So I finally got around to "developing" (haha, putting them on my computer) the pictures I took around Musashino's campus...

Ok! So this is the sight I see when I park my bikes. Um. Yeah.



Ok, these pictures are pretty self explanatory. I'll pop in when you need help kay?




yup.





Oh! So in illustration class the other day the teacher pulls out a huge stack of large white sheets of paper and tells us to tape them all together. So we do so. Resulting in a very very large sheet of paper. Hmmm?

What are we going to do with such a huge sheet of paper?



RUN BACK AND FORTH DRAWING ON IT LIKE THIRD GRADERS YAAAAAY!



but no, seriously. We also put on some *tape* before hand, so that when peeled back would reveal fantastic negative shapes. CAN YOU SEE MINE HAHA CAN YOU??




Anyways, here's the cafeteria. Home to some very tasty and VERY VERY CHEAP (usually around 3~4 dollars american) japanese foods.

Seriously though. Pratt cafeteria? Your food isn't too bad. But really, lower the prices down okay?




Outside of the cafeteria! Haha...




*Everyone* has a bike at this school. I mean it. There are so many places to park your bike I have yet to find them all. And they are always full too.

I'm really growing to love biking here though, very very relaxing, and very convenient too!




And after class I decided to head over to Ginza to check out some camera stores. And so this is the view from where I park my bike. It's a nice little park area, and it's free too!



(photo taken on my rebel with the stores 60mm macro lens)

Okay, so the reason I'm going to camera stores is to try and find out where I'm going with my own camera.

Do I buy a prosumer point and shoot (and sell my rebel?), do I find a good cheap lens that's lighter than the one I currently own? Do I just wait to see what comes out?

egh... maybe the questions don't seem hard to you, but I've been mulling, *MULLING*, over them for quite some time now.

I essentailly have it worked down to the canon powershot g9, a 60mm canon macro lens, and a IS canon lens that isn't out yet.

All of them are in relatively the same ballpark. (I'd buy the powershot new, the 60mm lens used, and the IS lens new if I bought any of them at all).

Still, I have time, so It's better to wait and know exactly what you want than to blindly spring forwards and regret it later.

But I did find an *AMAZING* camera store! So good, so cheap... It thoroughly *trounces* B&H photo video in price and quality. (like, by a hundred dollars or more. damn.)

Unsprisingly however, it has a very high turn over rate so it's hard to find the used lens you want, and of course it is like an hour and a half away by train. It's also ridiculously hard to find. (Located on the eighth floor of a building dedicated to some japanese shrine or something? There is also no sign directly outside, and all of the signs are in japanese.)

But it's definately worth it. Whatever I buy, it's going to be from there. hoo yeah.



That night I went out for a delicious sushi dinner. And as usual at sushi dinner that are out of the normal tourist walkways, this one had quite a few business men lounging around inside.

But not the sort you see in the U.S. No sir.

These are a very special brand of Japanese business men. Designer suits. Expensive cigarets hanging *just so* out of their slightly wry lips. A feeling that not only could they mop the floor with everyone in that room, but that since it's so obvious they won't even have to.

THESE ARE SOME VERY COOL BUSINESS MEN. The ages vary too. Go from high twenties, to high fifties.

And not all business men here are like this. Only a few. A select few.

Damn. I have to go train under one of these guys or something. Seriously, they look like something Spike would draw.