Not quite Idle Idol enough but I like these signs a lot. The eyes madly rotate round and round outside these opticians. Megane means glasses in Japanese.
Archive for the ‘Photography’ category
Kanji car
September 20th, 2009 by Ed
A new flickr set showing some of the wonderful rusted kanji and kana I’ve seen on the streets in Japan. This is the kanji for car or kuruma.
Idle Idol
September 15th, 2009 by Ed
Our new book ‘Idle Idol’ published by Mark Batty Publisher is due out next year in April. Its packed full of info on Japans wonderful 3D characters, learn their names, origins and stories. For a sneak peak visit our Flickr set and check our new site www.idleidol.net in the coming months.
Coral face
May 11th, 2009 by Ed
Some coral faces made on a small beautiful island near the equally beautiful Zamami in Okinawa.
Butterfly Boys
November 13th, 2006 by John
Who want’s to be in our gang? Since coming home from New York we’ve been working on a project organised by Abe Lincoln Jr. It’s for this exhibition where we were asked to come up with our own biker gang.
Fish Board
February 2nd, 2006 by John
What What Snowboard for a competition for Fatface. “Thou shall hev a fishy on a little dishy, Thou shall hev a fishy when the boat comes in”.
