Well, it’s been 40 days since I last went to work at my day job thanks to コロナ – “korona” (Covid-19). I usually teach English to kids here in Tokyo and from tomorrow, it’s back to work!

I don’t expect any students until next month, still two weeks away, so we will likely be preparing lessons and activities for when they start to show up.

While I’ve been off, I have spent some time working on my photography, my health, and learning Japanese – there was also a lot of PC game time… I wouldn’t call it a waste at all!

Tonight I launch my “Darkroom”

It’s a website that seems to make selling your photos online very very simple. There is hardly any setup at all and you can easily order prints on a verity of mediums including metal and canvas besides the usual photo paper. Here is a link: https://andrewgmeredith.darkroom.tech/

I’ve only got a few photos up there right now but I hope to add a lot more once I work out what my favorites are. Let me know if there is something you think should be there. What photos of Tokyo would you like hanging on your wall ?

Here is a photo I took a while ago of Skytree. The photo was taken at dusk, without much light, using a low shutter speed, or without the aid of a tripod; this explains why it is not such a sharp image. But, I actually like the way it has turned out, with a slight dizzying feeling when you look at it. It somewhat portrays just how tall it is, and how small it makes you feel beneath it. Enjoy.

I’ve got a new PC! 

I was really struggling on my old “toaster” , a Microsoft surface with no graphics card, thermal limited (due to  internal dust build up), and lack of disc space. 

This hopefully marks a new start for my website project so keep a look out!

This is just a quick update to show off just a couple of the photos that I took at Fuerza Bruta Tokyo. This is an amazing show that originally started in Buenos Aires and has made it’s way around the world in various forms; however, it has yet to found it’s way to back home to Australia.

The Tokyo version had me on the edge of my seat the whole time… except, there were no seats; this was a standing, moving, living, show; the audience had their part to play as well.

I’ll let some of these photos do the talking for now; but, if you are interested in reading more, SavvyTokyo has a really good writeup on the show.

Have you been meaning to start something in your life or make a big life change? I confess, I’m a bit of a dreamer; I have ideals, things that I want to achieve, ideas that I want to act upon, but, I have constantly dragged myself down, procrastinated, and rarely completed what I have set out to do or said I would do. I don’t want to dribble on too much about this; however, I think that I have finally started moving, I took a big step; I think the reason that I was able to do that, was because I found a motivation in my life, my wife. I jumped in the deep end. I moved to Tokyo, Japan.

I don’t speak much Japanese at all, only a few words here and there, so finding work here was never going to be easy. Another thing holding me back is that I have so far neglected to make use of Australia’s wonderful education system and study at University. Moving here has made me desperate and also given me time to think about what I want to do. While I still don’t have a concrete plan, I am now moving on three main goals, getting my first degree, getting fit, and learning Japanese. Tying in with my degree, and one of those ideals of mine, is to have a significant web presence of my own.

In this blog, I hope to combine my experiences here in Japan, with my coming out as an Otaku (more on that later) and my more than a passing interest in photography in the hope of properly establishing myself on the interwebs.