🐝 The Sting
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😎 🏝 Chillin’
Saturdays aren’t for working
Every Saturday I’ll bring you something different, just for fun.
I love urban decay. Probably because I love cities, and Batman, and Cyberpunk.
Northern New Jersey gives me all of the urban decay I could wish for. New York is just across the bridge when I need a bit of Gotham. But nothing scratches all of these itches quite like Tokyo.
Lee Chapman is an expat Brit photographer who’s been documenting run down Tokyo for years now.
Not trash indeed
He runs a little website called Tokyo Times where he publishes photo essays on decaying stores, sleazy 5 seater watering holes, and the most wonderful abandoned homes that are a thing in Tokyo.
Over the years I’ve bought a bunch of his pictures.
look at that lamp
This is not one of them, but it’s from the same bar. Look at those lamps, decades of grease. It’s glorious.
He made a book with a fellow photographer, where they had a conversation in pictures, not words, it’s subtle, deeply beautiful. Lee created perhaps the best birthday present I ever sent my dad.
I was going to do one of his walking tours with my brother in the spring of 2020, but we all know why that never happened.
It’s magical when you find someone who sees profound things.
I bet it still runs…
Last Word.
Stop. Just stop. Everything will be fine without you.
Till next time,