Lucy has moved from Japan and this blog. See lucylou.info for her latest posts.
I only felt SLIGHTLY creepy spending several minutes taking a photo of a dead duck… It’s a beautiful dead duck, though.
Finally got some medium format film developed! Less of a failure than I anticipated, which is always good!
Here’s one of my favorites, taken in Tsurui, Hokkaido, outside of a great little restaurant called Heart-N-Tree.
Via drewgilbert:
9 Strange Things Found While Searching for Waldo
“Best case scenario — this is just some elaborate Roman furry mating ritual. Or maybe that’s the worst case scenario. Frankly, we just want to stop thinking about it.”
For your edification and delight, I present to you: Scanwiches. Mmmmmmm, scanned sammich!
Urban Rustic: Prosciutto, Avocado, Basil, Pesto, Mozzarella, on a Baguette
Speaking of abandoned things, I just found out about this abandoned Russian Village theme park in Niigata, Japan. There are so many abandoned buildings in Japan… they seem to be experts at moving on and not looking back (what with people buying new cars every few years and the used shops constantly stocked with almost brand-new electronics that have been sold off to make room for the bleeding new). But I digress…
This place looks cool and I wanna go there. Reminds me that there’s an abandoned town near my home in Japan that I have to go check out. I also need to go take some better photos of that abandoned planetarium-looking building in the city. Adventure!
I love looking at abandoned manmade things. You feel quite a gut-wrenching awe when you see what a few years of unrelenting nature can do to the comforts of civilization.
The Artificial Owl blog features the most fascinating abandoned man-made creations.By the way, the odd structure pictured at top is a pill box bunker located along Devil’s Slide, California, just south of San Francisco. You can read more about the area and its military history here.
(via @PSFK)
Because there’s no stoppin’ love in MA.
Man, VT, RI, NJ and MA will let anyone marry.
Infographic of the Day: Putting things in perspective.
Via wakingdown:
a fascinating look at the history of compressed music.
my ears hurt.