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I found the book "Fresh Fruits" at the art library of Indiana University in Bloomin(g)to(w)n, while I was searching for a book about the Japanese tradition of tattoos. Howsoever, this book has nothing to do about tattoos, but it was really interesting because it was my first approach to Harajuku culture and to street style. I had never had before an approach to this culture, had no idea about it and that such things existed in Tokyo; my face lighted up by this book. 


Photographer Soichi Aoki started working for the magazine Fruits on documenting the street style of Tokyo's district Harajuku. The work documented in this magazine has nothing to do with the Cosplay ( a hobby were people dress up like their favorite manga, anime and/or video game character) part of Harajuku culture, but in this book "Fresh Fruits" you might see some photos also concentrating on Cosplay. Fresh Fruits (2005) was the second book from Soichi Aoki after the publication of Fruits in 2001. 


In this book both the joy of dressing up and wearing what you feel (and even making a character and telling a story) are cherished! 

Note: These pics were taken from the photograph book "Fresh Fruits". I have scanned less than 25% of the whole book, so (hmmm I think...) no copyright laws were infringed!

fragments

pane, burro e marmellata 

 

during SI Fest (savingano image fest): I suggest to everyone that lives in the area,  to check the Savignano fest which is usually held in the first days of September. 

 Rum, Lime Juice & Sugar  

"The name Daiquiri is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in that area, and it is a word of Taino origin. The cocktail was invented about 1900 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, about 23 miles (37 km) east of the mine, by a group of American mining engineers. Among the engineers present were Jennings Cox, General Manger of the Spanish American Iron Co., J. Francis Linthicum, C. Manning Combs, George W. Pfeiffer, De Berneire Whitaker, C. Merritt Homes and Proctor O. Persing. Although stories persist that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests, the drink evolved naturrally due to the prevalence of lime and sugar."

It also comes into my mind a notice that I have to make here: Mojito (the original one) is made with white sugar cane and not the brown one as you usually find it in the bars. 

 Yesterday was the first day of Spring, yayyy. 

I find it true that ,we only lie to ourselves when hoping that as the seasons change better days come. We get all pumped up for more prosper days. Yes, the weather may and it does have an effect in our mood, but if we don't let ourselves feel the change and want a change it will never happen. 

Kunora me lule dele

 Getting lost in the streets of Tamperrre (FI). 

Jari!

One of my fav. bars in Boston, can't remember the name or the correct address right now, but it was in Beacon Hill. 
I love the dark red of the walls and the so easygoing chairs, a really good mind chocolate chip ice-cream. 

This is a picture in our way out of Sophie (BU) meanwhile the local radio was playing:

 Coffee-break in Baltimore during the 9hours bus ride from DC to Boston. 

Beacon Hill- Boston

(how pathetic is it, posting a The Doors song below a picture where the focus is the door)

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Random things that I like [part 1]