i'd stare at the tokyo tower whenever it was in view. often it was obscured by the forest of skyscrapers, but you can see it looking south from the lawn of the imperial palace, near my work. in the daytime it's an insignificant blip on the horizon, but at night-time the glow is hypnotic. even from a distance you can sense the complexity of open metal latticework-- patterns within patterns within patterns. while i visited many times, i never went up. the tower was erected in 1958, copying eiffel's design but adding an extra 13 meters...

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author: jeeff : Tokyo, Japan

taken from the observation deck (45th floor) at the tokyo metropolitan government building, north tower, in shinjuku, west central tokyo. (a note for potential tourists: this is free!) ^ looking south-east across the center of tokyo. tokyo bay is off behind these buildings. ^ a detail of the first photo. the building at the very left edge is the NTT Docomo building. they're the big state cable/phone company that was recently privatized. i've heard it said that this building is a rip-off of the chrysler building. far off in the middle is the tokyo tower, a...

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author: jeeff : Toronto, ON

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author: jeeff : Toronto, ON

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911 Call #2

author: jeeff : Toronto, ON

i live in the front room, by the street. i live surrounded by boxes and crates in a temporary apartment. the ceilings are high and the other rooms are mostly empty. there are two big windows in the front room, looking out on the street. they have venetians blinds, but i always pull the heavy drapes shut after dark to hide the telltale light from my computer monitors. it’s fine in the daytime, but this neighbourhood isn’t good at night, and that's part of the reason why it's temporary. case in point: i’d been laying...

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