Riuva : Research Institute for Unicultural Visual Arts

[Cross-posted from In Your Basement, because I’m busy!]

I think one of the reasons why I’m going out to different districts every day, is that I’ve already been here before and the whole touristy vibe has worn off. I want to trawl through each neighbourhood slowly, get to know the place at my own pace and not just madly snap photos while ignoring everything else going around me. So I do beg your pardon if I don’t seem to be traveling around a lot. If you’d like a different kind of look /experience to the whole one year exchange in Waseda thing, do check out my schoolmates’ blogs: Chris, Julia, Jessie, Dan, Bryna, and Douglas! Which reminds me, I need to update my blogroll.

FUCK my post got eaten up. As usual. The hosting for this website has not been stable lately.

I wrote a post on the current state of anime blogger photography, since Double posted his pictures. It was a thoughtful piece with good English and also talks about my current interests. But since it got eaten, I shall summarise in point form as usual.

• Darkmirage takes photos of cosplayers and uses his camera as a physical status symbol of his blog. Large penis.
• Tsubaki’s camera and equipment is rotting at home since he’s busy burrowing in mud as a soldier.

The title says it all!

It’s quite breaking news, but this afternoon, a zoo worker got mauled by the 3 white tigers at the Singapore Zoo, after he jumped/fell into the enclosure. Apparently he was suicidal, and said his goodbyes to people around him.

What a dick! That sure was a painful way to die, though probably quite unusual. I have little sympathy for people who kill themselves and cause trouble for others, now my cute little tigers have blood on their hands.

Here are some photos of the tigers I took just a short while back! So cuddly, it’s hard to imagine them in berserker mode.

I was trying to do the figure review photoshoots of the swimsuit Nagato Yuki that has been sitting around for months. I took her to the pool as usual. After I was done, I walked around the area testing out the capabilities of the 100 mm f2.8 macro lens on some flowers. Then I saw a hot girl! Such a rare subject was not to be missed so I requested for the opportunity to get a few pictures of her and her family.