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CoolKevin

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aquamarine

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Timeline since Thursday evening
Thursday....
2100: Arrive home from shooting in Sakuragicho, completely tired, back is aching from carrying all of my fucking gear. Not happy, but it's golden week now.
0300: Still can't sleep. Forgot that the three yager-bombs I was served by the models manager had red bull... I suck.
0500: Eyes are drifting shut... I think.

Friday....
0800: Wake up, half asleep, but do it anyways. Shower, notice the Y key on my keboard isn't working that well. Annoing but I'll make due.
1000: Off to Hachioji, meet with friends, have dinner, shop around for muslin
1300: Go to the onsen , flirt with front-staff, enable the stereotype and myth of western men
1500: Go to have a couple of drinks in Minamino-Hachioji, but not before taking a scooter out for a bit of a run around town
1800: Dinner at a nice hotel, but served three shots of tequila... can only stomach one.
2000-????: More drinking somewhere on Hachioji. End up getting a hickey on the side of my hip from a drunken sushi-chef and get business cards from someone who works at Oracle and think it would be a good idea to hire me in his drunken state, even though I don't have any computer-network experience. Yay.

Saturday
0730: Up and on the road to Yamanashi to enjoy a country-side bbq
1045: Arrive, despite the traffic on the high-way (It's Golden-Week after-all)
1130: Get a drunken lecture by an old man on repopulating Japan. One of the few 'old style' Japanese I've met that doesn't loathe foreigners.
1400: Take a walk with an American friend who works with the military. Learn many things that are wrong with the military, hear some insight after 27 years in it. Kind of glad I didn't join.
1510: Have a Nintendo DS 'Tetris' Match with 9 women. I lose 7 times out of 8.
1640: Head back into Tokyo in the Nissan Cedrick. Get back to my place around 1830, shower, shave, get ready for the party at XEX Nihombashi
2100: Running late, have to carry all of my equipment (lighting/stands/backdrop/bodies/lenses/strobes) by myself. Not happy but it's for charity so I suck it up and only complain a few times.
2230: Setup complete, people are coming through the doors and everyone is happy.

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Standing next to Kohsei, one of Central Tokyo's leading sound-guys (owns a sound studio that does a lot of music and voice-over work)

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The country BBQ

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The basic setup outside of the main entrance
 

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aquamarine

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Sorry about that, was running on no sleep since Friday night when posting that. I meant muslin which is a fabric often used in lieu of paper for backdrops. I'm getting sick and tired of hauling a 10kg roll of paper (or three) to various locations.
 

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So Much Custard!!!!! All for 150 yen.
A wise man once said "Custard that's on sale is never custard you can trust." He wasn't wrong.

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I'm totally gunna die from bird flu

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Spicy Cola

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Obama Blow-Up Doll
 

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Passion-Fruit Kit-Kat

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Doing my part by helping put on a large fashion show were all of the proceeds go to helping those affected by the Tsunami and Earthquake.

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This is why I go through so many rolls of backdrop paper.

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Shibuya is mighty dark with the power savings.

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Moving day

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It's like ten cans of Red Bull gang-banged a teacup full of whisky. This shit keeps you up ALLLLLL night.

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Sideways Green-Space

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YUCK!
 

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Tonica Bitter Soda .... HORRIBLE stuff.

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Best smell removers -EVER-

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Lights Off

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Yech ... green tea pudding.


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My last Cadbury Easter-Cream / Creme Egg ..... :( I weep.

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What a douche... if you see this guy, slap him.

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Out in Aoyama-Itchome, Tokyo
 

aquamarine

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Huge broccoli.

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Yes he is doing nothing more than sweeping the road of leaves.

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He is apparently a 'bad man'
 

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"der Dritte schlag" (correctly: der dritte Schlag) at the front spoiler is german and means "the third hit". Perhaps that tuned Porsche already had some front contacts...
 

aquamarine

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Or it's been puffing grass. . . . hence the eyeballs. :D
 

Rhinosaur

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Dude, I'm a little bit baked at the mo'.

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Suffice to say, you're last couple of comments have had me in stitches!!

"Huge broccoli"!!

Comedy gold, that shit!
 

Minora

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Those pictures make me wonder about gun laws in Japan.
Can you just get your license and walk out of the store with an ACR?