Monday 28 May 2018

Day 147/365: It is work, really...

...the other side of academic work

So if yesterday's glimpse of academic work was a little underwhelming, today's glimpse is the almost diametrically opposed. I say almost because one wouldn't expect to go to Yokohama, a port town, for a surf festival...there are no waves. 

But, in the interests of my research project on documenting the history of Japanese surfing...well, I had to go. I wanted to go particularly for a short documentary that was being shown as part of a series of surf movies and also to get a sense, in that academic-observational way, of who is attending these sorts of festivals. 


Yokohama port

The red brick warehouses

Ishikawa Kenta, filmmaker

Tom Wegener boards, via Noosa

The line-up

Takaya, filmaker

Artist live perfomance

Mio, who sang the theme song

Back to the fest

Do it yourself

Yokohama gardens

Late afternoon sun


The red brick warehouses


Let's dance

Hydrangeas



Busy as a ...

At the end of a long day in the office


It might have been a long way, (about two hours each way) to watch a 30 minute documentary on one student's surfing odyssey, but it did include footage of surfing on the Gold and Sunshine Coasts as well as Kamakura and Shonan, where I like to go...and the film reveres wooden surfboards, and I've just received a message that the one I ordered will be arriving soon...very soon. 

That is very exciting. Makes a Sunday day of 'work' worth it.

[Camera : iPhone8, Canon EOS M5, 3.05pm-5.52pm, 8.02pm; 27 May 2018]