Some more of the Meiji-dori today, this time the stretch from here to Ikebukuro again, but this time with my camera…
I popped in to 01010 on the way, I’d not noticed before but that one has a bunch of alternative clothing stores, and a CD shop right at the top. After browsing through their CD & DVD selection I picked out something by Moi Dix Mois, more because they look cool than anything else. That entitled me to a ‘present’ too, which I failed to understand and nearly refused, but they insisted and gave me a CDR wrapped in a paper bag. I’m a bit fearful of what I might find on it, but I’ll give it a listen later.
Onward, past the road eating machinery and trams, finding as much street art as possible to photograph, theres really quite a lot once you start looking for it, I wonder if London has so much and I was always so determined to avoid looking at other people that I also failed to notice the beautiful things.
By the time I got to Ikebukuro I’d run out of memory in the camera, so had to call it a day, I took a quick wander around Bic Camera but the queues there were so long that any thought of buying another card was unrealistic. I did take a look at some video cameras, though, wondering if I should get myself one for Christmas. Pricewise they seem to cluster around 60000Yen (~300 pounds), with some very professional looking ones if you’re prepared to pay twice that. Of course, I’ve no idea what I’m looking for, so it comes down to how much I’m prepared to pay more than anything else. Small, I guess, would be important, but I don’t think I’ll be able to explain anything else I’d like from it…There was a nice Sony which records megapixel video, which is beyond the MPEG1 spec, but could that be a valid MPEG2 stream? Theres not much point spending the extra 20k if the stream it produces has to be resized down later anyway. Pretty much anything I’ll get here will be ‘NTSC’ (60Hz, 30fps, but no actual NTSC coding, so theres no colour loss) – but thats not important since mostly it’ll be viewed on computers anyway.
Back home via Tower in Shibuya where I got a pile of JPsychobilly covers albums, reviews later, once I’ve gotten them ripped and transferred onto the mp3 player.
Then, just to finish off the day nicely I managed to spray curry all over everything – normally the packets are quite well behaved but todays gave way with a huge splash of bright red curry all over my nice clean pile of washing. Dammit.
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