Riviera Zushi Marina is the name of this coastal residential properties , south of Tokyo, beautifully situated, with large palm trees, marina, cafe, and sometimes with a view on the Fuji-san.
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This chef promotes a department store and many small shops around Kappabashi-dori in Tokyo, which offer cooking utensils, china, etc., and also provide food dummies you can see in front of many restaurants in Japan.
The frost on the beer cans certainly looks like the real thing. Customer complaints are also modelled. And finally, you really can nail “jelly to a wall.”
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During my time as student in Berlin, I went every day with the subway across Berlin to the Free University in Dahlem. People sat with their backs to the window side, i.e. all were facing each other, face to face. No, almost all the faces were covered with a newspaper, up to 95% with the infamous BILD, and with the equally notorious BZ. Now and then you could see the TAGESSPIEGEL. The oversized letters of the red tops enabled effortless reading.
Here in Tokyo in the urban trains you sit face to face as well. But you almost never see a newspaper, but most people have a cell phone (Mobile) before their faces: to read, play, watch movies, smile, do hairdressing in the mirror image of the device … but they do not phone or receice calls with loud ringing. These rules are really observed.
With focussing on their mobile phone, people leave the train, go upstairs, and move fast from or to the large tower buildings.
Even at a distance of 40 km, the view to Fuji-san (3776 m) is magnificient (Miho-no-Matsubara, Shizuoka, Suruga Bay, Pacific coast, on Febr. 20, 2010)
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Such images are sometimes referred to as “UNICEF” photos . Children with big eyes are always touching. This image is from Tamara-Diana Braunstein, established in New York. She moved to Dakar, Senegal, for a job as a teacher in the great Africa. Now, after two years of Africa, it works in Dortmund and Bochum. The image is not to generate pity, but to show the beauty, the pride and joy of life of people in Senegal. This is clear from the contents of the book, Tamara has written about this unusual two years.
This blog contains basically no commercial ads and things, but for this book in my mini-publishing company, I would like recommend this book (currently in print, subscription price of 10%). I read the vivid descriptions carefully and with joy. All in English, but with 86 color photographs of Tamara. No one-sided enthusiasm but critical view of daily life, religions and culture.
Note: There are few other blogs without commercial: here is a photographic blog by Thomas Pindelski
