I’ve posted up a photo album for 2006. As usual I edit out the pictures of other people, on the assumption that they might not want to be on the web. In these days of myspace and flickr, I feel a little old fashioned doing that! It has the interesting side effect of making my photo albums appear to contain a lot of pictures of me. Still, that’s good for my ego!
Time to ring in the New Year on this blog, albeit a little behind the curve. The actual night seems a while ago now.
As you can see, I’ve added a picture of me to the template of this blog, and also refreshed the pictures elsewhere.
Thanks to Liam, who took a rather good set of pics of me at the weekend.
The last few times I’ve been to Tokyo, I keep noticing things that seem very similar. This afternoon, I was walking around Wimbledon in London, and I spotted a detail on the side of the public library that I’d not noticed before. I was struck by the visual similarity to a photo I’d taken in Tokyo a few weeks ago.
Wimbledon:
Tokyo:
In Wimbledon, the brick and tile detail are so apt for a Library, and in Tokyo, I was intrigued by what I understand to be prayer cards. Here’s both objects in context:
