Japaneses goths shit all over north canadian goths when it comes to really doing up your costume.

Boys night out that included a hot times 100 burger that burned for days after teaching it. ( i couldn't finish the burger it was that hot) followed by japanese wrestling

pizza and firefly with lovely </b></a></b></b></a></b></a></b></b></div></b></a></b></a>ophelia_no_yum

and photos

someone stole my bike seat. ...WTF's with that!!?? MY BIKE SEAT!?

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head but had no idea who it is or where it came from?

This song as been in my frakn all week! but i didn't the name of the song or artist so it was a pain in the ass to find especially in Japaneses.



at the same time i discovered that she also made another song that was suck in my head a while agao.

You ever have those weekends where by the end you just look back and say WOW, nothing happened. my weekend was NOT like that at all. three days 6 hours sleep 3 memory cards of photos and just as I'm settling down at 2:30am to finally get a couple of house shut eye before work along comes fire fighters from every direction clogging a whole city blog... hmmm sleep or another photo op what ever should i do?

a view from the roof of my apartment


the going ons


the men