Cannot even describe how excited I am with the new Slowdive album .
Loved Slowdive and Mojave3 and was even lucky enough to see Mojave3 live in London.
Trying to figure out their tour plans, but it seems they do not plan to visit Japan anytime soon.
New Leather
Bought a large piece of Crocodile pattern embossed leather at Tokyu Hands.
Have plans for a Laptop carry bag, but still thinking on new products.
As I am too busy, I expect it to take a while till I can complete this one.
Study Kanji with Bowel movement
A new hype which was shown on TV and now accompanies with ads in the train is a Study book for children.
How to motivate kids to study the Chinese Characters, Kanji? Obviously うんこ, feces, bowel movement, or whatever you want to call it.
https://unkokanji.com/ is the website which promotes the books and has several examples of sentences to remember the Kanji.
Does not work for me, but definitely caught the attention of the media
Dirty Lens
Update May, 31, 2017
According to Ricoh service center, it will cost up to 20,000 Yen to fix this issue. To investigate further they need to ship the camera to the factory, disassemble and clean. There is a chance that the lens will require replacement. Now, do I want to pay so much money to fix this, or can I still use the camera ? Need to decide
Did not process my Ricoh GR photos for a while, and what a disappointment to find that the lens was dirty.
I am sure I can fix it with Photoshop, but I don’t like doing it.
Should take care more and check the lens more frequently.
Young men, on rudeness
I know it is natural for older people to complain about the younger generation. “In my days, it was different”.
As I did not grow up in Japan, I do not know how it was 20 years ago.
But three incidents this morning make me feel like there is a problem.
- Guy in the train, standing behind me, watching his cell phone. Head down, does not try to support himself, but just create pressure on me and other people around
- Boarding Marunouchi line, a guy pushed me brutally from behind and then asides just to get a better place to stand in the train
- A young man in Tull’s ordered coffee, but eating bread from a plastic bag he purchased somewhere else. Really?
Is it the season ? is it that I am less patient today? Is it the generation?
Ricoh GR Camera case
Got tired of the camera case I bought and wanted to change the design a bit.
As always, used paper to design (not in the photos), and thought carefully which parts to sew first.
Could complete it quite fast.
30 minutes for the design, 30 minutes for cutting the leather and varnish. + 1 hour to sewing it all together.
(And time to go to Shibuya to buy some parts)
Watch pouch
As I lost my previous watch pouch, I believe it was during a business trip in Seoul, decided to make one.
Used バネ口 (literal translation from Japanese, spring mouth), clasp (?). Glued silk to the inner parts to protect the watch and sewed it together.
Overall quite simple, with a very good result.
Soko + Ninagawa Mika
Been following both Soko (musician) and Ninagawa Mika (Photographer) for a while, so you can guess how delighted I am that they met and work together.
Result will appear in Nero Magazine. Looking forward to it
https://twitter.com/SoKoQueens/status/851323336265265152
http://www.magazinenero.com/
Buying Leather
I need to make a decision if I take another step improving my Leather Craft skills, or just continuing what I am doing now.
Do I make products only to myself, or do I start producing more leather products as presents to friends an family.
Already made a decision I will never try to sell, but for me the biggest difference is wether I continue to buy leather from Tokyu Hands or similar, or do I invest more money and buy better (and more expensive) leather.
Considering buying from Kyoshin . Seems like they have a good product in a reasonable price.
Train
One of these mornings that I wish I stayed home.
Rain, umbrellas, busiest hour and maybe some bad luck has totally exhausted me.
Considered going out in the middle, but decided to stay.
No photos, no media. Just words and your imagination.