There’s only one curry I dig in Harajuku, it’s Piazza Eco-Farm’s vegetable curry! It’s the best organic shop in Harajuku. Been going there for years. Try it out.

Winter brings. Les Halles. Outside

My previous Porter “Tanker” bag has been a loyal friend for about 10 years. Spot it here at Rock in Japan 2007 under a blazing sun and lo-top black canvas Converse.

It’s only after I took this photograph I realized its level of obscenity, with the gyarus and the hotdog …

Clash of colors.

Cute guys.

On November 11th, 30 SECONDS TO MARS were supposed to play a soldout gig at la Cigale in Paris. The gig was cancelled and postponed to November 18th at another venue, l’Elysee Montmartre. It was quite a surprise a band that does arenas in the US, and did le Zenith in Paris a while ago would play such a small club (capacity about 1200). They are actually doing Bercy next march (capacity 17,000!), it’s going to be huge! Sorry for the cheap iphone photo, it’s all I got. Great performance, the new songs are promising. Can’t wait for the new album “THIS IS WAR” to come out. Their latest single “Kings & Queens“, a fixed-ride extravaganza, is a must see. Directed by Jared Leto as usual.

Coffee time this afternoon, at a terrace near the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tricky just walked by. He was on the phone, thick accent I tell ya.

This season, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is everywhere in Paris! Not only he decorated BHV (Hotel de Ville) but the Drugstore Publicis (Champs Elysees) as well! Once again, it’s a pop colors invasion, gorgeous. Bravo JC/DC!

The other day, I was invited to the “Prix BMV” photo exhibition @ Paris Photo. The photo contest’s purpose wasn’t to promote new and upcoming talents, it was a “gallery’s competition” for which only photographers who are already established and exhibiting at Paris Photo could get in and win some 12,000€. A way for the galleries to get some money back off their investment (renting space at Paris Photo, damn I hate business). In other words, not likely to see anything new and exciting, which was the case. The theme was so vague that you could exhibit pretty much anything from your collection. It just had to be “a unique moment in your life”. To prove my point, a couple pictures were shot… in the 80′s! Talk about giving the contestants a theme… Anyway, I shot this photo of Tonie Marshall staring at this dog, or the dark skies? She’s like, one of my heroes, from back in the days when she used to be in “Ca c’est Palace”.

An afternoon in the black hole, the CERN , that is. Large Hadron Collider beauty experience. Thanks to W.

On our road to Aokigahara forest (suicide sweep!), april 2001 with Koji, Bovier, Tatsumi and Sebastien. That’s the day I shot “Deathmap“, a four minute short movie clip for the track “Zoetrope apartment” by Loveform (yes, that’s me). Boy we had fun!

Mariage Freres… you probably know it’s the tea I have everyday. But there’s more! There are wonderful Mariage cakes too! Each of them has tea in it, either on the biscuit, mousse or else. Yummy. Photo : Mariage Freres Ginza.

This morning I got up at 5:00am and went to the 56th (and seasons’ last) “Concert de l’Aube” (Dawn’s concert) at the local beach called “Les Bains des Paquis”. A nice mixture of music, performance, impro, play etc by Geneva’s “Les Louves” (is that correct?). It was a bit chilly, but the atmosphere and good mood made up for it. At the end of the show, some of the musicians took a dip in the lake, that was fun. See you next summer, you concerts de l’aube!

Can’t wait to see if they’re going to lower their prices. After all, an M8.2 + a decent lens costs 18’000USD!

Ok I know it’s a bit off-topic, but couldn’t resist. This is Dieter Rams, talking about the design revolution! It’s a time-trip, way pre-Clockwork Orange era.

John Hughes, my teenage years were rocked by your brilliant films, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s day off, Vacation, Christmas vacation, Pretty in pink, to name a few. I’ll never forget you.

A very interesting camera indeed. Check a few in-depths articles as well as the official website.

DPReview
Digital Camera HQ
The Online Photographer
Steve Huff Photo
StudioVoice Artistlife site

Official website (jp)
Official website (eng)

This is my friend Kenichi, he’s from Tokyo, he’s a game designer/producer, he’s into Ricoh GRDII too. We met at Design Festa in Tokyo, spring 2008. He saw my camera and we instantly clicked, we shot eachother with our GRDII. Instant friendship. Kenichi has a dog too, and he’s very cool indeed (ok I love dogs). We share some similar taste in 80′s music and 90′a techno clubs like Space Lab Yellow (they closed down unfortunately). Here’s some of Kenichi’s works. And you can read and watch his Ricoh photo blogging at Route24, his independent company. Works: Newtonica, ????DS (hilarious, try it really!), iClick. Oh and we met again in January at one of my favorite vegetarian restaurants in Azabu-juban, “eat mort greens” (please support this restaurant, it’s an independent eatery with quality meals at good prices), and after that we went to Oldvine (his friend is the owner). That’s us there, by the way.

Summer 2007, Harajuku was mgdrized. The Misfits/MGDR sticker stayed there for about a year and a half. great.

such a killer thing, being able to post a picture while on the go! thank you iPhone and thank you ricoh for the best camera on the (underground) market!

Sometimes I shoot in color (my baby GRDII likes it too)! I like cables, always fascinated by outdoor/street cables… Harajuku Dec. 2007.

My good friend EURO (from the band SPEED-iD). We used to hang out at night. This was shot after we (Loveform + Kippu) played an all-nighter in Daikanyama (at Candlelight that is called UNIT now), summer 1998. At 5 am the weather was already wet and hot. Euro had to go to the studio to record some band (Aliene Ma’riage perhaps?).

Random neon at night, some location, in the city (Tokyo that is).

I shot this graveyard, forest of the unholy in 2000 when Mana from Malice Mizer had a lot of money to spend… on his Omotesando fashion store MOI-MEME-MOITIE.

Every nation has its right-wing organization. Japan has, amongst others, the Uyoku dantai… Yes, this was shot before NOVA went down… (circa 2000).

A simple place where I show my photos,