Happy Christmas!

Robot present from my sister-in-law in Japan!

Famima Westwood!

Famima opened another store in Westwood. I can now stop by before work and get my bento lunch!
Famima-usa

King Kong

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The New AMC at Century City is really nice. Fire alarms went off during the trailers because they burnt the popcorn. The movie 7 out of 10. Good summer movie in the winter.

Katamari T-shirts!

Official Katamari shirts!!! Creator Keita Takahashi has designed shirts that are sold on the panic.com.
Panic makes some cool Mac software. I use their transmit for FTP.

Booska!

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Booska was a character from the mid 1960's in Japan. My sister-in-law picked this toy up at a cool toy store in Kyoto.

Spoon House - Gardena

It's been a slow time for taking pictures, so I have been eating. Spoon House in Gardena is a great Japanese spaghetti place. I had the spinach and clams in cream sauce. They have great bread too.

Chabuya Ramen

Tried the new ramen place on sawtelle, Chabuya. I think it is a chain from Japan. The soup is a pork/shoyu mix. I had the cha shu ramen and gyoza. The gyoza were not really gyoza but shu mai folded and cooked like gyoza, not very good. The ramen started off great, the cha shu was tender and delicious. The noodle is hosomen (thin) and very good. The soup.... I really wanted to like it but it was too strong for me. I drank 2 glasses of water but it really hit me hours after leaving, my throat was dying for more water. Good place but not for me.

Lunch at Torafuku

Had lunch at Torafuku. I had the Kurobuta Pork Cutlet. This place has Kamado rice, rice that is cooked in large metal pots. The kitchen is open and the pots are featured in the front. This is a great place for washoku (traditional Japanese food) on the westside. Limited menu for lunch but it's all you can eat rice!!

Playing with food

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I was always told not to play with my food...

Ruins

Pick up this book at Hennessey + Ingalls, the best bookstore in Los Angeles for art,architecture,photography and design. Ruins by Shinichiro Kobayashi is a collection of modern ruins in Japan. Photos of abandoned factories, schools and small towns.

Polaroid One 600 Panna

Polaroid Japan will be selling 3000 limited edition white Polaroid One. The cool feature is that it will include a separate marco lens attachment to get as close as 30-60mm.



They also plan to sell a custom ND filter in Japan for the SX-70 adaption to 600 film. The price for the Polaroid One is about $90.00 US, no price on the ND filter.

Beard Papa

The Japanese cream puff chain in Hollywood! We went to Beard Papa's and had some delicious cream puffs, too bad it's at the terrible Hollywood and Highland shopping complex.

Santa Monica Pier

SX-70 Time-Zero Film

Went for a walk to the pier.

Airplane

Olympus XA 35mm

Walking the Dog

Olympus XA 35mm

Blurry photo of my dog mei out for a walk.

Yatai

Polaroid SX-70

Overexposed photo from Kyushu, Japan. Yatai carts in the morning waiting for another night. The carts serve food such as ramen noodles along the streets. Mmmmmmm good.

Polaroid discontinuing SX-70 Film

The end is near for Polaroid SX-70 film.
Here is a notice from Polaroid.

Wallace & Gromit

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Went to see the new Wallace & Gromit movie...it was okay.
Parent please control your children! The parents behind us were so interested in the movie they paid no attention to their kid. The kid who would not sit down kept pounding on my seat, moving back an forth. I need to get a big screen TV, stay at home and watch the DVD.

Giant Robot Chicken

Had the fried chicken at gr/eats.
It is fried than covered with a light teriyaki sauce. Mmmmm tasty. The mayan chicken is also very good, everything is good.

Disneyland

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Went to Disneyland today!
We had free tickets.... kinda of boring but better than work.

Osamu Goods

Just picked up this book from the Giant Robot Store. Osamu Goods Style is a collection of products illustrated and designed by Osamu Harada. Full of "cute" characters on a range of products. His designs are inspired from the America of the 50's and 60's. The book contains items he created during the 1980's when Japan was in the "bubble" period. In the 90's after collapse of the economy he licenesed his characters out and has very little to do with the products being produced today in Japan.

Katamari!

We Love Katamari! Spending my time playing this strange game. If you have not played the first game Katamari Damacy you are missing out, it's one of the best PS2 games.

Eishi Takaoka

Polaroid SX-70

Went to see a show by Eishi Takaoka at GR2. Cool little wood carved heads, if you are in West L.A. check it out. My Polaroid jammed after this photo, the black line was a bad sign. I had to pull out the film and lost 3 shots.

My Dog

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Tony Takitani

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I saw Tony Takitani over the weekend. Tony Takitani is based on the short story by Haruki Murakami. If you have a chance to see it check it out. If you are in a really sad or lonely mood you may want to pass. The movie is a short 75 minutes and I wanted more. The movie does have a slightly more happy ending than the original story but it works well. The soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto is perfect. I hope it come out on DVD in the US.
Here is the original New Yorker short story and the Official Film site

Gorillaz Vinyl Figure

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Picked this up lastweek. Gorillaz 7" Noodle figure by Jamie Hewlett. I can't afford the whole set. Kidrobot has 1st and 2nd editions, Giant Robot has only the 2nd edition. The first run was limited to 2000 figures for each member.

Kuma iPod Shuffle Dock - I want this!!

As part of a summer promotion Coca-Cola Japan has this iPod shuffle bear (kuma) docking station. I want one so bad!!!

Olympus XA

Canon Digital Rebel

New toy, the Olympus XA. It's a 35mm rangefinder camera from the late 70's early 80's. I am still trying to figure it out.


Olympus XA 35mm Fuji400 film

Dead Shuffle?

I left my ipod shuffle in my pocket and it went into the washing machine. I'll give it another day to dry before I give it a try.

Update: It works !!

Polaroid SX-70 (600 film modified)

Welcome to my photo blog, pictures of my life in Los Angeles taken with Polaroid, Digital and 35mm cameras.