Monsieur Bouissou

Did a small photo essay on one of my closest friends while he visited me during the holidays. If you go back in the blog to June 2007 you can find more stuff on him. Pretty interesting guy. Bike fanatic, photo geek, weird travel destination seeker, French Osakanian pro leather craftsman.










Hates mornings, Loves beer, brought RxKxBx to Osaka.

A day in the park

Golden week, a week of slow life for the ones that decide not to hit the beaten track. Spent an afternoon in Tokyo's oasis of Meiji Park under the huge trees and relative tranquil mood. To be able to have access to a place like this in the very middle of this megapolis is a treat. If you come here on dark and rainy winter days the mood is extraordinary. B/W summer is cool as well.

(More) OGRE

Why do I post so much OGRE? Because I really like the whole a atmosphere around it all. The sound, the members and the pure and raw metal that is being produced.

Mayday Mayday Mayday

May 1st, while the majority were out there with flapping banners and coarse slogans I spent midday eating an All-You-Can-Eat cake buffet for lunch (weird experience indeed, heavy sugar rush after second helping). Then a walk in the park with my better half, loaded with whipped cream and cheesecake, summer is here again. I have the luxury of being in possession on a small lot of dirt, well, we call it our garden. And the tulips we got from someone was in full bloom so I couldn't resist to shoot some. Flowers are cool in many ways. The colors, shape, the social meaning and purpose as plants...ever though why they look like they do? Darwinism rules.

Then did a couple of hours on a future photo exhibition about the history of The Ghetto. Was shooting my friend Ako's art exhibition there, in the shadier part of town. Black&White suited best to the mood and also a fine contrast to todays earlier outings.












The Ghetto

OGRE in Svartvitt

AntiKnock is a legendary Tokyo venue, like CBGB in NYC but this one is still in action. This place is a dull MF'er to shoot at since the light consist of mainly blue, white and some weird pink/purple. All in spotlight on full or nothing, so you either have something too overexposed or way under if you don't shoot with a flash. I was shooting in B/W without flash through a fixed 50mm to see what could be done about it, turned out half good I think. This band is really heavy and delivers a well aimed punch of strong trash/death metal but in a kind of new wave of NWOAHM, so the B/W works for sure.

I put up some more on the RxKxBx site as well, way way different though....HERE


A friend of mine saw SickOfItAll play here once 15 years ago or something, half time and the organizers had to stop the show, tell everyone to go outside for half an hour so they could get some air pumped down (it's in the basement) so the band could breath and have people stop passing out allover. Around the corner is a small police shack (called "Koban" in Japan...BTWFTP) and they had stopped response to calls from AntiKnock for all the fights. Just let the mayhem continue as long as it wasn't taken up on the streets. Pretty slow nowadays though, guess todays kids just have a too strong emo DNA implanted in their girlish little wannabee fake lifestyles....did I just say that....? So what!