During my first trip in Japan 3 years ago I chose to become a member of Willing Worker On Organic Farm organization (a.k.a as WWOOF). It was my first real contact with organic work and culture. WWOOF organization requires a small fee in exchange of a list. This List contains informations about hosts in Japan who can welcome us. The deal is as follow : we work for them during 5/6 hours a da... Read more

The first time I've read about this market was in COG magazine but then completly forgot about it... Thankfully, nico^p who also lives in Japan reminded me the event on the french fixed gear forum, pignonfixe.com. So I sacrificed my usual morning sleep of the saturday and left home at 6:30AM, the market starts around 6 AM I think. I arrived at Nakagawara Station around 8A.M. (Not... Read more

(Kamakura Great Bouddha, picture taken last year) Last Sunday, we met Doug San (a.k.a Big Bouddha) in Kamakura Station, living near he knows many cool places and offered to guide us to his favourite places. We've already been in Kamakura many times but always in the main streets or easy to find temples. First to avoid the mass of people visiting each week-end Kamakura, we chose to meet at 8... Read more

The 2008-08-08 the DVD "Fast friday" will be released in Japan. It's a fixie documentary by David Rowe. For the occasion an event will take place in Shibuya at Uplink Factory. Uplink is an arty place in Tokyo with a small cinema theater, a gallery and a restaurant (Tabela, where my girlfriend used to work by the way). They tend to choose non mainstream content and they already did some stuff... Read more

This morning at 7AM I took this shot in front of the Yodobashi Camera of Yokohama, about 100 people were waiting for the iphone 3G. I would not do that but it's quite funny I think... In Tokyo it was an other story, 1500 people, some of them waiting for 3 days. After the opening some waited all the day until the shop closed and then started queuing for tomorrow!! All the TVs channels and many... Read more