MetaFilter posts tagged with Japan and photos

Photographs of the Excitement of Geotechnical Engineering (Failures)

filthy light thief — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:15:26 -0800

Professors Ross W. Boulanger and Dr. James Duncan have put together a Geotechnical Engineering Photo Album, with details of the successes and disasters. The album includes compaction techniques for a highway off-ramp, deep excavation methods, an offshore tank structure, and earthquake hazards of many sorts (mountain landslides, liquefaction damage to ports in Kobe, Japan, surface rupture in Taiwan, and problems with shallow foundations and subsidence in Turkey). (via oi9)

Ghost Train

Artw — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:31:06 -0800

Abandoned Amusement Parks in Asia - 1, 2, 3

Japan through wonderful vintage photos

madamjujujive — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:30:07 -0800

Vintage 3-D stereoviews of old Japan, Meiji and Taisho era swimsuit girls, working people, geisha, and kids, old Japan salt prints, dozens of T. Enami glass slides, and strange or offbeat images: all part of a vast and superb collection of Japanese photos from 1862 to 1930 by flickr user Okinawa Soba. More on the work of T-Enami, "King of the Stereoview, Master of the Lantern-Slide And Prolific, Anonymous Contributor To the World of Yokohama Album Views"

Japan from the Driver's Seat

yort — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:34:05 -0800

Japan from the Driver's Seat -- American truck driver in Japan keeps a photo blog. Mr Cash is also on flickr, and has answered questions about his occupation at this site, and an archive of his columns on Japanese society is available via the web archive .

The Japanese Garden

Effigy2000 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:54:57 -0800

Paradise: The Gardens of Tokyo. A collection of amazing photographs of Japanese gardens as taken by Tim Porter. Impressed and want to see more Japanese gardens? Look here and here for more links to more photos of some beautiful Japanese-style gardens from around the world. For further reading, check out Meditations on the Japanese Garden and The Modern Japanese Garden. And if after all of that you feel inspired to turn your garden into a Japanese garden of your own, The Japanese Garden Journal has you covered. Mind you, building the bridge sounds kind of tricky...

Painted cardboard.

econous — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:03:00 -0800

Beautifully painted cardboard houses. [Pink Tentacle]

Photography of Japan's Underground

jonson — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:57:00 -0800

Joe Nishizawa's new photojournalism book, Deep Inside, is a visual exploration of the amazing, highly mechanized world under Japan's urban areas. This brief interview with the author is accompanied by several interesting photos.

Even this site's Engrish has a certain grace.

orange swan — Wed, 03 May 2006 08:36:18 -0800

Avenue is a site of a snap photograph. Please enjoy it slowly. Here's a Japanese site of exquisite photographs. And lest I be accused of self-posting, let me say for the record that I neither took nor posed for the photos in the Orange Swan series.

The G-Cans Project

joelf — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:48:53 -0800

The G-Cans Project is a massive project, begun 12 years ago, to build infrastructure for preventing overflow of the major rivers and waterways spidering the city (A serious problem for Tokyo during rainy-season and typhoon season). The underground waterway is the largest in the world and sports five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos which are connected by 64 kilometers of tunnel sitting 50 meters beneath the surface. The whole system is powered by 14000 horsepower turbines which can pump 200 tons of water a second into the large outlying edogawa river.

Masamania

plep — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:56:28 -0800

Masamania. Not safe for work! 'Hi, this is masamania who create this page, MasaManiA.com. This page is made up of photos I actually take in twon. .I hope I can show and tell you the real, true Japan that cannot be seen in other mas media. I am living in Tokyo, Japan. I was born in Japan, grown up in Japan, study English in Japan. This is the reason I can speak Engrish. Some people complain that my updating and email response is slow. And other people conplain that my englsih is poor. '

Kamagasaki

plep — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:29:17 -0800

The Kamagasaki Gallery. Background to and photographs of a Japanese slum.