Blazey's video of Argentina

The video i wish i would have made for Japan. It is a little melancholy. I see sonya and her sister and I think that they didn't make it back. Blazey will be in charge of the video for Australia for sure. p.s. anybody who is skilled at html/css can you please tell me why vimeo video's break my layout? it shifts all of the post below it to the left. what the eff?

Music in my ears

Here are a few tracks that i'm feeling right now: American Boy - Estelle. I could be your American Boy.

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Don't Stop The Music - Rihanna. I'm probably about 6 months late on this CD but who cares. This song is the joint. the build up to her singing my favorite lyrics/breakdown of all time is dope - "mama say mama sa mama ma cu sa"

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Dagger - Emily Jane White. kinda folk. kinda Cat Power-ish

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Bird Flu - M.I.A. It sounds like the album cover looks [audio:Bird_Flu.mp3]

adida antelopes

These are my all time favorite shoes. I bought them at a department store a few years ago and have been looking for a new pair ever since. Oh how excited i was when i saw a pair in a little design store in Tokyo. The only problem? They were the originals from the 70s and cost 1,500 dollars. (149900 yen to be exact). I'm wearing my old beat up pair in the previous blog post.

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Walking through Chelsea

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I bought this Head Porter bag at the store in the Harajuku area of Tokyo. I've read a bit about them and and a japanese friend had one. It was the only expensive purchase i felt was worth it (as opposed to some jeans or jacket). I did the same thing in Switzerland and bought one of the Freitag bags which was 4 years ago and i still rock it. Maybe when I go to France i'll get a Goyard :)

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These photos were taken between 6th ave and 8th ave on 16th street this past sunday.

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Tiny Gifts

Closer views of some of the smaller things I brought home. This started out as just one photo of the truck but i ended up shooting a few things i found in my box of goodies. ContactSheet-001

car-0519 I found this at Muji in Kanazawa.

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giftss-0542 Ninja Pin. Need I say more?

Bento Box Bento Box. This came from a little museum in Kyoto near the Monkey Mountain.

giftss-0556  The charm is from Miho's grandma

giftss-0555 I bought three of these match boxes from a little store in Kyoto

giftss-0560 These are called "mini carpenter block". They are from a design store in Tokyo.

nintendo characters I don't know what is inside. Bought it at the wonderful Tokyo Hands

giftss-0564 Souvenir from the Fushimi Inari Shrine. (mish, maybe you can explain what the fox symbolizes, please ;)

beams x bohla Hip store, Beams' collaboration with watch maker Bohla.

giftss-0566 Wine from Miyota.

The Bus

I only took the bus in Kanazawa. It was fairly easy to understand since Kate told me the exact buses to take. If it werent' for her it would be next to impossible for me seeing that most of the signage was in japanese exclusively. busride-0924

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This lady and her daughter were randomly nice to me. I was standing next to the mom on the bus and she asked me how my trip was then gave me an all day pass for the buss. They were also sight seeing Kanazawa from Nara i think.