Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport, FDA

Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport, FDA
Originally uploaded by Tani07

Photo by my friend Nilson.

This is the cover of Air-mail magazine, vol.10. We can see ERJ-170 - Embraer jet serving FDA - Fuji Dream Airlines at the new Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport.

6,000 dollar watermelon

Reuters News:

A top quality watermelon grown in Northern Japan is said to have broken the world record for the highest selling price, 6,100 U.S. dollars.

Stone elephant

Stone elephant
Originally uploaded by brefe

I remembered some pictures I took a few years ago with special Konica film. Its a kind of color film, that has to be developed with standard C41 process, but the prints come "sepia toned".

I scanned some of the negatives and they look quite nice - like very old pictures....

Uploaded to Flickr and this one is a favorite...

6.8 earthquake in Niigata and Nagano (Japan) July 16, 2007

The quake had a magnitude of 6.8 and was centered in Niigata prefecture some 250 km (155 miles) northwest of Tokyo.

Buildings swayed as far away as Tokyo, and we felt a strong jolt at home - it actually lasted longer than other earthquakes we felt before.

Scary to see the fire at a nuclear power station - it was actually outside...

The saddest part is that already 7 people are confirmed dead.

Return of The Police - Shigemi in the news!

from Bloomberg News: The new Tour of The Police is already a success.

More than 1.77 million tickets for the tour have been sold so far, according to the band's publicist Clare Fisher at RMP. Tickets cost between $50 and $225 on online sites, though seats for some sold-out venues are on offer for $2,500 for two on EBay Inc.'s Web site.

But the cool thing: the media found my friend Shigemi at the concert. Shigemi is following the tour around the world.

``They made history here tonight,'' said Shig Hayashi, 40, a telecommunications engineer from Saitama, Japan, who said she quit her job of 13 years to attend Police concerts in Vancouver, New York and London. ``It was worth it.''