Vicious mutant beasts know as melonbears (メロン熊) attempt to build a tower and escape from the claw machine holding them captive. The fruity creatures are from Yubari (夕張), a former coal mining boomtown in Hokkaido which is now famous for melons. The town once had around 120,000 residents but only about 12,000 people live there [...]
There was farm fair in my city a while ago and among the agricultural exhibits, there was a bovine manual lactation extraction simulator. I didn’t get to try my hand though because this cowboy came to clean the fiberglass animal’s insides via trapdoor. The sequence was shot with a Supersampler camera. It has four lenses [...]
A smiling oni (ogre, demon) in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido. The onsen town that is home to Hell Valley and holds an annual Hell Festival is full of hordes of sculpted demonic creatures. Some line the road as tourist photo-ops and others, like this guy, are in shrines. Taken up close on my Fujifilm INSTAX mini 50 [...]
I woke up late on Sunday, August 29th and didn’t think I’d get to catch the running of the 2010 Hokkaido Marathon. Even though the course winds through the heart of Sapporo, I forgot how long marathons actually are and how much time they take to complete. Walking near the Akarenga — the 19th century [...]
Here’s a selection of four shots snapped in Sapporo on a Fujifilm INSTAX mini 50 “Cheki” camera. Lo-fi love
