Posts Tagged: odaiba
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Jun 09
Life-size Gundam in Odaiba
Had some time yesterday to visit the 1/1 Scale Gundam (RX-78-2 model) in Shiokaze Park, Odaiba (get off Daiba station on the Yurikamome line). At 18 meters tall, it is a thing of beauty.
It smokes, it lights up! Too bad the weather was not cooperative that day.
I’m not liking the lights they put on the eyes, though. It ruined a lot of photos.
It’s interesting how, at events like these, everyone has their mobile phones taking photos and videos. I wonder how many terabytes are taken every day.
While the 18m Gundam looks awesome, the 4000 ton, 120 meter daibutsu (big buddha) at Ushiku can destroy it with just a flick of a finger.
Good thing the buddha is peace-loving.
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Jun 09
Rembrandt
Just received a time capsule email from Photojojo and reminded me of some photos taken almost exactly a year ago. This was my first photowalk with the Flickr Tokyo Photo Session group. It was raining that day and the fading dusk light and clouds gave us some wonderful scenes.