I'm making lil robots that combine together to make bigger robots! THEY HAVE A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM FOR MAXIMUM COMBINATIONS.

These are still rough versions, but I'm getting much closer to a finalized idea. Then I'm gonna make a bunch. Alot a bunch.

um... this is for class. I swear.



(didn't make this though. Just... you know... art schools. WACKY.)

But I DID take both of these pictures with YET ANOTHER NEW CAMERA LENS. WHAT YOU SAY?

HARRY YOU CRAZY CRAZY BOY, A MAN CANNOT LIVE ON LENSES ALONE! HOW WILL YOU AFFORD FOOD???

Well, I respond, first of all, food is really crazy cheap over here. I probably spend about seven dollars a day on food. I'm not even kidding. It's actually sort of scary.

And SECOND, this lens was THIRTY BUCKS. It's a 70-210 canon zoom lens (with macro!) from *1988*. And although that does make it pretty damn old (I'm barely ahead of it...), this lens still manages to fetch anywhere from 150-200 dollars on the used market depending on what shape it's in.

And this lens is in FANTASTIC shape. So! How did I get such a fantastic deal?

FUNGUS.

GROWING INSIDE THE LENS.

yeah. that does seem to put a damper on things right?

NOT SO FOR A CRAFTY CRAFTY FELLOW SUCH AS MYSELF.

I whipped that thing open (against the advice of the shop I bought it from. HAH.), cleaned it up, and snapped it all back together so fast those spidery webby fungal strands didn't know what hit them. And just like that, Harry has a snappy new lens to haul around. *glee*.








And some more pictures from the shinjuku area... (taken with the 18-55 kit lens I bought for 25ish dollars. heehee.)

I will never think of New York as busy again. The sheer bustling LIFE that seems to be teeming in and out of every orifice in this city is just mind boggling at times. I can only imagine that numbers of things that I will never see and may have only missed by one floor or a right hand turn, but at the same time it's pointless to even think about that, because just by being here for a few months I've already found multiple shops that most of the students in my classes here have never even heard of! AND THESE ARE THE "FAMOUS" SHOPS TOO!!

Also, until you've spent an hour long train ride with a slightly sweaty japanese business man half your height sandwiched against your ass and lower back (and completely surrounded on all sides by other tokyo denizens) with no room to adjust your bags or even breath too deeply, you really haven't experienced the tokyo transportation system the way it was meant to be experienced. yay experience.






maybe a few sweeter pictures too. All taken near the Takanodai station (near where I live). This really is a very sweet area. A strangely balanced mixture of sage elderly grandparent types, younger lively college students, and bubbly energized little kids gives it a feeling of balance.

I have become completely addicted to riding my bike and will probably do so when I get back even in completely unecessary and stupid situations. You have been warned.






And don't you worry! I'm still taking far too many macro pictures!!

It really is like hunting... sadly it's getting colder and colder, and all the bugs are going away. *tear*.

I'm actually really looking forwards to going to the country in the summer just so I can spend a few days taking hundreds of macro pictures of little crawly things. MMMMM...

(also, the strange picture of the little beatle? It's about to start flying. I don't know. Freaks me out.)



And finally...

the ever reflective japanese business man.

I missed my train taking this picture.

hmm.