japanhopper
japanhopper
Ordinary Yet Unique Places
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This is a site for photos of Japanese cities and ecology by an immigrant living in Japan.
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japanhopper · 9 months ago
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Survivors
In a world of...
Standardization
From a world of...
Normalization.
The price for longevity,
To become an individual
Photo and poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 10 months ago
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Tunnels of neon, extend their electric hallways, into the oncoming night, like an analog video game, in Tokyo
Photo and poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 10 months ago
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Goku Midnight Eye (1989)
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japanhopper · 10 months ago
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The sun’s neonized last rays, foreshadow the city’s, electric glitter sparkles, nobody cares to know, what I see, in this plain concrete wall, relic of the eighties
Photo and poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 10 months ago
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The shopping street (書店街) where nothing’s sold, that I fool myself into believing, but it’s everyone’s time, into labor, once marked by sunshine and sunset, now contorted into endless clock time, until…
Photo and poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 10 months ago
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Speeding, through the metropolis, the opposite momentum of the slowly fading day, electric dawn, mechanical ambitions, machines dreaming
Video & poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 10 months ago
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Night descends as a steel moon eclipses the light pollution sky
Photo and poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 11 months ago
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Rainy season humidity, neon lights clash with last light, before mimicking the day, laughing away suppressed mirth, of an ailing Mother Earth
Photos & poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 11 months ago
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Street lights struggle, as the night world, sinks it’s dull fangs, into blue skies, in Hikone (彦根市)
Photo & poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 11 months ago
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Becoming one with the forest, not welcome at first but later, the forgone conclusion prevails, concrete whispers faintly, that is if your mind is tuned, to the sub octave music, that is of roots strangling iron
Photo & poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 11 months ago
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Leaving the land, blue envelope, ocean below, stratosphere trail, still under the mesosphere, jet engines mimicking, the wind’s song
Photo & poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 11 months ago
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Modernity, fading in the sun, hiding beneath by highways, becoming optical art, desperately trying not to be a commodity, these streets I walk
Photo and poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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japanhopper · 11 months ago
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The last light of the day, the dawn of the neon, humidity survives, summer in the streets of, Tokyo
Photo & poem by David 2e copyright 2024
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