Dented

Dented
Originally uploaded by Jaqaroo.

This is the new Dentsu building in downtown Tokyo. It is 40 floors of glass and rises out of the ground like...like a huge glass cliff face. Ten minutes walk from here is the big fish market which rises out the ground like a big dead flat fish; it's a lot more organic than the Dentsu building, which is full suited ad guys having earnest meetings aboutthe best ways to advertise large amounts of crap.
The fish market guys sell fish.
There is no moral to be learnt from this. Some people do advertising and some people sell fish. That's it.

El Grande

El Grande
Originally uploaded by Jaqaroo.

I saw some elephants a couple of days ago, in Tokyo, just fancy that, elephants in the heart of this most crowded and urbanized of cities. But there they were, 4 majestic, beautiful elephants...in Ueno Zoo. Not quite the vast sweeping endless savanah of Africa, but then again where is?
There is something disturbing about zoos. I incresingly find it unacceptable and distasteful to see animals and birds caged up in laughably (if it wasn't so depressing) small spaces. It all seems rather Victorian, but then again a lot of Japanese cultural ideas are that out of date.
Can zoos be justified by saying that the little kids love to see the animals and so it's kind of educational?
Go to the zoo and see what you think.

Kooky Canucks

Kooky Canucks
Originally uploaded by Jaqaroo.

I saw these two on the train this evening. I think they must have been Canadians.
The one on the right says," I heard on CBC that The National Transportation Safety Board recently conducted an extensive study with car maker Fords in installing black boxes in the dash board of 4x4 pickup trucks in order to determine the causes of traffic fatalites.  They were surprised to find that in most provinces, 56.4% of driver's last words were "Oh Shit!" 
The lone exception was the province of Alberta where 83.7% said their last words "Hold my beer and watch this!"
The one on the left says," Did you know that
Pamela Anderson
Shania Twain
Estella Warren
Nelly Furtado
Shannon Tweed
Barenakedladies
Keanu Reeves
Celine Dion
Avril Lavigne
Alanis Morissette
Peter North
Bryan Adams
Neil Young
Jim Carrey
Natasha Henstridge
Jennifer Tilly
Sarah McLachlan
Leonard Cohen
Kristin Kreuk
are all Candians?"
And the one on the right says,"Who's Pamela Anderson?"
Then they got off the train.

I Think

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Originally uploaded by Jaqaroo.

You know what I think? I think most people don't think, that's what I think. I mean think about it. It doesn't take too much thought to realise that this world wouldn't be in half the shit it's swimming up to its neck in if just a few of our so-called leaders took the time to think about things.

Train Shooting

Train Shooting
Originally uploaded by Jaqaroo.

On the train this morning with my one year old son and he was getting a little fractous. So I gave him my mobile phone to play with. He quietly opened it up and pressed a few buttons, all the time intently watching the small screen, just like all the so-called adults on the train. He then managed to take this photo and save it. Better than most of my efforts. I will have to rethink my approach to mobile phone photograhy.