3/25/2023 0 Comments Iospirit remote buddy(Not that I'll be buying anything we post-materialists mostly window-shop.) Oh look, here's a new Kitsuné compilation with a weird tomato puree motif on the sleeve! It's not quite being there, but it's not quite not being there either, when you can actually examine and even buy the stuff online. You can zoom fairly far through the open door of Bonjour, but if you want to see what CDs they're featuring on their racks you have to go to their website, which features a rack of sleeve snaps not unlike the real thing. Here's nearby "funky shack", Bonjour Records: My last trips to Cafe Sign were to meet Lullatone and Roger McDonald. Street style photographers and fashion students from nearby colleges lurk here, photographing the beautiful people. If you're sneaky, you can buy your second coffee cheaper than the first from the stall across the road. It's a little pricey, but they do good iced coffee and have a patio positioned in the car-free, people-dense area right outside the station. And here's my favourite Tokyo people-watching - okay, girlwatching - spot: Cafe Sign, at the exit of Daikanyama Station. Above, for instance, is a Streetview view of the Meguro flat where I spent much of 20 (it's up on the lefthand side). I spent quite a while on Tuesday going for virtual walks in familiar, favourite neighbourhoods. Cities added include Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Sendai, Sapporo, even Hakodate, where I did a residency three years ago. Japan got a little closer this week, thanks to Google's addition of the country (along with Australia) to its list of terrains visible via Streetview, Google Maps' layer of human's-eye-view, 360 degree street level photos of (in theory) every street in each city covered.
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