I could not attend all the film projections but I've seen some very good ones! Thanks a lot to Brendt Barbur, Founding Director of the festival. I was in the audience for 2 programs, number 4 entitled Urban Bike Shorts and the program dedicated to one film itself : Where are you go. From program 4, my favorite films where Made in Queens for its humor, Broadway Bomber/Bridge Battle by Lu... Read more

Yesterday evening was the opening party for the BFF 2009 in Tokyo. It took places at Combine in Daikan Yama which was perfect for me as I had to be in the neighborhood around this time :) Here are some few shots. DJ warming up before audience coming. A BMX ready for a performance to come. I took a time to shoot the fixed gear parked around ;) We ca... Read more

Okay I am totally late on this one but here it is, the last part of the bicycle market report. First is Nakamura San and his project Momoiro Bike Works, I guess this could interest Danny Choo (?) Then I met Mr CyberCyclist; with his system he has his own telebi (TV) channel, streaming live his rides across Japan. He has almost 2000 followers on Nico Nico Douga, a popular web app in J... Read more

The market welcomes any kind of bicycles but as they are (still / more and more ?) popular, fixed gear bikes (ピストバイク＝pist bike) are quite numerous to see. So here are some of them :) [Don't forget that you can click on the photos for large view] The classic style, and the modern street one : I had a nice chat with the two correspondents for COG in Japan :... Read more

I took about 90 pictures so I am going to divide the "report" into 4 parts. This is already my third time at the SekidoBashi flea market and second time for the autumn's one. Nice weather but a bit too much cloudy, not the best conditions for photography. Anyway once again it was great to see the parts and bicycles presented for sale (or not) to the 自転車オタã‚... Read more