What are your jeans doing today?

[aho]

Making me get all natsukashii with the Arashiyama pics....Great area with many hidden gems throughout....Looking forward to more Kyoto pics!

[landstander]

glad everyone is enjoying the pics and they're causing a little nostalgia

heres some from Fushimi Inari..wish we had more time to see more in Kyoto but we headed back to Tokyo after Fushimi..will have to spend more time there next time..

oh and i ran out of my favorite no show uniqlo socks today..had to resort to a pair of regular jawnz. Those uniqlo socks are serious..need to cop like 9 more pair before i leave..

shinkansen going back to Tokyo:

[fang]

^^ thx for the info landstander. i'm trying to get a bunch of pairs nao!

[sharpie1200]

Looking at these beautiful pictures just lowered my blood pressure. Thank You. Keep 'em coming.

[fardin]

unbelievable how nice those pics are. great lanstander. +rep

[-Z-]

i miss that place landstander, can't wait to make my annual trip back to Japan this winter...

[pomata]

amazing pics, landstander!

some italian food now, there was a nice market this morning in town.

vendors from all the regions of Italy with their tipical products...

hot sausages from calabria v good

super-smelly cheese

tourists and the arena

the original Pesto (genova) do you know it?

bread (trentino alto adige)

meat (piemonte)

[pomata]

flavoured oliveoil

toscana my love

and sicily...yummi yummi

dried tomatoes

always from sicily, arancini these are so good with rice, mozzarella and tomato sauce inside

crazy sweets from sicily - cannoli siciliani (u remember the godfather?)

I got myself this truffle sauce only but I'll be back tomorrow

I hope you enjoyed the small tour and have a nice day guys!

[togecrazy]

collecting some data in the lab..

[zissou]

Mmmm! Thank you for the photos, pomata! My father is from very near trentino alto adige.

[butt]

this was last weekend actually but i forgot to post it, went to see merzbow

[landstander]

must spread pomata but those pics are making me hungry..are those soft pretzels at that bread stand? thats one thing im missing about home..soft philly pretzels mmm..

went to Yokohama today..a guy at work insisted that i go so i figured why not. Later on i went to the Metropolitan Government Building to check out the city from above and get some pics. After that i basically wandered around Shinjuku for a bit since thats where my hotel is:

[landstander]

cont.

Yokohama Chinatown:

MGB:

memory lane aka piss alley:

random in Shinjuku:

[ranonranonarat]

lovely pictures landstander. food is always the highlight for me when i travel. that udon is making me hungry. would rep you but need to spread!

on a sidenote,

WHERE ARE THE CUTE JAPANESE GIRLS?

[thedoad]

this was last weekend actually but i forgot to post it, went to see merzbow

I'd love to see Merzbow.

[cord13]

worked on my Stats/Bodybuilding project. weighed the 45Lb. plates to check the accuracy. got about 30 done today. got about 70 to go. sorry about cell pics.

then after i grabbed a shower, I went to check out a job opportunity I heard about. turned out to be soliciting. I decided to pass.

[morse9443]

landstander - your jp pics are killing it!

pomata - bigger pics man! I can't see the Ital deliciousness

[Vinneus]

Had Lunch with "Meow"

Saw this and thought of "Almost Nice"

Stopped by Self Edge to visit "AJChen" and got this new Sugar Cane shirt

Then saw this... "Banksy"

[grouse_allergy]

Feel like I'm flooding this thread as of late.

Nonsense! And thanks for the +rep, would return some, but it looks like I'll have to spread some first.

And yeah, looks like a sweet summer indeed. Anything is better compared to last June.

[chantheman]

on the water at 6am. caught a limit by 7am. done and done

net a fish

then had a fish on within a minute of trying to net one

end of the day a limit of stripe bass

[tg76]

^ nice, i was just on the phone trying to organise a fishing trip

today me and my jeans took some cold pills that said DO NOT OPORATE HEAVY MACHINERY so we put on some venison english devilled sausages then went and played with power tools

but first we oiled the table we started the other week

now i just need someone to help me lift it back upstairs

my choices for todays project were

a stack of old benches from my old intermediate school hall

there are 7 of them all with different restoration needs

an old kauri teachers desk

it needs some rebuilding and some leather set in so im leaving it till the holidays

so i attacked an old coffee table

im roughly taking off most of the varnish, not caring about the shape, then im going to spray it mat black for my outside lounge (with the school benches around it)

nicely shaped legs are overrated

my skulls love being covered in dust

then my man came over so i stopped work to go give him a post race rub down

[beatle]

good job, Tg

[ranonranonarat]

damn chantheman, thats some catch! be back to rep! must rep.

