TEMPUS FUGIT

Give us this day

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Home

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A prelude to pain

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The pleasure's all mine

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Courtesy Ana Vidigal's blog

Gift (out)

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Looking down (Southorpe)

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The Last of the MOCHI(cans)

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The year

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And for continuity

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"Japan": more from the Japanese sketchbook

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Stripey early morning

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Ferocity in the car

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Japan at home

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White letter day

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Everything is illuminated

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Looking down: kill

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Japan at home

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Agradeço e Retribuo (another beautiful morning): for Ana Vidigal

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Japan at home

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and fitting the pages together

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The spread,

and for continuity, the way it fits with the previous spread...

More from the Japanese Sketchbook

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Japan at home

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Catalysts

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Winter Wonderland

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Nimbyism

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Please will someone tell me why

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Turning the Japanese accordion sketchbook around, the first four pages opened out...

Peeled

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Bermondsey

Other people's things

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Of the passions with which the mind of man is agitated, it may be observed, that they naturally hasten towards their own extinction, by inciting and quickening the attainment of their objects. Thus fear urges our flight and desire animates our progress; and if there are some which perhaps may be indulged till they outgrow the good appropriated to their satisfaction, as it is frequently observed of avarice and ambition, yet their immediate tendency is to some means of happiness really existing, and generally within the prospect . . . . But for sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells on objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

Samuel Johnson, 'The Proper Means of Regulating Sorrow'.

Cycles (blow up)

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Hoxton Square, London

Seen but not heard

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Old Street, London

Hanging

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London

And for continuity

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and now it's time to turn over and use the other side of the accordion book...

Japanese Sketchbook

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Sketchbook: Tokyo street fashion

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In the name of individuality, there is (of course) great uniformity - the long hair, the little girl flounces, the over-the-knee socks, the dinky cutesy toys pegged onto bags and mobile phones... To follow the sketchbook, just click

in the tag/label 'Japanese sketchbook 1.'

Japanese sketchbook 1: spread 1

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Looking down: the year begins

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Hot Tamale

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Barge in Hackney

Our love will remain

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Hackney Marshes

New Year: London borough of Hackney

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New year: remains

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How to start the new year

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Japan: The sketchbook. Beginning.

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Oh, I rue the day I bought this scanner/printer... this is hell to do! A fold out, ie 'Japanese' sketchbook seemed appropriate...

Mixed media in Japanese sketchbook.

Modern Japan

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Run away

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Kyoto

More hanging things

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Kyoto

Shadows

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Looking down: water

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Looking up, Kyoto

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Looking down: Gutai

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Windows

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Japan, still

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Evidence

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Trees: Japan

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Looking down: zen

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Tranquility

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Art in Life: Tokyo (Daikanyama)

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Atlantis in Japan

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Kyoto

Empire of signs

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Kyoto station

Branch and wishes, Kyoto

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Hair: Forever Twenty One

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Car Window Stories

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Sentinels

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The transformation of the onigiri

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Contest

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A garden in a shop

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Guide, Hiroshima

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Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Walls, Kyoto

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Trees

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Ueno, Tokyo

Art as Life: Tokyo

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Daikanyama, Tokyo

Looking down: Ethel

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Daikanyana, Tokyo

Japan: Life as Art

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shadow, light, outline and nature bent and shaped

Hanging things again

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Pizza

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Kyoto

Attention to detail (Kyoto)

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Home

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Ton sur ton: Ethel

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Art as life: Security Matters

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at shops and stalls everywhere ...

Temple lanterns

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Harajuku night

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Wishes, prayers

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Washi

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The most fantastic shop in Nihonbashi in Tokyo, selling all variety of washi paper... thanks Katie @ cheekyleopard for taking us there!

Get, have

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Shibuya, Tokyo

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Shibuya

Prayers and wishes

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Hiroshima

Hiroshina

Omotesando, Tokyo

Meiji-Jingu Shrine, Tokyo

Nara

Market, Tokyo

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Al fresco noodles

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Art as Life: Plastic food

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known as sampuru, from the English word 'sample'... originally made of wax, now mostly plastic.

Kappabashi, Tokyo

Looking down: Tokyo

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Japan, basically.

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Prayers

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Kyoto

The uses of roses

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Kyoto

Shibuya, Tokyo

Obviously

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....stones too need underpants. Or aprons. Whatever.

Foot and birds

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Hiroshima

Hanging things

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Ueno, Tokyo

Nara

A place of hard work and violent death: Tsujiki Fish Market, Tokyo

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Fishing Family

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For Ana...

Kyoto

Pilgrimage to the Meiji-Jingu Shrine, Tokyo

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Looking down: Tokyo

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Dogs

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Aesthetically, Japan is the strangest place, with a unique mixture of incredible refinement and relentless cutesiness. This love of the cute spills over into the relationship with dogs - hard to spot one that isn't elaborately groomed and usually dressed too, and shops like 'Baby Doll' in Shibuya, Tokyo, with tiny puppies in brighly lit glass display boxes are really about teenage girls spilling out of nightclubs and getting their boyfriends to buy them a puppy as a sweet end to an evening (thanks, Sanna, for this obs!). Who said being a tourist was about relinquishing being judgemental?