Purification Station, Meiji Jingu, originally uploaded by Eric Jeschke.
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Purification station on the temple grounds at Meiji Jingu. You wash both hands and rinse your mouth to remove impurities before entering the temple area proper. Of course, you must do it in the right way.
My two friends are on the far side of the basin, bemused at me being such a tourist.
You can read more about the Meiji Jingu here.
Kiyomasa-Ido, originally uploaded by Eric Jeschke.
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“The Kiyomasa-Ido well was first belonged to Lord Kiyomasa Kato during Edo period. This well is the fountainhead of Nan-Chi (South pond) and the pure water gushes out in a steady flow all the year round. This well is famous for the ingenious way of sinking and the superiority of water’s quality.”
At the Meiji shrine gardens, near Harajuku station, Tokyo.
I usually have a more clear idea of my selects. This one I had passed over several times, feeling that somehow it was interesting, but the composition didn’t feel strong and I felt that others wouldn’t “get it”. There is also a strong flare in the right side that bothered me a little.
But it just kept calling to me. I like the way the spring and the water around it reflect the trees and dappled light. Then there is the rock, perfectly shaped and situated for kneeling and accessing the spring, smooth and white in a counterbalance to the dark spring hole. Very Japanese, such a perfectly human-sculpted landscape.
Finally, there was the story behind it, of the well, and Kiyomasa Kato, “one of the most ferocious samurai who ever lived“.
We washed our hands in the water (as seemed to be the custom) and I can vouch that the water was very soft and had a lovely quality. These gardens are in the middle of Tokyo bustle, but deep in that forested glen you’d never know it.
HaPPy FaCtory, originally uploaded by Eric Jeschke.
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“People make love, love make peace, peace make people”
Store in Harajuku district.
Jindaiji Statues, originally uploaded by Eric Jeschke.
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These statues adorn the grounds of the Jindaiji temple area.
(Legacy, the sepia version. Key: R20000912-111256-BW-colorized-sepia)
I can’t remember on whose blog I ran across this (I must read too many), but I repeat it here because it is just so useful:
browsershots.org will let you see your web site via many different browsers so that you can check how your CSS is working, etc. Very, very slick. The site is a little weak on documentation at the moment, but I presume they’ve got a bunch of VMs running on a cluster somewhere.
Check it out!
This is kind of cool.
A fellow at Hebrew University in Israel, working on a new class of wavelet algorithms wrote asking permission to use an image from one of my tutorials for a paper he wrote. The paper describes some new type of “edge-avoiding wavelets” for image encoding and gives some examples of interesting possibilities for image manipulations using them. Basically, he has reproduced using a computer algorithm what I did somewhat more painstakingly using the GIMP and a couple of hours of my life a few years ago.
Now my education is in computer science, but my area of research was the intersection of programming languages and parallelism, not image processing. I have yet to read the paper, but it looks interesting. I may report back on it here later.
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