[Paul T]

Bloody hell! Summer is finally here!

25 degrees in the south east. TIme for the seaside, and for 9oz denim, obviously. So we set off first thing out of London to the nearest bit of coast, Whitstable.

This restaurant is obscure but famous. Wheeler's became a big chain, based on this tiny place. I think the chain eventually went bust but the the original remains here. A great place to eat - you can bring your own booze.

We had a different idea, though - a takeaway. So it was crab sandwiches, pickled octopus, anchovies and prawns in little polystyrene cups. Served on a blanket. Tartan, what else?

We often spend time catching crabs here. One of these fellas was alive, one dead. I know this ain't chanttheman standard, but you got to start somewhere, right?

I noticed the nipper'd found them when I heard screams and saw him chasing a girl around that he'd met on the beach and threatening to drop them down her dress. Well, it has to be done, no?

Obligatory 9oz denim shot. LVC 1890 and chambray.

By the way, previous wayjdt post we visited the place where they designed the Mosquito and many pioneering British jets. The family who ran the company, De Havilland, died out when the second of two sons died, attempting to break the sound barrier. This is the place they fished his body out of the sea. Sad...

Then it was down the high street, to a few favroutie shops. ONe of them is a real cool, old sewing machine shop. He sells industrial machines; thanks to him I have approximately 2km of denim coloured thread for repairs...

We stopped in for ice cream, of course. The proprietor was proud of his new moustache .

[Paul T]

ON the way home, we stopped off at another old town, Faversham, only a short trip from London altho I've never been here before. Apparently Henry 8 stayed in this inn. Sorry if too many of my posts have old buildings.. I like modern architecture but I figure you guys in Chicago and Utrecht have better modern buildings than us..

Mies van de rohe never did this:

Actually, Faversham has a lot of my favourite architecture. I've never seen a small town with so many pubs. Thanks to this brewery, shepherd neame:

Even this tiny place was a pub, from the 1600s until 1984;

I loved this cinema; must be really early, Arts and Craft I would guess, from 1910 or so:

The day was tinged with sadness. I got to the brewery shop at 4.45. It closed at 4.30. I hammered on the door, cried, screamed, all to no avail. This brewry sells a beer called Spitfire - patriiotic, huh? I would love to have drunk a bottle and toasted almostnice.

Still, home in time for Dr Who, accompanied by a glass of Greenwich stout. A pretty damn good episode... they revived the Silurians, cold blooded bipeds who ruled the earth before humanity. And now they're back. Eek!

[farmer]

Advertised opening day to the public. Weather worked with us for a great turn out. Cars were parked up and down the street because the lot was full most of the day. Counted over 40 cars around 11am.

When not watering, my day was spent trucking different plants around to restock the retail greenhouses.

Gave em a quick soak w a little Dr Bronners("Absolute cleanliness is Godliness!") peppermint and some agitation. Still wet. Hope they'll be dry by morning to do it all again.

[ranonranonarat]

i live in a concrete jungle and have never had green fingers nor know anything about cultivation (idk what you call it). but from the looks for it, boy you're doing well with things. might i add that those are some nice flowers as well.

[tg76]

its a miserable day

doing the benches today

gonna leave the school stamps on (and the chewing gum)

all the panels are different depending on when they were repaired/ replaced.. the super yellow one is an original so i left it pretty much alone and oiled the rest after a good sanding

now im cooking a kind of greek dinner for all the boys

out in the rain getting fresh herbs from me garden

[-Z-]

its what my jeans did, a while ago. but today my jeans went through some of the shots i got while scoping out some new shooting grounds...

these are all sitting in B+W right now because I'm too tired to mess with color at the moment. That is tomorrow's task, along with finally ordering a few new lenses.

yup.

[ranonranonarat]

-z- thats some lovely photography. what lens for these? can't rep you now, must spread..