"Approaching Shibuya Station at Night"

Approaching Shibuya Station on the Toyoko Line at night in May 2008. - LHS

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• Toyoko
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• Shibuya
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• 渋谷夜の電車

[studio7manga]

I checked out your site, I really liked the pictures you took of the Tokyo International Forum, I checked google image search and you took the best shots of the building I could find.

Cities are the most beautiful things on the face of the Earth, I'm going to try to find a job inn Tokyo or NYC in a few years, after I get that mandatory "3-5 years experience"...

[lylehsaxon]

Thank you for the compliment. I guess you were looking at my "Tokyo Concert Halls" ("Tokyo - Music Capital of the World?") page? As for working in Tokyo - what sort of work do you want to do? Some types of work are easier to find than others. - LHS

[studio7manga]

Well I was going to go over for a year or 2 and just do the "teach English" thing then see what was out there, but that fell through when NOVA went under. Now I just work as a quality engineer, figure I'll try to learn the language in my spare time and see what kind of jobs are out there. I could do anything really though, I'm kind of artsy, but I'm not good enough to consider my doodles anything more than a hobby, also the money isn't so great in such a career anyway, at least what I've seen.

[lylehsaxon]

English teaching used to be an easy way to come here, but not any more (there are still English teaching jobs, but...). Also, if you want to be respected while you're here, it's best to avoid English teaching! (Unless you've got a job at a respected university.) One option could be computers. Learn some coding and Linux. One advantage to computers is that the skills will be usable in any country. - LHS

[studio7manga]

Oh, one more thing, on a stylistic stand point if you do make a documentary, the film "Surplus" did some very cool night shots of Shanghai with a nice musical number over top, if you were interested in checking it out just for reference. It just gave it a cool dreamlike feel which these megacities always seem to elicit in me.

[lylehsaxon]

Music is a good idea. First step is to learn how to make better use of the editing software, and then to start working with sound.  Back when I took my first batch of videos, I had a musician friend who was working on music for a video - but we both moved and I don't know how to get in touch with him now. Time to look for a new musician friend I guess! - LHS

[studio7manga]

Thanks for the heads up and information!

[studio7manga]

"I guess you were looking at my "Tokyo Concert Halls" ("Tokyo - Music Capital of the World?") page?"

Yeah that's right, the two pictures about half way down are especially good, the lighting is just perfect IMHO. Not sure what time of day you took it but it really looks nice, very cyberpunk/futuristic.

The building kind of reminds me a tiny bit of the Sony Center in Berlin.

[lylehsaxon]

Domo-arigato! I have been wanting to put together a coherent video covering Tokyo for a long time, but so far I've just got a lot of raw footage. I need to get things together with editing. I have one on-line - check out "Morning Tokyo Trains in 1991" to see how the Tokyo trains were 17 years ago. - LHS

[dysthymia7]

Beautiful shot you got here. Looks like it belongs in a great documentary film for nihon.