Last night we took a drive out to Korimachi in Fukushima to see a firefly festival. The festival itself was very tiny, but the there was hundreds of fireflies. It was very hard to take pictures or videos with my camera in total darkness, but I managed this decent one here.
I had to use a very fast film speed combined with keeping the shutter open for 15 seconds. What is cool is that a firefly flew right in front of my camera during the picture, producing that green streak.
I was pretty surprised the other day when I found out that Michael Jackson died. Love him or hate him, he still had some really good tunes. Of course this makes my mug even more timely. Anyways here’s a couple really old Japanese commercial that Michael did for the “Suzuki Love”. Looks like “Off the Wall” era Michael.
Here’s the latest manners poster from the Tokyo Metro. Do people actually do this? If they do, it’s pretty terrible. And why does it say piston?
I have to say the poster is timely, what with the rainy season happening right now.
Here’s a new type of potato chip. It’s not like the normal type. The texture is different, as well as the flavor. My wife proclaims these as her current favorite. They were pretty good. The mix of black pepper and garlic is a perfect combination. You can’t really go wrong with that.
Check out this awesome old arcade game I saw. It’s called “Dangerous Bar”.
What you do is slip on the provided boxing gloves and punch the rubber fat punk rocker in the stomach as hard as you can.
Basically it’s a strength test, measuring how hard you can throw you punches.
It also teaches children about bar fights. How great is that!?
I spotted this sign the other day for a kimono rental/ hairdresser. The sign is so old that they’ve probably been using it since the 60’s.
All of the pictures have long since turned blue because of the sunlight.
Would you trust a hairdresser that advertises with this photo below?
How would you like to have nice, ancient, probably hundreds of years old grave site, and then have some moron city planner decide to put an ugly hydro pole next to it. I wonder if his ghost is haunting the city planner now. I would!
I snapped a photo of this funny looking display in front of a kamaboko (fish cake) shop in Matsushima.
I thought the eyes and mouth on the fish cake were funny.
Yesterday we took a drive out to Matsushima to see the aquarium, Marinpia. I had never been to one before so I found it interesting.
They had all kinds of fish. Lots of strange looking ones.
Poisonous ones too.
They also had some black and white dolphins, which I had no idea even existed.
I got to see a seal show as well.
The penguins were cool too. They were so popular with the kids.
The jelly fish were beautiful.
I also snapped a nice close up of a sleeping crocodile.
It was a fun day.
Check out this really cool Cashern T-shirt from Uniqlo. I think it goes really well with my two Gatchaman shirts. I was a little worried about the light blue color, but was entranced by the cool picture. Once again I couldn’t resist.
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